Where's the truth?

"Whenever I want anything remotely true, I tune into the BBC," said an American I met on the plane.  "You can't get truth on American TV."  Have to agree.  CNN is this, FOX is that, ABC is something else.  The presidential debates were a perfect example.  Some talking heads said Romney was the clear winner, others Obama, some said Biden, others Ryan. 

The truth is, no one has any answers.  As a matter of fact, no one has even identified the problem.  Here's the answer, but wait, what's the question?  The Republicans claim the US is on a precipice, but the Democrats claim it's only a gully created, naturally, by the previous Bush administration. 

But if you want a peek at the truth, read a facinating book entitled, "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order", by Samuel P. Huntington.  B just finished it and it is both a heavy read and pretty depressing.  Basically, the Muslims are going to win simply because of demographics; they are procreating more.  Europe is in decline and so is most of the West.

"Multiculturalism at home treatens the United States and the West; universalism abroad threatens the West and the world.  Both deny the uniqueness of Western culture.  A multicultural America is impossible because a non-Western America is not American.  A multicultural world is unavoidable because global empire is impossible.

"The preservation of the West requires the renewal of Western identity.  The security of the world requires acceptance of global multiculturality." 

So, basically we're done.  And the presidential debates and whoever wins this or that election is not going to be able to do much about anything anywhere in the West.  I have never thought about it before, but governing the US is next-to-impossible because there are just too many individual states.  How can anyone agree on anything with 50 states in the mix.  We have a better chance here because we have only 10 provinces.  Look at China, with a population of 2 billion, they only have 30 provinces; same with Russia.

When it comes to Canadian fiscal policy, we have done pretty well because of tight regulations.  But to tell you the truth, Mark Carney might as well be Art Carney, in terms of Canada's influence globally.   

And US foreign policy?  It's basically get bigger bullets and kill more dictators.  First it was Bin Laden, then Gaddafi and now sights are trained on Assad.  The next move is to work through Israel by providing them with the ammunition to deal with Iran because Americans are fed up with direct wars, like Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think I should stick to Hawaii.