The Battle Ahead

The United States has been the predominant world power since WWII. That reign is under atack from a number of different quarters, Not that the USA has always been the generally most popular place on earth, but we have always been able to maintain our position as the world leader.

Now, most probably because of globalization, an effect of the Internet, many countries are stepping forward to become the dominant world power, or, if not the dominant power, a power to chip away at the United States.

Unfortunately, as far as the public may be concerned, this country is not doing much about maintaining its position. Too much time is spent on meaniningless subjects - gay marriage, abortion, and similar kinds of perceived problems. Unfortunately, the most important item on our leadership's agenda is getting re-elected, and that is not always in the best interests of the United States.

Iraq has been an example of getting involved in a project without planning how to control it. Listening to various media reports, reading newspapers and commentaries, can't help but make a thinking individual understand that we really do not have a plan to maintain world power. This is a perception which is of no use to us. Islam, in its current Wahabi form, is a major thorn in the side of the United States. Islam is able to take advantage of problems in many countries where the people are oppressed by their leaderhip. And it takes us too long to do something about controlling world-wide situations. Not that we should be the policemen of the world - it just has to work out that way in this age of immdeiate information.

The USA also has to make sure that education becomes integral to our citizenry. When we have a growing population of people who do not read, and especially who do not take the time to read newspapers, how will our future leaders be able to understand fact from fiction? Without a background of education which encourages learning, rather than believeing American Idol is the most important thing in the world, we are, indeed, on a slippery slope.

It's time to stop being "fat and happy". It is time to understand what we face in this ever shrinking world in which we live. Otherwise, sonetime within the next 25 years, we're all liable to wake up into a country that is no longer ours - and the causative agent will not be only illegal immigration.

I wonder what Wendell Wilkie would say...?