comments on response

You claim that Ambassador Young's speech was "far to irregular to follow" yet you seem to follow it quite well in your notes. Your response is a near perfect outline to a speech where the objective was not to "decide" upon anything in particular. His objective was to educate and challenge the way the world works. It is not his responsibility to make you think a certain way, last time I checked, we had that ability for ourselves. Mr. Young wants you to develop your own ideas, come up with a similar dream and pursue it with every breath in your lungs. His dream about the struggle of the have-not people of the world. In the 1960's those people were very close to him and it sparked a dream that he has never let go of. Now he uses his dream from the past and brings it into the present as a comment on the way the leaders of the United States interact with the world. Why did we have to go to war with Iraq? Why do those people need democracy? Ambassador Young is saying that people have never been equal, there are always groups who are ostricized, abandoned and/or forgotton. He used the illustration of the Hutu's and the Tutsi's in Rwanda to show that there are countries who were influenced by outside countries (in this case, Belgium) and this intrusion caused a holocaust in a poor, have-not society. This comment on the Iraqi situation is not meant to condone the actions of the president, it is simply a tool to provoke thought. When the Ambassador "rambled" about oil, Magic Johnson etc... he was giving constructive critisicm about the integrity of this country and the people we choose to be our fearless leaders. Finally, if the final line seemed to be rehearsed, it is probably because this is the mantra that the Ambassador seems to live by. He stands by his dream, a dream that he has had for many years and is determined to provide every audience with this challenge and word of encouragement because this is what he has experienced. His dreams have become reality from getting his hands dirty, doubting the popular, questioning the accepted and constantly challenging himself to grow and listen and learn. I'm sorry that you did not get as much out of the speaker as you could have, but know that your notes are the tool to this understanding and I hope that you get the opportunity to look over them and re-evaluate your evaluation of Ambassador Young.