Please let me apologize in advance. In no way do I wish to become a political blogger, but my writing is about whatever is on my mind and this issue has certainly been on my mind quite a bit lately. If any of you feel that this post reveals me as a member of the vast right wing conspiracy or a fundamentalist, evangelical, right wing extremist, then please accept my sincere, if half hearted ... "whatever".
Here is my burning question: when did it become okay to discuss matters of foreign policy in the public arena?
What kind of idiocy is it to tell your enemy, who is sworn to annihilate you:
what you will or will not do in the course of interrogations?
how long you will engage him in battle before you give up and go home?
that you think the war is already lost?
that "the nuclear option is off the table"?
that you believe U.S. Forces are stretched too thin to effectively fight another campaign?
that you not only disagree with, but will actively work to undermine the efforts of your commander-in-chief?
Some of those statements may in fact be valid. Some of those points absolutely need to be considered and debated from all sides. But, this debate should be done internally and with our best interests at heart, not publicly for the express purpose of denigrating your political adversary and furthering your own party's grab for for power!
The very fact that certain people drag this debate out onto the world stage instead of fighting for their positions within the halls of government and out of the glamor of the spotlight to me speaks volumes about their character and their motives. They behave recklessly and totally irresponsibly and endanger our country for the sake of self promotion and political grand standing.
To take these kinds of actions in hopes of gaining political power, the best interests of the United States, it's citizens, and it's fighting men and women be damned, is in my humble opinion at best reprehensible and at worst treasonous.
[stepping off of his soap box your humble author now returns to his normal, more introspective life]
