Between Peace and War
For all their training, the White House still can't get their hood ornament to stop lookin' like a deer caught in the headlights. I don't blame Bush-Lite for being a-scared; at least he's smart enough to know he's not smart. Just listen to him, pausing in the middle of clauses when he's reading because he's just reading and doesn't really have a clue about that which he speaks. He's little more than the deliverer of what's written on the teleprompter, and not a dependable one at that.
So here we are, probably a whole year's Pentagon budget ($350,000,000,000) spent dealing with the disaster of September 11th, raining tens of millions of ordnance into the eternal dust of Central Asia, and anthrax is showing up in all sorts of places, mailed from places like New Jersey and Florida, where our bombing won't do much good. The vast majority of white powder problems are hoaxes, which reveals more if different warped thinking. Shoot 'em all.
The point is that from our airports to our mail system, our country is in teetering on the edge of chaos. The economy is in a tailspin, even though some wishful-thinking propagandists trumpet less-bad news as good news. That's like saying everything is fine when you've fallen off a cliff because you haven't hit the bottom yet.
But I have a plan that will help staunch the red ink hemorrhaging, and get our nation back on the right track again. I'm not talking the talk of bringing us together swooning under the eagle's wing; I'm talking about really bringing us together, through deliberate and healthy patriotism.
Step One - End the bombing of Afghanistan. It's not doing any good. It won't do any good. And it's expensive.
Step Two - End all foreign aid. Many countries on the receiving end of our largesse have supported and continue to support — tacitly or not — the network of psychotics who perpetrated this heinous attack.
Step Three - End all arms sales abroad. Too many of those weapons wind up ultimately being used against our interests — moral, political, and/or financial.
Step Four - Rebase all U.S. troops on our own soil in our own cities under the command of local officials to protect our own people. Why pour billions into foreign economies when the people hate our being there?
Step Five - Close the borders. Deport all illegals. Deport those who hire or shelter them. With our military home, we will have the personnel to do the job properly.
Step Six - Issue national identity cards based on ocular or voiceprint technology already available. Deal severely with anyone who messes with the system.
Step Seven - Give the United Nations $50 billion a year in cash, goods, and services for food, public health programs, and policing efforts. Make sure the American flag is on every gift.
My friend Yo has an addendum to the first step. Offer bin Laden $10,000,000,000 of Microsoft stock if he'll rat out every terrorist he knows and knows of.
Of course, this ain't gonna happen, 'cause Bush-Lite and his band of policy clutzniks are all fighting the last war, inevitably keystone kops-like, because they don't know any better. Just look into the faces of those generals; do you see a light on in any one of them?
Whatever happens, the mettle of our country will be sorely tested. We can only hope it will also be tempered for the better in the end.
And that's SetonnoteS...I'm Tony Seton.
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