an update to the pax americana post

For the short term, what I'm saying is we need to stay the course. We fucked the place up, now we have to fix it back up. Sean-Paul says the same thing, and he's right. This war was a grave miscalculation. Perhaps Saddam was going to launch WMD at us. So far, the evidence is to the contrary. Of course it's good that a psychopath is gone (while one is appeased in Northeast Asia, but I'll stay away from that hot button tonight).

It's good that someday in the medium future, a democracy could develop (although the global trend toward fundamentalism of all shapes, sizes, and forms seems to make this a pipe dream ...at least to me). However the cronyism, the chaos, the attacks on our soldiers (who come home to find out they don't have health care...fuck you Bush), all that lost money (right into coporate pockets), and the burden placed upon the American taxpayer who already doesn't want to pay for the nice services they enjoy at home is bad. I don't give a fuck about what FoxNews says or even CNN. Bad things are happening over there because we've fucked it up beyond all recognition. Honest people need to sit down, state this, and make a plan on how to fix this place up.

Simple philosophy. If you break something in a store, you buy it. We broke it. Now we have to "buy" it.

Later on this week sometime I'm going to have talk about the cronyism, because it makes me fucking sick.

Oh, and I'm over the flu, finally.