None Of Our Business

There is a lot of trouble in the world today. There is rioting Northern Africa, Afghanistan, and here in our own country.  There is a huge war going on along the US-Mexico border.  While these are indeed all signs of the end times, it has come to me, that they are primarily of our own (America’s) making.

Some years ago, the US armed and trained insurgents in Afghanistan, knowing that the then current occupiers, the Soviet Union, could not defeat them. The reason was, to cause The USSR to bankrupt itself, and bring down their government.  It worked. 

Now, we are the invaders. We are fighting the very same people who were our supposed allies just a few decades ago.  You know what?  We can’t beat them either, and our involvement there is rapidly bankrupting our own country, and may even cause our government to fail.

There is rioting in Egypt, Libya, and several other nations  to overthrow dictators that we had a hand in establishing.

I heard several very partizan speeches from the floor of the US House Of Representatives this morning, condemning actions taken by legislatures in several of the American States.

People are killing people left and right along the US-Mexican border over which “cartel” gets the right to smuggle drugs, guns, and people back and forth across the line.

Friends, nearly all of these problems are of our own doing.  It’s time that our American Government stop trying to interfere in the affairs of sovereign nations. What happens there, is none of our business.  If the people in those countries have governments with actions and policies with which we do not agree, it is their problem, not ours.

If we had left them alone in the first place, they would have gone along the way they have been going for thousands of years, and while their lives might be miserable by our standards, but by theirs, perfectly normal.

I am against drugs. I know what damage they can do. I must say that the worst part of the damage  is caused by the prohibition by our own government of one of our “Certain inalienable rights.”  That of “The Pursuit Of Happiness.”  No one should be able to tell me how I may pursue happiness.  I had to find out for myself. What made me happy then, is not what makes me happy now, and what makes me happy now, did not make me happy then. But, I had to persue those things for myself.

In forbidding the sale and use of drugs other than alcohol, and Alcohol is a drug, our well-meaning legislators have been the root cause of the drug wars, and the direct cause of the loss of thousands of lives, and untold misery to the families of those who are merely trying to persue happiness.

Did you know that more lives have been lost in Ciudad Juarez this year than in our entire evolvement in Afghanistan?  And for what? An unenforceable set of  laws restricting the right of the people to do as they please.

We have engaged in huge amounts of carnage overseas, and in our own hemisphere, over things  that are none of our business.  What a person does in his own house is his own business.

We forget that in America, we have equal rights. In most of the world, they do not, and it’s none of our business whether they do, or not.

Is what people are doing in foreign lands right?  Perhaps by our standards, but not theirs.

We in America must start taking a jaundiced look at what our government is doing. We must demand that our government get out of all foreign entanglements. Bring our troops home, and stop meddling in the affairs of others.

For instance: In some nations, it is illegal and immoral for women to go out unless they are fully clothed from head to foot.  They consider the fact that our free American women are allowed to appear on the beach semi naked, wearing a Bikini bathing suit.  So, what would be our attitude if that country, or countries, invaded us, shot our soldiers, invaded our homes, and killed the people who wear that apparel, as well as those who sell it, manufacture it, or advocate it’s use? Reprehensible?  Think about it.

That is a pretty far-fetched example, but it is the same thing that we are doing in other countries. Imposing our will, and morals on people who think and believe differently than we.

It’s time to stop. It’s time to no longer be the world’s police force. It’s time we stop being the moral leader, by imposing immoral principles against basically defenseless people. And if they are not defenseless, it is largely because we have armed them. 

What other people do, is none of our business, unless it directly involves us on our own soil. We need to stop. Right now. 

If the people of some country riot, it’s none of our business. Should we intervene? NO! It’s none of our business.  Once we stop trying to change the world and force it to fit in our mold, things will settle down, and we will all be able to live in peace. 

If a foreign power invades us, then it becomes our business. We have the means at hand to halt invaders.  Otherwise, it is time for America to stop meddling in foreign affairs. They are none of our business.