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Mar. 3, 2006 I just have one favor to ask the president while he is over in India. Say hello to our outsourced jobs for us. This past week the president has been spreading freedom and democracy around the world and rubbing elbows with the leaders of India and Pakistan. He told us how American companies, not necessarily their workers, can be competitive in the world market. Meanwhile he told us that, get this, our small business owners can make some money selling products to the 300 million people in India's middle class. As if. Yeah, I can see old Joe Farmer being able to make huge profit margins exporting his Chinese-made goods to India. I mean, selling his American-made corn that the grocery store sells for $1 per dozen ears. I'm sure exporting that would be easy and competitve to corn grown in India and sold for $.20 per bushel. He also signed a deal to allow India to keep building nuclear weapons and called India and Pakistan our allies in the war on terror. Rhetoric and too little, too late, if you ask me. But I digress. I mean, after all, the U.S. should recognize that other countries keep building bombs for, you know, defensive purposes. Not that India didn't proliferate their nuclear program to bomb Pakistan if and when they got tired of making nice. Same goes for Pakistan. Two countries that have a weary alliance but, as Bush puts it, a love for freedom and democracy that helps in the war on terror. I have to ask, does the whole "war on terror" thing get old? I mean, I don't hear too much about the progress being made in this war without a battlefront. Will it go on similar to the other great wars in the last 50 years? The Cold War, the War on Drugs and the Battle of the Network Stars? I have to admit, at first, when I heard about the "Axis of Evil" I thought "run for the hills, the President is going to start another world war." Today, as I sit here typing, the Axis is no less affective in the world yet the U.S. looks like a punch drunk fighter coming out for one last swing. On the brink of an all out civil war in Iraq, one thing is for certain, the United States made a huge mistake trusting a guy who shared his name with a former president. Unfortunately, the true damage of his presidency will not be felt until years from now when the Kool-Aid wears off. For those of us who are enlightened, just be patient. He can't be president forever. Besides, he couldn't possibly destroy the United States himself. So, hang in there and keep your chin up. We can get through this presidency, I know we can. Peace. ------------ About the author: Nicholas Olson is a long-time journalist who has been a columnist at his college newspaper and is currently a military journalist. 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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