For instance, take the current war that the United States is currently fighting. Yes, I am explicitly talking about the Iraq War. We initially mobilized our troops for two reasons: supposed “weapons of mass destruction” and Saddam Hussein. Unless you were born when Pluto was not a planet, there is a good chance that you are aware of the current result of this war. Yes, we got Hussein, but we did not find these weapons of mass destruction. A famous general once said, “Bad intelligence is worse than no intelligence.” This certainly applies here. We just blasted through U.N.’s policy and had a significant number of casualties just to find out that we were wrong. Another great man, “Smart is believing only half of what you hear, brilliant is knowing which half to believe.” This saying comes from one of the founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Franklin knew what he was talking about. If only Bush had knowledge of Sin Tzu’s book or if his whole cabinet had the decency to do the right thing, the United State might actually have been better off.

Now, the United States is no stranger to foreign intervention. To name a couple, Vietnam, Korea, and the gulf war are a few of the United States’s militaristic affairs with a foreign country. There is a saying, “Something worth dying for is well worth having,” I would not be surprised if the United States took this motto in to is own hands. Promises of keeping terrorism, dictatorship, and communism down are mainly what drove the United States to intervene in foreign countries. Despite George Washington’s condemnation of foreign policy at his farewell address, United States has repeatedly entered meaningless wars for the sake of “democracy”. There is no better phase to describe such antics than time sink. In any war, all participants spend three of their possessions. Firstly, they spend time fighting the war. The same time they could have spent discussing ways to better the economy or to fix poverty is spent shooting bullets, shrapnel, and projectiles. Second, there are going to be casualties. The United States does their democratic routine, because they think governments are better off that way. That could be true, but I do know one thing. World Wars certainly do not equal world peace. There is always a better way to resolve a conflict. Take Gandhi for example, the guy goes on with all these peaceful protests, and he eventually achieves his peaceful goals.

While I am not radically condemning foreign policy, I suggest to the United States government that they actually consider the possible repercussions from excessively flaunting their policies and their military strength. There are much bigger issues at hand: global warming, renewable resources, one extraordinary debt, and the list just goes on and on. There is no reason why the United States should spend precious resources just to secure another oilfield and to take revenge for a previous president. I close my article with some wise words from a brilliant counselor, “Time is your most valuable resource. The activity that you spend the most time doing is, like it or not, the activity that you will be best at.” Whether or not the United States likes it, many people hate them for their recent activities at Iraq. Deeply, I know that the United States can be a honorable and heroic nation. If they would just concentrate their numerous resources towards the legacy, that is the future leaders and commanders of this world, not a single ancient nation from history could foresee what greatness awaits.