My theory about how we do things here in the US, as I have preciously expounded, is if something isn't working, then more of the same is bound to work. Think about it.If more tests and interventions aren't lowering the infant mortality rate, why, we must need more and more tests and interventions. If kids aren't learning to read by our current teaching methods, they need more hours in school getting the same instruction. If fighting the war on drugs hasn't stopped the production, sale, and use of illegal drugs, then we should have more war on drugs. It is bound to work someday! Are you kidding me?
This faulty deception manifests everywhere. If one marriage doesn't pan out, then five probably will.You get my drift.I can be sarcastic, but when it comes to wars, I think this is an extremely serious problem. Our dirty little wars and our great big wars don't seem to be making the world a better place. They don't seem to be spreading democracy, they don't seem to be making life healthier, happier more wholesome for anyone except for the war profiteers and their mercenary armies.
From Guatemala to South Vietnam to Iraq to Iran to Haiti to Honduras to (you name it) we have used this formula of overthrowing the president then fighting to bring peace and harmony and love and joy and democracy and higher standards of living and have instead inflicted seemingly endless nightmares of death destruction, oppression, suspicion on our victims. Being a colonist is not something we are good at. What I think we should get really great at is getting our own house in order. If we were all educated, fit, healthy, well fed and housed, optimistic, tolerant, loving, couldn't we change the world much faster and with much less cost in human and environmental treasure?
I wonder and I wonder a lot.
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