Spanglish

Big controversey over the US National Anthem in Spanish. Another pointless, divisive issue. Personally I feel proud that Mexicans would want to sing the National Anthem in their language. The sham concern is just one more evasive maneuver (like pushing for a Constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage, promote prayer in the schools, prohibit flag burning) to hide the fact that our government has no idea how to solve the really critical problems our nation faces (like overwhelming deficits, Iraq, Afganistan, terrorism, education, universal medical care, gluttonous energy consumption, etc.).

One of our most despicable behaviors is, and has been, the intrusive meddling in other nation’s affairs in order to get what we want. Iran hates us? Big surprise! We helped to overthrow their elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in 1953 (the first successful overthrow of a foreign government by our CIA) and install a brutal dictator, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who would give us unlimited oil, no questions asked. Central and South American governments opting for “left wing” candidates who oppose the US? We have done our best to subvert democratic reform throughout the hemisphere. Remember the 1973 coup our CIA engineered to depose and murder Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected, Marxist/Socialist government ever and install the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet who destroyed Chile’s democracy and pursued a murderous policy of state terrorism.

I am old but I am really scared for our children in a world we have turned upside down, one which hates us and wants to destroy us, and we have incompetent, dithering leaders who can not conceive of the real issues and only care about keeping their power and wealth