Obama/Biden, the next JFK/LBJ?

Well, I just got through watching a moving debate on C SPAN from Invesco Field in Denver. Barack Obama has just accepted the nomination as President of the United States. I'm glad that he was able to hit John McCain in some parts where it hurt, especially the "celebrity" comments, even when John McCain made a pathetic attempt to be graceful in one of his ads. It's equally pathetic however, that all we're left with is Barack Obama and John McCain, two gentlemen who are basically trying to out-LBJ one another.

First off, Joe Biden wants to send two brigades from Iraq to check up on Afghanistan and Pakistan; then he says he wants to get involved in the affairs of Georgia and Russia, possibly militarily. Big mistake!! We should have never started NATO to begin with, nor should we have gotten tangled up in this alliance with Isreal, a nation who I believe is exploiting the Jewish population and the word of God for an excuse to bomb whatever nation it wishes. Now Barack Obama has fallen into that same trap set by John McCain as Joe Biden has fallen into, in which safety somehow equals nation building and preemptive war.
Ron Paul knew this Russia/Georgia conflict was going to erupt sooner than later when in 2002 the U.S military sticked its nose into Georgia's affairs and spooked out Russia. In a way this is related to the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979. How so? Well, in 1953 we did not stand for democracy, because the democracy Iran had in mind did not fit the will of the United States, and what did we do? We overturned that democracy and installed the Shah; 26 years later, the CIA reports, blowback occurs conveniently under the Carter administartion. I believe a similar thing has happened in 2002 when we went into Georgia, under the radar, to train their troops for a reason unknown. Six years later we're about to be caught up in a stew with Russia again.

The way that our military gets used to get involved in all these conflicts and tangled in all these alliances reminds me of Jessica Fletcher, a character off of the hit TV series "Murder, She Wrote." There is strength in a non-interventionist foreign policy, and we don't have to police the world, or continue to bully the world like we've been doing all these years. I think the Bible had it right regarding our foreign policy when it said, "Humble thy self in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up."

The notion that in today's politics the more hawkish you are on defense, the safer you are as a pick for President is exactly why Ron Paul's Convention in St. Paul is so important. All the things we talk about accomplishing here at home we can accomplish if we just slow our roll towards the world. These colors were never meant to run the world, it's just that the American ego has gotten too large. Is it the media perhaps that has created this post-9/11 world because there are those who advertise on their stations that profit from fear? There are those in the business of war who use the media to take advantage of our patriotic feelings to get us into a situation where the demand for their products has increased. The costs are public and the profits are private, and folks, that's when an industrial complex has formed.

At least Barack Obama and Joe Biden are willing to talk about using diplomacy first rather than use a Beach Boys song to hype them up for another personal mission (but that's another blog). I just hope that if they do win the election that they evetually see the light, and follow the Thomas Jefferson doctrine of "talk and trade with all nations, entangling alliances with none." The Democrats have an opportunity to fill that niche, but will they fill it before the Republican party actually does get taken back by the "Old Right" and it's too late for that party?

How's that for a first blog?