I'll Never Covet the Presidency
There are many obvious reasons why I would make a great president. However, in these troubled times, the President and other leaders are faced with an arduous decision this day, and one that I do not envy them for. One American hostage has already been beheaded by terrorists and they are threating to do the same to another American and a Briton. What are leaders like Tony Blair and George W. Bush supposed to do? Either way they are wrong.
These terrorists have asked to have 2 Muslim clerics released in order to ensure the safety of these prisoners. Okay, so we release the Clerics, right? Well what good does this do? First off the reason we are holding the clerics is because they are extremists who are part of a world wide network of terrorists who hate and want to kill Americans. So we now take 2 people who hate us, and by all means should be even more bitter because they have been detained by us, and let them free to go back to their teachings of hate and Jihad against the west. Now, do we have any assurance that these terrorists will let these two civilians go? Oh, that's right, we don't. It is not like these peoples named are signed on the Geneva Convention. Most likely they would probably still harm these men.
Now what where to happen if we do not release these Clerics. They will kill the hostages and probably take more. Then where does the cycle end? Should we just cease all military operations and civilian aid to the people of Iraq? What's to say that these terrorists will not begin to do this in other countries, such as Israel, Indonesia, Pakistan, or Afghanistan?
I just don't know what these leaders should do. And yet we spend most of our time arguing over whether or not George W. Bush had a bad flight record in National Guard training 30 years ago. Or whether or not John Kerry accidentally shot his own foot and then claimed it happened while engaging the enemy. What the hell is wrong with us, we spend most of our time on these trivial things and we have civilians getting killed in Iraq and still have a threats against our civilians in the homeland. A homeland where we spend less time educating our kids than we do taking them to soccer practice. This country views and priorities are so skewed how can we expect a president to act in the best interest of the people, when most of the people are fucked up? I do not envy those people who sit in those seats of power, I am fine with my middle class worker status.
These terrorists have asked to have 2 Muslim clerics released in order to ensure the safety of these prisoners. Okay, so we release the Clerics, right? Well what good does this do? First off the reason we are holding the clerics is because they are extremists who are part of a world wide network of terrorists who hate and want to kill Americans. So we now take 2 people who hate us, and by all means should be even more bitter because they have been detained by us, and let them free to go back to their teachings of hate and Jihad against the west. Now, do we have any assurance that these terrorists will let these two civilians go? Oh, that's right, we don't. It is not like these peoples named are signed on the Geneva Convention. Most likely they would probably still harm these men.
Now what where to happen if we do not release these Clerics. They will kill the hostages and probably take more. Then where does the cycle end? Should we just cease all military operations and civilian aid to the people of Iraq? What's to say that these terrorists will not begin to do this in other countries, such as Israel, Indonesia, Pakistan, or Afghanistan?
I just don't know what these leaders should do. And yet we spend most of our time arguing over whether or not George W. Bush had a bad flight record in National Guard training 30 years ago. Or whether or not John Kerry accidentally shot his own foot and then claimed it happened while engaging the enemy. What the hell is wrong with us, we spend most of our time on these trivial things and we have civilians getting killed in Iraq and still have a threats against our civilians in the homeland. A homeland where we spend less time educating our kids than we do taking them to soccer practice. This country views and priorities are so skewed how can we expect a president to act in the best interest of the people, when most of the people are fucked up? I do not envy those people who sit in those seats of power, I am fine with my middle class worker status.
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