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Dec. 21, 2006 It is time to get rid of George W. Bush as president. I know, it has been said a million times by millions of people, but here is my two cents. The measure of a leader should be taken by the ability to ascertain their abilities an weaknesses. This man does neither. Instead he holds up straw men and points to them until we forget they are not real. He creates enemies out of old props and then assumes he knows better then you. As long as he doesn’t waver, he figures that you will not find the cracks in his armor. The problem is that you cannot lead without relying on the facts and figures and, the most egregious of errors, forgetting history. This man doesn’t care that many before him have made mistakes in the same line of reasoning. And when it comes to ruling from a guarded position, that the ideas of war look so much better than from the front. The stubborn child should not be given more room to breathe. Instead they should be dealt with in a manner that tries to correct their behavior. Our president just gets his way all of the time and, since he is the elected president, we Americans do not want to admit that we made a mistake in putting him there. The previous midterm election showed that, regardless of personal politics, Americans do not like the course this country is taking. We want change and we want it now. While we worry about our daily lives and how we are going to cover our own behinds, our country is heading away from the founding ideas that made this “the great experiment.” Our president wants us to stay in Iraq until we win. But what does winning mean now? It’s not like a video game where you get to start over from a save point and get endless opportunities to try again. These are real lives, on both sides of the conflict. While the numbers of dead seem numbing, it is the reality that no one is winning in this. The Shiites and the Sunnis and the Kurds don’t like each other and refuse to admit that they need to grow up. The Americans who support the war just want someone else to solve the problem. And the president thinks that, with persistence, the body count won’t matter as long as he is right. Just or not, the war is a failure. You can’t win a war from the outside. Europe bound together to take on Hitler. So far the Middle East is not exactly loving our policing effort because, frankly, we don’t know what the heck they are all about. While our scholars argue the merits of the effects of rectifying the problems in the Middle East by molding them into our image, the reality is that the majority of us are clueless. The president knew little of the politics of the Middle East or the countries in which he invaded. Maybe he thought someone would teach him. Those who did obviously did a bad job or the spoiled child didn't want to listen. Right now, at least for the next few years, the president will lead us either to a breathless finish where he exits, thankfully, to a competent leader or will be taken out of power sooner than later so that we don't have to keep getting a giant black eye pummeled more. I call for the later so that Americans can be witness to just how the depths of the office of president have been abused, mishandled and nearly irreparably damaged by a political idea with a clown prince at the helm. I can also only hope that politics gets back to civility, where the likes of Karl Rove can retire in peace and quiet so that we are not divided along issues and wedges. I think we have forgotten that we can be more alike than we would assume. It is the dividers that would prefer that we clash rather than agree on issues. Common ground, folks. In the next month we will see Congress change hands. Let's hope they try to turn the tide and make this a better country. ------------ About the author: Nicholas Olson is an aspiring playwright and former journalist. He spent parts of his high school, college and professional life as a journalist, serving as a military journalist from 2000-06. Mr. Olson is an avid writer and enjoys political opinion. His views are not that of any particular party or of the country he once served: They are his own. Email: nicholasjolson@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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