Do All Governments Fail

Is there a government that works, and why not?

Communicating around the world.  American news sources spend most of their time reporting bad news and criticizing the American government. Looking back,  the media in the United States has been misused for decades. Writers, Editors, Publishers and owners just can't help inserting their biases and partisan political agendas as they report the news. They just can't help giving a public voice to their personnel opinions.  We've become used to it. Americans expect that their news usually presents just one side of a picture and not the other. Americans understand but non-Americans do not. To a non-American our country's image and reputation has been badly distorted.  

America is now at war. It was declared by Islam against the United States.   For reasons not understood our government doers not formally recognize that Islam is at war with us?  Instead, America has used great restraint by meeting to guerrilla attacks. suicide bombers, and every other form of terror with extremely limited power. We have not been successful. Our statesmanship, political decisions, and badly conceived war plans have utterly failed.

The enemy a religion?  Granted, this enemy is different. The entire Religion of Islam is being used against us. Ah, but that's not true either. We know that all members of Islam do not agree with their militant brothers. Divisions within Islam confuse everyone' and loyalty between a Muslim family, tribe, and religion are do not fit a modern civilization.  It is difficult for us to understand why some Muslims are out to kill all non-Muslims, and yet other Muslims accept the modern world. They renounce the militant teachings of the Koran and the medieval Sharia laws and ask that we try to understand that modern, progressive Islam has rendered their militant Islamic history as obsolete. And they also no longer follow Sharia Law. They are quite willing to be peaceful neighbors and to earn a voice in the affairs of the world.

So, there are several variations within Islam. Together they are all tied to Islam, but each has significant differences. 

1. The largest group of Muslims are not aggressive to their neighbors. 
2. Next largest two are the Shia Muslims and the Sunni Muslims, and neither faction is committed to exporting terrorism.  
3. Lastly, there are the militant Muslims who are our declared enemy. These are the terrorists, assassins, suicide bombers, armed killers, and etc. The number of these active enemies is unknown. Estimates range from the thousands to the millions.

Change to related subject.

At the risk of confusing the issue even more, I want to insert a few words about corruption. The American government has become contaminated by corruption. There are  with inefficiencies that roll on and on, year after year. They are eating up our powers to deal with enemies like Islam. For example, ask yourself 'why' they are not addressed.

• There are 6.5 million active Social Security accounts for people over 112 years old? 

• The government annually pays $294 million on government programs that  long ago expired? 

• The National Guard spent $32.3 million to sponsor NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2014,  and  $12.7 million sponsor Graham Rahal's racing in the Indy Racing League, WHILE claiming they had not enough money to pay it's current soldiers nor to carry out it's primary mission?

• $50 thousand dollars to  the Army to study the bomb detection capabilities of elephants? 

• The government has given research grants to study shrimp running on a treadmill? 

• Also the sexual habits of New Zealand mud snails? 

How can politicians continue to demand that the taxpayers hand over more money to them every year? 

The American Federal government has lost it's perspective. It has adopted   confused priorities, and it does not have the leadership or tools to fix the problem.