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Shoot first, ask questions later.  As long as we're left standing, who cares what happens to the rest of 'em...

I agree. An isolationist hegemony cannot stand. If we continue to act solely in our own interest, proclaiming it’s our right as the most powerful nation to trample on the rights of those less powerful when it suits our national security, how long can it last? How long before the world turns economically or even militarily against us? If this stance continues, where will we be in 30 years, when the superpower is not the US, but China? Are we banking on the prayer that foreign nations have short collective memories? What will the nuclear proliferation threat be in 2010, with and without foreign alliances? The Muslims of the world have noted quite clearly that Pakistan is the only "tay-ror-eest" country that hasn’t been trampled in some way, and treated respectfully … I wonder why.

Will the Saudis still stand beside us if the war continues? If we suffer another mainland terrorist attack, who will weep for us? Who will freely offer us mutual intelligence? Can we continue to treat Canada as our disenfranchised backyard and expect popular alliance? Can we strengthen freedom and democracy in Central America before somebody else with another ideology moves there in our stead? What will happen to the world circa 2100 if Africa at last implodes, a disease-ridden war-torn continent unable to support extended civilization, and millions of violent and desperate refugees move north and west?

The Bush administration keeps telling us that the main issue is the war on terror. I would like to more correctly amend that and say that the main issue is America’s war on the sensibilities of the world. I have never felt less and more patriotic than I have in the last 2 years – less for our administration that represents us to the world, and more for the fact that I do my best to live and breathe American ideals while stomaching what Bush’s regime is doing to the world and our reputation.

I can hear the hard-rights already – “Fine then, leave.” But by whatever infinitesimal measure you wish to use, America would be worse off without me. Am I a saintly citizen? No, by no means. Am I a good one? Yes. I pay my taxes. I advocate the community. I don't own a car, I walk, I pollute very little. I recycle what I can. I work for a non-profit that assists the courts and government agencies in improving justice and human rights. My current project I’m in love with – we are trying to help thousands of orphaned children receive fairer and safer treatment, and to reduce juveniles rapes, murders, and sundered families. I do good work. America would lose all that if I left.

Does the current administration care? Of course not. $ = king. The betterment of humanity is lesser in their minds than the betterment of Haliburton. If I have an economically feasible opportunity and the US continues on the course it’s on, I will expatriate. Vancouver, Ireland, I have not yet decided. But I fear I will not be able to – I have a family to think about. All I can do is live my life as best I can, and speak out against injustice where I see it.

The Bush administration creates injustice.