America?!

I have a lot of time on my hands. So I read a lot. And since I don't really like any of the books I've been reading, I've been reading a lot of articles on politics and what not. American foreign policy is ridiculous. The belief that the best way to "be safe" is to improve militarily or to fight pre-emtive (sp?) wars (Iraq, Iran, etc.) is stupid and outdated. Why does nobody remember detente? Detente was that thing that Nixon did that basically ended the Cold War... and it's a French term, so I'm that much more fond of it!
The way we can become safer is by practicing a modern detente and that is by leading the world on the cultural and scientific battle field. Imagine a world where America is spending billions, trillions of dollars not on fighting wars but instead on fighting global warming. Who wants to attack the country that's going to save the entire planet from the apocalypse? An added bonus is that all that we might gain economically by fighting wars in the Middle East becomes increasingly less important as our dependency on oil decreases. So basically we could be winning the same war, without upsetting anyone (in fact probably making any moderately educated person rather happy).
We're currently policing the world, fighting to "keep us safe from the evils of tyranny," while we could be spending our money to make the world a place that doesn't need policing.

Anyway, enough ranting, I apologize if that is horribly disorganized or incoherent. Today I watched Ratatuille in French, which was quite fun... I understood enough to enjoy it. I also have an interview with a guy from RR Donnelly that Peggy set me up with on Friday, so wish me luck and thanks a lot to Peggy.