The Shawnee Dispatch / It's about IQ

Archive for Wednesday, July 2, 2008

July 2, 2008

To the editor:

I admire John McCain for his valor and war heroism. However, John McCain is not as smart as George Bush. We've had enough cowboy macho flailing a sledgehammer aimlessly trying to swat flies. We need some brains behind America's considerable brawn. Was 9-11 a failure of our military might? Or our intelligence?

John McCain's years of war endurance, and occupation of a Senate seat, have not inspired him with profound strategies for addressing the diverse spectrum of pestiferous human behavior on a global scale. It has not necessarily imparted a wisdom of world vision, nor raised his IQ. Being tortured in a Vietnamese prison camp proves toughness; but it does not make you the expert on world terrorism decades later. Does militarily occupying Iraq for 100 years inspire those diverse people to like each other? Or make Americans any safer? We need more than tough; we need smart using tough.

Our energy anxieties, economic distress, international terrorism, national security, etc, are as much mental as military challenges. There is a brilliant mind behind "Obama-mania" his own. And being brilliant does not preclude being just as bad as you have to be. It does inspire how, when, and where to be bad. It's about IQ, Stupid.

Otto Rieke

Shawnee