Around the world atm...

With several wars still being fought, stale conflicts in Lybia, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and possible flashpoints in the middle east currently developing, is there any real benefit to having all of our hands in all of these various regions? If so then it is definitely case by case basis, each area having its own significance, either for profit or governmental stability. Again our government can't seem to finish what it started. Just as it is abroad, our domestic policies are mired in legislation, layers of old laws are building up and hindering the processes and funding necessary to promote a good business ethic and economy in our great country. The sad truth is that a lot of law-makers push bills through either because they're being heavily lobbied or because they feel they only have a limited amount of time to leave "their mark" for their term in office. So as it happens, the law-maker, just tries to create policy no matter if it has relevance, rather just to put something through congress with their name on it. This is becoming a huge issue that no one is really talking about. These issues are discussed in a particularly interesting book by Philip K. Howard. The book is called "Collapse of the Common Good". In the book it explains on how our government is chock full of dusty laws and policies that have no relevance in our modern times but are impossible to repeal because of the protocol backing them. The truth is, that in our great democratic architecture, it is much easier to pass a bill than to repeal a law. This flaw undermines important new legislation and basically slows the entire legislative process to a halt. Big reasons why we actually can't pull out of these conflicted areas around the world reflects what we can't accomplish on the home front... an old dusty democratic system. What am I calling for? Socialism? No. I'm just suggesting that we start over. Rebuild our democracy from the foundation up with no earmarks and pet projects, no kickbacks and special clauses. Just the way it was built back in 1775, just with all the kinks worked out. Is that so hard to ask? Eventually no one is going to be able to get anything done in our government because of all of these "grandfathered" laws and policies, and basically it is time for a change!