A Nation Lost

How deluded have we become as a country to think that we have the power to tell other nations what to do? We cannot even run our own country properly. Are we crazy? We are already in too many wars. We are locked into wars in the Middle East that we cannot win. We are losing, if we haven't lost already, the all important economic war. We are in phantom wars on drugs, terrorists and other abstract ideas with no identifiable enemy to fight.

America has become a nation lost. We can't make our own weapons, we are so entrenched in debt that our children's children will not even be able to pay it all back. We owe China over $600 billion plus interest. China, along with other countries, build all the things our country needs to live on to survive. We cannot tell them how to run their country when we are living on imports and debt.

Right now we are taking sides with South Korea against North Korea. South Korea does not show us preferential treatment. The South Korean government keeps our imports out of their markets. In 2007 South Korea sold the U.S. 615,000 cars while only allowing 7,000 of our cars into their country. They are not our friends any more than North Korea.

How do we think we will pay for another war? Will our creditors keep giving us money and weapons to fight with, killing ourselves both literally and financially? We are bleeding to death and to debt.

Hillary Clinton has been talking to China. Who are we to tell China – our biggest creditor – to leave Taiwan alone, or what side to take on Asian countries' disputes? What these nations do is not our business.

America needs to realize that our greatest threat is ourselves. We have sold 16,613 of our best companies in the past 30 years. We are living in debt on every level. We do not even make the products we need to sustain life. We should be focusing on rebuilding our manufacturing base. We should be focusing on living within our means. We should be rebuilding America, not trying to run the whole world.