A dream lost

 Franklin Roosevelt,Gorbachev,both dreamed of a world free of war.however, both of them lived to see it destroyed.it seems the powers that be love the idea of war.and this is true.look at it this way.here in the U.S. we have a large military industrial complex.and members of congress who have these bases want to keep them.these bases bring in huge amounts of money to their cities,states.so there is a big incentive to keep them.but,we are no longer threatened by any real threat.Gorbachev, realized the U.S.S.R was spending to much of its resources on a military that consumed to much.so,he withdrew from foreign countries.the U.S even after this monumental occurrence,kept spending,and even increased its military.i was extremely sad when Gorbachev tried and failed to get then president Regan to commit to not reduction,but the total annihilation of the nuclear threat that hung over the world.just think,a world without nuclear weapons.
    After the break up of the Soviet Union,the United States foolishly began trooping around the world invading nations.the once benign country many people around the world looked up and dream about became in a lot of ways a imperial force.it invaded Grenada,panama,Somalia,serba,Iran,Afghanistan.And whats worse,when osama ben laden attacked the U.S on 9/11 instead of allowing nations such as Russia to help,which might have went a long way to heal their damaged relations,they brushed them off.and went straight into a blind bare aggression.bush put it bluntly you are either with us or against us.imagine what nations must have thought.he then,justifiable to many went after osama in Afghanistan.but,he then,to the horror of most of the world,invaded Iraq.this,caused the somewhat warming towards the U.S to ice over.the short sightedness of bush,and his ,messiah attitude did more than any other president to hurt Americas standing in the world.he also in the end,did just what osama wanted,he proved the u.s to be an aggressive nation.bush went into a darkness,breaking international law by allowing torture,and unashamedly using all out brute force.
   Obama election was seen here and the rest of the world as America snapping out of its rage,but Obama has yet to close Guantanamo.and until recently,has yet to pull out of Afghanistan.bush  idea of a war on terror in theory could go on forever.i hope,and pray Obama has the back bone to say it is over.
 and i hope he will try to do what Roosevelt,Gorbachev could not.end the nuclear threat to the world.and find lasting peace both here and abroad.