Blogs and Politics

They say if you don't talk about politics in your blog, then it is not a real blog. Ok, I really don't enjoy talking about politics but for the sake of the blog ideology, I'll do this now. Let's talk about the war in Iraq. First of all, I’m totally against it. But one of the things that bothers me with this war is the lack of objectivity. What is the goal? To say that the goal is to get rid of Evil, that’s too vague. Besides, God and the good folks have been trying that already for awhile, I don’t think it will be an easy task. But back to my point, if we had measurable goals it would be much easier for the community to understand where we are with the war. Examples of measurable goals:
- Have only 200 civil casualties/month, for 3 months in a row
- Have zero US/Iraq casualties/month, for 3 months in a row
- Stay there until the gasoline price drops to $1/galoon
Something along these lines. Even Hitler (which was a monster, did terrible things and was responsible for several million deaths - *disclaimer*) had a measurable goal: he wanted to dominate the world. That’s measurable: you can keep track of where he is at with his commitments. So that would be my taken on politics: they need to be more specific. Whether they really want to be more specific is a different story…