Over There

12/01/2009 Human Observations
There are clear difficulties here in the USA that require swift and decisive action. Our economic decline, mortgage dilemma, and unemployment crisis all are the primary focus of the multitudes of us who have to operate on the business end of these problems. So, our involvement in three wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan) is somewhat perplexing to a blue collared American citizen. We were first told that our Afghan mission was to seek out and capture the man responsible for 09/11, but that mission has somehow changed into one that would train and establish a stable Afghan government; this in a region that has, for centuries, never enjoyed stability. Likewise in Iraq. Pakistan and India have are neck deep in conflict over borders and all manner of disputes, yet our purpose over there is an even greater mystery than in Afghanistan, seeing that our ability to solve their problems is as unlikely as our ability to solve the racial, social, and economic problems here in our own country. We are told that we have invested American troops “over there” to protect “our interests”. SPECIFICALLY, what are those interests? Some corporate investment? Some business project? The gross national product of Afghanistan is heroin. Placing our troops in such a region only enables their own weakness, and weakens the necessity of the conflicting factions of that region to put aside their differences long enough to form an effective centralized government. It is imperative that each nation that participates in planetary civilization assume their responsibility of stabilization. Where there is no central government, there is no nation. Where there is no nation, there is no corrective force to available to act when the peace is disturbed. To be recognized as a nation, a country must establish itself as such, and can therefore be dealt with as a country. If a region has a series of divided forces, then that region cannot be recognized as a single nation, and should be dealt with as such. Thusly, that which contributes to the productivity of planetary civilization will be received as a companion nation to the other productive nations of our civilized planetary society. Those regional factions who do not wish to participate in peaceful planetary coexistence cannot be recognized as something that they are not: a nation that participates in the peaceful and cooperative socio-economics of planetary civilization.