Have we become so Bushized that we, as a people, truly feel that might makes right and if you have a disagreement with someone who is weaker than you that it's perfectly acceptable to kick their ass until they see your way of thinking???
Have we really devolved to the level of a schoolyard bully in our foreign policy???
My support for Barack Obama aside, a presidential candidate has stepped forth who is proposing...hold onto your garters...that we actually TALK WITH our enemies as opposed to gassing up the planes and bombing them to the Iron Age.
My God. Have we come this low that a man with diplomacy and peace in mind as a first option is seen as naive and 'a dreamer'? Shouldn't that be par for the course. Have we normalized the PNAC/neo-con 'shoot first...ask questions never' approach to world affairs?
Remember, this is the guy who thought we should have restraint and wait until all the evidence was verified before we launched strikes on Iraq. Obviously, he is a man of some wisdom and vision.
The fact that a man like that with the idea that we can resolve our differences with a handshake as opposed to a cruise missile is lambasted is truly sad and an indicator that for all the talk of 'values' in our society, that we've truly lost our moral direction. I guess it's a good thing that Bush, Jr. wasn't alive during the Cuban Missile Crisis or else I'd be writing this from the radioactive wasteland that used to be America.
Hopefully, we can find our way soon.
