Political fractures harm America’s reputation
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Editor,
If we are to ever restore some order, public confidence and viability to our democratic system of government, we need to have both the Democratic and Republican parties engaging in problem solving and focusing upon our future growth and sustainability. What we have now is simply rancor, personal attacks and one party so fractured it can hardly function beyond causing confusion, chaos and inaction.
We need Washington’s executive, legislative and judicial leadership focusing on strengthening American citizen’s health, education and community welfare. We need immediate attention to our crumbling infrastructure, energy concerns, economic growth and providing helpful world leadership. Our world stability is in danger of increasing turmoil with the growth of multiple terrorist movements. They are like a cancer that grows and kills insidiously from the inside. We are presently seeing it flourish in the Middle East.
We are a rich and powerful nation. We have earned this super-power standing on the world stage. We have exhibited our strength, in the past, with a vastly more powerful military complex than most all other nations combined. But things are changing in what is required to maintain a position of being a world power. Military might, which deals with the effects, is giving way to the necessity of dealing with the causes.
For example, with the increasing intensity and killing power of international terrorist movements, it is becoming imperative that world leader nations have the ability to anticipate, educate, infiltrate and obliterate these movements at their points of recruitment, training and carrying out of lethal attacks. This takes international cooperation, education of the vulnerable young people, keen intelligence, quick response by Navy Seal type units and all manner of effective diplomatic endeavors.
If the American political system continues to be bogged down in these infantile personal and policy attacks, we cannot and will not be the world super-power that we think we are and that the world community expects us to be.
Bob McClellan
Polson
