Seems this blog has become somewhat of a backwater. Doesn't mean I'm thinking about things any less, just less time to indulge myself in writing about them.
Venezuelan President Chavez is a loose cannon, a buffoon. He'll probably ultimately end up hurting his country, but he's right in his criticism of the U.S. , and specifically the Bush administration. To be fair, the Bush administration didn't create the foreign policy that's gotten us to this point geopolitically, but the administration is guilty of actively devolving U.S. foreign policy to its current blunt and hegemonistic state.
We should be about a foreign policy along the lines of the Bono/Gates/Buffet/Sauros model. Instead, we've spent the last few decades banging around the world in a bull-in-a-china-shop, petrocentric frenzy, trying to spread democracy to cultures not disposed to practice it or adopt it on our timetable.
We have, in large part, created the terrorists we're currently fighting.
On a related, and far more personally scary note, does anyone else see reinstatement of the draft on the horizon?
Ankh
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