Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Back up and back off
The on-going stock market meltdown has had the chilling effect of reminding of us of
how much we need to concentrate our attention on domestic concerns and preserve our assets and energy for the safety and betterment of our people. We can ill afford to continue taking on the world's problems, militarily and monetarily to the point where we are left unable to cope with business at home. Of all the great nations of the world, the United States seems, by far to be most willing to engage its military and financial resources in every hot spot on the globe and it has left us vulnerable to every domestic crisis that comes along. What will happen to our military capability to defend ourselves if the economy tanks to the point where the money is no longer there to maintain it is anybody's guess right now. I'm not advocating that we disengage from our commitments, only that we limit them to what we can reasonably handle and see to it that countries like Iraq where we have expended so much human sacrifice and money, step up to plate and pay their way with those billions of petrol dollars they've managed to sock away. I don't pretend to understand how we have arrived at the point where the economy requires a 700 billion dollar bail-out, but I'm sure there will be enough alibis forthcoming to fill the void.
George Morin
Auburn, Ga.
how much we need to concentrate our attention on domestic concerns and preserve our assets and energy for the safety and betterment of our people. We can ill afford to continue taking on the world's problems, militarily and monetarily to the point where we are left unable to cope with business at home. Of all the great nations of the world, the United States seems, by far to be most willing to engage its military and financial resources in every hot spot on the globe and it has left us vulnerable to every domestic crisis that comes along. What will happen to our military capability to defend ourselves if the economy tanks to the point where the money is no longer there to maintain it is anybody's guess right now. I'm not advocating that we disengage from our commitments, only that we limit them to what we can reasonably handle and see to it that countries like Iraq where we have expended so much human sacrifice and money, step up to plate and pay their way with those billions of petrol dollars they've managed to sock away. I don't pretend to understand how we have arrived at the point where the economy requires a 700 billion dollar bail-out, but I'm sure there will be enough alibis forthcoming to fill the void.
George Morin
Auburn, Ga.
