A beacon on the hill does much more to move the world than a bull-dozer filled with bombs.
Noble causes keep American going, but mismanaged wars and incompetent peace treaties and development projects are a waste
BLEEDING IN IRAQ AND ELSEWHEREThe so-called wars on poverty of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s were not carried out as seriously and faithfully as they should have been.
However, aside from the fact that only 3000 to 5000 people died on 9-11 [and shortly thereafter], the success outside the U.S. has been minimal-even after spending trillions of dollars on security measures since 2001.
Not only are more troops (including U.S. citizens) dying in both Iraq and Afghanistan than ever before, we still see no formation of stable governance in any of these 2 lands after 5 years of throwing money and weaponry at what the Reaganomics practitioners claimed was most important to undertake in a never-ending-war on terror. Nor have we seen progress in stability in Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Turkey, nor Iran.
We need to call it a day and regroup, America!
In short, the Republican administrations of the past 28 years have had a worse record in gaining security for America than the Democratic governments of the 1960s. At least, the war on poverty had at least a progressive goal to it.
At least, the progressive Republican Nixon, was willing to join the Green Environmental movements of his era.
What have the Republicans of Reagan and the Bushes been able to claim in pride after all these decades in this department?
A PLANI came across a great plan for progressive Republicans to support in terms of kick-starting a better America in 2008 and 2009.
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2007/strategic_drift.html
Check it. I will adopt it as the corer to my policy platform on the War in Iraq and War on terror or elsewhere, too. I recommend the Republicans start debating now on this seriously. Otherwise,--and need I remind you--, Hillary will switch parties and run as a Republican-then you other Republican presidential candidates will find your race dead.
Sure, she'll keep spending on an endless war but she will have the Progressive Republicans and socially concerned evangelical Christians hands down.
p.s. Iowa Republicans need to put my name on the voting list. I'm from Kansas. Please do it as soon as you can for the upcoming caucus. You need a Progressive leader in 2008-not the recycled types we have now in this presidential campaign NOTES"1980 Debate Transcript", http://www.debates.org/pages/trans80a.html
"John Anderson: The Nice Guy Syndrome", http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198002/john-anderson/2
"John Schmitz", http://www.johngschmitz.com/_files/koplinski.pdf
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