djangojazz
01-19-2008, 11:09 PM
I heard somewhere that said that the war in Iraq is not even priority one for voters and the economy with it's lackluster performance is now people's top priority. McCain even stated that he did not think most people cared about the war and how long it would last and in conservative eyes that must be the case because he seems to be rebounding in popularity lately. So will the war end anytime soon or do you think it will continue long into the next president in office? I think it's pretty much going to slowly wind down in a DNC member is president and the DNC hold's control of Congress still. Then again that could go very slowly. I do know besides Paul the GOP candidates think this war is viable in nearly everything I have heard on them appealing to the conservative base. I just think if you think about the number of wars the US has been in since the military buildup of WWII the number of them that have had any positive results for US freedoms is none.
I can appreciate the fact that conservatives want to protect the homeland as they call it, but I can't appreciate the fact that the people that attacked us are not in question. But yet the war is now fought for reasons disguised as peace but if the only hostility is coming against us, the army is disbanded and their is no unified force against us that would say a lot for what the rest of the world thinks of us. What is even more telling is the attitude that we can just shrug off everyone indefinitely and at some later time all will be won but we have no idea what it takes to win and we refuse to change. And an even bigger issue in the future would be, will we just do this again against another nation and will conservatives from this day forward just let any war happen and justify any aggression as correct and any thoughts to why as weakness? It's interesting to me judging that people that were considered conservative 50 years ago would now be more liberal and that people that were liberal 50 years ago now just don't exist except in very small representation.
The only reason it really scares me is now I see energy and defense having record years with profits, the economy as a whole is suffering. I'm really scared for the future and I'm decently educated, I can't imagine how hard it is going to be if this war continues to go on another 5 years or more of how much debt we will have and how hard it will be to ever change to a system not based on oil. We have changed so many policies in favor of non renewable system and had our mass populace think it will last forever and we can see the economy is not telling that as a true story. It's very telling the US stopped most of it's own production of oil many years back and Bush is now openly going to the Mid East and asking them to lower prices. That doesn't happen when oil is plentiful and going to last well into the future. I guess since most of my writing has a tendency to go to rants on politics I offer this in an election year. Don't look to next year with this election, look to the next 10 or 20 years and how one issue also affects other issues. Personally I think we should build a new infrastructure based on emerging technologies. It will create jobs and it will boost the economy if people are fighting for change not war.
I can appreciate the fact that conservatives want to protect the homeland as they call it, but I can't appreciate the fact that the people that attacked us are not in question. But yet the war is now fought for reasons disguised as peace but if the only hostility is coming against us, the army is disbanded and their is no unified force against us that would say a lot for what the rest of the world thinks of us. What is even more telling is the attitude that we can just shrug off everyone indefinitely and at some later time all will be won but we have no idea what it takes to win and we refuse to change. And an even bigger issue in the future would be, will we just do this again against another nation and will conservatives from this day forward just let any war happen and justify any aggression as correct and any thoughts to why as weakness? It's interesting to me judging that people that were considered conservative 50 years ago would now be more liberal and that people that were liberal 50 years ago now just don't exist except in very small representation.
The only reason it really scares me is now I see energy and defense having record years with profits, the economy as a whole is suffering. I'm really scared for the future and I'm decently educated, I can't imagine how hard it is going to be if this war continues to go on another 5 years or more of how much debt we will have and how hard it will be to ever change to a system not based on oil. We have changed so many policies in favor of non renewable system and had our mass populace think it will last forever and we can see the economy is not telling that as a true story. It's very telling the US stopped most of it's own production of oil many years back and Bush is now openly going to the Mid East and asking them to lower prices. That doesn't happen when oil is plentiful and going to last well into the future. I guess since most of my writing has a tendency to go to rants on politics I offer this in an election year. Don't look to next year with this election, look to the next 10 or 20 years and how one issue also affects other issues. Personally I think we should build a new infrastructure based on emerging technologies. It will create jobs and it will boost the economy if people are fighting for change not war.