"Times have changed, times are strange, here I come but I ain't the same" Maybe everythings gone topsy turvy. Who endorses soft drinks and sports equipment. Think about it, with the evolution of hip hop and soul into mainstream culture, how many white people now want to be black? Right from the insipid antics of a certain Mr. In one way it's really not that surprising. A cause that makes every single citizen a soldier, ready to sacrifice their life and comfort for the greater common good.īack to Mr. If your soldiers fighting the war believe in the cause enough to go that extra mile. Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq.My explanation for this is that you can only win a war if your cause is just. It's strange therefore that the US has failed to win any of their post WWII attempts at war. It was down to who had the bigger gun, and we all know, in that battle there is going to be only one winner. But who wants to reason with a rottweiller on the charge. The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on And if one gains the immediate purpose of the lie - the price one pays is the destruction of that which was intended to serve. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked. Something about America in the last 5 years reminded me of "Atlas Shrugged" - People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. So what they go through, we will too, to some extent! The world's markets are inextricably (in the short term) tied to the US economy. To me, it looks like Obama is his own man and will be the change America and the world have been calling for.Īt this time of economic uncertainity, we need somebody to steady the ship. His speech was one of strength, courage and humility, one that inspired me (and i'm not even American). His poise and obvious character aside, the intelligence of the man was very evident. I watched Obama's victory speech on youtube this afternoon, and what struck me most about the man was his intelligence. What is the role of an independant global body, if it is controlled, like it has been all these years, by the United States? I just pray that the new US administration does not relate diplomacy to the swinging of a base ball bat. The world doesn't need an intelligent watchdog! I'll admit taht its better than a rabid one but what roel does the UN play. "It's time to refocus our efforts on al-Qaeda's leadership and Afghanistan, and rally the world against the common threats of the 21st century - terrorism and nuclear weapons climate change and poverty genocide and disease."Ĭhange is realising that meeting today's threats requires not just our firepower, but the power of our diplomacy - tough, direct diplomacy where the president of the United States isn't afraid to let any petty dictator know where America stands and what we stand for." Obama's victory speech left me a little anxious. ".change is a foreign policy that doesn't begin and end with a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged."Ī far cry from the warmongering of the Bush administration. I'd go as far as to say, from everything the world has seen of America before. From everything America has known before. They fought for a change and they got it.īarack Obama is a harbinger of change. People like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X, Rosa Parks, Jesse Owens, Mohammed Ali and many many more led a people tired of being subjugated and discriminated against. To me, its like the culmination of their struggle. A nation with a history of racial oppression targetted, for the most part, against people who can trace their roots back to Africa. A black man is now President of the United States of America. It's the most amazing thing to have happened in recent history. There is no question about it, in the next forty years a Negro can achieve the same position" Almost because he's 6 years off target!" Now an Irish Catholic is President of the United States. Robert Kennedy was almost prophetic when in 1962 he said, "The Irish were not wanted here.
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