A Sad State of Affairs...

Sometimes, it becomes very tempting to simply turn off the news, stop watching caring about the world in which I reside.

  

Seems President Obama has decided we are now in a war with ISIS...I'm rather tired of war, strife and world discord, seems America on some level has been at war most of my life starting with the Vietnam War which was really not a war, but a conflict or police action.  Actually, the first war that I was aware of was the Cold War with Russia, still remember the Nuclear Fall Out drills when we were instructed to crawl under our desks in case of a Nuclear Missile Attack...like that was really going to protect us?  Children should not have to hide under their desks, but looking at the world we live in today where students barricade themselves in classrooms, the school under lock down because a student using guns is on the loose, suppose hiding under a desk waiting on a nuclear bomb was maybe no so bad after all.

We had Desert Storm, the Iraq war, the War in Afghanistan, and lets not forget we have had troops on the border with North Korea for over 50 years.  Could probably fill up a few more pages with all the wars and police actions that we as Americans have been involved with since the day I was born. Is it any wonder that we as a nation are tired of war...how about a War on Poverty...never mind, we supposedly tried that already.  

Maybe America would be better off letting some other country play the part of world policeman...do not see Russia or China stepping up to deal with ISIS (ISIL), do not see any of their planes flying over Iraq or Syria.  Face it, Russia would rather use its military might to cripple Ukraine, and China wants to use its financial and military might to conquer the entire world by putting every nation  in debtors court.  What would happen if America started using all the money spent on/in the Pentagon on rebuilding our nation's public/private infrastructure, putting Americans back to work rebuilding roads, bridges, and recreating/rebuilding an American manufacturing base?  

Lets start a war on decaying America, lets spend some time and money in our own back yard for a change.