Reply #44: Morning Marketeers.....

[AnneD]

:donut: and lurkers. I have been cogitating, ruminating over the national and worldwide events of late. The one thing that has been most striking to me is this administration's slow and often tepid response to unfolding events. Isn't America a beacon of Democracy. Shouldn't we rush to support the Birth of Democracy in any country. When a government slaughters their own people just to remain in power-is that a call for intervention. Why the long wait to come out in defense and why the mealy mouthed response? And what about the dissent in our own country? Don't we have the right to dissent too. I thought that Democracy was all about giving people a voice. Where is the strong eloquent President I remember voting for? These are not difficult decisions to make? This is clear cut right or wrong.

And then :idea:. My daughter once went though a time when she seemed confused about right and wrong. She was 11-12, in middle school, and facing moral dilemmas (a friend asking her for test answers, etc). After one such incident I told her she made a bad choice. She then bombarded me with hypothetical questions because she wanted to know "the rules". I told her that there were no concrete rules for every dilemma she would encounter in life. I told her to give me some time to think on it and see if I could come up with some guidelines. Well, after a day or so...I came up with what I though was an intelligent answer.

All of us have a moral compass. It might be that twinge you feel when you do something you know you shouldn't. It might be that still small voice you hear. The point is that, the more you use this compass, the stronger it grows. It can eventually reach the point that your alarm goes off loud and clear when something is wrong. If you still not sure, ask yourself-can I face myself in the mirror after I make this choice. Would I be proud to tell my Mom or my best friend what I had done.

Our Government and our leaders have lost or subverted their moral compass. As much as I like LBJ, I think we started going astray when we started going in to places like Viet Nam, but GWB, Rove and the like just took it out and smashed it all to hell. Actually I blame Cheney and Rove, Bush was just a figurehead simpleton. Our reputation has been so damaged and remains in tatters because we keep landing on the wrong side of these moral issues. We will pay a cruel price in the future for what we are doing now.

If you have to lie, if you have to deceive, then what you are doing is not the right thing to do. It actually hurt my ears to listen to Obama talk about our "diplomat" in Pakistan. He disgraced himself and the nation by not being forthcoming. How can we ever be trusted by the world community ever again?


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