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Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME
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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (57390)3/9/2006 2:12:28 PM
From: PJr  Read Replies (5) of 57584
 
I'm not an odds maker but I suppose the odds for the world to change to the way the US wants it are about as long as the world of "Radical Islam" changing the US to the way that they want it. Therein lies the problem. Both sides foolishly think they can effect that change.

At this stage I'd rather take the risk of being spent into bankruptcy than put a price on our way of life. I would hope that any Presidential administration would feel the same way regardless of what political party is in power. I don't see it as a partisan political issue though many try to frame the discussion in those terms.

I'll go one financially suicidal step further ... I'd even welcome the emotional taboo of "mortgaging our children's future" by encouraging further deficit spending if the government would spend that money to launch a "Manhatten Project" to develop a safe renewable energy source (like solar or wind) so that we could truly be permitted to leave that part of the world alone. Talk about marginalizing a region .... no one would have interest - political or otherwise - in what they do in that part of the world if we didn't need their energy source. Our children's children would be grateful that we chose to deficit spend, in spite of saddling them with huge debt, if it eliminated their need for strategic involvement there. Even better, how grateful would they be if they never had to militarily deploy their children to that part of the world again?

I guess the question would then revert back to the fundamental "peace/war" issue that exists today... Even if we leave them alone, will they still come after us? I don't know .....

Pat
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