: About Me

Describing Gregory Williams. Oh, where to begin? Well, I am currently a senior in High School in New Jersey and I'm about to vote for the very first time in the 2008 Elections. Although I am a liberal, I am currently a fan of Mike Huckabee and might register as a republican to vote for him in the primaries.

I am an avid follower of politics, both national and international, and I consider myself a Democratic Socialist, although many of my views are not in line with Traditional Marxism. I believe that the private sector has a place in any economy, merely a smaller one than it currently holds. I believe that the Market works...sometimes, and should be applied where it does (manufacturing, services, retail) and abandoned where it doesn't (natural monopolies such as mining and infrastructure as well as public services that should be free such as Education and Health Care).

I am strongly passionate about ending the War in Iraq, ending neocolonialism around the world (about half of the world's worst dictatorships wouldn't last five minutes without the support of the United States and they include such countries as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Columbia and Pakistan) and ending global poverty, which I believe is inherently linked to changing the global trade and financial system to be less oppressive (seriously not cool that most of West Africa is on a currency issued by the Central Bank of France). I believe that much of the world's problems will be seriously helped if poverty and neocolonialism are tackled correctly.

As left leaning as I am, I am also a Christian, although I have a strong distaste for the Jerry Falwell type fundamentalists. I reject the idea of the rapture, I reject the idea that Satan plays an important role in human affairs, I accept Mormons and Catholics as Christian brothers and sisters and I believe in salvation through faith alone, not through membership in a particular Church or through following any one rulebook. I believe that the bible must be taken holistically, contextually and certainly not literally. With any other book, it is a clear insult to the author to do a strict literal interpretation. I believe the same thing about scripture: although it is the literal truth, it is stated in a very literary way and is full of Allegory, Symbol and the like.

I am a lover of Shakespeare, but I also enjoy modern works. I think it is silly and pretentious to lay out what is "literature" and what is mere "fiction". Video Games are a form of literature, at least the narrative ones are, because literature is simply art in the verbal form.

OK, enough ranting about my views, I am pushing on length here. The other bios I've looked at were about this length, so I'll have to stop here.

Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Will insurgency in Iraq ever end?

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All things come to an end, the only question is how. The Iraq insurgency is no different. It is a war, and there has never been a truly "endless" war, although many have lasted for decades, even (in some rare cases) over a century. The simple fact is that wars end two ways: either one side wins, or both sides settle their differences off the battlefield. The latter option is unlikely, given the sheer number of Iraqi insurgent groups and the diversity of their ideology, which make negotiation virtually impossible on any broad scale. That leaves the former option of one side winning. Some ha...

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