by Stephen Greco

Created on: June 30, 2009   Last Updated: July 04, 2009

The United States of America needs to focus on its own domestic problems. Life is good in the United States, but the country is not without its serious problems. However, the focus of the government of the United States seems to have drifted away from home and on to the opposite side of the world. No man prospers by ignoring his own needs and meddling in the affairs of other, often times hostile, people. A nation won't prosper if they do this either.

The United States faces many problems. Cities are becoming over crowded, and their buildings and other structures are starting to show their age. The States are facing a looming energy crisis, the economy is suffering and people are losing there homes. Crime is rampant, the nation has a problem with drugs, and Mexican drug cartels are threatening the nation. The countries environment and ecosystems are sufferings. The education system is failing and needs to be completely changed.

Despite the nation's suffering economy, billions are being spent on foreign wars. The United States national debt is still skyrocketing, and as of June 18th the debt was at $11,342,734,351,973.14. It's time America got out of foreign wars it doesn't belong in. Al-Qaeda played America like a fiddle. It lured America into war not because it wanted to destroy America, but to use America as a pawn. The real enemies of Al-Qaeda and Osama are the "moderate" Islamic governments in the region that Al-Qaeda plans to overthrow, mostly the Saudi Arabian government. By getting America to launch a war in Afghanistan, Osama was able to make a case that America, and more importantly to him, "moderate" governments in the Middle East who "supported" America (Like the Saudi Arabian government) were launching a war on Islam. Right after the invasion of Afghanistan, Osama claimed the moderate governments in the Middle East are made up of cowardly idol worshipers and infidels who were guiding America on its war on Islam. It was an absurd claim, but it worked. Many joined his cause, but Osama wasn't done recruiting yet. When America launched its war on Iraq, it did just what Osama wanted it to do, created wonderful new recruiting ground for Al-Qaeda. Now Osama was ready to launch his war on Saudi Arabia. However, America did something right then. It stayed longer and fought harder than Osama expected it to, and Al-Qaeda was seriously weakened.

When America launches itself head long into wars it doesn't belong in, tragedy occurs. Many Americans died needlessly in Vietnam. Now many Americans died needlessly when they entered someone else's civil war in the Middle East. The world can manage without America's meddling; Americans don't need to die by the thousands in wars that don't concern them. America has its own problems it should solve before it should even think about getting involved in foreign affairs, unless said foreign affairs pose an imminent threat to its close allies. Just as everyone has to look out for themselves first and foremost, America has to start putting its own domestic problems in the spotlight if it wants to survive and prosper.

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