Current - #201 - #16 - Just Suppose ……..

Let’s play a game …. “Just Suppose….”
(The ideas mentioned do NOT have to be real. Some ideas may seem to have substance; but that’s NOT the point! This is a game…. “Just Suppose!”)

Suppose France and Germany do NOT feel threatened; or at least the politicians or their spokesman put out the word that “They don’t feel threatened anymore.” After all there’s no Russian threat, no nuclear threat, no land grab or “domination threat”, etc.

Suppose France and Germany think they can protect themselves. They don’t see any reasonable threat they can’t protect themselves against. After all, France has a vast percentage of Moslems in their world and they have active business and financial interests in Iraq. If anybody has good intelligence connections it should be France! Germany sells restricted goods and science to Iraq so they, too, should be aware of Iraq thoughts and movements. They, too, must feel secure.

Suppose these two countries AND OTHERS feel they no longer need the assistance of the U.S.A.!

Suppose they feel financially able to “get along”! They have vast public medical and retirement programs. (In France, you retire with 75% of your final salary!)
Suppose the general population is about as informed and logical as most general populations are. And suppose they live in an environment of reasonable freedom (that is… NOT ruled by a military, secret police, dictator state….) This “general population” tends to be segregated into…..

A small percentage of so-called “intellectuals”,
A small percentage of so-called “teachers and professors”,
A small percentage (although most highly influential) media spokes persons (NOT fair and balanced!)
A small percentage of “rich folks”, industrialists, power users (contributors to their favorable parties or personalities)
A large percentage of people who live off the “largess” of the government (the army, police, fire, program administrators, etc.)
And a major portion of “the general public!”

Who is talking for these people?
Who is making the decisions for these people?
Does the “general public” have the information, the intelligence or the desire to really understand? (Are they just “too busy just getting along”?)

But who is “demonstrating”? Who is “claiming to know”? Who is trying to make “policy”? On what BASIS?

Suppose, just suppose the U.S.A. is not felt needed anymore?
The U.S.A.’s financial help is not needed, at least with the strings attached! (Anything “free” is, of course, accepted!)
The U.S.A.’s scientific help is not fully required in nuclear, bio-logical, bio-chemical, space technology, defense, etc. The U.S.A. is “just not needed”! (The U.S.A. can be accepted, can be used, but “for free”!,.. no strings attached!)
The U.S.A.’s so-called “consumer market” seems no longer “necessary” for the financial and social health of the world.
Again ….. “The U.S.A. seems no longer necessary for the world!”

What of the U.N.?
What of N.A.T.O.?
Are “they” irrelevant now?
What of the efforts to extend democracy, the “democratic way” of thinking and governing?

What happens if certain parts of the world is wrong? … Then what?
Do the changes of the street determine “policy”? …. Are “they” going to be “responsible”? … What will “they” do to carry the burdens of their mistake? … How will “they” repair the damage? … the loss of life, the loss of direction?

Do people demonstrate without clear alternatives? … clear policies for correction? Or are the “demonstrators” just demonstrating… demonstrating “against” with no alternatives, no “plans for corrections”!
Again … What if “they’re” wrong? How will they correct the corrections or damage they have caused?

Again … “Just Suppose”

I kill you in the name of my God Allah. He tells me to kill all who are not like me or oppose me!
I kill you in the name of Jesus Christ, my God. He tells me to kill all who are not like me or oppose me!
I kill you in the name of any God. He tells me to kill all who are not like me or oppose me!

Question … Whose God is the right one?
If I raise a question of right or wrong in the name of GOD, it will all depend on how my GOD is translated.
Are there certain questions that should not be a God issue?
Are there certain issues of “belief” that should be kept “personal” not national?
Are there certain issues of God that should not be “policy” since all Gods are not the same.
NOTE: I am saying “certain”….. NOT “ALL” or “NONE”!!

The tricky part is to determine which issues are “certain”. And “who” is to make this determination?
Human beings are not all the same and certainly not all are “perfect”.
But, not to at least think about this dilemma, just to “demonstrate” without logic or reason, seems self-defeating. Just “to be against” is not an answer!
A Challenge!!!! …..If you are looking for “a smoking gun” that means that the gun has been fired!!!
Do you wait for the “warehouse” of mass destruction devices to be sold or given to the “delivery systems” ( i.e. the “terrorists”) or is it better to destroy the “warehouses” now before they become “suppliers”?

If reading all this gives you a headache, just “get along” and hope for the best!
If you feel you can’t do anything about all this, just “get along” and hope for the best!
If you, at least, consider these ideas, you ARE DOING something about all this!
Test your ideas against others. Discuss your ideas with others. But, at least, HAVE SOME ideas, some alternatives, some corrections. Take responsibility, just don’t be “against”!