| Michael Moore asserts the following in his political | | | | against ever being questioned. Their delusional |
| film Fahrenheit 9/11:Con #1. Bush favors the Bin | | | | dedication to an all-powerful force against the |
| Laden family over American interests. Regarding | | | | outsiders who threaten Him ignores a crucial |
| the Bin Laden family leaving the country, we as | | | | contradiction: If God is all-powerful then He is in no |
| Americans don't punish people for crimes they | | | | danger, and doesn't need their help.Con #6. |
| didn't commit. Releasing them was the civil | | | | American forces are running amok, targeting |
| answer. Imagine if your cousin blew up a building, | | | | innocent civilians. In The Art of War, Sun Tzu |
| would you want to go to jail for it? And what do | | | | says to attack the heart of your enemy. Who |
| you think the terrorists would have done to our | | | | has Moore attacked? Whose heart is he after? |
| families? Getting them out of the country | | | | Did he show you the crippled and burned |
| stemmed a potential lynching, which would have | | | | Americans still struggling to survive after |
| made America look as bad as our enemies. It | | | | September 11th? No, he showed you Iraqi |
| was the right thing to do.Con #2. Halliburton and | | | | casualties. All sides have casualties in war, and a |
| other war corporations are self-serving enemies | | | | movie maker will favor those of like ideology. |
| of America, conspiring with the President for | | | | Whose side are you on Michael? How many heads |
| profit and privileges. These are public companies | | | | have we cut off? Such barbarism only |
| he is attacking. They are owned by millions of | | | | strengthens our resolve to win.Near the end, |
| stockholders. America owns them.Moore criticized | | | | Moore meekly agrees that "America is a great |
| executive appointments in Iraq and Afghanistan | | | | country." Still, you can't help but get a strong |
| by "exposing" their prior relationships to the | | | | anti-American feeling from the film. It's him telling |
| President, implying conspiracy. There is no | | | | the rest of us that our world is a sham, our |
| immorality due to those appointed being | | | | freedom is a lie, and that this dilemma is our own |
| associates of the President, any more than | | | | fault. Of course, he fails to mention that we |
| showing preference in choosing his cabinet. | | | | wiped out two dictatorships with a wartime loss |
| Experienced leaders choose people they like--they | | | | amounting to only one-third the casualties they |
| don't have to field resumes.Con #3. Our poor are | | | | caused us in New York, and we are now paving |
| preyed upon by U. S. military recruiters. That the | | | | the way for their most productive citizens to |
| poor and the middle classes do the majority of | | | | thrive in a civil world community. The aggregate |
| the fighting is not a conspiracy of the Bush | | | | result will be a release of the pent up energy of |
| presidency, but a historical fact of all armies in all | | | | the people--an Iraqi industrial revolution and a |
| nations. Upper class parents hand down a | | | | world benefit--new pipelines, skyscrapers and |
| disciplined living structure to their children, while the | | | | personal freedoms.It's irresponsible to watch such |
| middle and lower class parents provide limited to | | | | a movie and draw conclusions based solely on its |
| no living structure, which is reflected in their | | | | contents. It is not honest to isolate three aspects |
| economic status. Their children need and should | | | | of an issue when there are six to consider. |
| seek the kind of discipline that the military | | | | Shame on you, Mr. Moore! |
| provides, and if they're smart, they carry that | | | | Summation and Solution. The Koran states that |
| rational order into their private lives. Upper class | | | | anyone who is not Muslim is the enemy, to be |
| youth already have a plan at that stage, lead | | | | chopped, hacked and slaughtered, plain and simple. |
| self-directed lives much earlier, and therefore | | | | There is no room for misinterpretation, and no |
| avoid the risk of being called into action. Moore's | | | | constructive reasoning with such insanity. |
| footage defeated his own argument in that the | | | | Allegiance to life must come before religious or |
| kids at the upscale malls were approached directly | | | | political ideas, and such ideas must be based on |
| and weren't interested; their "influential" parents | | | | the furtherance of the biological life of a man; |
| obviously weren't intervening. (It's a voluntary | | | | otherwise, they are wrong.To the oppressed |
| army, Michael).Con #4. A negative soldier's | | | | citizens of the world I say, as a free country, |
| viewpoint reveals the immorality of the war. A | | | | America offers a simple institutional structure--no |
| wounded soldier has good cause to question why | | | | dogmatic requirements; we're all free to believe |
| he was there in the first place and to believe that | | | | what we want--but if you limit or harm others, |
| war is devastatingly senseless, which is true for | | | | you're freedom will be taken in turn. The old days |
| the aggressor. But American civilization cannot | | | | are gone--the monarchies, the dictatorships, the |
| tolerate the random acts of violence, which are | | | | communal nightmares--with room only for civility |
| commonplace in Islamic Fundamentalist regions, to | | | | between men into the future. All must respect |
| happen here. If necessary, we have to rout them | | | | the human institutions whose fundamental guideline |
| out at the source. Twenty year-olds won't have | | | | is the preservation of individual life, by outlawing |
| the experience to judge the policy of a nation, but | | | | the initiation of force against others. So conform, |
| should be able to comprehend right and wrong at | | | | and live.It is the obligation of philosophy to provide |
| a more basic level. We must honor those who | | | | a constructive course of action in the individual, |
| fight for us; we must shelter our fallen, but given | | | | social, artistic and institutional realms--the full range |
| the blatant horrors of the enemy versus | | | | of human action. Moral Armor does just that, |
| American life, he should know he's on the right | | | | providing the first fully-integrated non-sectarian |
| side.Con #5. The Iraq Dictatorship had nothing to | | | | moral code, and it is based on the nature of Man. |
| do with the war on terrorism. If they're not | | | | No other style of moral code has even a chance |
| terrorists, boy do they act like them. Car bombs, | | | | to win over there.The campaign in Iraq was not a |
| abductions, beheadings, anarchy and dictatorship | | | | new development. Iraq has been a thorn in the |
| preferred to democracy, suicide missions which | | | | world's side ever since the Gulf War when Hussein |
| murder their own people and offer no peaceful | | | | should have been deposed, and it's too late to |
| alternative; no, there's no likeness there(!). (If you | | | | turn back now. Terrorist dogma thrives on fresh |
| question our military strategy and the countries | | | | martyrs; we need a strong leader who will see |
| we've chosen, look at a map).Look at the nature | | | | this through, and our President will. Unfortunately, |
| of our enemy. Most Americans are civil and | | | | when one side won't listen to reason, you have to |
| constructive--including our troops, while the | | | | fight, so let's get it over with.(In the time it took |
| average insurgent is aggressive and foolish as an | | | | to read this, President Bush had reacted to 9 |
| individual. If you pulled any insurgent aside for an | | | | 11).Ronald E. Springer is the Author/Philosopher of |
| interview you'd see he is a poorly educated, | | | | Moral Armor, the world's first fully-integrated |
| fear-driven control-freak charged with incoherent | | | | moral philosophy based on the nature of Man. |
| dogmatic conclusions he never would have come | | | | Featured on The Mitch Albom Show, NBC and |
| to on his own. They're all psychologically trapped in | | | | FOX News radio affiliates, Mr. Springer is available |
| the "submission/domination axis" (as Moral Armor | | | | for interviews, speaking engagements, philosophy |
| calls it), which amounts to little more than roving | | | | workshops and seminars. Please contact or visit |
| criminality, veiled as an endless fight for | | | | for details. |
| Allah--which is only a substitution for their tantrum | | | | |