Walk softly and carry a big stick? Or carry a big stick and whack somebody to teach ‘em a lesson?
Those who are insecure will take the latter approach. A country as big and powerful as this one should not need to go to war. We have so many other tools to use, and if we are patient, they are so much more effective.
We’ve brought most of our troubles down on top of ourselves. The roots of much of the anti-American actions in this world happen forty and fifty years ago, and were promulgated by the CIA. Let’s face it. We don’t know how to intervene. Most of our interventions backfire on us. Maybe not in Granada, but…. I think we should step back, count to ten, and really analyze the situations that trouble us around the world. If we leave things alone, they mostly come out in our favor. Unfortunately, American companies love war, because they get to make a lot of money, or they get to protect certain supply lines. It’s time to stop catering to the interests of big business, and start looking at the interests of the ordinary American. Not that anyone could prove it, but I’ll bet if we had never unleashed the CIA in the middle east, 9/11 would never have happened.