Call me an independent

Reading all the reports and articles about our 535 secretaries of defense and state are appalling enough. To read articles by pundits about our Country is even more perverse. To read articles about how to think and deal in the third world is most disappointing. Solutions as to strategies and tactics are just embarrassing when written by westerners living inside the Boston to DC line of politics, and the left coast. So far, I have never ever read an article about backing up the on-scene commander, and holding them accountable. So many of our American leaders and pundits are just “out of touch”.

This “out of touch” problem is serious. It supercedes both national parties, and is serious because westerners can be defeated in DC politically, vice the USA being defeated on the battlefield overseas. In the east vs. west arena, we are out of our league in politics and values. For example, sending messages of power, western style, are too often received as messages of weakness, eastern style. The results are conflicts which should have never occurred, learning curves for the present rulers in DC (executive and congressional), and American soldiers blood. No wonder so many Americans want us out of Iraq, not out of good intents, but out of exasperation with incompetence, exacerbated by lack of political experience in DC.

Much change is in the air. The established political parties that rule us today, and feed off of us today, may have exceeded their justification for existence when their party’s existence and power objectives exceeded our nation’s basic right to exist. Iraq is not the reason, but it is the trip wire. Call me an independent. And none of this is sudden. Both political parties have had decades to “show their stuff”.

Tomorrow the term may be a nationalist. The idea is the same. Independent will do just fine for now.