Leon_Figg3
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Ever since I listened to the debate Wednesday night between Obama and Hilary I have had an itch to start this thread. The problem is that every time I tried something came up. I quess that means that this is going to be yet another one of my bad ideas, or that I am going to get a lot of flak.
While listening to the debate I could not help but think how the subtitle of the debate should have been "Dancing with the Snobs". I mean, these two career politicians, who seem to feel that only he/ she has all the answers to all of life's little problems, seemed to do nothing but dance around every question put to them. Not only that, but it seemed that whenever they weren't jabbing at each other, they were patting each other on the back.
Haven't see or heard such intricate dancing since Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
I finally had to give up trying to follow their contortions and twisted logic when questions about Iraq and Iran were put to them. I mean just how is Iran going to take us, and our efforts to keep them from having nuclear weapons, seriously while we unilatterally remove our troops from Iraq just because the situation there seems to be way more complex, costly, and unpleasant than we are ready to deal with? They are suppose to believe us and take us seriously just because we say so?
The world is suppose to take us seriously about anything just because we say so?
It is perfectly acceptable for our civilian leaders to reject out of hand the advice, experience, and knowledge of our military leaders just because those civlians in power are more concerned about their political image than what is right and just for all concerned now and in the future?
Like it or not, folks, America holds a unique position in the world, and in history. We are the nation that no one really likes (or has ever really liked), but the one that everyone is either affraid of or turns to in times of trouble.
To much of Europe we have always been the new kid in foreign affairs, the youngest and longest lasting super power. Much of the countries in Europe consider us naive about the ways of the world because we insist on engaging people and countries in our own way, and not the ways that they tend to do. We have seen and experienced the ways that those countries deal with each other and most other countries throughout history and found it lacking as means of solving long standing problems.
We are a nation composed of people from just about every other nation on Earth. As a result we tend to have interests in just about every other nation on Earth. We tend to get involved in the affairs of other countries because of our ties to those countries, our interests there, and our experiences as a peopla and a nation. Usually, and after all the smoke has cleared, we do not tend to ask for very much in return even when our men and women are asked to lay down their lives for the interests of others, as well as our own.
< Message edited by Leon_Figg3 -- 4/18/2008 12:32:14 PM >
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