| You are in the previous investment trap when your | | | | Why was Al Qaeda assisted in their escape from |
| bright idea goes south and you have so much | | | | Konduz, Afghanistan in November, 2001 and later at |
| invested you refuse to walk away, squandering | | | | Tora Bora only to lock up hundreds not Al Qaeda |
| additional time, money and effort on a salvage | | | | indefinitely in Cuba? Do you suppose deals are being |
| operation that will more than likely fail worse than the | | | | struck, we know nothing about? Is it possible George |
| original idea. A business, a marriage, a purchase, a | | | | Bush and Osama Bin Laden are on the same team? |
| hobby - the trap is the same. | | | | Heaven forbid huh? If it is an unproven fact, nobody |
| Iraq is a previous investment trap. The investment of | | | | wants it proven. Nobody wants it to be a fact. Good |
| political capital, money and blood for what began as a | | | | way to do abracadabra. "Watch closely while I |
| bad idea, carried on into a subsequent administration | | | | secretly change the world before your very eyes." |
| as a salvage operation. A man took it upon himself to | | | | The way out is to announce your withdrawal and let |
| wager the future of the world on a personal desire | | | | the rest of the world step in and clean up a mess |
| and ambition. He cannot say he was wrong and more | | | | they refused to prevent. Americans are not alone in |
| than 500 leaders have stood behind him to one | | | | this mess and we can find other ways to assist our |
| degree or another. Men and women of no higher | | | | replacements or whoever is assisting the Iraqi people. |
| moral character than the one who declares that | | | | But then, one man has sworn an oath saying that will |
| people must die for his political dreams and | | | | never happen. America will stand with warring Iraqis |
| objectives. To create a new and bankrupt world in | | | | come hell or high water. What man has the right to |
| accordance with his personal vision. Did I hear you | | | | swear such an oath or the power to enforce it? |
| say he of all people has the right? Who asked you? | | | | Ignore him. He only imagines such things. An actor on |
| Who asks you about anything in this fine democracy? | | | | a global stage, directing the play. Israel has paved the |
| Do you write letters to representatives who likely | | | | way to unilateral withdrawal as the U.S. has paved |
| never see them and aides who are glad few people | | | | the way to preemptive strikes. |
| think like you? Maybe you too are in the previous | | | | The ship of state is going down. Loyal Americans |
| investment trap, investing time, money and effort in | | | | intend to go down with it because they are |
| ambitious ego maniacs obsessed by career and | | | | convinced there is no way out. Prayer, meditation, |
| delusions of power. | | | | peace practices, the U.S. Peace Department, |
| Yet, the question is not who is to blame, the | | | | promised in the 2003 presidential election campaign, |
| question is how to stop additional investment. The | | | | campaign finance reform - all offering no hope, no |
| moral issues now fog the politics and economics. The | | | | way out. The previous investment trap has become |
| first step in extraction is to tune out those who insist | | | | the American way, approved by the wisdom of |
| we must continue to salvage a bad investment, that | | | | majority. If you have hope, you might be un |
| no life has been lost in vain. That no injury has been | | | | American - and you might have a future. |
| sustained in vain. That no money spent or effort | | | | (PUBLISHERS! Free Promotion Here - Now! If you will |
| made in vain. So the losses mount as we are assured | | | | leave a comment and your URL or hyperlink on this |
| there is NO WAY OUT save continued investment. | | | | or any article of mine: 1.) Some of my on - site |
| Does this not sound like a gambling addiction? This is | | | | readers will visit your website. 2.) I will visit your |
| why it is called the previous investment trap. A trap | | | | website. If I like what I find, I will write a positive |
| with no way out is like unto Guantanamo Bay where | | | | review and publish it here at EzineArticles. You may |
| American Justice triumphs over evil. We might as well | | | | delete this generous offer when re - publishing this |
| all hang ourselves, for there is no hope. | | | | article. |