Common Sense
Geoff
Whether one lives in a Democracy or in a Federal Republic, freedom can only be maintained by our strength and intelligence capabilities. Internal battles are part of our culture and pride in self expression. This expression has led to a Civil War and the collapse of several political party's.. This nation inherited the English's dislike of standing armies. Yet our oceans have shrunk into ponds and WW 2 showed the English how tiny the Channel is.
The secret ballot, the 2 party system and our Bill of Rights are only opiates, dreams to much of the world. Yet we seek to squander the wanton beauty of our nation with internecine squabbles . That is fine, but nothing can be truly accomplished internally if the sea and air corridors are not maintained. This is an issue of Guns over Butter or the reverse. We are making a horrible error by trying to maintain both. This happened to President Johnson in Vietnam and President Nixon in Vietnam. Combine that with the expenditures on the Cold War and the Great Society and we have a ticking time bomb.
Elections and Domestic politics have become so intertwined,, along with political ambition, to cause ideology and obfuscation to warp Geopolitical, and domestic needs of our nation.During the elections of the 1950's and 1960 we were told of Bomber and Missile gaps that did not exist. The result was an arms race that led to Soviet supremacy by the 70's. Presidents were forced to balance foreign and domestic in ways that were detrimental to the nation. The end result were the disasters of the Carter and Obama administrations. Harry Truman stated that the only way to force Americans to deal with the Soviets and the formation of the National Security state was to scare the populace to death. This lead to the unintended consequence of the gaps and Vietnam. It gave sway to the MacArthur's, Admiral Radford and the Curtis Lemay's in our military. In 1958, many in our military felt that this was our best opportunity to launch a first strike...Eisenhower thankfully vetoed such insanity. As a Cold War hawk, I feel he made the correct decision.
I regard the world situation as W.W 4. The forces of order and sanity in this country must put down their ideological pettiness and place nation over opinion. If we are rendered or considered weak, ideology is irrelevant. The ballot will be one of fear not national pride. To pick this man as a war time President is a national tragedy. Thank G-D during the election of 1864, forgive me if the year is off, to reelect Lincoln over the defeatist, Pro Southern, egotist General McClellan .
Dictators, frauds pirates can not be negotiated with by starting with the idea of accommodation. Negotiations with no demands leads us down the path of defeat and a form of "Sit Down" war. This nation squabbles within, while we are mocked abroad. This combined with Joint Chiefs about 2 wars behind is a stew reeking of the stench of .delusion and selective blindness. We cannot cherry pick the truth.
Americans are tough, strong, innovative and can handle a shift from consumerism to restoring our place as keepers of the example of liberty. That is our greatest gift to the world. Take a good look at the world and the Chinese controlling our economy and think " What Should Be Done" If our populace remains strong and resolute...we will not be looked at as a "STRAW GIANT" We must end this denial and prepare for what no one sane wishes to prepare for. I refuse to let it all fall apart, for I love it too much as do the followers of the Y/P. Grant's slogan when he ran for office was "Let us have peace". Yet he also knew when absolute peace was untenable.
In 1928 the Kellogg-Briand Treaty was signed outlawing war. This treaty was absurd and would be irrelevant, if the world were peaceful. I feel that by the notion of no preconditions or show of strength our President is allowing our nation to drift back to the dream of 1928. It is time for all citizens concerned with our nation to sacrifice in order, for our institutions and future generations to have what we all worked for.
May G-D always bless America.....
Geoff
Whether one lives in a Democracy or in a Federal Republic, freedom can only be maintained by our strength and intelligence capabilities. Internal battles are part of our culture and pride in self expression. This expression has led to a Civil War and the collapse of several political party's.. This nation inherited the English's dislike of standing armies. Yet our oceans have shrunk into ponds and WW 2 showed the English how tiny the Channel is.
The secret ballot, the 2 party system and our Bill of Rights are only opiates, dreams to much of the world. Yet we seek to squander the wanton beauty of our nation with internecine squabbles . That is fine, but nothing can be truly accomplished internally if the sea and air corridors are not maintained. This is an issue of Guns over Butter or the reverse. We are making a horrible error by trying to maintain both. This happened to President Johnson in Vietnam and President Nixon in Vietnam. Combine that with the expenditures on the Cold War and the Great Society and we have a ticking time bomb.
Elections and Domestic politics have become so intertwined,, along with political ambition, to cause ideology and obfuscation to warp Geopolitical, and domestic needs of our nation.During the elections of the 1950's and 1960 we were told of Bomber and Missile gaps that did not exist. The result was an arms race that led to Soviet supremacy by the 70's. Presidents were forced to balance foreign and domestic in ways that were detrimental to the nation. The end result were the disasters of the Carter and Obama administrations. Harry Truman stated that the only way to force Americans to deal with the Soviets and the formation of the National Security state was to scare the populace to death. This lead to the unintended consequence of the gaps and Vietnam. It gave sway to the MacArthur's, Admiral Radford and the Curtis Lemay's in our military. In 1958, many in our military felt that this was our best opportunity to launch a first strike...Eisenhower thankfully vetoed such insanity. As a Cold War hawk, I feel he made the correct decision.
I regard the world situation as W.W 4. The forces of order and sanity in this country must put down their ideological pettiness and place nation over opinion. If we are rendered or considered weak, ideology is irrelevant. The ballot will be one of fear not national pride. To pick this man as a war time President is a national tragedy. Thank G-D during the election of 1864, forgive me if the year is off, to reelect Lincoln over the defeatist, Pro Southern, egotist General McClellan .
Dictators, frauds pirates can not be negotiated with by starting with the idea of accommodation. Negotiations with no demands leads us down the path of defeat and a form of "Sit Down" war. This nation squabbles within, while we are mocked abroad. This combined with Joint Chiefs about 2 wars behind is a stew reeking of the stench of .delusion and selective blindness. We cannot cherry pick the truth.
Americans are tough, strong, innovative and can handle a shift from consumerism to restoring our place as keepers of the example of liberty. That is our greatest gift to the world. Take a good look at the world and the Chinese controlling our economy and think " What Should Be Done" If our populace remains strong and resolute...we will not be looked at as a "STRAW GIANT" We must end this denial and prepare for what no one sane wishes to prepare for. I refuse to let it all fall apart, for I love it too much as do the followers of the Y/P. Grant's slogan when he ran for office was "Let us have peace". Yet he also knew when absolute peace was untenable.
In 1928 the Kellogg-Briand Treaty was signed outlawing war. This treaty was absurd and would be irrelevant, if the world were peaceful. I feel that by the notion of no preconditions or show of strength our President is allowing our nation to drift back to the dream of 1928. It is time for all citizens concerned with our nation to sacrifice in order, for our institutions and future generations to have what we all worked for.
May G-D always bless America.....
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