Choose your nation

This is only a discussion of material from the 11/15/07 debate.
From the debate transcript

BLITZER: You say national security is more important than human rights. Senator Clinton, what do you say?

CLINTON: I agree with that completely. The first obligation of the president of the United States is to protect and defend the United States of America. That doesn't mean that it is to the exclusion of other interests.

And there's absolutely a connection between a democratic regime and heightened security for the United States. That's what's so tragic about this situation. After 9/11, President Bush had a chance to chart a different course, both in Pakistan and in Afghanistan, and could have been very clear about what our expectations were.

Which nation do you live in?
Do you live in the national security state, or do you live in the U.S.A.?
Because to me, the two are not the same.  They are different.
Mrs. Clinton and the majority of people at this debate obviously saw no difference at all.
Has NSC-68 become the new Declaration of Independence?
Did 9/11 become the new American Revolution?
You'd think these things had completely overturned the republican & democratic imperatives America espoused at its founding.

We are choosing to dictate to other nations what their interests are.
She refers to Afghanistan & Pakistan in parental terms:
we must give them concrete expectations to fulfill.
Since when is it the Afghans and Pakistanis' central purpose in living to fulfill American expectations?
Are they our children?
Are they?

Here is a list of other things troubling me:

1. There was no mention of the 17 permanent facilities in Iraq, who voted for them, and why.

2. There was no discussion about the foreclosure crisis and how banks are faring as property owners.

3. No discussion about who supported bankruptcy reform and why someone remained silent concerning it.

4. No connected discussion about how the dispossessed are surviving the crisis.  Actually, this should have led the debates.  When entire neighborhoods are losing value, prostitutes are moving in, the homeless are busting windows for a night's rest, I'd say there's a problem.

No, instead "soldiers in Iraq," not Iraq occupation, and "immigration" were the topics Blitzer stated would be central.

Mrs. Clinton also asserted that NAFTA had not done all she had hoped it would.
I beg to differ.
I think it served her friends admirably.
Because regardless of where she came from, she represents the rich, the easy-living, and those who have betrayed the American people time & time & time again.
I wish she would just come out and say it.  NAFTA served us well, yes.