Keep Them In Crisis Mode

Whatever happened to the "population bomb?" Stopped ticking? Never blew up? Or just plain forgotten?

Remember Noriega, Khomeini, Khadafy, the U.S.S.R? What about the "war on drugs?" Did the "free" world ever manage to win that particular war. There always seems to be a bogey-man. Always a crisis on the horizon. Some monolithic threat that is sure to engulf all us good people of the west.

Now: Islamo-fascists, terrorists, alliances of evil, invade Grenada, worry about Cuba, if not Cuba, Al-Qaeda. What about Iran? Never mind that Israel, India and Pakistan all have nuclear weapons...Iran must simply be stopped at all costs.

A cost increasingly at the expense of real simmering crises: AIDS, the greenhouse effect, inequities in global trading despite all promises to promote free trade.

Try not to get swept away in the CNN induced deluge...just try.