Interesting to see how many people on FB now seem to be crying WAR in light of current world affairs. Much to ponder...
Isn't it interesting how close history is coming to repeating itself - just about a century apart.....
In the early part of the last century a president who was not easily electable by today's standards (FDR with his Polio - today, it's Obama) came into office with; obscenely h...igh unemployment rates; on the heels of the worst economic disaster our country had faced; financial institutions a mess; dictators in office in other countries and democracies crumbling; Sky-rocketing poverty rates; racial tensions high; memories of one war in the not-so-distant past and another great war looming on the horizon.
Not so very different than where we are today. Only this time - the dictators have prolific nuclear capabilities and seem to be itching to use them and greater alliances have been forged among those who would be enemies.
I can't say that I love Obama's performance, but I will say that I appreciate the idea/ideal of trying to get the Middle Eastern countries to rise up and fight their own battle for a change. In World War II we didn't jump in until the world could see clearly who the real enemies of the planet - not just the US - were, and it worked (doesn't mean we couldn't have done things differently, sooner, etc. - but it worked).
Are we forgetting that Putin (apparently Russian for Hitler - who knew?) is posturing, testing nuclear weapons and threatening to retaliate if we misstep. Do we really know who the Russians are in bed with - China? N. Korea? Any number of Middle Eastern, South American - even African detractors/enemies of the "West"? If Russia gets involved we will likely see the winds of war on our own soil for the first time in a "foreign war" since we ourselves became a country - excepting the Mexican-American War and War of 1812. Are we really ready for that?
And we can blame the current administration and the war on Iraq, but this has been building on itself since Israel became a state and we began arming rebel factions in the Middle East.
This is not a simple "just go shoot and bomb these S.O.B's" situation - at all.
Isn't it interesting how close history is coming to repeating itself - just about a century apart.....
In the early part of the last century a president who was not easily electable by today's standards (FDR with his Polio - today, it's Obama) came into office with; obscenely h...igh unemployment rates; on the heels of the worst economic disaster our country had faced; financial institutions a mess; dictators in office in other countries and democracies crumbling; Sky-rocketing poverty rates; racial tensions high; memories of one war in the not-so-distant past and another great war looming on the horizon.
Not so very different than where we are today. Only this time - the dictators have prolific nuclear capabilities and seem to be itching to use them and greater alliances have been forged among those who would be enemies.
I can't say that I love Obama's performance, but I will say that I appreciate the idea/ideal of trying to get the Middle Eastern countries to rise up and fight their own battle for a change. In World War II we didn't jump in until the world could see clearly who the real enemies of the planet - not just the US - were, and it worked (doesn't mean we couldn't have done things differently, sooner, etc. - but it worked).
Are we forgetting that Putin (apparently Russian for Hitler - who knew?) is posturing, testing nuclear weapons and threatening to retaliate if we misstep. Do we really know who the Russians are in bed with - China? N. Korea? Any number of Middle Eastern, South American - even African detractors/enemies of the "West"? If Russia gets involved we will likely see the winds of war on our own soil for the first time in a "foreign war" since we ourselves became a country - excepting the Mexican-American War and War of 1812. Are we really ready for that?
And we can blame the current administration and the war on Iraq, but this has been building on itself since Israel became a state and we began arming rebel factions in the Middle East.
This is not a simple "just go shoot and bomb these S.O.B's" situation - at all.
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