Reply #8: Reaction from a concerned citizen of Southeast Asia

[Anna Maria]

I am from Southeast Asia and very much new to this website. I've been searching around it and I find it fun and interesting. I'm glad of its existence because it gives me a chance to vent out my frustrations and to express my views to the American public even though I am a foreigner. I've never aligned myself with any ideology although my views on certain issues are a bit left. However, I know that I was very disappointed when B*** won the election and understand the feelings of those Americans who wish to leave the country even if only until the end of his term.

I was massively dismayed and felt that there was no hope for this world when he won the election because I was very much concerned with the repurcussions B***'s victory would have in the Middle East. After the release of Moore's film, the massive destruction and loss of innocent lives in Iraq, rising oil prices and reports of gross violations of human rights, I was so confident of Kerry's victory. But it seems that the voters who went Republican have closed their eyes to reality and really don't put any priority on rebuilding America's relations with other countries. I know B*** is angry with my country for our decision to pull out our troops. Indeed, as far as my country we feel the effects of his actions as our country is trying to struggle with rising oil prices and instability in the Middle East.

How can someone who claims to espouse the family, religion, morals and good values at the same time, continue to allow the abuse and slaughter of innocent people overseas? This I simply cannot reconcile in my mind, and to me, he is the ultimate example of hypocrisy. Indeed, it is going to be a long four years not just for the Democrats but for people in the rest of the world.