Appeal to Laden and Bush

Lalit A Patel

Dear Laden & Associates:

With the Attack on the US, you might have fulfilled your desires to follow the footsteps of your ancestors, lead people towards your ideologies, demonstrate your capabilities for maintaining your rights, feed people sheltered by your governance, express your anguish on the US policies, etc.

I do not entirely condemn your Attack on the US, because I can comprehend your desires and understand a tiger’s behavior. However, it can help you to consider my other viewpoints.

Alexander the Great employed your ancestors as warriors to spread his empire. Despite his achievements, he could not see a happy ending and could not lift you out of a nomadic life pattern.

As a conglomeration of the world’s most talented and enthusiastic people, the US has been building a human civilization, which no one could have imagined a few centuries ago. It is now a high time you get out of your nomadic life pattern and get accepted into the mainstream of this great human civilization and contribute to this human civilization in your possible way.

As the latest religion, the Islam has tried to get away with the shortcomings of many older religions. Despite appreciating the philosophies of the Islam, other people born and brought up in other environments have their beliefs and ways that work for them. Having realized this, the Islam’s Sufi Movement did a great good thing. Following and spreading that Sufi Movement, you can help the Islam and the World. Using terrorism as your weapon, you would harm the Islam and the World.

This great world has great many races, each with its own capabilities and disabilities. With the use of their Micro Craftsmanship, the Chinese have become an important part of the Semiconductor industry. You are known for the Employment Loyalty. With the use of your potential, you can become an important part of the Space industry.

Despite racial and other differences, the world is a great place to live in. Everyone wants everyone else to play a fair game. Despite our pretentious wisdom and achievements, all of us are like small kids, who often take pleasure in playing jokes on others. And those jokes often get played on the players.

Every person and every organization is rewarded as per actions. Good actions lead to good rewards and bad actions lead to bad rewards. Rewards may not be immediately upon the actions. If you desire to get good rewards for you and your progenies in future, please do not follow a path that you would not like others to follow.

Regards,

A Friend of the Human Civilization

September 15, 2001

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Dear Bush & Associates:

I have often sobbed with tears after the unexpected Attack on the US. I pray for the Heavenly Peace for the departed souls, Emotional Strength for the affected families, Organizational Balance for the US, and Inner Light for the attackers’ harbingers.

The attackers have played the game they have thought it fit to play. As a superpower nation, the US is capable of retaliating and destroying the attackers’ harbingers. Sometimes I have felt that that may be the right thing to do.

However, the US should not follow a path of termination and total destruction. The US has a much greater role to play than those “kids” playing around the streets.

Great visionaries like Jesus have preached us to Forgive. It is not always possible to adhere to that kind of preaching. But let us try it, for the sake of our future generations.

The US people are known for their creativity and adventures. Let us try to win over the other side in a constructive way. Kindling a dark mind can kindle other dark minds. Destroying a dark minder may generate more dark minds.

Regards,

A Friend of the Human Civilization

September 15, 2001