by Dan Hensley

Created on: July 30, 2008

Our U.S. Military has only been successful in those times when it has had strong leadership unswayed by internal politics and when the leadership did not have a personal agenda. In our age, the "shrub", as our current president has been nicknamed has waged war on very blurry terms. How can you wage a war on something that will persist no matter what your efforts? The "war on drugs" has been lost decades ago.

The comparison is a close one because both of these "wars" have destroyed so many lives, destroyed so many communities internationally that it cannot be done. From here on out, I'll refer to our military leadership as "Ranking Retards" because that's what they are. It isn't a matter of opinion, but a fact that has hurt us. U.S. Citizens have made the mistake of falling for the delusion that the government cares about them.

Not only does our government not care, they are too wrapped up in butt covering, sex scandals, financial greed, and self - promotion to have any ability to rebuild the destruction of our own homeland much less help to rebuild war-battered communities using non-military efforts. Who does the U.S. think it's fooling by talking about rebuilding war-battered communities by using non-military efforts?

Our own resources to run the homeland are almost completely gone. Where are we going to find the resources to help re-build those places hit worst by the war? Are we going to sponge off of other nations like we've been doing since the Nixon & Reagan administrations? The rebuilding needs to start at home. We need to take the plank out of our own eye before removing the speck from someone else's.

That old wisdom does not only go for it's originally intended application, it goes for the expanded world-relations crisis we have been engaged in since Nixon. Internal power struggles between our own political factions would have to come to an end before we could start to fix things at home in order for us to help rebuild elsewhere. Liberals who want the government to be the mother of us all, Republicans who want the government to be our father figure, Moderates who can't figure out where they stand, Libertarians who say they supposedly want less government and more freedom like the adults we are; all contribute to the dog and pony show the U.S. has become.

Let's say we were able to help rebuild the war battered communities. Who would take us seriously? The ranking retards can't get their stuff together. Rebuilding needs to take place for sure, but can our

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