Hope, Change And The Sausage Grinder

I don't sweat national news on this blog but last night's speech by Obama impacts all of Kansas City and the rest of the world.

For all the talk about Hope and Change it was disappointing to hear Obama double down in Afghanistan. The Obama talk last night was nothing more than a continuation and endorsement of the Bush Doctrine. To his credit, unlike Sarah Palin the President probably knows what that is . . . But, in the end, it's really only recipe for more failure.

Afghanistan is known as the "graveyard of empires" and only the most arrogant supporters of the military-industrial complex would dare to dream that U.S. intervention is going to change tribal traditions that have been in place for 2000 years.

To be fair, this move is exactly what Obama promised during his campaign. Still, spending obscene amounts of cash and committing to the almost certain sacrifice of the lives of U.S. Troops doesn't seem like such a good plan as we STILL struggle with a global recession. But there really is no arguing with the strained logic that would claim premature victory in Iraq and argue the merits of nation building while continuing to invoke Sept. 11th. The commitment to endless war by Obama makes it abundantly clear that the fate of this nation and the world is determined by forces devoutly committed to profit and unconcerned with sacrificing precious resources and lives to the giant sausage grinder which feeds so many greedy appetites.