The political reasons aside, and this administration has allowed the enemy pool to grow by leaps and bounds, the reason is a simple human one.

Man * can only feel good if he knows bad.

He can only see ugly if he has looked at beauty.

How can man feel good about himself if he does not know how it feels to feel bad about one's self?

To feel good about myself, to know that I have achieved, is something I can only know by comparison.

How can I prove I am the manager at my jobsite if I do not see an increase in my pay?

If they call me "manager" but my paycheck is the same as John's in the mailroom how am I in a position superior to him?

Life has always been, and always will be, about 'keeping up with the Jones's."

Sadly that has meant having more and better bombs.

It is not just that it is MAD (literally and figuratively). 'My weapons are larger and better than yours."

I can make such a threat because i am bigger than you.

And I can only know bigger if I know smaller.

And then there are the psychological reasons. 'No matter how big I am I still feel inferior.' If that is the case you must do everything in your arsenal to find a way to feel bigger - and better.

Going after a bully, that provably did not hurt you (9/11 republican study concluding Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11) is one way to feel better about yourself. Going after those who could well hurt you (Iran and Korea come to mind as recent examples: Korea with a nuclear weapon that allegedly could hit California and Iran, a country that in the past has provably hurt Americans.) gives a better chance of being hit in return.

The problem with that kind of thinking is that those who are friends of the bully may well decide to come after you. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend.)*

America stood for moral principle and democracy, freedom of its people and their inalienable right to stand up to its government.

Many peoples of the world feel that is no longer the case.

It has become, in the minds of many throughout the world, the bully; "a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people." *

America always has an enemy because smaller wants to be bigger and bigger wants to be bigger still.

* For purposes of the article the word "man" is used to be inclusive of both genders.

* Arabian Proverb quotes, http://thinkexist.com/quotatio n/the_enemy_of_my_enemy_is_my_ friend/297233.html

* http://dictionary.reference.co m/browse/bully

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