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It's not about the 3 a.m. crisis call, nearly as much as it is about making the long term policy decisions that minimize those calls. Or admitting mistakes when they are obvious then taking action to change the direction that those mistakes pointed us in.
How it has happened that the role that GHWB had in creating the current situation has not become a benchmark for a demonstration of the inattentiveness of this country in general?
How have so many people been deluded into forgetting what has happened over the past thirty years as if it never occurred and into believing that the current mess was something that started with a single act of aggression against this country in 2001 completely disconnected from any policy driven action that this country has taken over the last 30 years?
GHWB funded the Afghani people with weapons and terrorist know how. Providing the tools with which ethnic and religious fist fights were converted into large scale massacres. Then walked away from them and allowed the rise of the Taliban and the flourishing of terrorist enclaves.
GHWB put Saddam Hussein into power in a botched attempt to balance power in the region when Khomeini gained power in Iran (shia power which is now viewed as the agreeable type)
GHWB then funded Hussein with the famous WMD under the premise that religious fundamentalism was more dangerous than secularism and the faulted belief that
the religion of the region was not an integral part of the culture and the politics and could eventually be stamped out, or beaten into submission?
This failed strategy combined with support for Israel, a country the size of Vermont with a population smaller than NYC (which has been fighting over that piece of dirt for two thousand years based solely on religious beliefs), is the policy that generated the rise of the hatred of America as a meddler in the affairs of that region. All undertaken in a botched attempt to keep the price of oil down for the sake of American prosperity.
Now we have dubuya attempting to fix pappy's blunder and actually exacerbating the situation while the country is being offered the possibility of putting into place a guy who is about to die anyway and has zero to lose if he spends $100,000,000,000,000 dollars and who knows how many lives in an vein effort to be able to say that America won a war while he was in charge.
No one is perfect, but we should have something that approaches 50/50 hindsight and we must be in a position to admit the mistakes of the past and change the direction of our actions so that we do not dig ourselves into a deeper hole than the one we are already in.
The current situation is a chapter right out of Orwell's 1984. History conveniently forgotten because it has been removed from the public dialogue. That's tremendously frightening.
The citizens of this country have much much more to be fearful of in putting into place leadership who create their own versions of reality (and the Clintons are experts in that game) right along with McCain.
When are we going to wake up and understand the implications of these mistakes and get moving in a direction that will end the animosity, the death and the pointless spending?
Reducing the population of the country is one way to end some of the currently debated problems. Sending millions off to their death because bad decisions were made twenty and thirty years ago is a solution. If that is what you are interested in, there are two good choices that will ensure that that is what the country gets. Yes, under McCain, the threat that he creates will rise right along with the trillions that are spent to create it.
There is only one option available at the moment that is not invested in and proposing to propagate the failed policy decisions and actions of the past. If you can understand that, then perhaps the phrase, 'the fierce urgency of now' takes on a significance that transcends that of mere empty words delivered by an eloquent speaker.