It's Time to Get Real!....


Americans tend to be predisposed towards happy endings. It is so ingrained in us that America can overcome any adversity, any threat to its hegemony.

This kind of insulation from the real world has not really worked to our advantage in the post industrial world.

And 9/11 should have been America’s call.

But instead of asking the hard questions ourselves, we have deferred to the leadership to answer them for us—giving them carte blanche to see the world through its own lens.

This has allowed us to shunt any bad news aside explaining that we/they “ just don’t want to hear it”….This tendency to bury one’s head in the sand is predicated on the idea that there is always a solution, it’s part of the American birthright.

For a student of geology, this is a view that fails to take into consideration forces beyond our control.

But there is a hard fact that remains. After the last seven years, it seems what we need will take more than wishful thinking; it will take literally a miracle; yet, there are at least fifteen candidates from both sides of the aisle who believe that they are the ones who are up to it.

What we are viewing is either sublime chutzpah, incredible naivete or perhaps real talent to do the necessary.job We just don’t know.

The question is: Where do we go from here.

You see, the problem is confounded by the magicians smoke and mirrors that diffuse focus and draw attention away from the real issues.

In the last five years plus, this government has focused almost exclusively on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan almost to the exclusion of everything else.

This doesn’t mean, imply or infer that there aren’t other issues and considerations that deserve our time.

Only nobody seems to want to know about these issues.

And the media has become the government’s willing hand maiden.

In fact, our neglect of those issues and concerns now, will only make it tougher for us to address them later.

In fact, they will come back to haunt us.

We don’t seem to understand that the decisions we made one hundred years ago are only now being felt.

Our inattention, our distraction, also serves as a green light to other countries in the International arena. Putin has not missed an opportunity to move in where Washington has been inattentive. Nor has China in its push forward that seems to show as operating in an almost parallel universe.

Too easily, our leadership is either willing to dismiss China or make believe as if nothing is happening.

In the meantime, China continues to push forward on its agenda which is to make China number one in the world.

Could this happen?

Within the next ten to fifteen years, China will have at least parity with the rest of the world and, it seems, there is no limit to just how far it can go.

China is grabbing up contracts with all of our old allies because we are too busy, or too distracted. China is becoming a superpower. China is the world leading ship building nation. By 2020, it will probably be on a par with the leading automotive building nation.

Just how does China compare with America. Consider this one remarkable statistic: In America, we have 9 cities with over one million population; today, in the course of twenty years, China has become a nation of 170 cities plus with over a million in population—most of them new with parks and skyscrapers.

This is the future.

And we are sill fixated on getting the Iraqi legislature to play ball.

It ain’t going to happen. We should do the best we can to stabilize the country and move on. We are allowing the world to pass us by.


Les Aaron
The Committee for Positive Change

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