2004 Soap Box Archives

Age of Anxiety 08/02/04

We have enough domestic turmoil these days that we don’t need to cast our eyes past our own shores and our own problems to have worries enough.

I have never seen the U.S.A. so divided on the political front as we are today. Strong feelings run high on both ends of the political spectrum, resulting in vicious attacks and downright lies in all out, win at any cost tactics, and the American people are caught in the middle wondering which way is up.

The next four years will be some of the most crucial in American history in the planning and implementation of foreign policy as old global hot spots heat up and new ones keep popping up.

Whomever comes out at the helm of the U.S.A. after November will be faced with a set of problems unique to our times. The ever-changing economic situation will require an astute and skillful hand on the wheel to navigate through some rough waters.

We have been so focused on the war in Iraq that, with the exception of the sensational cases such as Kobe Bryant and
Lacy Peterson we have paid scant attention to the crime problem. But they’re still there and desperately need dealing with.

Drugs are still pervasive and still proliferating crime and ruining lives all over America.

The threat of terrorist violence in our own country creates its own brand of anxiety and has to be dealt with, not with kid gloves, but with a baseball bat. Anything less is not going to work.

One situation that is rapidly developing into a flash point is the
imminent threat of having a nuclear Iran, which is something Israel can’t allow to happen. Iran is evaluated as a suicide nation by the Jews, which means that they would be willing to
have a major part of their population decimated if it meant they could destroy Israel in the process.

Israel has the means and the will to destroy Iran’s nuclear program with some of the most state of the art, sophisticated airplanes on the planet, and they are very likely to do so in the near future.

This will probably create problems with Russia, which has serious economic ties with Iran.

Another eminent and ultra serious problem facing the next administration is our pact to protect Taiwan. China considers it to be part of Mainland China and have been flexing their muscles in the waters around Taiwan lately. They have all intentions of annexing it. How will the U.S.A. react?

North Korea will continue to be a thorn in the side of America, even more so since the Iranians are moving some of their nuclear materials there in fear of an Israeli air strike.

It’s a tough and dangerous world we’re living in with no let up in the foreseeable future.

It’s going to take a good man to lead us through it.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels