Hated Worse than for Iraq

Keith Olbermann and his merry band of America haters have long stated that the Iraq war has caused other countries to 'hate' America causing out nation to lose prestige in the world. I never agreed with that view. As the world's lone superpower, preemptively invading Iraq to rid the world of their WMD's was a signal that an angry America would be able to do things in this world and could not be stopped. What drove our mainly European critics was fear - fear of what we could do rather easily if the thing that angered us shifted from WMD's to something far less. This is an understandable position for them to take but it was never articulated that way by the Left in the United States because they had a mission to weaken a President who was not going to perpetually campaign for public opinion.

What America hath brought now may actually bring hatred compared to the fear during the Iraq war. The free world is on the precipice of economic failure. An America that fiddles while Rome is burning due to petty politics is likely to make even the least vocal Europeans speak up. Why? Because when times are good small things like the sacking of a dictator is not likely to rile people up. But if someone loses their job and cannot put food on the table because of inaction by the same superpower is going to get people who are normally rational in an irrational state in a hurry. Remember, it is with foreign money that we have been allowed to borrow and spend our way into prosperity. Foreigners are going to look at the situation and see that things went too far and call it quits. If people are unemployed and marching in the streets it could get downright ugly.

This last several months has felt like the missing chapter of Atlas Shrugged. The looters have siezed control over the media and made this election a coronation. Opposing views have been shot down and criticism is not allowed to take place. Allies like Unions and Acorn are being awarded in bailout packages. While hundreds of billions are being debated, more billions are being spent while people are distracted. And the former smartest guys in the room have been taken over by the new smartest guys in the room. Trouble is that neither were the smartest, most talented, most creative or best. Those guys must be hiding in Galt's Gulch.

Change is not going to be a solution and it's clear from this saga that change in part caused the problem. Bipartisanship is not needed because there's little that can be agreed to which will bring about a solution. Maybe fear will be the solution. Once we see the horror of what we've done to other innocent parties maybe, just maybe we'll get our act together. But I guess that's America - we're not unified until the British are coming, Pearl Harbor is attacked or Sputnik is in orbit.