Do Some Americans Possess "power and knowledge without wisdom"? 
Dick Schwartz of Bellevue, Washington had this rather startling response in his letter to the Seattle Times Editors on May 1:
"Americans are stupid. If they weren't why would so many of them be so deeply in debt? Why would they give our politicians such low approval ratings but then just keep re-electing the same people year after year? Why would so many be obese? Why would they keep driving one person to a car regardless of the fact it creates gridlock? Why are they unable to locate foreign places on a map?"
But perhaps the most frightening declaration makes is simply this:
That statement could contain the seeds of our own collapse if we don't wise up. How many Americans are aware of the fact that the United States defense budget is higher than the defense budgets of all other nations in the world combined?
Why does the United States need to spend such colossal amounts of money on so-called defense when money for the American people is so desperately needed for health care for its citizens?
With 45 million U.S. citizens without health care insurance coverage, does it make sense to spend $40 billion on Air Force tanker planes, built to carry sufficient gas to re-fuel the huge aircraft while in flight, along with Air Force members?
What exactly are America's military forces planning for, some big scale perpetual war. Could it be any individual or nation that disagrees will be labeled a terrorist or terrorist nation?
This is a frightening future. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, speaks glibly about remaining in Iraq ties in with McCain's future vision. Will Iraq be considered an American colony, in time? The fact that Iraq is sitting on one of the world's greatest oil supplies could be tempting to oil barons.
Whose profits in the U.S. have skyrocketed to billions of bucks?
Is America being held hostage to the oil industry, with Iraq's oil lease contract the prize the Iraq War was fought over?
Only time will tell.
KEYWORDS: John McCain, American Military Preoccupation and Ignoring of Important Domestic Concerns
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