I've been busy, but this made me want to take a minute and post. Humor me for a moment and read this congratulatory letter to President-Elect Obama:
I congratulate you on your success in mustering the majority of votes cast in the presidential elections. You know pretty well that the opportunities God grants to people He has created are short-lived, and they could either serve perfection of mankind and interests of nations or, God forbid, disserve nations. I hope that His Excellency will favor the genuine interests of people and justice over the never-ending demands of a selfish and fallible minority, so that you can seize on this chance in the best manner and leave behind a good legacy.Pretty good, right? Does knowing who the author is change anything?
On the one hand, the spiritual-minded American nation expects its government to concentrate its efforts entirely on serving people, healing the ongoing critical economic crisis, restoring its reputation, reviving hopes for eradication of poverty and discrimination, respecting dignity, security and human rights as well as bolstering family foundations – all of them teachings of God's messengers.
On the other hand, the nations of the world bank on the hope that policies based on belligerency, occupation, bullying, demagoguery, humiliation of nations and imposition of discriminatory and unjust relations on them and on global interactions – which have provoked resentment from all nations and the majority of governments ... and have harmed the reputation of Americans – turn to behaviors based on justice and respect for human and national rights, friendship and non-interference in others' affairs...
Specifically in the sensitive Middle East region, the U.S. government is expected to rethink its 60-year unjust behavior and opt for helping nations – notably the innocent Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan nations – fully regain the legitimate rights denied them...
If you take steps on the divine path and follow the teachings of divine prophets, God, the Almighty, will help you to make up in part for the heavy damage inflicted [by the U.S.] in the past.
I pray for God to bestow happiness, health and welfare on all nations, and help leaders of societies learn lessons from the past, take advantage of chances of serving people, expand kindness, remove oppression and establish justice.