Idle Thoughts, Paris, March 2007
World wide the haters of our country are enjoying double digit growth rates. Given the war in Iraq, and given the Israeli Palestinian stalemate it is no surprise that the American haters are multiplying in Arab and other Moslem lands.
Furthermore, highly critical voices, if not the voices of hate, are being heard more and more even, among our “friends” in Europe elsewhere.
What a dismal time it is for the land of the free and the brave. How we have squandered what could have been a fine opportunity, given our great wealth, for making the world a better place.
Instead of our citizens as ambassadors of good will throughout the world we have our young men and women in combat gear fighting seemingly endless wars against Islamic foes among whom are tens of thousands of young people ready to blow themselves rather than submit to what they see as our degenerate way of live.
In Iraq the war goes on and on and there seems to be nothing, as in Vietnam earlier, but the complete withdrawal of our forces from the country, that has any chance of stopping it.
But then even our leaving may not bring the killing to an end. For there are those who say, not without reason, repeating the words of the like minded in Vietnam nearly 40 years earlier, that our leaving will result in an even bigger bloodbath, not only in Iraq but throughout the Middle East.
Who is to blame? One would first blame the president, but he seems like such a little man to have made such a big mess. How could little George Bush have brought our country so low? And the answer, he had big Dick Cheney behind him, is not much better.
The situation is more like an accident of the road. One small mistake by the driver leading to multiple deaths as the resulting chain of car crashes plays itself out. Bush’s small mistake was to send our first soldier into Iraq.
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