Friday, February 25, 2005

politics (again)

So I read in Newsweek that an increasing majority of Iraqis just want the Americans out. Although Saddam Hussein (if I spelled that right) was an evil dictator, at least the Iraqis had electricity and running water, which has not been constant in these last few years. The Iraqis said Saddam also promised democratic ideals, just like the Americans.
The problem with this whole situation is that Bush didn't really have a plan for what to do after he removed Saddam Hussein from power. That was the first big mistake.
Also, the most recent horrible situation: those Iraqi parents were driving in their car with their kids in back, and the American soldiers were yelling at them to stop but they didn't understand or something, so the Americans shot the parents, and splattered the kids with their blood. What a horrible lose-lose situation. First of all, if American soldiers were yelling at you in a war-torn country, wouldn't you stop? That was the fault of the Iraqi parents. Second of all, if a car isn't stopping, which do you shoot, the parents who haven't actually really done anything wrong yet, or the tires, so you don't kill anyone but get the car stopped? That was the soldiers fault. Third of all, how are you supposed to know the car won't blow up like several cars do in Iraq? That was the soldiers dillema.
I've been reading about Iran, and how there's no freedom left, and Iraq, and how Bush has been hypocritical and embraced Putin, and how a few years ago with democratic Taiwan was fighting with China or whatever, Bush sided with China, and I've been reading about what happened in Mexico and in South America, where even once democracies were put in place there still wasn't really freedom of anything, the governments just said that it was okay, because there wasn't a dictatorship... and then there were all the communists, and all the Marxists, and nobody knew what to do, and there were the guerellas that decided the only way to fight the government was violence... And how no country in the world really has it figured out right now, there's some okayish ones like Germany and Canada and the US and such, but even those have major faults, Canada's socialism making healthcare unaffordable, Germany's church-state creating religious persecution of minorities, the US being idiots and involved in a war they can't figure out how to fight that is a dead-end, with a president that is a hypocrite and a presidential candidate that is a maniac, and that is still in debt... and you look at countries like Iraq, or Iran, or Cuba, where there is either no freedom or just plain turmoil, like in Iraq...
And can't you see why I'm just completely disgusted with politics? The whole world's so freaking screwed up! Everyone's a hypocrite, no country has it figured out. I'm sure of one thing though, that democracy doesn't work everywhere, obviously not in what was recently a theocratic dictatorship with the population is split between Shi-ites and Sunnis. I'm just sick of all the corruption and crap. I have no suggestions... my opinions tend to be moderate, because I think there is a line, you could use the line between democrat and republican, or liberal and conservative, for example, and i believe that there's no such thing as extremes, that the truth, or the best solution, is only slightly to one side or the other of the line, with only a slight deviation. I don't believe in extreme opinions.
But I'm fed up with government. I'm not an anarchist... government is necessary. But my gosh, why can't we get it right?
(Not that I have any true ideas at this point in time, because the whole world's hit a dead end politically in my opinion, and every decision is going to have bad consequences, and there's definitely no obvious right or wrong. I'm just complaining).

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