This Week in the News

This week saw many events on the East Coast, with the travel of many of the world's leaders to the United Nations. First, we saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran's president) speak to the MSM and address the United Nations at large. Common questions to the leader included his opinions on Zionism, the holocaust, and if he is really trying to create a nuclear bomb. Of course, these are all ridiculous questions. He would have to be really crazy to do an interview in English denying the holocaust and stating he wants the bomb. American policies for years have taught rouge nations that if they want dialouge with America, rather than being attacked, they need a nuclear bomb. Look at Iraq versus North Korea. Look at Pakistan versus Afghanistan. Regardless of what the President or a former state department official says, we are not going to bomb a nation with a nuclear bomb. Ahmadinejad knows this.

Next, we saw Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, call our President the devil to a smattering of laughs and clapping in the halls of the United Nations. This is simply further proof of two things: first, we must, as a nation signficantly reduce our dependence on oil. I won't even qualify that. We simply don't have enough oil to support our nation domestically, so we must move away from the energy source in general. Doing so would be like taking Viagra away from an ED patient. The same goes for Ahmadinejad as both are empowered by the current economies of oil. Second, there are very few nations in the UN which would allow a foreigner to enter the nation and call its leader the devil. As the largest supporter of this organization, we must determine if our international efforts are worth it at all. Further, when I look at the Constitution, I don't see anything authorizing Congress to allocate billions of dollars to international organizations. If I recall correctly, a former President did mention to "beware of foreign entanglements." The UN is certainly one hell of an entanglement. So I would suggest we either amend the Constituiton to permit our funding of this, or we stop funding it as an unconstitutional usurption of rights reserved to individuals and states.

Finally, an intelligence report came out yesterday which indicated that the war in Iraq has only further enflamed international terrorism. I unfortunately must agree. It doesn't mean that we should pull our troops from Iraq, but we must fight this insurgency without any misinformation about what is really going on over there. We musn't be ostriches with our heads in the sand.