Hello. Hello. Is There Anybody in There?

Finally, a Congress with a backbone--that is, one willing to stand up against the Bush Administration. Both sides of the aisle now seem to listen to the American people, yet we will have to wait and see the outcome.

In the meantime, I have several questions, some simple and some not so.

Firstly, what happened to (I know, cliché) Gandhi’s principle of nonviolence: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind?

Violence in Iraq, thus far, has only bred more violence. The hopes held my many of the Iraqis, as well as a substantial portion of the region, have been alienated.

Trying to win a war against a different cultural perspective and a conflicting religious doctrine by military force so far proves not to deliver the results once promised.

Can we take some pathetic fool off the street that has poor taste in clothes and pull him into a ring for ten rounds and then buy him a new wardrobe at the mall and expect him to be our friend?

Secondly, the war in Iraq is a mess and we, the People, have acknowledged this for a while. Yet our president asks for more time. Okay, Mr. President, we understand--that is, we all have our own bedrooms.

However, a timetable is out of the question with the Commander in Chief. Wait a second--we do not have limitless time to clean our rooms. If there are not deadlines (say, company will be over at six or parents are coming in this weekend), will our bedrooms and apartments be cleaned? Of course not.

A timetable gives us a reason to clean, a reason to work. So, should a timetable in Iraq not motivate Prime Minster al-Maliki, along with the rest of the governing officials, to clean Baghdad up and truly work together?

Because al-Maliki, as the rest, will have apprehend the seriousness of pulling that crumbling nation into one solid whole, by the reminder that the American troops are not as unlimited as their nation’s petroleum?

Finally, with our heads in Iraqi sand, can we see the rest of the world’s true dangers, e.g. Iran? By us holding Iraq from an all-out civil war, can we really handle other areas of national importance, e.g. Social Security, Immigration Reform?

We need our troops out and rested. We need to be preferred for a fight that someone else, actually, decides to wage on us.

In the United Kingdom, waging a war only to overthrow a current regime is outlawed. Does anyone know if it is the same in America?

Sons and daughters return Home every other day draped under an American flag. Why do we allow this nonsense, while some walk with a different gait, if they can walk at all, and others possess different eyes, if they can even see?

Is it fair that they all bring back home redefined and re-solidified definition of words, such as fear, hatred, security, love, peace?

Or is it fair that we do not know these meanings as they?

Less troops, more diplomacy.


This is my column of the term for the Parthenon. They changed the title to "New Congress has Strength" and moved my title to the first line. Somewhat? This piece attacks many Americans and our belief systems, while showing the hypocritical nature of us all.

Goodbye Baghdad, Hello Vietnam

I cannot believe that the majority of Americans thinks walking, instead of really knuckling down, will serve anyone any good.

America has screwed up many a time, as well as every other nation, yet we, America, live in 1945 and 1989, while forgetting 1953, 1975, 1991, and 1998--that is, naming just some.* [See footnote, for dates, if not familiar.]

We cannot care about how we got into this war--that is, who had the intelligence or not; who told the lies, deliberately or not; and who avoided the facts, before and still.

We have to care about how we can win this.

We cannot have another Vietnam on our hands, as a nation. If we fail in Baghdad, we failed as a country and the world will see that.

And if you are asking, "Why should we care about the world’s perception?"

We will lose more than just a war. We will lose our political pull, economic security, and national safety.

Firstly, political pull: If we cannot lead and guide now, no one will follow us later.

The nations of the world can be viewed as a team playing for, instead of the World Cup, World Progress. Winning, instead of the World Series, World Peace.

Furthermore, every team needs a captain (someone to remind the other players why they are there and to give the great, quotable speeches, which give everyone the goose bumps).

Secondly, economic security: We are the driving-force in the global economy right now. However, we are in mid-fight with China, as the fuel to this global economy.

You might be thinking, "So, everything comes from China; what's the big deal?" To answer that honestly, it is the social stability issue.

China has free-markets, which is a great thing, yet it remains socially and politically a police state. However, with the free-markets will come the free-thoughts and China will have to become a free and open government because the Chinese people will demand it.

That sounds great. Another free nation to add to the list; however, if we, as America, slip--economically, speaking--to China before this happens, then the stability of the global economy will be as sturdy as a crumbling building.

Also, the U.S. dollar is a-scrappin' with the Euro for the standard global investment currency. In other words, nations invest in us, as one does the stock market, yet if these nations change their money over to the Euro, it will be as moving one’s money from one company to another. Leaving that former company with less (or little to none).

We cannot be the country we are without these investments. For those of you who believe things are hard now, wait and see the difficulties to come.

Finally, national safety: If we lose this 2nd Gulf War, we will have lost military ranking. As the son always calls out the father, other nations and non-national groups will call us out. Hence, another war or two.

I am not a crazy fool, who believes in a Utopia. Mankind cannot live in a Utopia without de-evolving.

I am not a Christian, casting brimstone and sighting Jesus, saying, we are in the ending time, due to the "wars and rumors of wars" bull. Never a day in mankind’s history, a war was not being waged.

All I am saying is we have to fight and win, now. Or there will be deeper things to wade through, later. More troops, less politics.


Dates:*
1945: World War II
1989: Cold War

1953: Korean War
1975: Vietnam
1991: First Gulf War
1998: Operation Dessert Fox


I submitted this to the Parthenon, the campus paper, last night and they published it. It is my first column since last Spring.

I read a USAToday article this morning and it is the reason for this. This is my first myspace bulletin, which I am reposting. It is more or less a rant than anything else. America has made me so mad. There is not much more to say.