Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass.......... This is a unique time in our experiment with freedom and democracy. As new kids on the block of world societies, we're not yet 500 years old. When matched with those of Japan, China Greece, Italy and oddly enough Iraq, we are definitely in our infancy. We conducted ourselves with reasonable maturity and consideration throughout our time and gained the respect of the entire world with our standard of living, ambition, and sense of fairness. Then, in retrospect, it seems to me we fell into the trap of wanting to influence and control too much of the world with what we thought was the correct way for everyone else's citizens to live and think. In world war two we rose to the occasion and took our place as the power that would upright a world gone crazy that would have without question breached our shores had we not done as we did. But along with winning came something else. A desire to dominate. While we should have occupied the lands of those who were enemies, and stayed there long enough to allow healing of the madness that caused them to be as they were, we took on another mission of influence to change those strategically important to us, and to generally run whatever popped up that didn't agree with us and to force those who didn't agree into understanding which would surely be better for all mankind.... as soon as they saw the light. We started making moves toward identifying those who would do us harm before the fact which fundamentally changed the way we defended ourselves in the past, allowing us to accept the necessity of warring against those who were friends of those we didn't agree with as not only OK, but as good preventative measure. While simple military readiness and advanced weaponry is an absolute for our survival, most everything else becomes political cancer. Had we used our military and it's tools only as necessary for our own protection we might be in a different situation on this day. But the fundamental changes fed by arrogance that took over our direction and created the acceptance of us invading countries and toppling governments as paramount to our existence has put us in a particularly bad situation that has no way out for us. Because of the way we took Iraq, we also became the reason the country is in ruin. Because of our occupation the economic fiber that allowed their kind of commerce to run has been destroyed. Because of whatever it was, the government the Iraqi's understood was placed in a state of devastation and dismantled and we want it replaced with one we understand, whether they want it or not, for which both them and us are dying daily. There is no point to be made in this post, instead only an assessment. Simply put, The exodus of American troops from Iraq will surely reverbrate in violence and disaster for generations to come. We overran them, destroyed the infrastructure, destroyed the government, destroyed the economy, and have been unable to restore order or anything else for that matter. If it were only Iraq with no further consequences to be suffered, then perhaps we could just pull out and let each one of them find their own pile of rubble to sit on until they could do better. But it's far more complicated than that. There are 41 Muslim Countries on our planet and they are all incensed at us for what we've done. While we see the whole thing in a simplistic way, bad deal, unwinnable, let's go home, 75% of the world see it in an entirely different way and hold us responsible to at least show responsibility and respect, and we are showing neither. As long as we remain puppets of Israel and sensitive to their state of mind, and insensitive to the feelings of the Muslims and continue on the same path we're on, this will only be settled in the adulthood of our children and grandchildren by means beyond our imagination. What is even more debilitating is the likelyhood of a growth and continuance of a kind of terrorism we have not yet been introduced to and cannot dream of. We presently are definitely at war, but with what army? Our enemies know no borders nor can we identify them. While we allow it to continue and deterioate and weaken us economically, spiritually, morally and philosophically, we will one day arrive at a time and place that an army, official in direction, and able in mission will come together and bring us to bear. It is absolutely true that our troops need to get out of there, but they'd better be replaced with crews of construction workers and engineers, and while they're putting back as much as possible of what we demolished, whatever leader they want should be their business and only theirs. If possible, we should apologise, then unseat the idiots that put us there, and have sorrow and the utmost respect for America's finest who went there never to return. Then learn to take care of our own business..................