This is ALL that has been on the news, yesterday and today We have CNN (the most trusted name in news) running a poll asking viewers whether or not elections should be postponed in Pakistan (the results of which are certainly going to appear in various candidate solutions for Pakistan). We have almost all presidential candidates stating, for the record, that they know everybody, have all the solutions and that they have personally called the players to tell them what they should do. Its an unending reportage of how America is telling those in Pakistan how to live their lives, vote, run their business, etc. It simply stuns me. I wonder, for instance, how we would have reacted had Pakistan told us how to deal after 911 - not well I suspect. I also find it interesting that we now know that 911 occurred because of administration incompetence and bureaucratic screw up which our government reacted to with more of the same and nobody seems to give a damn.
Where in the HELL do we get off telling everybody in the world how to live their lives? No wonder people are a little pissed at us. I think, in this case, we feel this way because we gave them 10 billion dollars (which, incidentally, seems to have gone up in smoke with nary a receipt). Anyway, I think its also interesting that we are feeling free to tell them how to run their own country but couldn't be less interested in how they spent 10 billion of our tax payer dollars! (anybody else notice a pattern here?) Interesting? Perhaps something else entirely? I wonder, for instance, (given our own experience with governmental meddling, and the results thereof) what the track record really is for those countries which actually do what we tell them. One would think that, if we do such a wonderful job, that the newsies would be singing praises - haven't heard any of those lately. On the other hand there does seem to be a LOT of chaos when we do get involved.
My thought is that ANY candidate that claims to have the solution to Pakistan and ANY candidate that claims to have called Pakistan with directions as to what to do should NOT be voted for under any circumstances. We have, I think, enough problems without electing yet another nation building meddler of the third world. I think the real question is; "If the candidate lived next to you would you want him to come over, every day, and organize YOUR life?"
