What to Do

Happy New Year, everyone. I certainly hope that things will improve. I guess it is incumbent upon us to figure out what we can do to make things better. That probably goes under the list of New Year's Resolutions:

1. In my humble opinion, the War in Iraq is the lead albatross about the neck of the United States. In spite of lives, treasure and more lives, it continues to spiral into chaos. Maybe its already there. I do not see any alternative but to withdraw American forces. Without other forces, this will precipitate a full scale civil war (as opposed to the low scale one we have now). Other forces could be the UN (unlikely) or a regional, Arab force. Israel would block the latter (can't let those Arabs unite) but, to me, it is the only way out.

2. Domestic spending. It is possible if we get a Democratic House and Senate in November (I know, dream on) that we will reverse the flow of wealth from everyone else in the world into the pockets of a vanishingly small group of Americans. I can tell you for a fact that Health Care is in crisis and, due to moves at the end of last year, it will only get worse (cuts in Medicaid, etc.). People expect health care and they are not willing to pay for it. If they don't get it, there will be large scale disturbances.

3. Impeachment. I continue to believe that George W. Bush has broken the law with his domestic spying program. As we have said here before, if we do not follow up on this we make a mockery of our laws and Constitution.

4. Environment. There must be a reason why we still have hurricanes in December (apparently hurricane zeta was forming in the last week). There must be a reason why the polar ice cap is melting creating blue water that absorbs heat vs ice that reflects heat. At some point we cross an invisible line and no matter who is President of the United States, the World will spiral off into chaos. It doesn't take a very smart person to see that that line is not very far in the future.

One could go on for a long time, but this seems to be a start.