Sunday, August 15, 2021

Ronald Reagan's Cautionary Warning on Regretting Sending the US Marines to To Beirut, Lebanon

 


President Trump attempted to pull out of Syria and Afghanistan but was stopped by the #Democrats and #SpeakerNancyPelosi, here and here. It's important to understand the cautionary words, sorrow and logic of President Ronald Reagan on why he pulled out of Lebanon after 241 US military personnel (220 Marines, 18 Sailors and 3 Soldiers) were killed in a suicide bombing in Beirut on October 23, 1983.


Reagan sent the Marines to Lebanon on a peace keeping mission.  The nation was embroiled in a lengthy civil war involving several factions that included Sunni, Shiite, Christian, Hezbollah, Israel & other factions. Tribalism and religious sects define the Middle East and feuds are quite common. 

America is seeped in the delusion that we can fix anything with a military intervention.  However, the US foreign policy establishment consists of know nothing idiots with collossal egos who believe that anybody will submit to the US if enough pain is inflicted with bombs, occupations, brutality and sanctions. Not only is it a recipe for disaster, its a policy that has rightfully earned America the reputation of being an arrogant and murderous global bully.  

Reagan is one of the few who actually reflected on one of his military intervention decisions; the Beiruit bombing weighly heavily on his conscience.  Going forward, his remarks should be a lesson on how things can go wrong and mostly do.  Yet the policy wonks are just too damn arrogant to ever learn from their mistakes. 

Although Reagan was accused of cutting and running, he grasped a deeper understanding of the foreign policy situation.

 "Perhaps we didn’t appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and the complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle. Perhaps the idea of a suicide car bomber committing mass murder to gain instant entry to Paradise was so foreign to our own values and consciousness that it did not create in us the concern for the marines’ safety that it should have.

In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believe the last thing that we should do was turn tail and leave. Yet the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there. If there would be some rethinking of policy before our men die, we would be a lot better off. If that policy had changed towards more of a neutral position and neutrality, those 241 marines would be alive today."

Sadly for America, we are now experiencing the horrors of another foreign policy failure.  The situation in Afghanistan is turning into a bloodbath as Biden and his foreign policy wonks ordered the US to withdraw and all without a plan to secure a nation torn apart by decades of war and bombings, from the Soviet invasion to the US being there for 20 years. 

This is another foreign policy failure that won't fade quickly and is likely to get worse, far worse.  A major humanitarian tragedy is unfolding.  The simple truth is that the US can't save Afghanistan or implement a functioning Jeffersonian democracy in a nation of Muslim tribes.  Cutting and running from this quagmire is long overdue.  Afghanistan isn't worth anymore US human or financial treasure.  We NEVER should have invaded in the first place. 

Historically speaking, Afghanistan has never been successfully invaded by anybody. It's rugged mountainous terrain functions as a natural defense barrier, as does the feuding tribalism of the Afghan people. The British were literally slaughtered there and Alexander the Great, viewed as one of the greatest conquering generals of all time, failed to subdue it.   

Whatever the future holds for Afghanistan, it's not good.  The Tailban is ruthless, murderous and will slaughter its perceived enemies, real or imagined.  That's the Muslim way. 

Anyway, somebody on Twitter posted this pix along with a very astute observation "Pulling out was always going to be a shit show but it didn't have to be this incompetently managed." 




Wednesday, August 11, 2021

The 19 Senators Who Stand With Biden, Pelosi & Schumer on a HORRIFYING Infrastructure Bill, The Republican Party Explained

 


It shouldn't shock anybody that enough Republican senators conspired with the Democrats to deliver a whopping victory to Biden, Pelosi and Schumer.  It's how the Republicans operate.  Conversely, the Dems NEVER conspire with Republicans to deliver victory to a Republican president unless of course all the R and D neocons are singing in unison for the neocons, MIC and forever wars. 

Republicans voters scream they will vote them out of office...well, primary them out of office but that never happens.  Republican voters are like dutiful slaves; they have their hissy fits, then suck it up and OBEY their corrupt to the core Republican masters. Its's no secret that the Republican Party elites and GOP officials laugh at the GOP base. quite contemptibly I might add, because they know that the rat bastard traitor Congress Critters are nearly 100% safe from ever being voted out of office.  The voters are just too damn dumb to get rid of them.  Ditto for the Democratic Party.  

Anway, the list of 19 Republican Congress Critters is a list that can be labeled the 'usual suspects' or mostly reliable Dem allies.  They are listed by the Senate class, Class I (up for reelection in 2024), Class II (up for reelection in 2026) and Class III (up for re-election in 2022).

7 Up for Reelection in 2022 

Blunt (MO)  (he's retiring, open seat)

Burr (NC)

Crapo (ID)

Grassley (IA) age 87

Hoeven (ND)

Murkowski (AK)

Portman (OH)

4 Up for reelection in 2024 

Cramer (ND)

Fisher (NE) 

Romney (UT)

Wicker (MS) 

8 Up for Reelection in 2026 (just got reelected and view themselves as safe from voters with short memories) 

Capito (WV)

Cassidy (LA)

Collins (ME)

Graham (SC)

McConnell (KY) 

Risch (ID)

Sullivan (AK)

Tillis (NC) 

The above senators do NOT represent their constituents or even their state.  They are just power hungry puppets of the oligarchy and special interests that fills their campaign coffers (banksters, MIC, big tech, whatever...). 

STOP:  If primaries are supposed to be a WE THE PEOPLE THING then why does CORPORATIST SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY control the process and shit all over We the People?  

It's the most valid question in politics because herein lies the great flaw in our demented fraud of a democracy.  It's not a We the People thing.  It's definitely a corporatist, oligarch and special interest thing.  

When real conservatives think about getting rid of corrupt Congress Critters, the first thing that functions as a knockout punch to the  primary process is the MONEY advantage, a money advantage so powerful that only other big money players can take it on.  It's how Trump defeated the establishment and Hillary in 2016, that and taking a powerful message directly to the people.  

In 2020, many Republicans openly and not so openly conspired with Democrats to defeat Trump, well, that and a boatload of election fraud ranging from dead people voting to mysterious un-creased ballots magically showing up in the middle of the night to allegations that the votes were somehow counted in Spain, Germany and possibly other foreign nations.  

So welcome to the sorry state of American democracy...the best democracy that oligarch money can buy!

Going forward, conservative voters, small government advocates and constitutionalists don't have a lot of options.  They are just perpetually stuck with being on the losing side of every election that they have ZERO control over. 

The ONLY thing that can change the equation and outcome is to get the special interest money out of the election process but hardly anybody in Congress will do that in a Pay to Play town where everybody is drunk on power and money. 




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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Soros backed NY Attorney General Letitia James Is Planning on Running for Governor, Is Gov. Cuomo a Victim or Predator

 


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New York Attorney General Letitia James just issued a blockbuster investigation that clearly could end the political career of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  While the Me Too and the #BelieveAllWomen crowds are calling for Cuomo's head on a pike, it's important to delve further into this issue. 

Is it a politcally motivated hit?  It's a valid question.  Before diving further into this hot potato issue, I do believe that Cuomo is a pig who like many arrogant assholes in power does in fact use his power to hit on women. That is nothing new in human societies. Yes, men hit on women but when the male is a politically powerful figure, it elevates the issue to a higher moral ground and even the criminal.  Therefore it's important to first understand James, her political views, life goals and motivations.  

Is she an independent honest observer or is she using her immense power to advance her own political career by going after a powerful political opponent? 

Let's talks about her politics. She is after all a George Soros funded candidate like so many other Democrats who hold positions as state & city prosecutors.  They are using their power to advance BLM and Antifa power while churning American cities into crime infested infernos.

James, an ardent progressive, socialist leaning Democrat who was elected Attorney General in Nov. 2018, hates the NRA, gun rights, Donald Trump and capitalism. 

Letitia James sues to break up NRA, says execs used funds for lavish lifestyle 
The NRA is headquartered in Virginia, but was chartered as a non-profit in 1871 in New York, where it remains incorporated to this day. 
In a string of Thursday tweets, the NRA — a famously powerful lobbying entity — characterized the suit as politically-motivated, and said it was filing a counter suit. 
“This was a baseless, premeditated attack on our organization and the Second Amendment freedoms it fights to defend,” the organization wrote from its official account.

 New York grand jury convened to hear evidence of Trump business crimes

The Manhattan district attorney has convened a special grand jury as part of a long-term investigation into former president Donald Trump’s business operations, which are headquartered in New York City. The move, reported in the press on Tuesday night, is said to indicate that criminal charges could be brought against officials of the Trump Organization, including Trump himself, within the six-month life of the grand jury. 

The investigation, overseen by District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., is coordinated with a state probe run by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, which has focused on potential charges of tax evasion against the former president.

 DERANGED MARXIST and NY AG Letitia James Vows to Press Charges Against President Trump After He Leaves Office… She’ll Make Up Charges Later 

In a video after her election James was seen cursing and threatening President Trump... 

Letitia James: Oh, we’re definitely going to sue him. We’re going to be a real pain in the ass. He’s going to know my name personally. 

Letitia James went on with “The View” and promised the unhinged mob she would go after President Trump and his family

New York AG says Trump Organization under active criminal investigation

Bottom line here:  James is definitely using her political power to go after her political enemies.  James is also on record saying that the term 'AG' stands for aspiring governor.  

Although Trump, his associates, his family and their businesses are still very much in the crosshairs of James and other powerful Democrats, it is legitimate to ask if James is currently zeroing in on Cuomo for her own political ambitions. 

James ordered an investigation by 2 outside investigators which took nearly 5 months. Every Attorney General has at his/her disposal an army of competent investigators but James hired her own hand picked investigators.  The investigators spoke to 179 people and concluded that 11 women had valid sexual harassment claims against Cuomo.  Because of the investigation, the New York State Assembly will now open an impeachment inquiry.

The investigators and James concluded that Cuomo created a hostile work environment, is guilty of violating federal and state laws and sexual harassment was a common tactic of Cuomo.  These are serious allegations.  

But are they true?  James concluded an hour long presser with "“I believe women, and I believe these 11 women,”.  How flimsy or solid are the allegations?  You can read the 165 page report here 

Having read some of the allegations, they kind of reminded of of similar allegations that I've read about in recent years.  I'm puzzled because back in the day or a few decades ago, a women who was being hit on by a man would simply push him away with a sterm 'back off mister' warning. Believe me, men retreated quickly.  It makes me wonder about what kind of woman just stands by idly and allows men to imappropriately touch them.  These days this is a recurring pattern in women who claim sexual harassment. 

Is Cuomo Harvey Weinstein?  Definitely not.  But as a politician they can be very touchie feelie which ironically seems to be Cuomo's defense...he kisses and touches everybody.  That is not a lie. Politicians are always hugging and kissing folks, slobbering on babies and indulging in a variety of affections. At what point does this become sexual harassment?  I don't know.  I don't doubt that Cuomo hit on women, hardly an unusual situation. 

Personally I cannot stand Cuomo...view him as a pompous and arrogant power obsessed jerk.  And yes, I've love to see him go down but I'd prefer that he go down for the right reasons like 1. using his executive COVID powers to destroy the economy and 2. making COVID decisions that put COVID patients in nursing homes; this resulted in the deaths of thousands of at risk senior citizens.  For this alone I view Cuomo as a homicidal genocidal maniac.  

As for James, I have a hard time believing her hit on Cuomo isn't just a personally motivated hit to get rid of a political competitor.  

The New York Post had an insightful piece on the issue of James unseating Cuomo, along with an analysis of the political landscape of NY.  It's hard NOT to conclude that James is running for governor. 

Only Letitia James running against Gov. Cuomo in 2022 could unseat him June 5, 2021

I'm not sure how any of this will shakeout...the allegations and/or Cuomo's ability to survive them.  That is obviously dependent on the impeachment inquiry of the New York legislature.   What does terrify the hell out of me is a Soros progressive becoming governor of a very big and important state. It's no secret that Cuomo himself had serious POTUS aspirations and big states are definitely springboards for presidencies. James as governor or possibly even president is just too horrifying to contemplate.   

Meanwhile, I won't be cheering for James or Cuomo as both are bad for New York and America.