Arm them all and let God sort them out

Our government wants to arm the Libyan insurgents, freedom fighters, citizen soldiers...whatever the hell you want to call them. We don't want to send our own soldiers in - no that would be too messy and, well, inconvenient; but we do want to arm and support a pack of gun-toting individuals whose true loyalty is unknown.

All we do know is that they hate Gaddafi. Yes, the enemy of our enemy is our friend...right? Sure we supported Saddam during the Iraq Iran war. Sure we gave weapons to and trained the Taliban while they were fighting the Soviets. That worked out well. So what's the harm in supporting this rag-tag band soldier wanna-bes? Right?

Honestly, are we so freaking stupid that we turn our back in history to score political points and make ourselves look tough? That was a rhetorical question. I know we are.

Why don't we just arm everybody? Why don't we just start freely giving weapons and military training to the citizens of every country with a repressive leader? I mean shit, let's arm the Iranian people. Let's give the poor North Koreans fully automatic rifles, rocket launchers, and anti-aircraft guns. I mean if we are going to to start arming one country why the hell don't we arm the world?

Seriously, this whole thing has become one big cosmic joke. Do I want thousands of people to die? No, of course not. But do I want my tax dollars going to arming an army of unknown, untested, individuals who have no clear endgame? No, I really don't; especially when our country is going to hell in a hand basket faster than The Jersey Shore cast could descend into a drunken oblivion.

And, really, can anyone tell me who is leading this rebellion? Does anyone know who will replace Gaddafi? Or even how he will be replaced?

Oh, and it's nice that we are supposedly in some kind of fiscal crises, but somehow we have millions if not billions of dollars to fling missiles at a pin-dick country for an seemingly indefinite period of time for little to no return.

I'd like to believe that our dear leaders think things through, but that does not seem to be the case in 21st American politics.

I mean the military has been used like a toy with little to no logistical thought. Our politicians do nothing more than try to out-patriot, out-fear, and out-conserve each other, and leave we the people no better off than before. It seems like the only solution our leaders have anymore is to just blow things up to make it look like they are proactively doing things. Education and the environment no big booms; therefore boring and worthless. Bombing the crap out of a country so that the citizens can overthrow the government and lead it into uncertainty; neat and impressive.

Whatever, like I said before, arm the world and see that happens. I'm sure it will be awesome!