For one hundred years, all the World has looked to the United States of America for this leadership. they have been the only country with the military might to fulfill this role.
Eight years ago an African American U.S. Senator was surprisingly catapulted from a community organizer into the presidency of the U.S. on the promise of bringing "Change". Almost immediately he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I thought this was ridiculous as he had not had a chance to qualify himself for this prestigious award. I wonder if this hasty endowment had any effect on his obsession to become the "President that ends wars" and bring home American Troops.
At the time relative peace engulfed almost all the World. Post Sadam Iraq was stabilized after much loss of life but American troops were very much present to sustain the gains made. Similar progress was being made in Afghanistan also with substantial American troops in charge.
Then this Nobel Peace Prize winner, against all the advise of the military elite and with no foreign policy experience decrees an end to these two was with the impetuous withdrawal of the American Troops within a predetermined and publicly announced timetable.
So the World began to unravel.
Evil forced quickly began to fill the huge void caused by these actions. Bad actors in other countries also recognized the opportunity to advance their nefarious objectives.
Assad in Syria was reported to be bombing and killing his own people, quickly exceeding 100,000. deaths. then followed reports of chemical weapons being used. Obama beats his chest and declared he has to go and if in fact he is using such weapons that would cross an unacceptable red line. 5 years later he is still using chemical weapons and 500,000 are reported killed, and he looks like being in office longer than Obama.
Enter Hillary Clinton. To prepare her to take over as President and try to save his legacy, she is brought in as Secretary of State. They decide to intervene in Libya, the dictator Gaddafi is overthrown and subsequently killed. Once again there is no follow up plan in place to control the ensuing unrest and the country descends into chaos,
Further interfering in Egypt and Yemen brings more strife with Yemen blowing up weeks after Obama declared the country a shining example of their influence.
Meantime Isis are quick to take advantage in all these areas to expand their objectives of developing a caliphate, resorting to unbelievable atrocities and depicting them on the internet
This results in hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing for their lives and swamping Europe causing unrest and chaos there. Many are lost at sea trying to make the treacherous crossing, with heart breaking images of poor little children.
Things in the U.S. are also not looking good. With his radical ideology Obama implements regulations that strangle the fossil industry and impair many others, leading to the slowest recovery in memory. He increases the Government debt more than all previous Presidents combined.
While all this is going on it is alleged Hillary Clinton is busy scooping up cash big time for the Clinton Foundation in exchange for favors from the State Dept. Such allegations sound credible when it is uncovered she not only deleted thousand of incriminating e mails but spent big bucks using bleachbit to render them irretrievable.
She narrowly escapes indictment for not keeping confidential documents secure as the F.B.I. director tippy toes around the White House to keep his job. By his summary she lied to congress which is perjury.
And now she want to be President.
With this track record how can she possibly be leading in the polls, or are they rigged also?
Of course Trump has been his own worst enemy with outlandish comments, but now he seems to be brought into line with his new female manager.
Maybe the key element in this election are the blacks and hispanics who by tradition always vote Democratic. Unlike his predecessors Trump is reaching out directly to this huge voting block and actually asking for their vote asking candidly What have you got to lose.
I pray in November the American Electorate will be given the wisdom to make the right choice in this monumental event.
By the way don,t miss the first one on one Presidential debate Sept 26th. Word is Hillary has hired a bunch of shrinks to try to get under Trump's skin and have him sound off in the debate along with research teams to dig into his past and find triggers. For sure will be entertaining.