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GnuCarSmell br> Jacksonville, Tex /p>

I greatly admired Jeane Kirkpatrick for her intelligence, candor and insight. Sadly, we will miss her, as there are few like her in government today; those who are or might be, are pilloried or run out of Washington, for being tough, or not politically correct enough.

If the United States has permanent interests in the Middle East, as indeed it does, we need to adopt a new approach to the Muslim world. We deposed Saddam Hussein for good and obvious reasons.

Syria and Iran clearly need the same treatment. However, given our country's citizenry, with their five-minute attention span, and video game mentality, we should not occupy either country.

A workable foreign policy for us might be, "Mess with us, and we'll come to your house and break things up really good. It will be up to you to fix what we broke. We won't be paying for fixing it, either. If you mess with us again, we reserve the right to come back and break it again."

This country's leaders lack the resolve to do what is necessary to ensure our own safety. We do not have the national will to secure our borders, the national will to utilize our own petroleum reserves(Anyone ever read about the oil shale in the U.S.? What about the oil in ANWR?), the intelligence to develop and use nuclear and geothermal power, etc. The citizens of the country don't care enough, or lack the intelligence, to demand more (er, anything?) of their elected leaders. I suspect that, today, it is impossible to underestimate the survival quotient of the majority of American voters.

The majority of our voting citizens have no sense of pride in, or understanding of what it is to be a citizen of the United States. They feel NO RESPONSIBILITY for their and their children's future.

There are no longer any statesmen in Washington, only politicians interested in "getting theirs." They totally fail to understand what is necessary to survive in the world today. They have no spine, morality, or sense of honor.

p>I didn't think I would live to see the fall of the United States in my lifetime, as I'm on the uphill side of 65, but I am very afraid I'm going to live to see it. The Roman Empire lasted longer, but then, they didn't worry about what the rest of the world thought, or the problems associated with political correctness. . br> -- R. Goodson br> Vero Beach, Florida /p>

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