The people of New Year City and the rest of US have their justice.

Obama has his rallying cry.

Now what.

Can our people come home? Is it too soon? Is there someone else? Will there be another war card pulled like Iraq? Are we done sticking our fingers in the Middle Eastern world, messing with their politics by fueling dictator puppets with money?

I know we have a vested interest in World Peace. Every year dozens of bimbos proclaim it as they prance across Donald Trumps stage in their quest for a tiara. But what does it actually take to acquire peace, the ultimate prize?

Do we need to cut off money to Israel, as they build barriers and destroy the families of Palestinians? Do we need to pull out of the Middle East all together and let Europe and Asia handle that business. I like to think that China would prevent Pakistan or North Korea from acting too crazy, given how close they are to their borders.

Are we done acting like world police? Because while I hate the thought of people dying in need of our support like they are in Somalia, Tibet, Libya, and elsewhere, I feel like the rest of the 1st world countries need to fucking help out too. They are protecting their own interests, why can’t we?

Excuse me for sounding selfish, but large parts of America are broken. Corporations and monopolies are running rampant on Capital Hill, giving themselves tax breaks while hacking apart social services and all the while the right wing is yelping about how all the Muslims want to kill us. No fucking shit. We’ve been funneling money into different dictators for decades. We built Saddam Hussein, giving him power, money, and weapons.

And we wonder why they hate us?

I’m ashamed of every American who rejoiced when Osama died and failed to see that as a country, our predecessors brought this on us. They dragged it to our doorstep by trying to play with the politics of multiple nations in the name of oil.

We need to clean from within. We need to stop spending our tax money on other countries and we need to surgically cleanse our congress and all those damned corporate lobbyists. They’ve got us by the rope, but no one sees it because we’re so busy looking beyond our own borders. Just like they want us to.