Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass....... One of the most dangerous things to humanity is the power of the arsenals at the disposal of individual states and their willingness to use them. We are at the top of the mountain in raw power and technology and should likewise be foremost in responsibility of possession. Somehow we lost sight of the awesome power we once held almost totally alone and became a pawnbroker of influence and favoritism with nuclear power as the prize for those we either sought to use or dictate to. The payoff is a world in which we have become uncertain of who does and does not have the technology and or the weaponry. This has removed a lot of authority in our roar. While we are protesting rogue nations possession of these merchants of death at the front door, we've been handing them out the back door for those who we hope to do our dirty work for us and those we want to protect. This has created a deadly backlash of hypocracy that has damaged us beyond credibility to virtually anyone. We don't seem to understand that our list of friends is changeble with the tick of a second hand and we showed great misjudgement and immaturity as a nation as nuclear weapons of mass destruction came into being. There was a time in which we had the power and prestige to lock down the development and production worldwide of such a technology but we danced that away and now are residents in a very dangerous world in which near stone aged mentality individuals have the ability to acquire the most awesome power heretofore known to mankind. Some how our screams for sanctions and threats of military intervention on those in pursuit of this power doesn't strike me as very effective and certainly not efficient. Nor does it it scare any of those we are addressing. This leaves us in a strange and precarious predicament. We no longer have much of anything prestigeous to threaten anyone with and our track record in foreign affairs is dismal. If we can't figure out something new to threaten everyone else with then we'll just have to figure out how to get along with the likes of those riding goats to the missile sites in India and Pakistan and learn the wants of North Korea much better than we currently know, while hoping that Israel allows another day in which she doesn't corral or kill her neighbors. Of course China and Russia talk on a level not understandable to us, and England and France aren't nearly as civilized as they think and could become crazy by any standard at any time. Our best bet would be to develop some brand new technology that supercedes anything out there right now. I favor the ability to interrupt the flow of electrical power on a very large scale. Or the ability to completely control magnetism on a grand scale could be a great show stopper. Whatever is coming next I hope my country can master it first.... then show the strength and judgement to not share it with any other power good or bad on this planet. Providence only knows we've shown our stupidity with power we've had by ourselves so far. Perhaps we'll get another chance. In the meantime, get used to every turkey and nincompoop out there having everthing imaginable at their disposal.....