Wil's Rant

The verbal war between Iran and the U.S. continues to heat up as the threats continue to fly both ways. The real problem with re-electing George Bush is the fact that he now feels he has been given permission by the people of the U.S. to continue with his one country campaign to make the world safe for America, If the disaster that is the situation in Iraq is any indication, things should get even more impossible to fix as he takes his war into yet an ever-expanding never-ending series of escalations. The thing is most Americans don't support this type of foreign policy. The only reason that they allow this type of action is the fact that 9/11 scared the hell out of them. As a result, the voices of the more liberal and intelligent among them has been totally drowned out by the outrage of the nation. So here we sit. The world teetering on the edge of a new religious world war, as the environment threatens to swallow large portions of the planet in the next fifty years. Did I mention the fact that I think this figure much more likely to be twenty at the current rate of progress? Meanwhile the growing number of nations that now feel threatened by the U.S. are now starting to talk and form alliances. China, Iran, and Russia jump immediately to mind. How long can it possibly be until these other nations say enough and start to mobilize in answer to the American's independent war on terror? The U.S. has become very good at turning war into a big business bonanza. This is the main reason that the American's insistence that they are acting in support of freedom such a lark. The American's record on Nation Building is a sad and sorry one indeed. In virtually every case in the past that they have tried to walk into a country and straighten them out, they have left only suffering and disaster in their wake. I don't know if there is any right way to go into a country and impose democracy. But then again, George Bush clearly doesn't either.