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Tuesday, 08 August 2006
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When Will We Act?
Contributed by The Gray Dog
Dateline, Somewhere in Wisconsin - August 6, 2006, 12:30 CST I’m snarling as I sit watching the made-for-TV war. Hezbollah just refuses to follow the script which called for it to be easily vanquished by the IDF in short order. Bush, Rice and Bolton continue to look foolish as they recite lines from the original script. I guess no one has told them that this current crisis has become a night at the “Improv.” Intermediate range missiles are now again reigning down on Haifa with no purpose other than to strike a terrified civilian population. Where’s the outrage? As America once again succumbs to world opinion by endorsing a toothless resolution for a cease fire, Hezbollah (sic Iran and Syria) steps up the heat with the intentional slaughter of civilians with impunity. Surely under such circumstances even Bill Clinton could have found a poll or two to justify carpet bombing the southern third of Lebanon by now and looked like a hero in the process by making it appear to be for humanitarian reasons. Some might argue that Bush is just playin’ possum, going along with France and the UN, all the while knowing that no cease fire will occur, and giving Israel more time to polish off these bit players that don’t know they were supposed to submit by now. I don’t buy it! Bush seems tired and beat up after five years as a war time president. His bravado and Texas straight talk has taken a back seat to feeble attempts to make nice with the UN. This acorn’s presidency is beginning to peter out in a similar fashion to Bush 41, with over two years to go. This dog has stood firm with the president for years in support of the War on Terror. In hindsight it has sadly been a war of half measures. In an attempt to avoid the appearance of establishing a puppet government in Iraq, we have instead abetted the creation of a new state that openly applauds Hezbollah. Is this a result of not sufficiently crushing the Iraqi forces in 2003? Were we too concerned with limiting civilian loss? Is that why US military forces are now providing security for Iraqi civilians who have taken to the streets to protest Israel? To twist a phrase from the sixties, “Suppose they gave a war and everyone came?” Iran and Syria continue to pull Hezbollah’s strings. The Saudis continue economic pressure by controlling the production levels and price of crude oil. India and Pakistan are getting closer to unleashing nuclear hell on each other and North Korea seems to have been forgotten in the land of twenty-four hour news cycles. China continues to steal our copyrights and patents and maintain an outlandish advantage in our imbalance of trade while we reward them with a flood of new American owned manufacturing facilities. Where did the urgency of controlling our borders and protecting our culture, language and economy from the invasion of illegal aliens disappear to? Our borders remain porous while our congress is AWOL for the rest of the summer. While the Republicans are doing damn little to deal with these issues, a shift in favor of the Democrats in congress or the presidency will only serve to hasten our demise. America cannot solve all of the world ills. It is easy to understand how anyone, any government or any president might become overwhelmed in the jumble of so many critical issues. The solution is in not attempting to solve all of the worlds ills overnight or by ourselves. Instead we should approach all of these issues in a fashion similar to a battlefield medical triage unit. This implies that the most critical patients or issues may not be the first to receive attention or aid. Instead we first tend to those patients or issues that we have the undoubted ability to save. So how does this apply to the current challenges that face America? 1. Secure our borders! This is a step that we have the full capability and resources to accomplish. We can take the time later to resolve how we will treat the almost twenty million illegals currently in this country. 2. Force China to smack down North Korea. The way to do this is to cut the flow of American businesses setting up shop with cheap slave labor. Americans may want the cheap products they export, but they don’t need them. China wants to break out economically from its third world status and will suffer far more from this approach than Americans. 3. Withdraw America from all nuclear test ban treaties. After a couple of
sizable tests in the Pacific, put SAC on twenty-four hour alert. Only after
that should we approach Iran and North Korea for direct 4. This would also be a good time to beseech Iran and Syria to stand Hezbollah down and to evacuate them from Lebanon. This might also be a good time for the Saudis to rethink their manipulation of the world's oil supply. 5. While we’re taking these blasts out for a test drive, I predict the Iraqi’s may wish to rethink which side of the great divide they wish to settle on as well. I know there are those that will shudder at such outlandish discussion. What
will the Russians and Chinese do? My bet is nothing. What will the world
opinion of America be? I say who cares! America held the big club at the end of WWII and did not use it effectively in the early post war years. We first allowed the Soviets to catch up, and then idly watched as more nations joined the nuclear club. Now we are as close to our post WWII strategic edge as we have ever been in sixty years. Will we become wise and use that power effectively, or will we allow the despotic regimes of the world to continue to gather steam as we rapidly implode due to our own inaction? |
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Contributed by The Gray Dog on August 8, 2006 at 01:30 PM in , , , , , , , , , | Comments Posted by: "Best of ...." In the middle of a Ruetergate post but I'll move it to the top of the site after bit. Posted by: | Aug 6, 2006 9:21:03 PM Posted by: You're just stating the obvious, and doing it well, I might add. I'm constantly puzzled by the fact that the obvious is so NOT obvious to many. Well done! Posted by: | Aug 6, 2006 9:48:34 PM Posted by: Bill you are without a doubt a true gentleman! "We first allowed the Soviets to catch up." I wouldn't have been so charitable. Enemies within gave the Soviets what we developed. Fortunately two of them had to pay the price. It's not the outside world that will hurt us, it's those inside who are the most dangerous. Posted by: | Aug 7, 2006 9:52:27 AM Posted by: Dead-on balls accurate! Great post Gray Dog. Posted by: | Aug 7, 2006 10:05:08 AM Posted by: 1st Cav Excellet! Posted by: 1st Cav | Aug 7, 2006 2:05:22 PM Posted by: Jim Bartimus Well done Gray Dog! That reflects the opinion of a lot more people in this country than the MSM Posted by: Jim Bartimus | Aug 7, 2006 5:46:23 PM Posted by: Excellent post. Cuts straight to the heart of the matter. I willl raise one question about the extent to which it is Saudi Arabia keeping the price of oil high. I am uncertain they are still the unrivaled oil producer that they were 20 years ago. I think we need to consider the role of other major oil producers. Venezuela and Mexico are some of the most important producers, particularly for this hemisphere. And Iran and Nigeria and Indonesia also are significant on the world market. And recently at Gates of Vienna Fjordmann said that Norway is the world's third largest oil producer - North Sea platforms. And perhaps most significant, Russia. Some of the price increase is sabotage done for political purposes, but some of it might be due to state-owned oil companies. Or both. Posted by: | Aug 8, 2006 3:46:02 PM |