Have you ever wondered why other countries don't like us or call us things like the Great Satan? As is stated, we are a global community. I see each country like individual houses in a community. The ruler is the father of the house, the people that have authority with him (like our Senate and House of Representatives) are like the wife, and the people are like their children.  If a man was to come into your house and started tempting your sons and daughters to rebel against you, how would you feel? What if the man slept with your wife, what would you want to do to him? What if he affected your job and caused you to get only half the wages you worked so hard for, or started a commotion about your business so nobody would buy from your shop, what would your attitude towards him be?

           You may say this is a simplified analogy of looking at the world, but it does reveal some interesting perspectives.

           Let's say you are a teen and a man comes into your house, gives you enough resources and trains you to overthrow your father and mother. When you grow up and take authority over your house and this man gets around your kids, are you going to trust him? You are probably going to be on pins and needles every time he is around, because you feel that if you do not do everything this man wants, he is going to have you booted out of your own house, which you know he is capable of doing because he helped you overthrow your parents. So, if this man comes to offer you help in a crisis, are you going to trust him, even if he has good intentions? You are going to be very wary of this man and you are going to warn your children not to learn, and you might call him such names as the "Great Satan, the divider and usurper of households."          

 Don't get me wrong, I love our country. I will even take flack for this country because I acknowledge its short comings. I want us to live in peace with the rest of the world. Now this is not an idea as so to condemn this country, but for this country to see itself and maybe understand why the world looks at us the way they do.

           Now, let's say that our neighbor is beating his children and starving them. Is it within our rights to go over to his house and beat the hell out of him? What do our own laws state? Our laws state that if we go over to his house and beat the hell out of the guy, that we are in violation of the law by taking the law into our own hands. Yes, children do need to be protected, and we are a country that, in most cases, most people, care greatly for the children. The proper thing to do is to go to our neighborhood and set up an agency to help the father understand the fundamentals of parental authority, the benefits of healthy children, ideas on ways to use discipline correctly, and what has worked and has not worked for us. But in that training, allowing them to adjust the method of training according to their value systems. I am in no way suggesting that we allow anyone to hurt children, I am suggesting that we already have laws that protect the rights of even the perpetrator of harm, as our country saw the need to have laws in place for the protection of everyone’s rights, even those we will at some time punish for their acts, crimes, or behaviors.

           I would like to get your opinion on a subject of modesty. What would you think if the father next door put an outdoor shower in his front yard? Then, he and his family individually and at different times through out the day, would come outside with their showering stuff, take off all their clothes and shower right in front of the whole world. Wouldn't you be offended? Wouldn't you be concerned with the thoughts of your children seeing the parents and their sons and daughters naked? Wouldn't you call the cops for indecent exposure? So, by answering yes to these questions you state that we in the United states have a morality standard that people have to have clothes on when in public and that there are penalties for indecent exposure. Yet, a person can have on just a string bikini and lay out in public without getting into trouble, even though it may be more string than bikini. So, where is the line on decency? Is it ok to have on just a string and nothing more? Is it having on more bikini than string? Should it be a one piece? Should they have on shorts and a top? Does clothing have to be knee length? Ankle length? Covering cleavage? Covering the neck? Covering the chin? Covering everything but the eyes? Where do we draw the line for our teenage daughters?  Ten different questions and we will probably get twenty different answers.

     In school we say that our children have to dress modestly, but where is the modesty line? Do you want your neighbor bashing you for how you let or don't let your children dress? Neither do other countries. They look at us with our huge divorce rates and porn in movies and on the Internet, and scoff at us when we talk about their woman being in bondage to having to wear veils. We punish people here in the U.S. when they wear no clothes with jail time. The women may say, "Men don't have to wear T-shirts so why do we have too?" We have a code of decency according to each household and a corporate code of morality for the community. Well, so does the rest of the world. We try to relieve other households/countries of their strict set of morality, yet we hate people when they try to mess with our rules on decency for our sons and daughters, and then we wonder why other countries don't like us.

           What would you think of a country where the people had loose morals and slept with anyone and everyone in public? So, why should we wonder when countries think badly about us when most of our TV programs show nudity and sexually explicit images for the entire world to see? Why do you think countries ban Internet from ours and other countries? Is all they are trying to do is to protect their children, their people, from the depravity of our society, like when we cover a child's eyes when there is streaker running across the ball field?

           So, I see international politics like different houses in a community. If a father wants to run his household where all share alike, "Hey great". If he wants to run it as a democracy where all in the family have a say, I say, "Right on." If a man's home is his castle and he is king, "Great".

 Let's treat other households with the same respect and honor as we would like to be treated with. But, also let us deal with atrocities with a strong unified hand.

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