tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3717919582813837786..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Generals Are ComingStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-53385065362445492052016-12-18T12:34:26.661-08:002016-12-18T12:34:26.661-08:00Rich Lara @December 16, 2016 at 9:24 AM:
"St...Rich Lara @December 16, 2016 at 9:24 AM:<br /><br />"Still mourn The Civil War."<br /><br />I'm very curious about this, Rich. Please elaborate.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-66058681737066579932016-12-16T12:12:59.907-08:002016-12-16T12:12:59.907-08:00Rich,
We have a lot in common. I can understand ... Rich,<br /><br />We have a lot in common. I can understand the love of books. When I retired I had a considerable library in the basement. Gave a lot of books to local libraries and have to admit it hurt my soul to have to throwaway a significant number of books. Still give a lot of books to the local Library system here.<br />Spent a lot of time in the first Dod Career program, "Quality Assurance Specialist Ammunition Surveillance." Stayed at the school to research the Hazardous Classification of United States Military Explosives and Hazardous Munitions. Eventually moved to an R&D program as a Program Analyst.<br /><br />Take care and keep commenting.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-91806137005212331452016-12-16T09:24:44.559-08:002016-12-16T09:24:44.559-08:00Thanx, Dennis. I'm retired. I served & wor...Thanx, Dennis. I'm retired. I served & worked for the US Military my whole career. In VN, under then-COL George Patton, Jr.<br /><br />Final 20 years as Speechwriter, GS-9. Spent $K's on books. Had a personal library. Section on ME & Islam.<br /><br />Couldn't believe the feckless ignorance of our leaders after 9/11.<br /><br />Still mourn The Civil War. Love America. I'm Mexican-Polish. Thanx, again. -- Rich Lara Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41104286148785809012016-12-16T05:58:36.894-08:002016-12-16T05:58:36.894-08:00Rich Lara,
Glad to see that you are commenting mo...Rich Lara,<br /><br />Glad to see that you are commenting more. I always enjoy your take.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39218743596941652882016-12-16T05:01:21.891-08:002016-12-16T05:01:21.891-08:00p.s. If you like geopolitics and smart Generals, J...p.s. If you like geopolitics and smart Generals, Jim Rickards thinks Trump can't do worse than Obama, although I thought everyone agreed that Clinton was the NeoCon, while Trump was just Neo Hotair?<br /><br />http://www.darientimes.com/79397/rickards-obamas-blunder-trumps-gambit/<br />---<br />President Obama has conducted the most deleterious foreign policy of any U.S. president since Woodrow Wilson. This is not due just to a dead ambassador on the streets of Benghazi, a phony red line in Syria which led to 400,000 dead, two million wounded, and two million refugees, losing Egypt to Islamic radicals, or empowering a terrorist regime in Iran. Those developments alone are enough to rank Obama among the worst foreign policy presidents. Obama’s most egregious error is far worse – his inability to grasp the balance-of-power dynamics among the U.S., Russia and China. Yet, Obama’s blunder is Trump’s opening to rescue U.S. foreign policy from grave weakness, and restore U.S. leadership to the world.<br />...<br />Obama subscribed to a post-national globalist ideology, which finds no correlative in the real world outside of faculty lounges and Georgetown salons. In Obama’s worldview, nation states are a problem, not a solution. Global goals on issues like climate change, trade, the OECD’s world tax program, and the IMFs world money program require global institutions. Nation states are temporary impediments until global governance can be built through non-democratic transnational institutions.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Russia and China never lost sight of their national interests. While their leaders dutifully attend the same multilateral venues as Obama, such as the G20, IMF, and regional summits, they persistently put Russia and China first. For Russia and China, the world is a dangerous place in which national interest is advanced ruthlessly; not Obama’s Kumbaya-laced globalist fantasy of one world order.<br />...<br />Fortunately it’s not too late to reestablish a balance of power that favors the United States. China is a rising regional hegemon that should be constrained. Russia is a natural ally that should be empowered. The U.S. has blundered in its foreign policy for the past eight years. A new Trump administration has an opportunity to reverse those blunders by building bridges to Russia, and it seems to be moving in that direction.<br />---Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29080032655861936882016-12-15T17:00:59.785-08:002016-12-15T17:00:59.785-08:00Didn't the neo cons say in 2003 that ME oil wo...Didn't the neo cons say in 2003 that ME oil would fund the war? Or am I mistaken?<br /><br />I was a neo con with the old dogs. Kristol, Podhoretz, Kirkpatrick, et. al. The new dogs stink.<br /><br />I agree, Dr. S. Trump might be a huckster, prevaricator, whatever. <br /><br />But I believe he loves America. Even more than his personal wealth - but the country's success will bolster it. Probably. If the lawyers don't defenestrate him with "Conflict of Interest".<br /><br />He's a showman. A Good Communicator if you will. Most Ams "get" him. They "get" the word greed, as he employs it. They like it. <br /><br />I'm not too haughty to admit I enjoy his speeches, interviews, town halls.<br /><br />Dogma & Ideology are poison. Orwell: "The smelly little orthodoxies.. Parlor Bolsheviks" ... among other gems.<br /><br />You know the funny snide story. Englishman - It Works! Frenchman - But does it work In Theory???<br /><br />Watching "Versailles". Love it. You? -- Rich LaraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51554781522253866792016-12-15T16:57:47.731-08:002016-12-15T16:57:47.731-08:00So glad you're here, Ares. Always.So glad you're here, Ares. Always. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-89425834319095390672016-12-15T16:23:53.630-08:002016-12-15T16:23:53.630-08:00Stuart: As for the American people, they have been...Stuart: As for the American people, they have been voting for Republicans because they have been voting against weakness. When given the choice between a woman who had accomplished very little and a man who had no political experience but who projected toughness, the American people chose tough. And they chose it even though there was no evidence that Trump knew enough about policy to apply his toughness effectively and wisely.<br /><br />At least we know the second part is true. And apparently what makes Trump tough is he is willing to make any empty boast to sound tough, and he's so tough he can confess all his transgressions after he's won, so CERTAIN, that the 306 Republican electors will stay loyal to a serial liar.<br /><br />Trevor Noah showed Trump's magic from his victory tour.<br />http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/15/13966872/trump-lying-daily-show<br />---<br />Trump on the Republican primary system being rigged in May, as he secured the party’s nomination: "You’ve been hearing me say it’s a rigged system. But now I don’t say it anymore because I won. Okay? It’s true. You know, now I don’t care."<br /><br />Trump on his promise to prosecute Hillary Clinton and "lock her up": "Forget it. That plays great before the election. Now we don’t care, right?"<br /><br />Trump on his slogan to "drain the swamp": "Funny how that term caught on, isn’t it? I tell everyone: I hated it! Somebody said, ‘Drain the swamp.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s so hokey. That is so terrible.’ I said, ‘All right. I’ll try it.’ So like a month ago, I said, ‘Drain the swamp.’ The place went crazy. I said, ‘Whoa. Watch this.’ Then I said it again. Then I started saying it like I meant it, right? And then I said it, I started loving it."<br />---<br /><br />But even going back to last January, at the Iowa Caucuses, he was shameless, like his greed:<br />“Now, I’ll tell you, I’m good at that – so, you know, I’ve always taken in money,” he said at a rally in Iowa. “I like money. I’m very greedy. I’m a greedy person. I shouldn’t tell you that, I’m a greedy – I’ve always been greedy. I love money, right? But, you know what? I want to be greedy for our country. I want to be greedy. I want to be so greedy for our country. I want to take back money.”<br /><br />What the hell does that mean? He wants to be greedy for US? I mean this is the sort of speech one of my Viking ancestors gave, before they became christianized. We're basically going to loot the the entire world, but its okay, because you'll get your share of the loot. And we've got the most expensive military in the world by a factor of 10 or more, so who is going to stop us?<br /><br />And Trump boasts that exactly as well:<br />https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/21/donald-trump-iraq-war-oil-strategy-seizure-isis<br />---<br />ne of the recurring themes of Donald Trump’s national security strategy is his plan to “take the oil” in Iraq and from areas controlled by Islamic State (Isis) extremists. It would drain Isis’s coffers and reimburse the US for the costs of its military commitments in the Middle East, the candidate insists.<br /><br />At a forum hosted by NBC on 7 September, Trump suggested oil seizure would have been a way to pay for the Iraq war, saying: “We go in, we spend $3tn, we lose thousands and thousands of lives, and then … what happens is we get nothing. You know, it used to be to the victor belong the spoils.”<br /><br />He added: “One of the benefits we would have had if we took the oil is Isis would not have been able to take oil and use that oil to fuel themselves.” <br />---<br /><br />That's what strength looks like. Do what you want, say anything, and use power to take from others who can't defend themselves. Its like police coming into a neighborhood and demanding "protection fees", and then letting criminals do what they want to those unprotected, but taking a cut of the criminals loot as well.<br /><br />This is what being tough looks like, and its all Obama's fault, because he didn't start enough new trillion dollar wars.<br /><br />Trump's only ideology is greed and bullying, what could go wrong?Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-11601153208736594912016-12-15T11:43:18.297-08:002016-12-15T11:43:18.297-08:00" Some time ago Harvard Law Professor and for..." Some time ago Harvard Law Professor and former Obama administration czar Cass Sunstein bemoaned the fact that America was more divided by party than on racial or ethnic grounds. People now tend to hate members of the other political party with a fury that knows no bounds."<br /><br />Just a thought, here: Could it be that Republicans are sick and tired of the Democrats demonizing them? And dissing the residents of Flyoverlandia? I quote Bugs Bunny:<br />"Couuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuld be!"Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com