Here We Go Again

What a beautiful day in Illinois, here on the first day of March, 2011. The sun is shining and the temperature reached 75 again today. But all is not well on this, our planet earth.

Referencing my last blog I learned today that Illinois has the greatest number of nuclear plants than any of the other states, numbering @ 109. The closest one that I am aware of is at Clinton, Illinois, less than 10 miles from here. We had our own little earth quate year before last, no damage resulted. And I remember that we had one here sometime in the late 50's or early sixties. We are in the area of a Quaternary Fault of Wabash Valley. There has been increased conversation in the media regarding the ages and safety of the plants here since the devastation in Japan. However, what will come, will come.

The most urgent problems that I see are those in the Middle East and North African Countries. I must applaud Presidents Obama lack of interference in the Libyan Civil War and the fact that we joined Britain and France and a large number of Mideast countries in their efforts to curtail Gaddafi's' aggressions towards his own citizenry by by making Libya a No Fly Zone. And we must remember that he has stated repeatedly that "no U.S. boots will be on the ground in Libya"

But as of today, most of the Mideastern countries have backed out of their initial approval of the missiles that were sent in to do the job. And it is being asked by the news media why Libya is the only country that is being attacked while so many of the other countries there are also seeing their dictatorships being challenged by the citizens who are demonstrating and are also being beaten and murdered by their own regimes.

So now we can say that we are involved in three wars in the Middle East. And that troops had to be removed from Iraq to help with the effort in Afghanistan. Is it any wonder that there will be "no boots on the ground" in Libya?

My opinion: We do not need to solve the problems of those countries. When the citizens are fed up with their dictator leaders, let the citizens of that country organize themselves and fight their own fight. I do not want to see more American Soldiers being brought back home in body bags. And is this the beginning of the third world war? As Ronald Reagan is so often quoted, but not in the same context...THERE THEY GO AGAIN!