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Old 01-25-2005, 02:06 PM
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Unhappy Cry Then When You Lose It!



Crying over spilled milk has long been a practice engaged in by mankind. Whereas preventative medicine makes for good reading, but is rarely indulged in.

Fort Sumter, Pearl Harbor, The Black Plague, Multiple Depressions, The Cold War, and even a great many of these political and economic intrigues, were truly preventable, had those who saw them coming, or even those who helped to orchestrated these and many other near-mortal abominations, taken the time to address or even eliminate the underlying causes for these tragedies!

Freedom and liberty too, are truly fragile things that many people often take for granted. And only when these blessings are in danger of extinction, do most people expend the time needed to address the problem!

To this point in our history, we have been extremely fortunate, in that we have (so far) managed to prevail much of the time. But this victory of sorts has not been totally without cost - far from it in fact! Vast oceans of blood, sweat and tears have been expended by our predecessors in order to get us where we are today, but unfortunately, right after our numerous ordeals, many of us again become complacent, arrogant, and totally self vested.

As such, and in relatively short order, we inevitably found ourselves back in dire straits - and (unfortunately) this is a condition that far too many here in America seem to eternally court!

We are a nation of numerous cultures, like none ever seen before us. Better educated, better fed, better-armed, and better-intentioned than many (if not most) who have ever inhabited this planet before us. Yet with all of this going for us and more, we continue to make the same foolish mistakes, trust in the integrity of many who lack same (domestic as well as international), and insist upon eternally attempting to create a world fashioned in our own image!

The game plan for the creation of the United States was an unrealizable goal that eventually, like the few fairytales that do manage to come true, proved to the world that hope springs eternal! ?We as a nation of dreamers, after all, have managed to achieve the impossible, conquer the unconquerable, and attained the unreachable!?

Many (if not most) of our population are selfless in nature. We strive to leave this (our nation) just a little better off for our having been here. Some, however, are (unfortunately) in it for themselves. They are never satiated, never content with what they have, and never out to better the whole! And worse yet, far too many of these sad individuals honor not the doers and the givers, but rather worship the criminally bent, the socially contorted, the career liars, and the self-deifiers among us. And to quote Abraham Lincoln: ?Can any nation so conceived and so dedicated long endure??

Until we and our leaders (political & economic) again adopt a credo of ?Leading by Example, The Good of the Whole as opposed to the demands of the few, as well as Honor Through Truth?, all else that we attempt will mean next to nothing in the final scheme of things. And believe it or not, there are a few out there who would even usurp freedom, strangle equal rights, redefine liberty, bastardize our two century old documents of existence, and even internationalize us in all things, and in all ways!

Granted, being involved internationally is a matter of national survival. But taking orders from foreign entities, totally tying our fortunes to alien dictates, being more concerned for the welfare of the world than we are for our own people, worrying more about international image than internal substance, and adopting a policy of domestic conservatism and foreign liberalism (both at the same time) is, in my opinion, a recipe for disaster!

A free America, minus that scant minority of the always self-indulgent, and/or eternally self-concerned, must be numbered among the true hopes for humanity. For if we as a nation fail, so may fail the world itself!

And no, this is not a doomsday analogy, but rather just my feeble attempt to identify decay no matter where it exists, and to endeavor (if but in a small way), to tell, it like I personally see it?

If we ever do surrender even part of our sovereignty, or abandon the rights and responsibilities that were earned in our brief two centuries of existence, these rights may never again be recovered by mankind! And if this ever does occur (God Forbid), will you cry aloud over the loss these rights, or will you again attempt to seek out new worlds to inhabit, and try again to regain this sacred lost ground?

The only problem is - ?There are no more new worlds that are mankind-friendly, and this, our great nation, could very well be the last hurrah?!?

?AND QUITE FRANKLY, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION - WE ARE BLOWING IT BIG TIME!!?

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