Confessions and Comments

Sadly enough I am not perfect. Not even close, and thus I am given to error on occasion. Even more, I occasionally oversimplify. That's what I did in my last posting. Dealing with that subject in a short space makes it almost inevitable. Certainly I'm aware that not all Europe appeased, that the US contributed to the problems that caused WWII, that Woodrow Wilson was himself problematical. I'm also aware that Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex. All that, and more being said, it is a fact that The US has been forced into its position by the world, not the other way around.

As for Iraq. What a catchall for animosities that in many cases have nothing to do with the war. I for one saw entry into that war as being acceptable, but untimely because it meant not concentrating on Afghanistan. The atomic weapon threat, in my mind, was strongly reinforced by Iraq's failure to respond to numerous UN resolutions. I believed and still believe that the UN was toothless and shunted the responsibilty for this action, as with many others, to the US. A valid comparison might be the Iran/atomic weapon question. Ho hum, talk, talk, talk...Boom?

Researching types might want to go to a management conference held at the Business School of the University of Chicago last year. One lecture was on Iraq and demonstrated that, for the first years, the war saved us money. Surprise!! Yes indeed, it was to me. The end of the cost of maintaining the no-fly zone dropped expenditure! As for going for oil. The lecturers laughed; oil was cheap at that point. Data, charts, it was all there, and in the halls of Academe.

I am voting for McCain because I know who he is and trust him. While I recognized and welcomed his transformational quality early on, I still do not know much about Obama. Closed records everywhere: undergraduate and post-graduate records sealed, and no actual birth certificate produced. Then there is the reluctance to be honest about the extent of past associations. WHY? That question begs an answer. Suspicions are encouraged by secrecy. Certainly mine are.

Senator Obama is presently ahead in the race with a week to go. If he becomes president he will have more financial power thanks to the bailout, and more police-type power, thanks to Homeland Security, than any president in our history. I am loath to hand that over to him with these questions unanswered. Are you?