Dear Mr President,
You have not decided quickly and you are probably suffering because you know you are sending your fellow citizens into the harm's way.
I am probably the last person who should write you a message. I am just a teacher of 30 years old. In my brief working life I have done different kinds of jobs which entailed big and little responsibilities . The most difficult work was serving as a member of the town council of the village of 1700 inhabitants where I live.
It is quite obvious that it is nothing comparable to what you are going through as a Commander-in-Chief of such a Nation. What we have in common and shared, even if at a very different level, is the responsibility of taking a choice not only for ourselves, but for the sake of a number of people, no matter how big or small this group could be. This is a very hard task.
Probably, I should not even be entitled to address you these few lines, as I am writing you not from the American land, but from the other side of the ocean. But I am a citizen of this world and I would love to hope in a better future for America, a country I deeply love, for its sons and daughters and for each and everyone of us, who stand by you and believe in you.
Dear Mr President, please be the change you have promised to us all, be the hope, be the example to follow. Show us you will be the first to really start a different and new course.
My country has been taking part in many of the so called "peace missions" around the world. We have lost many soldiers who have been sent abroad with the hope to grant a better life to their families and with the illusion to bring help to suffering civilians.
Help should be provided differently; protection to our nations should be granted peacefully. We cannot receive peace if the exchange good is war.
I am a content and lucky person, because even if I live in a country full of contradictions, I have always lived in peace. War was brought to me only through my grandfather's tales about being a Partisan in a time of Fascism. I understand there are always two sides of a coin and there is good and bad. We are all fans of the "good team" and we should help those who fight the "bad" one.
Dear Mr President, I want to tell you one last thing...before sending people to fight for freedom and peace, try to think one more time if you can be the first to really believe in these values. Please, remember: our peace must not mean war and desperation for someone else. We all deserve some kind of peace and as a human being, I cannot be completely satisfied when it is not shared.
