Are we Weaker or Stronger Under Bush Co?
An article in Salon today attempts to answer the question of why it is that people do not seem upset about the fact that Bush Co mislead the nation to take us into Iraq. The contention of the article is that Americans will forgive a lie if they feel stronger rather than weaker. I don’t know what I think about that contention. Maybe they are correct. If the contention is correct, then we need to examine if the policy of unilateral attack on other nations makes us less safe rather than more so.
When I listen to people I know who have been converted to neo-conservatism from their former liberal stance on issues most of them pretty much assert that we no longer need any other nations. We are strong enough to go it alone. (Which pretty much mirrors Donald Rumsfeld positions on Iraq.) Yet wiser folk have warned us in the past. Perhaps we should listen.
Right now our military is spread about as thin as it can be. Not only that but they are feeling the effects of being stuck with no end in sight in a country where there are lots more attacks on them than those that we hear about that result in deaths of our soldiers.
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