Talk About Real Power.

       I saw a cartoon this morning in the National Memo that I thought was right on target. It was a series of sketches of two men dressed in middle eastern garb. Each sketch was captioned with who hates whom in the middle east. Sunnis hate Shiites, Turks hate Kurds, Palestinians hate Israelis and on and on. In the end one points out the cause of all the tensions in the middle east, wait for it, Failure of American Leadership.
       I couldn't have been more surprised. American leadership is why all these people dislike each other? I mean I knew America was influential, and that we're the only real super power left on earth, but to be able to cause such strife? This is really good news for America. We may never have to go to war again. We can bring home all the troops.
       Ya see what this means is that whenever we feel threatened or whenever any of our Allies are threatened, our leadership can just get our enemies mad at each other. Problem solved. So now we have a choice to make. We can either go for world domination or world peace. Of course world peace is somewhat harder to pull off, I mean hey, we can't even get Republicans and Democrats to sit down and come to agreement on things. In fact Conservatives and Liberals act a lot like middle eastern factions. They just haven't come to armed conflict yet.
       And that problem is why we're not likely to be able to either dominate the world or bring peace to the world. Because our two political parties would never be able to come to any agreement on which way to go. Talk about lost opportunities. Just look at our presidential election campaign this year. You've got 250 Republicans vying for their nomination, okay maybe not quite that many, but more than enough, and 3 Democrats, and yet with all those candidates nobody has actually talked about what Americans really need and want from the next president. Everybody keeps claiming that's what they want to talk about, but then they don't.