Sowing in barren fields

There is something wrong in America and most
Americans haven't a clue as to what the problem
is. Not a clue.

On the one hand they are being told to "Be afraid!
Be afraid! Terrorists are out to get you!" and
on the other hand they are being told "We are
winning! We are winning! Stay the Course!"

The average American citizen isn't sure exactly
what they should be afraid of if we are winning.

Doesn't "winning" mean we don't have to be afraid?

We have a President whose ideals for America and
its citizens, the world and its citizens--if he would
just lay those ideals out so American citizens
can decided if they agree with them--are probably
no better or no worse than any president we have
ever had. The big difference with this particular
president is that he is willing to do whatever is
necessary to reach those ideals. And, he has the
blind trust of a competitive Congress who are no
longer leaders in ideas but who bend to the will
of the President.

Essentially, to place an ideal on a pedestal for
all to see and then assuming that whatever it takes
to reach those ideals is ok is the same as saying
that the end justifies the means. The 'means' can
be whatever someone suggests, or an off-the-cuff
remark, or a planned, well-thought-out and
responsible program for reaching an equitable
solution based on reason and heart.

Currently we have a President whose ideals are vague
at best and whose "means" are mostly derived from
someone else's suggestion. This is evident in that
his means includes 'killing to save lives,' 'lying
to continue killing' and 'lying to make the lies
legitimate.' I don't believe this president wants
people to die, but his means have become so
important that people have to die for his
ideals to be reached.

You cannot kill in the search for peace.
You cannot lie in the search for truth.

To do so, swaps out the means and the end [the methods
and the ideal]. You are left with the opposite of what
you started with--the end is justified by the means.

A phrase more popular with the American
public is "What you sow, so shall you reap."

So Mr. President, do you know what you are sowing?