Growing Up

Is Hard to Do

When people are 'momma's boys' or pampered silly, and adulated and fawned over, they sometimes lack 'capacity' to self-evaluate in the socratesian 'examined life' way that allows for
solid personal growth. They go through life defending their silliness in a self-justified manner to convince the world. A hallmark of maturity is that one acknowledges their mistakes, admits them (everyone has failings-some call it 'sin') apologize, makes amends and move on. Only the most immature self-deluded sit there and try to justify what the world knows is off its rocker.

The Republican party seems to be stuck there- for 8 years pampered with bloated defense contract deals where everything was excused- starting a war that we will pay for both monetarily and in fear and loathing of us for generations. You think it was nothing to do with us that the World Cup went to Quatar! It is easy to see that while some in this country want to hang Assuange, the wikipedia leaker for his exposing our inner workings, many in the world want to canonize him for exposing the gore in our guts.

This cheering against us is in part due to the fact that we have not grown up as a country to a point where we deeply analyze our mistakes, stop blaming the rest of the world, and fess up, make amends, and apologize.

We should be standing before the UN saying we deeply apologize for the errant actions of the predecessor administration that falsified intelligence and ran us into the eternal wars against islam without distinction as to which muslims were the good guys, which ones were the bad guys.
Further, we intend to prosecute those who violated international human rights laws by committing unspeakable torture of in some cases innocent people.

This would mark us as a more mature country- one that can instead of bribing foreign governments to stop accusing us, let us examine ourselves where we went wrong and fix it.
We need a mature Foreign Policy, not a self-deluding one.