We can't solve problems in this country. Why on Earth do people think we can solve them elsewhere consistently? Our dams are decaying; our roads are in terrible shape; our ports and borders are ridiculously under defended, as are our water and food supplies. In the US we have problems coming out the ying yang, which we don't solve, because we can't agree, or we don't have the will, or don't want to spend the money- and you think we can solve problems in other areas of the world where we have even bigger disagreements with the indigenous people than we have divisions here at home, and where the problems are even bigger than our problems here?
I've never seen the logic in this. I understand people like to meddle, and countries like to meddle, but it so often turns out badly. It seems to me that the time to meddle is when there is a very direct and specific threat, and one should meddle to cure that, and not to do more. Bush knew he needed a direct and specific threat to start this- he used WMD, a "threat" to the US. It didn't turn out to be true, but it got him what he wanted, his invasion. This new tune, this nation building, or "let freedom ring" in the ME stuff, is just strange, and worse that strange, it's a huge waste of our money, and no one except Bush and his merry band of Neocons and the small number of people who still support them, would have supported that idea, and that is why the public, and their representatives, are so mightily opposed now to broadening this conflict, and making it even more drawn out and wasteful. |
