http://clipmarks.com/tags/uzma+aslam+khan/http://rss.clipmarks.com/tags/uzma+aslam+khan/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E541DFE8-8C07-4142-B56F-710D12B15FBE/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Johanna_G/">Johanna_G</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Uzma Aslam Khan a novelist and an essayist. She is the author of <i>The Story of Noble Rot</i> and <i>Trespassing</i> and <i>The Geometry of God</i>. <i>Trespassing</i> was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Eurasia. She lives in Lahore, Pakistan. Visit her at <a href="http://uzmaaslamkhan.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://uzmaaslamkhan.blogspot.com</a>. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/uzma03152008.html" title="http://www.counterpunch.org/uzma03152008.html">www.counterpunch.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana">Dear Senator Obama,</FONT></P> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana">In the run-up to the 2004 US presidential election, it was said outside the United States that Americans should have the right to vote taken away from them. All those who'd been living under US-backed dictatorships should vote instead.</FONT></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">a US election isn't only a US election. It's a World election.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Americans seemed only concerned with the candidate's promises to them. So the World felt an obligation to offer aid in the shape of preemptively planting a new US president, one who'd respect the rights of others as being equal to the rights of Americans.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Of course it didn't happen. The World is small compared to the United States.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The 2008 US presidential election is also a World election, which means the opinions of the World also won't matter much.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana">Let's talk more about actionable intelligence.</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Your 2008 presidential election slogan is CHANGE. How can there be change, when your views on foreign policy are no different from that of President Bush?</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana">Yours truly,</FONT></P> <P><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana">World citizen</FONT></P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/u.s.a./" rel="tag">u.s.a.</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/elections/" rel="tag">elections</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/pakistan/" rel="tag">pakistan</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/uzma+aslam+khan/" rel="tag">uzma aslam khan</a></div>http://www.counterpunch.org/uzma03152008.htmlFri, 09 May 2008 05:35:01 GMT