au1929 wrote:End the Game. Build one America. Lead the world.
Is that supposed to be some kind of joke? The US has trouble enough cleaning up it's own house. It is time we stop trying to be the police force and conscience of the world and concentrate on fixing what is wrong at home. Our tax dollars should be spent on bettering the lot of the citizens of the US not the whole damn world.
An excellent post, the world doesn't need or want America as a policeman.
If your leaders do not understand, why your once great country is being targeted by extremists, its time you got new leaders who are prepared to seek the cause and then act appropriately to enact a cure; just as medicos do when fighting any disease.
Remember it is a very fine line between terrorism and patriotism and your designation depends on which side of that line you are standing. I'm certain many of those your government identifies as terrorists are considered patriots in their own country; that is worth considering.
When your armies, at the behest of your government, destroy a country and its infrastructure, kill and mutilate tens of thousands of innocent people you are not winning friends, quite the opposite you are seen for what you are, the bully of the world pushing its hegemony to the limit.
Remember it is not just the innocents you are killing; it is also former members of your military, the veterans.
You poisoned civilians and troops in Vietnam with the chemical we now call "Agent Orange" and now your government is doing exactly same only this time they are using radioactive depleted uranium.
Does your government give the veterans the medical and financial help they deserve?
No it doesn't, in fact it defends the use of the weapons and denies the sickness is caused by the use of such obnoxious weaponry.
The billions of dollars your government is spending on waging war would be better spent caring for those who are suffering because they answered the call to arms; the United States could have what the rest of the Western World take for granted, a free health service, in fact America could have a health service second to none, no longer would your senior citizens need to cross borders in order to get affordable medication.
Forget Rambo he's just fiction, forget war, look after your own citizens and win back the respect for America that George Bush has destroyed.
Terrorism is an ogre created by subsequent US governments, think about that!