Where to from here?
Dear editor:
So where do we go from here? What will become of Iraq in the near future? How long is the United States going to stay in the country that we preemptively invaded? When will we rebuild the relationships that we had, before the invasion of Iraq, around the world, and how? Will we reinstate the rights of American citizens according to our constitution? How will we bring down our trade deficit, and when will we bring our government spending into line with its income?
All of these are questions have come to the fore as a result of the past six years. And yet all of the umpteen candidates running for the opportunity to become President of the United States have avoided true, workable answers to any of them. Except for Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who says we should get out of Iraq right now, none of these Democratic and Republican candidates have expressed a real solution to the problem of the war other than to say “Forget about why and how we got there, we’re there now.” No plan, only politically correct words.
And when it comes to all the other problems enumerated above, we hear nothing except words that play to the lowest common denominator of the American population. Candidates will say anything to get elected, whether they believe in their statements or not. Just don’t expect solutions that they will put into action if they finally get the highest office in the land. We’ve come a long way since President Hoover ran on the slogan “A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage.” But the rhetoric that we hear today from all the candidates, on both sides of the political spectrum, is just as ridiculous and unworkable.
American lives are being lost (over 3,500 killed and over 25,800 wounded in Iraq), our treasury is being raided of over a billion dollars a week, our standing in the community of nations is continuing on a downhill ride, civil liberties have been torn to shreds, our borders are sieves allowing increased illegal immigration, and global warming. Instead of coming up with FIRM, WORKABLE plans to solve these problems, what do all the candidates and political parties talk about? How religious they are, late term abortion, an attorney-general who isn’t going to be leaving office no matter what Congress says, stem cell research, Scooter Libby, and John Edwards haircut. And, we have this for another 17 months.
So where do we go from here? What will become of Iraq in the near future? How long is the United States going to stay in the country that we preemptively invaded? When will we rebuild the relationships that we had, before the invasion of Iraq, around the world, and how? Will we reinstate the rights of American citizens according to our constitution? How will we bring down our trade deficit, and when will we bring our government spending into line with its income?
All of these are questions have come to the fore as a result of the past six years. And yet all of the umpteen candidates running for the opportunity to become President of the United States have avoided true, workable answers to any of them. Except for Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who says we should get out of Iraq right now, none of these Democratic and Republican candidates have expressed a real solution to the problem of the war other than to say “Forget about why and how we got there, we’re there now.” No plan, only politically correct words.
And when it comes to all the other problems enumerated above, we hear nothing except words that play to the lowest common denominator of the American population. Candidates will say anything to get elected, whether they believe in their statements or not. Just don’t expect solutions that they will put into action if they finally get the highest office in the land. We’ve come a long way since President Hoover ran on the slogan “A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage.” But the rhetoric that we hear today from all the candidates, on both sides of the political spectrum, is just as ridiculous and unworkable.
American lives are being lost (over 3,500 killed and over 25,800 wounded in Iraq), our treasury is being raided of over a billion dollars a week, our standing in the community of nations is continuing on a downhill ride, civil liberties have been torn to shreds, our borders are sieves allowing increased illegal immigration, and global warming. Instead of coming up with FIRM, WORKABLE plans to solve these problems, what do all the candidates and political parties talk about? How religious they are, late term abortion, an attorney-general who isn’t going to be leaving office no matter what Congress says, stem cell research, Scooter Libby, and John Edwards haircut. And, we have this for another 17 months.
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 2:40 PM
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