The Golden Rule is fun!

Remember when you were a kid and you woke up on Sunday and you thought it was Monday and then you realized that it was still the weekend, or maybe you were even luckier and woke up on Saturday and thought it was Monday? Remember how good that felt? Or when you find a wad of cash in an old suit you haven’t worn in six months? Free money! Well my feelings about the Big Surge in Iraq are pretty much 180 degrees away from those giddy feelings. It is more like the cold feeling you get when the boss taps you on the shoulder and asks “Gotta second?”

Here is my idea about what to do with Iraq. First take the troops that are there and take them out. Second let the Iraqi’s beat the unholy hell out of each other. Take all the money and personnel that are being wasted in Iraq and put them into Afghanistan to at least settle that country.

Then really start using that old Golden Rule:

Keep allocating the same money accept instead of flushing it down a losing war use it for fun stuff. If we had taken the 416 billion we have spent in Iraq and set it aside for college scholarships we could have paid for 20 million students to get 4 year college educations. Hell we could have taken 20 million Muslims from around the world and given them 4-year college, not that we’d ever want to win harts and minds. I know the argument that if you just shoot them in the hart or in the mind you have won them over but 4 years of American style college is probably going to be more fun for them than getting killed.

It all comes down to priorities. We like to spend a lot on killing machines and training people to kill other people. We do not like to spend money on helping our citizens get smarter. We like to build huge college sports complexes and have no problem paying insurance company execs 100’s of millions of dollars while they claim absurdly that it is the little guys fault about rising health costs. We even knuckle under to paying a lousy ATM machine $2.00 to withdraw a $20! We give in and give in and give in. We really need to stop doing that. Give the powerful an inch and they will take a mile. So we need to stop giving in and start getting in their face. Start making a big stink. Not devolve into some mindless tie-dyed counter culture that is doomed to failure, but reclaim our culture and country and force the powers back to their roll as sycophants of the people.

Put investment dollars into Palestine. Not give them boxes of cash but partner with them to build factories to employee people. Help them with an internal economy. Start building luxury vacation condos on the Black Sea shores of Iran and in the Persian Gulf. Inundate their culture not with guns and security personal, but wit tourists. Invade them with the Golden Rule and what we would get would be much less terrorism, oh there will always be nutters, but on the whole things would begin to settle down.