Time For The Nest To Empty

I can't really say too much more about this article than the writer already says. The United States is starting to go through the post-partem depression of a new mother after giving birth to democracy around the world. We need to, as a whole country, return to our original foreign policy and not get entangled in foreign affairs. We no longer speak softly as Teddy Roosevelt did. Nor did we avoid entangling agreements as George Washington supported. War is only profitable to those nations that don't fight in them. That's why Brazil and India (and CHINA) are improving their economies while the dollar weakens and the DOW sinks.

We must realize as we did before that we can only lead by example and not by the strength of our military. If we only get our goals accomplished by strong-arming weaker nations, then we are no better than the dictators we topple or the communists we denounce.

We must come together and allow the rest of the world to grow up under our guidance. We must not fight to prevent other countries from making their own decisions. We can't be mother to a world that doesn't want us to babysit it. It is difficult to see our little child become an adult, but it is about time we let it out of the nest and become the world it is supposed to be.