Letter to Classmates

So I sit here on campus, supposedly a pinnacle of scholary thought (at least relative to random other locations in the Twin Cities metro) and am in disbelief at how ignorant and egocentric so many of my peers are. Only minutes ago I exited from a class where every controversial news story from the last six months were time and time again analyzed in a way which placed blame upon none other than George W. Please believe me when I say that I do not unconditionally trust, respect, and admire George W, let alone any other politician. However, I simply think there is a point where one must accept the world's misgivings for what they are and be responsible enough to perhaps credit themselves and their society for some of the bad things.

You can sit around and criticize policy for as long as you would like but little will come of it unless you take the initiative to do something. This, my communist classmates, is the beauty of democracy. If Katrina should have been handled differently, I'm willing to listen to your ideas. If you think Middle Eastern policy is headed in the wrong direction, then allow me to point out much of what is now occurring results from things which happened before you were born and that it is purely idiotic to blame the world's problems on the most obvious and easiest target.

Perhaps it is now time that we take a look at the point which society is approaching and attempt to redirect its course. Let me suggest that you begin with honoring, respecting, and learning from positions that might be much different than yours. Need I remind you that battles are often ended with compromise, which would suggest that you should save some time and start working from the middle. I might be staunchly conservative, but that isn't to say that I'm blind to some of the approaches that you all seem to prefer.