I have my own reservations about the course we are on but it looks like to me that the failure of the UN to enforce its resolutions has put us on a path of no return.
After the last few days it has become clear to me that world opinion is against what we (the US) are doing in regards to Iraq.
The question is do we care.
I think that world opinion would be against us if we gave food, shelter, and medical supplies to any nation state out there. There is major anti-americanism in the world today. Is it because our standard of living is so much higher than most of the world or that many countries are mirred in self-inflicted poverty.
So the question is do we care.
I know I used to care what folks thought about the US but not now. The US has had its share of blunders the last 50 years when it comes to foreign and domestic policy, both Republican and Democrat leadership can be found at fault but the bottom line is that we try to do what we think is right. Whats right to us seems to not apply to most of the world lately so is that our failing or is it that the world takes offense to anything we do just because we are the US.
I think it is going to boil down to this, either you are with us or against us. Choose clearly but choose wisely because what most of the world does not understand that the vast majority of the country is moderate, we have our wackos on the Right and on the Left but middle America still decides the direction of the country. Most importantly middle America has a long memory.
