Reality Check, please!

Is it just ME or are there others who realize that the leadership in the USA needs a huge reality check?

What it the world is going on in leaderships' minds? Could someone elucidate?

It's a WTF situation here as I scratch my head and wonder what play-book is being used.

The President threatens to veto for the first time in his presidency over something that the cooler heads at Dubai resolved with no bloodshed. In fact, it was something Dubai should have considered in the first place.

Then, we hear on the TV that the USA should tolerate Muslims. No, dear, no no no. It's ARABS who we will tolerate. Islam and Muslims we already know ALL about and we do not "need" to tolerate a "religion of peace" which has as one of its core beliefs that it has the mandate to "convert or kill" the remaining population of earth. It's ALL there in black and white in the Koran and TV commentators have suddenly become blind? What's the payoff?

Am I cynical? In a way, but hopeful as well. I know that this Country was created to be a religious haven for those who fled religious and other persecution in Europe. Georgia was populated by many from the debtors prisons in England. Their crime was that they couldn't afford to pay their taxes. THAT is a pretty demeaning reason to put someone in jail. But we still do it today -- or the (illegal) IRS does. (Illegal? Oh yes, that amendment to the Constitution was never approved. And 'now' the IRS is such a tradition it will literally take an "Act of Congress" to dissolve.) New England was populated by Puritans who weren't allowed to worship as they wished. Pennsylvania was a haven for Quakers (as my forebears were) and Maryland for Catholics. But what was interesting back then, is that for the most part (notwithstanding some communities in New England), those States did not persecute those with other religious beliefs.

And somewhere in our history, we've forgotten that. We WERE a Christian Country. Right now we are in a battle for the hearts and souls of the world, fighting a Religious War which we are trying to convince ourselves and others is not a Religious War. But it IS. We are not against Arabs but we ARE against ISLAM.

Understand at least that much. Islam says if you're a Muslim, you can lie. Christianity says we are not to bear false witness (aka do not lie).

Think about THAT in relation to what is happening right now. Whether you're pro or anti -- Think about whether you can ever completely trust a Muslim. Even a Muslim who "swears" to tell the truth in a legal Court of Law is not just allowed, but is encouraged to lie.

In the USA, when we raise our right hand an affirm or swear to tell the truth, we usually do under pain of perjury. In Islam (in whatever Country), raising a right hand and affirming or swearing to tell the truth doesn't mean anything. Perjury is not a word in their dictionary.

Our Leaders might do well to listen up and take heed lest they be led to the slaughter by those whose favor they are currying. It's definitely time for a Reality Check in Washington, D.C.