Huffing and a Bluffing
A few comments on the worlds scene
A little allegory before I begin my ramble. in 1936, American military planners considered their main enemy to be Great Britain. The bulk of its war planning revolved around invading Canada. As we aided Japan and Germany in building themselves up, we were deluding ourselves with invading Canada. The last time the U.S and the U.K nearly went to war was in the 1890's over, I believe, fishing rights.
As an Historian, one of my favorite comedians, Benito Mussolini used tactics that are being used today to separate us from our real problems with bluster and bluff. Americans tend to get all too involved with world leaders throwing fake tantrums in order to justify their internal problems and foreign adventures to justify a policy of booty over butter.
As I sit here clacking away, I find myself shivering with fear over North Korea's great nuclear arsenal. A MIRV can carry up to 8 Hydrogen Bombs that can project its power to 8 different targets. Now what can a Tae Dong missile do? Frighten the American public,force Japan to go nuclear, make South Korea appease more, and make China, and Russia realize there influence over their old ally is in the decline. People often forget that when a nuke is fired....there will be radiation. The economies of China and the U.S are so intermingled it may force Peking to send troops across the Yalu to restore order and the Russians to utilize their rusty navy from Vladivostok along with Japan to blockade the North, and interdict arms shipments heading to those great nations who thrive on huff and bluff ......Burma and Iran. My action, fr ought with many risks, combined with interdiction will castrate the North and expose it for what it is....a nation with a huge army and nothing else. The stated policy of the striped pants set and several Presidents have done nothing more, but maintain and build their military, and create the very conditions we live with. As for the above, that is but a dream, for even an out of control North is too useful to Russia and China.
There are many in Iran who miss the Shah. much of the nation is in rebellion, ethnic cleansing, frightened Mullahs, and the infiltration of the Revolutionary Guard into the army and security services via the use of the purge. The country is collapsing and it cannot refine its own oil and owes the Russians untold amounts of money. Another boogie man enabled by Russia and China., and whose power has been raised to almost Olympian heights by our politicians, and ratings hungry, usually poorly read, pundits. Iran uses the spread of the Shia form of Islam to try and destabilize Iraq, has made a desperate Syria a proxy, Damascus is in the process of using forced conversions to create a Shia state. Our President, like many others, fail to grasp that the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, is used as a distraction for repressed citizens, and Western Diplomats to fuss over so the real problems are avoided. Blind mans bluff...a sad result of a broken regimes bluster to hold off collapse. The Iranian people, unlike the Russians, will not starve in order to see the map of their nation expand. Iran like North Korea must be made to understand the price of such obvious brinkmanship. By carrying out the policies we are, we stand to lose the support of regimes looking to us for protection. Our weakness will just continue the stench of bribery, propaganda and surrender. The rantings of a President called mad is far from off his rocker. Those speeches are strategic and force a useless U.N. and a weak President to put off and appease instead of showing the flag. Our President did not show nearly the muscle of the bully pulpit and the planning of arming dissidents, with Russian weapons, as a first shot across the bow.Aa with North Korea, Russia and China's double dealing will eventually come back to bite them in the ass. the Chinese and Russians feel our fear and use it as a steroid. Please explain why President Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel have taken a more aggressive tone with Iran than the U.S.
I can right a thesis on this nonsense, but I felt the above two are the best examples. for the conclusion of this ramble....I conclude with a few bullet points.
President Calderon of Mexico, the first President since the Carranza Revolution of 1917, to be Pro-American, is involved in a war that is fracturing his country and can determine its fate possibly for the next 50 to 100 years..Our groovy guru in the White House concerns himself with trucks and murmurs about tariffs. How can he start in with tariffs with Mexico and Canada our 2 neighbors?
Our fine ally, President Uri be of Columbia, with our help, has beaten back the Farc and the Narco-Terrorists. Yes..he must reign in certain problems with labor and right wing militias, but the people's lives would be far worse being ruled by the reverse. Once again our Guru chooses Chavez and his ilk to use him as a propaganda tool while he wrings his hands and states "Can't we just play nice together." once again, as with our surrender to the Russians in Eastern Europe, he does nothing while the Russian navy visits Cuba and pours arms into Venezuela where they are dispatched to our enemies. Our President opts for photo ops with a dictator.
I finish with Honduras. Those brave people chase out a President, Zelaya, a Chavez want to be and our President condemns the Honduran government. President Zelaya is looking to follow the path of "El Loco" and the nation is fighting off protests from mislead citizens. Our President again backs Zelaya instead of maintaining a free state attempting to defend itself. We have deserted another ally. We are, like in other continents, losing the battle of trust and respect.
THE PRICE OF WEAKNESS. THE PRICE OF ACCOMMODATING HUFF AND BLUFF. All our President offers is fluff. There is a big marsh mellow roast going on and we are the marshmallow..
A nation ruled by a Guru and Czars, combined with a bankrupt State Department....is a brew seeking only defeat renamed accommodation. The real mantra should be "Tribute from the cannons mouth?
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