America’s Selected Democracy!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/opinion/14douthat.html?hp

I think that after the unseating of two Dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, the United States Government, President Obama in particular, is lackluster about the people’s plight in Libya for one sole reason.

I can’t say for sure but my intellect tells me that Obama (and his advisors) perhaps believe that if the people of Libya overthrows Mummar Gaddafi, (A strong but brutal Dictator) then enormous momentum would be generated and the rest of the Arab world Dictators, especially those like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and others, would also fall, and the White House calculation is that; “we would be in a precarious predicament as to our influence and our Middle Eastern Oil Supply.”

Hence, this “democracy” that “we America” espouse to the world should be renamed, “Selected-Democracy.” If this is the case, sooner rather than later we would have enormous regrets. At the present time we spend well over 700 billion dollars on defense and most of the money that are being spent is for the fight against terrorism. Well, I contend that none of the uprising thus far has had anything to with anti America cynicism, but if we allow Gaddafi to crush the uprising, then the 1.5 billion people in the Middle East “would blame us.”

You may ask, why blame America? Well, no other country has stuck their nose as deep in Middle Eastern Affairs as we have; and no other country “props-up” Middle Eastern Dictators like we do! So, of course we would be faulted and justly so!

Flip the coin and suppose we do help in whatever manner we could so that the 1.5 billion people could live a life like we do; “hopes and dreams for better tomorrows, with freedom, justice and the pursuit of happiness;” we would then face a far lesser threat of terrorism as we do at the present time. The reason would be is that the “people” would for the first time see America as a country that not only talk the talk, but walk the walk, because America and Democracy would be – “betwixt!”

Thus, in the final analysis; “people often doubt what you say but they always believe what you do!”

Sheriff G Ali