A Voice of Reason

Don't miss an excellent latest article by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times this week in which he states that the priority in our struggle not only to retain world leadership, but to survive should be on the economic competition with China, and not on the futile "war on terror."

Here is a quote: "Frankly, if I had my wish, we would be on our way out of Afghanistan not in, we would be letting Pakistan figure out which Taliban they want to conspire with and which ones they want to fight, we would be letting Israelis and Palestinians figure out on their own how to make peace, we would be taking $100 billion out of the Pentagon budget to make us independent of imported oil — nothing would make us more secure — and we would be reducing the reward for killing or capturing Osama bin Laden to exactly what he’s worth: 10 cents and an autographed picture of Dick Cheney."

I don't know - I would probably throw in an autographed picture of Sen. McCain and Sarah Palin as well.

You can read the entire article here.