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Like many good jokes and thought-provoking comments and ideas made these days, they are sent and received via email. Ah, yes, what a wonderful tool. I use it daily, receive more than 2,000 SPAM messages a day. I receive around 200 legitimate email messages each day, as well. Some are from email discussion lists, some are from friends, and others fall into a variety of categories.

Like I said, sometimes there are some emails that contain jokes or thought-provoking ideas. The following is just such an example.

The Plan!

You’ve gotta love Robin Williams. Even if he’s nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our United Nations’ ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.

The Robin Williams’ plan. It’s hard to argue with this logic!

I hear a lot of people yelling for peace, but I haven’t heard of one plan for peace. So, here’s one plan, and it seems logical enough.

1. The U.S. will apologize to the world for our “interference” in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those “good ol’ boys” — nope, we will never “interfere” again.
2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don’t want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one would be allowed, or would be able to, sneak through holes in the fence.
3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We’ll give them a free trip home. After 90 days, the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. They’re illegal! France will welcome them.
4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit! No one from a terrorist nation will ever be allowed in, for any reason. If you don’t like it there, change it yourself and don’t hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don’t need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5. No foreign “students” over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don’t attend classes, they get a “D” and it’s back home, baby.
6. The U.S. will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing exporting countries (OPEC) $10 (US dollars) per barrel for their oil. If they don’t like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. About a week of their wells filling up the storage sites would be enough to convince them to take $10 per barrel.
8. If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not “interfere.” They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them are stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9. Ship the U.N. headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don’t need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter. Or we could lock up all the illegal aliens there, too.
10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us “Ugly Americans” any longer. The language we speak here is English … learn it … or leave!. Now, isn’t that a winner of a plan?

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.’ No, now she’s got a baseball bat and she’s yelling, “You want a piece of me?”

While I may not agree with everything, especially to the degree discussed, it does sound like a good plan.

Many nations where the U.S. has troops stationed, to put it mildly, do not appreciate the presence of our forces. Others simply hate us. That’s fine. We can leave. That’s been my thinking all my life. If you don’t like us, don’t ask us for help, money, or assistance of any sort.

Sure, in the political realm, keeping a country’s form of government in some sort of “democratic” pattern is a good thing. Keeping countries from turning to China, Russia, or other “non-friendly” nations is always in our interests, or is it?

When U.S. troops are thousands of miles from home, stationed somewhere, on a military mission, mind you, a representative of the U.S. government, and are protested and unwelcome by the citizens of the country, it makes one wonder. Such things, like, “Why are we here?” and “Do I really care about these people?” surely come to mind of today’s service members, especially.

Robin Williams’ Plan for Peace, as outlined above, is a [1] hoax[2] 1 ^{[3] 2}, save for the last snippet, about the Statue of Liberty, it does make sense.

Instead of the U.S. dumping thousands, nay, that would be scoffed and protested as an “insult,” millions of dollars to countries are the world, let’s just keep our money here, at home. Pump that money into the schools. Pour the money into medical research. Add the money to a plan that helps people here in the U.S. with health care. That’s just to get started.

The whole idea of having “foreign policy” has never really made sense. Have one policy and stick with it. Now, while I detest George W. Bush. he made one comment, which he seems to have appropriated from Hillary Clinton. She seems to have appropriated it from the “Dirty Harry” movie, Magnum Force, which seems to have appropriated it from Catch-22, which seems to have appropriated it from Ben-Hur, which borrowed it from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which appropriated it from the teachings of Jesus Christ, who was quoted in both Matthew 12:30 and Luke 11:23, as saying:

“He who is not with me is against me…”

Sure, there were other uses, but for those, as well as a more in-depth discussion of the phrase be sure to check out Wikipedia’s page about the term, [4] “You’re either with us or against us”, giving some historical context.