U.S. policies fly in face of logic

If the United States were a person, would he or she be so mad as to:

Hand to everyone in the neighborhood planes, bombs and guns that easily may be used against us and our friends? The United States does. It is the world's largest arms merchant.

Embargo trade with a midget, Cuba, while welcoming trade with our largest potential adversary, China? The United States does.

Let one of seven of our family struggle without health care, housing, education, transportation and dignity while we wallow in surplus wealth? We do.

Pay total attention to a single threat--terrorism--while disease, drugs, corruption, crime, poor education and environmental degradation threaten us every day? That's us.

Waffle on whether public accounting firms should be dependable auditors of the companies we work for or invest in? Congress does.

Choose court judges to propagate religious dogma instead of law? We do.

Are we sane? Do we care that we appear to be mad?