After having read the open letter sent to you and to your administration by a group of high-level politicians and experts from Central and Eastern Europe including two persons from my own country I felt I must write a letter to you too. While there are many good ideas and propositions in the politicians' letter, there are some disputable statements in it. And there is something in the whole tone of the letter that it is hard for me to accept. In fact, the open letter was a petition to the only global superpower by politicians who have decided that the best guarantee of the security of their nations is becoming client states of the United States of America. Our politicians were asking you, President Obama, not to abandon them, not to forget America's most loyal servants. Such an attitude is humiliating to a citizen of a free and democratic country I really want to be.
The fact that the leaders of most CEE nations were willing to transform their countries into American client steates, became clear when, in early february 2003 a group of CEE foreign ministers signed a letter unconditionally supporting the imminent pre-emptive war of the US against Iraq. This unconditional support for the ........ (read it all here)
Your respectfully
Jaan Kaplinski
writer, former deputy of the Estonian Parliament
Extremely good counter letter to Obama...
See what the letter from CEE so-called leaders and itellectuels actually says:
http://marg.typepad.com/marg/2009/07/give-us-back-the-beautiful-cold-war.html
Dane
Posted by: Dane | July 26, 2009 at 21:34