Why the US cannot be wrong.

I have always wondered why there isn't open debate about the inadequacy of the United States government and how dangerous it has become to everyone in the world. I have come to a conclusion:

Democracy has evolved into the greatest weapon against free thought known to mankind. It is currently the status quo on all things fair and equal all over the planet, and yet now its truest weakness is beginning to show. The United States, the self proclaimed nearest-to-perfect democracy, has REelected officials who act to the detriment of society.

This fact alone threatens not only the idea of 'democracy,' but also of the human race's confidence in their judgment and minds. Because of this, we must continue to reinforce the idea that whoever we vote into office can do no absolute wrong, and in that, we've established a totalitarian control on our own ability to think.

Any 'thoughts'?

Funny that, with the 72% voter turnout in the recent election and all.

The infrastructure has been heavily damaged, there are fights going on many places, and old animosities are now resurfacing. The fundamentalists are doing a good job of digging their claws into the political landscape. The winner of the election wants closer ties to Iran. Not desirable.

I don't really see any evidence he isn't just another Chavez, saber-rattling and playing to the people to distract them from his government's failings.

Oh, you're probably right, but that's causing problems. He has destroyed most reforms that moderates put in place, and is attempting to fast-track the nuclear program. Considering the region, this isn't good news.

Not really [destabilizing].

Egypt will be happy to hear that. Israel too, considering Iran's new-found fanaticism. The Jordanian king will be delighted. So will the Saudi Arabian autocracy (although how they manage to both fund, and be threatened by, terrorist movements is beyond me).

Business as usual. Nothing really remarkable about that.

Except that it's several times the rate it normally is. Remarkable or not, the growing debt sacrifies part of the country's future prosperity. Not desirable.

[The economy has] Hardly [tanked]

Tanked was too strong a word, but isn't all roses either: http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm

Eventually the debt will begin to make itself felt, which is making some economists skittish. This cannot go on indefinitely.

[International opinion is] Utterly irrelevant really.

Unfortunate. It does have peripheral benefits.

They can't even feed their own people; the pinnacle of communism.

Except that they're developing the bomb, and also selling that tech to Iran. How hungry the people are has little to do with the international stage, although it's unfortunate, but nuclear bombs most certainly do.

The "yellow menance" has long since seen that good trade relations with the Unites States are more profitable than anything else.

But they'd expand their sphere of power if possible. Some recent rhetoric has hardly been comforting.

Which would mean staying the course in Iraq as realistically the enemy has no chance of winning other than by destroying the political will to do so.

The same could be said of Vietnam, although the two situations are still significantly different. The question is how much they might harm the US in the process. Not directly, of course, but the terrorists are not going anywhere, and they'll keep the military tied up in Iraq, possibly indefinitely.

Is it worth it? I don't know.