Inquiry 2: Letter from Birmingham Jail

This was an amazing piece of rhetoric, in my opinion. It's obvious that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was truly an intelligent man. From what I understand, he was actually from Atlanta (where things were a lot better) and went to Birmingham for the "Birmingham campaign". Although Atlanta had their own problems, he knew he had to attack the heart of the problem (Birmingham), if he was going to make any progress with solving civil rights inequalities in the U.S. This reminds me of the war against terrorism in a strange way. People over there (Afghanistan/Iraq) are so deprived of basic rights, especially women and children. However, they are too afraid/weak to fight for their rights, just like most minorities in Birmingham were. People always say it's not our problem whether they are free or not, but we need to help the citizens get control of their country from extremists. My brother is in Iraq right now and he said its a entirely different place, for the better, then it was when we first arrived. I know this is kind of random, but just like MLK helped fight the battle against segregation with his work in Birmingham, we are helping to fight the battle against Islamic Extremism with our work in the Middle East. We are slowly giving women and children their basic rights in those countries, while slowly giving our own country more security from extremists. Of course there are still major issues in that region, especially in Afghanistan, but hopefully we can one day get those people control of their countries again just like MLK helped get civil rights for minorities here in the U.S. This will not only helped them, but it will also help us just like the end of segregation helped the entire U.S., and not just "the South". This might seem like an impossible battle we are facing, but I wonder how many people thought it was possible that minorities would one day have all the basic civil rights granted to them?