Some Lessons Are Learned The Hard Way

Progressive culture is not a meal served all at once, it takes decades for centuries of culture to adapt to new ways thinking. The U.S. is learning this the hard way in Afghanistan like the Soviets.

So what do we do in the Middle East? It’s a good question and surely the U.S. must stay involved in some capacity.  We can’t ignore the world’s energy centre. However, it’s going to be a messy business and as we mentioned before, the Middle East is becoming a human chessboard.  Playing white is America and its coalition and we’re being out flanked by a more committed Iran, Russia and China.

Time to Focus on Our Own Issues

All of this and we have serious issues of our own to tend with back home.  We need to lean on our allies for more support, they can’t draft on us forever, and it’s common courtesy for someone else to take the lead and let us draft and recover ourselves.

Our economic engine warning light has been glaring red for too long and other warning lights have popped up along the way. But it appears that we keep driving around trying to solve the world’s problems hoping the warning lights will shut off. This doesn’t work.  Our country continues to deteriorate and experience fundamental breakdowns that can’t be ignored for much longer, we are ignoring all the warning signs. Any mechanic will tell you that ignoring warning lights is a losing strategy.  Eventually our U.S. engine will fail and career politicians will be forced into action and other strategies other than making decisions soley based on their political survival.  Let’s hope this doesn’t happen because it will not be a pleasant experience for anyone, especially Washington.