Leadership. People who will stand up.
Never before has our nation, and our world, been in greater need of
competent, principled, knowledgeable, far-sighted, non-partisan, inspiring
leadership.
And never before have we been in such need of what Samantha Power calls “upstanders” – people
who will stand up and fight effectively and honestly for solutions,
rather than cower in fear of rocking the boat.
Our nation invaded and attacked a country that posed absolutely no security
threat to us – all on the basis of a gargantuan fraud. And it did
so without a plan as to what we would do after the invasion. (Sounds like
our nation’s energy policy!). At a time when the US is investing
only $5 billion per year in research and development of alternative energy
sources, we are pouring $12 billion per month into the big, black hole
of disastrous military occupation in Iraq – creating more hostility,
more hatred, more terrorism every day we are viewed by the Muslim world
as an occupying force.
It’s bad enough that we have such a dismal lack of leadership in
the White House, but what do the so-called “leaders” in Congress
do? These traitors to our Constitution and the rule of law snipe, they
complain, they play the worst sorts of politics, but they don’t stand
up. You can count the “upstanders” in Congress on one hand – and
probably a hand that lost a finger or two in a rip saw accident. [...]
