Friday, February 04, 2011

MADE IN USA

I usually support "Made In USA" unequivocally; but that stops with WICD - Weapons of Innocent Civilian Destruction" - in the form of billions in aid to countries like Egypt and Israel, the former to suppress their own people and the latter to suppress the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland.

When Egyptian democracy advocates hold up tear gas canisters labeled "Made In USA" fired on them by the military, and when Palestinians in Gaza view the destruction wrought to what is arguably the world's largest open air prison, caused by Israeli fired American weaponry, we do incalculable damage to our security and long term interests.

How about an intangible but infinitely more valuable export?: "Democracy - Inspired in America".