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| English: McCain displaying his patriotic countenance with the flattering background of a United States flag. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
http://personalliberty.com/2013/09/03/what-do-we-stand-for/
Senator McCain claims it would be "catastrophic" is Congress failed to support President Obama's call to intervene in Syria.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-09-02/mccain-says-congress-must-support-obama-on-syria-action
But having just (barely) extricated ourselves from two wars in that part of the world, why are we so anxious to get into another one?
Is it because our national interests are implicated? Is it, like Iraq, all about oil?
We have a chance to become energy independent, thanks to Canada's oil sands, fracking technology, our vast coal reserves, and strides we are making in alternative energy sources. We have infrastructure needs that could employee hundreds of thousands. We have a crisis/revolution (take your pick) in higher education. We have workers in the retail/service industries who currently are campaigning for a living wage. We have a new health-care regime to put into place. We have immigration issues that demand a resolution.
Our plates are full. Why can't we focus on these things and leave the Middle East to cook in its own unsavory stew?
In approaching these pressing problems, and abandoning our interventionist ways, we might ask, as the commentator linked at the start of this post, what are America's real values. Isn't this a more worthy enterprise that a pyrotechnic media-driven diversion ---yet again--- in the Mid-East?
I think so.
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