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Published Brownsville Herald August 24, 2008

I am beginning to look at political issues as right or wrong rather than “left” or “right”.

An election season that began as historic with the first black person and the first woman as nominees for President began the process. We now seem to be returning to the cold war era with Russia bursting at its seams with a little drooling at its neighbors. The first target was Georgia a tiny nation on the southern Russian border. Using pretenses of defending Russians in Ossetia, a provincial area in northern Georgia, Russian troops and armor entered many of the commercial areas and damaged substantial amounts of infrastructure. This was done, according to news reports, because Georgia had chosen to align with Western countries. As the days wear on, even though there is a cease fire agreement in place and the Russian President has pledged withdrawals, Russian Troops remain in key positions in the center of the Country and short range missiles have been installed. Further, the Russian leaders have threatened Poland with worse for allowing the U.S set up missile defense positions there. Other little countries that were part of the Soviet Empire have been threatened and harassed as well, with economic sanctions for successfully developing their free economies and political policies. Prime Minister Putin envisions a new Russian Empire with an economy supported by the billions in oil dollars currently flowing in.

We already are involved in conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan that threatens the stability of oil supplies to us as well as the rest of the world. More »