I agree, but sometimes I wonder. It seems to me the US bumbles about like a blind surgeon wishing to do good deeds but quite often making things worse as a consequence.

We go into Somalia in an effort to feed the hungry but did not understand or care that the government used hunger to control the people. In our ignorance and arrogance we went into a situation where we did not fully grasp the situation and paid the price.

We go into Saudi Arabia in an effort to protect if from Iraq but send women to protect two of the holiest cities in Islam in a culture where they do not allow women to drive much less go to school or fight side by side with men. This would be roughly equivalent to sending an army of gay, atheist prostitutes with multiple abortions to protect the Vatican and can be directly linked to the September 11 attack. In our ignorance and arrogance we went into a situation where we did not fully grasp the situation and paid the price.

We go into Iraq looking for “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” do not find any, and end up in a police action that will have lasted more than a decade by the time we are done while unbalancing the region in such a way that if we leave and it falls apart there is a pretty good chance there will be civil war and a religious pogrom that could involve dozens of nations not to mention making an area that was already hostile towards us even more angry. In our ignorance and arrogance we went into a situation where we did not fully grasp the situation and paid the price.

I have to wonder why we have presidential advisors when they are so oblivious to local customs, culture, and political structure that they have allowed blunders of such epic proportions.

I have to wonder what would happen if we returned to a more passive foreign policy where we allowed Europe, in the supposedly infinite wisdom, to run the world like they did until we got sick of picking up the pieces after they screwed up. After WWII we were heroes but here we are less than a century later being cast in the role of the villain. Maybe if the Islamic fringe kept plotting to blow up Paris, Berlin, or some other major European city rather than New York they might get a little more aggressive in helping us find real solutions to the situation rather than enabling it.

It would be interesting to peer through a window into an alternate reality and see where we would be if we had gone back to an isolationist doctrine rather than taking on the mantle of planetary policeman.

Agreed. Completely.

It’s receive, not ‘recieve’, ’scuse me.

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