Do we really want more relaxed border security?

Now I'm no political scientist, and I know as an average Joe Citizen I don't have all the details, but when looking at the news yesterday I had to wonder.

First was an article about Israel's shock at the US's change of face in regards to President Mubarak.  A long time ally to the US now suddenly when there is an internal dispute the US is suggesting they may step in... that Mubarak should give in to public pressure.  This change can be seen as either naive political gamesmanship, or more importantly back stabbing you ally.  Will Obama turn Mubarak into the next Franz Ferdinand?

Will they ever figure out they can't control, change or win this type of conflict... how many times do they need to fail to figure this out?  What I found even more is how the US govt is clearly looking to have rules applied to others that don`t apply to them.  They got caught red handed trying to destabilise the Cuban government and now they are threatening that if the "spy" not be released their could be ongoing repercussions.  Starting to sound to me live Big Brother has outgrown their usefulness and have lost sight of the ideals our parents and grandparents fought for in 2 World Wars.

Now living in a democracy it may be tempting to immediately throw support in the direction that brings another country into that philosophy but I wonder how the US may react next time separatist in quebec manage to get a head of steam for their political views. 

Don't get m wrong I'm not a big supporter of war... But I think that if a country wants change it should be handled at a local level... We seem to forget that our very young North American governments were created through bloodshed and that was only a century or 2 ago.  Why is every country or people expected to just bow down and accept something that we have.  Maybe democracy is not for everyone, or maybe democracy has challenges based on geographic variables... I mean it's not like we have a lot of neighbouring countries to worry about conflict with, well except for the one that seems to have decided it can overthrow any gov't that disagrees with it.

That's it for now...