A description of my blog. http://www.my-site.com 1047979535900918759 Why I Blog 2006/11/#1047979535900918759 2006-11-07 I have one goal with this blog: to make people laugh. It seems like a good time to point this out because recently I've posted a couple of semi-serious entries which may have seemed to be promoting some kind of agenda. I suppose they were, but that's mostly because if you write a page a day it's difficult to avoid making some kind of point eventually, unless you're a student in a freshman English class. To be honest, it's not entirely true to say that my only goal is to make people laugh. I mean, it is, but to me making people laugh is only a means to an end. And that end is promoting world peace.

I know, ha ha. Except that this time I'm not joking. I used to write political commentary with the thought in mind that I'd be able to change the world by convincing people of my point of view. Now I've come to the conclusion that while it's undoubtedly true that world needs more people who think like me, the world is in greater need of people who don't take themselves so freaking seriously. So this blog is my way of refusing to take myself seriously, and by extension, refusing to take anyone else very seriously either. Anyone who falls short of being the infallible Son of God, that is -- a category into which most of us fall, last time I checked.

I call myself a conservative, but it seems most of my readers are liberal. More liberal than me, anyway. I think that's cool. One of those liberal readers has put something together that is his own way of promoting world peace, a little something called the Path to Peace. I've been debating the finer points of this with him, but I think the basic idea is a good one. To sum up, the U.S. messed up in its invasion of Iraq. Now I'm saying this as someone who wholeheartedly supported the invasion, and someone who still believes that the war was legally, and possibly even morally, justified. I voted for Bush. Twice. That said, we're in a bad spot now, thanks to a series of bad decisions starting with the "slam-dunk" assumption of the existence of WMDs. Now we need to fix it. I'm about as much of a realist as you can find regarding international politics, which means that I believe our foreign policy should be based on a projection of strength. I mean it sucks that the Swedes and French hate us and all, but that's not going to keep me up at night. What is going to keep me up is that people no longer fear or respect the United States. We need to prove that we're secure enough in our strength and ideals to admit we screwed up. Then we need to ask for help. And I believe that some time after we do that, America is going to be once again revered as the defender of liberty the world over. And that's bad news for Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and everybody else who needs an ass-kicking.

That's my conservative spin on what is admittedly a liberal idea. I'm not sure my liberal friend would agree with my assessment, but I imagine he doesn't care too much as long as you go to his site and read what he has to say. Check it out for yourself at http://path-to-peace.blogspot.com. I'm not going to tell you whether you should sign his petition thingy, because, geez, what do I know?

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

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