My letter to the President.

Dear Mr. President:

I voted for you in 2008.  I will not vote for you again.  Here are the reasons why:

You have decided not to close Gitmo Indefinite Detention Center.

You have a kill list that may include US citizens.  Even if it doesn't include citizens, the disregard for due process is alarming.  Shouldn't these people be brought to justice rather than be assassinated in acts of terror?

You kill people in Pakistan and Afghanistan without due process using drones.  Often times, you do "secondary strikes" against first responders and family you come to render aid to those tried to help the wounded.  Women and children civilians are often killed as collateral damage. 

Instead of using political means to end the crisis in Syria, your State Department has been throwing gasoline on the fire.  Some parts of the resistance, and the Syrian Government have asked for political resolutions, but you decided to exclude that part of the resistance in your decision to advance the bloodshed in Syria.

Maybe if these sort of things changed I might vote differently, though I doubt it.  As a moral person, I can't in good consciousness vote for you.

Damien Mathew.

As usual, I'm sure there are typos.  I don't really care, to be honest. I have brain damage, what's the President's excuse?

Fall of the Soviet Union

Soviet-Afghan war, along with the rest of the Soviet Union's defense budget, pretty much destroyed the country.  Gorbachev finally pulled the USSR out of Afghanistan a couple of years before the USSR finally collapsed.  Also, Gorbachev declassified a number of documents which exposed corruption in the government. The hard liners knew that the end was near and tried in a desperate attempt, to overthrow Gorbachev.  People resisted, and the end followed quickly thereafter.

Now, we have been in Afghanistan for quite some time.  The "hard-liners" believe that we are "overspending" (though they won't necessarily say that it is from a hyper-inflated defense budget and two wars that won't end). Many of the Tea Partier's say that we are in sovereign debt beyond any hope of being able to repay.  And now the people are coming out and protesting in something like 80 cities through out the country, saying they've had enough of the way that capitalism is being administered in this country.  Think we're near the end?  How did the normal citizenry feel the day before the USSR collapsed?  Did they feel like their country would last for ever, right up until the day that it wasn't?