Truth is, I am not very well read and am a poor student of history. I am not particularly skilled in current affairs, I'm bored by politics, rather self-centered, and trust no one over 85. Yet I feel I am perfectly qualified to speak!
The Locerbie bombing happened under Bush; while Somalia was handed to Clinton by results of Bushian policies - Clinton didn't put the marines in barracks and just let them sit there, expecting that their presence alone would put an end to the violence, like Reagan's action in Lebanon... but Clinton DIDN'T get the troops out fast enough, or he should have turned it into a full-on military mission with the equipment, troops and financial backing needed to succede: one or the other, boy! He also sat by during and after the LA riots and he let the military dictator of Haiti have his luggage carried by U.S soldiers when he was leaving for exhile. Then there were those pesky WTC & OK City bombings. AT LEAST Bush put Noriega in jail.
But Noriega went to jail only after he stopped doing what the U.S. told him to. Then there was the continued support of the Marcos "democracy" in the Philippines by the past admins.
Well, at the moment we're in Iraq, & Bush Now does't care what all the other nations say about it - but why did Bush Then care during the original Gulf War? That's when we could have gone into Iraq but didn't, even though we had much more Arab support then. It's said becuase Bush Then needed the other nations' support to do so.
Gang violence increased under Reagan, especially in California (and he was the former CA governor!). Then there was the time that our freind Iraq (you know... back then)was supported by the administration during the Iran/Iraq war - but they sold weapons to the enemy nation of Iran. How French! Maybe that's why ally Iraq attacked the USS Stark with a Exocet missile killing 37 sailors.
Carter helped broker a peace between Israel & Egypt, but at the cost of Iran and Afghanistan and all their friends.... while gave the big screw to many U.S. atheletes.
Dem & Repub administrations both let North Korea simmer & stew, allowed India & Pakistan to baste themselves into nuclear powers, and China/Taiwan to bake into a light golden brown, which may end up being burned to a crisp. And who knows when - for our blind support of England - the next airplane is gonna be used as a weapon by a percolating Irishman who made it through security becuase of his non-exotic looks and "regular" name?
Meanwhile, Orenthal James is free, Shining Ice is off the deep end, Elliot Carver wants to start a war between China and Britain, and I get only ONE vote in how the world is supposed to be run? I guess you can only put your trust in the one true way, God. But which of the 5 or 6 big main ones is The One? Maybe we should date a little, first.
What it all shows me is what I learned my 1st day out of college - you can't win. That's why whenever I'm in the voting booth, I bring my Dungeon & Dragon dice with me.