To Lead

"I used to look up to America, because when i was young, they would lead to world, it is now time for America to lead again in global climate change."

-Young Kenyan Girl

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7146276.stm

Global Warming is a very touchy subject to many within the United States. It is actually divisive enough that it coincides with party lines. Democrats who say that global warming is real, of human causation, and that we should try to stop it, on one side; And Republicans who say that man-made global warming is a hoax, or not all the details are in. Whatever the case, why is it that AMERICA of all nations should deny this? Deny something that the entire world has accepted. Humans are causing global warming, and why does it take a chorus of voices from the rest of the world to actually make America begin it's slow march to hopefully fixing global warming? It is time for America to lead the world once again, not make America a nation who follows other nations.

The Truth

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

-Aeschylus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7127198.stm

The nuclear weapons program was stopped in 2003........................ I'll let that sink in for a moment. 2003, that was four years ago. However, this president seems to have been saying they have nuclear weapons, and we must stop them. Maybe the president really didn't know that they didn't stop their nuclear program, but wouldn't this also mean that Washington should have spent more time looking for the truth rather than continuing to blast Tehran for their "nuclear weapons" development even after broad skepticism by an international community, and the denial of Teheran's government? Aeschylus said that millenniums ago, maybe we should heed his words, and find the truth even in war.