So I just got this movie back I lent out: Charlie Wilson's War.
I recommend it if you haven't seen it already.
It's pretty political and like a lot of movies lately I don't fully take in a movie I dig until around the 2nd or 3rd viewing. This one was on while I was doing some work so I was catching snippets in the dialog a bit better. Yeah don't ask. Anyway it was about America and how they supplied the Afghanistan guerillas with weapons to fight the russians. Like any hollywood production I have a give or take on what's being presented to me, but there was an overall theme that presented a compelling thought to me: Is the American ideal getting us in trouble?

Now like plenty of people out there I voted for Obama. First black president, young, his ideas on energy conservation and how to take on problems honestly, at least seemingly, I applaud. But also like a lot of people I've had the "to be continued" mentality. That comes not from a doubt as president but a general speculation of humans. Even the best of us will eventually screw up. The question in this case is how big of a screw up?

I think the first time I saw that ideal manifested in my lifetime was when Obama was voted as Presidential Elect.

That said, have we generated an ideal too superhuman for us to live up to, Is it just my personal perception of this ideal that's unrealistic or is it this ideal that has given us the mentality of being "overseers" ,to some extent, of this world?

I'm a pretty God fearing cat, much to the chagrin of some of my compatriots. But hey I don't tell them how to live if they don't tell me how I don't need prayer. Like many I don't like seeing the suffering of others either, but I'm often left wondering, what is the purpose of all of this that America is doing at times? Is it to bring balance to this pendulum or control the swinging?