The US bombs, China builds. All interventions have severe negative downsides for the intervenee and the intervenor. But if the choice is framed as "Bomb or Build" it is easy enough.
Placing troops in a country without that country's government's position is an act of war. Acts of war create a state of war. The USG is now warring on the Syrians. Cheers.
It's fair to blame some of the voters but the blame lies with the "sainted" founding fathers who created an electoral college. Blame the constitution, not the majority of voters. the u.s. has a constitution that 40% of the time in this century has returned a minority president and which rewards political parties that disenfranchise voters and results in non-representative government.
The phenomenon of arming one side to have it lose the arms to the other side occurred in China before 1949. Vietnam was a reprise followed by Afghanistan, Iraq...... The US criminal war against Vietnamese liberation may have, in fact, contributed to nation-building.... quite unintendedly. cheers.
The national media is "owned" by War street and can't make a profit if there is no war. Some things are that simple and pretty much have become that simple since 1898.
"The dissenters maintained that the five justices in the majority usurped the right of states and of the people to engage in the democratic process."
This hypocrisy from the Bush-Gore participants; the mis-named justices who have upheld gerrymandering [partisan and racist] and put elections up for auction and purchase by not allowing regulation of money in campaigns isn't lost on any serious minded observer. The votes in these other cases have done far more damage, fatal if left unremedied, to any remaining democracy in the US. It is the reactionaries that have murdered the republic and constructed an oligarchy of wealth.
This is the necessary "hip fake" to the left and the beginning of the "bait" phase of the campaign. The "bait" will be followed by the "switch". This is the Birch Evans Bayh III and Obama playbook. Always remember that Obama seriously considered Bayh as VP. That told me all I needed to know about Obama.
The only "defense" Americans need is border patrol and coast guard. All the rest is simply empire policing international corporations. Since 1946, possibly, and since 1989, certainly, the USG has committed the greatest number of murders [killings, direct and indirect, if you will] of any government in the world.] One can fairly wonder if the "world is a better or worse place for USG killings". The killing seems to be returning back into the US. Cannot be an empire abroad and a republic at home. The US isn't that "exceptional".
She may be able to prove the theory that sometimes there is no lesser evil. She's never really done anything constructive, she's got several assists in demolishing governments and replacing them with chaos but not actually constructed anything. LBJ without the Great Society only Vietnam.
This wasn't proposed when there was a Democratic majority in the Senate. Obama shows himself in his full-pander mode. Proposing something now that it is impossible while not proposing it when it was merely improbable. Obama-Disappointing since Day One. Ohhh, ohhh, Guantanamohhhh.
Then under Giuliani's theory every acquittal should result in criminal prosecutions against the state's witnesses. One wonders if RG actually believes the shite he spouts.
It's tough to have any respect for a President who would endanger his administration for a hummer. His profession is politics, he knew the political consequences of being found out, yet proceeded in the face of a known danger. He tainted his obituary as well. Everything we do is a test of character. His character is shown by Ricky Ray [who wanted his jailer/executioners to save the leftovers of his last meal for the next day] Rector; Monica; Death Penalty 'reform'; and banking 'reform'. One can legitimately ponder whether the country was better off with Bush I losing. It felt good, but was it good? Rather like what Bill should have asked himself before his predatory moment with an employee. Clinton gave them the club, can't really fault them for beating him with it. Under first causes, this is Bill's doing. There's much, seemingly endless fault, in D.C.
"The crazies can just move on." The 'crazies' who oppose promoting war criminals will move on. C. Rice should be in the dock not on the board. No peace for war criminals. Any accomplishments she had before becoming a war criminal can be used at the sentencing stage.
Recognizing it as a [presently] "Jewish" state necessarily brings the recognition that it is a religious-based apartheidist state and the moral equivalent of Saudi Arabia or other religious based apartheidist states. In a sense it would be the fact and would remove any Zionist Israeli objection to other states discriminating against [those who happen to be] Jewish by other religion based states. It is an admission that it is a 'pre-modern' state which is what it has, in fact it seems, become since the intoxication of conquest and occupation.
"He doesn’t explain how the US can be “arrogant” and “trespassing” but also allow itself to be bossed around by a small country of 7.5 million." Rome rules the world, Caesar rules Rome, but Livia rules Caesar. You do the substitution.
The US's empire project was always about control, never about empire. Ask the Hawaiian Islanders whose neutral, peaceful, free, open democracy was invaded and occupied in 1893 and replaced by American supported sugar oligarchs.
and by 'misled' you mean lied to. so we have been systematically lied to. why should the topic of marijuana be any different than say Vietnam? or Iraq, or the Contras, or Social Security Reform.
The owners of mass media profit from wars so they encourage wars. The owners of mass media profit from scare, so they encourage scare. Media ownership is a root problem creating many others. In countries without this media ownership by weapons makers there seem to be fewer, or no, wars.
Snowden's lawyers would be well advised to raise 'selective prosecution' as a defense because that is what de facto immunity for approved 'leakers' is.
"1. People are still willing to come out and vote for president in impressive numbers, despite the widespread feeling that the 2009 polls were tinkered with by the regime in favor of populist hard liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even if the 75% turnout claimed by the Iranian press is exaggerated, turnout was impressive."
Echoing Bush v. Gore tinkering. Except US turnout is lower. Ergo, Iran is more democratic or representative than the 'primitive' US democracy.
"Israel invests significant amounts of money in the independent educational systems run by ultra-Orthodox political parties, however, “the boys who study there will never learn math, English, geography or civics. This is so they will never be able to earn a decent living and emerge from under the rabbis’ thumbs." not much difference from the madrassas run by the extremist Islamists fundys.
As two of the 'most occupied by the US' nations, the situations in Afghanistan and Haiti are the results of US presence in the countries. So much for 'state building' or 'nation building'. The Philippines isn't far behind. The US needs to pivot on home.
The Washingtonian American way to 'help' people is to leave them alone. It's cheaper and more effective in the short, middle and long term. But Americans have this uncontrollable urge to scratch things that itch them. Scratching leads to inflammation and infection, ask a dermatologist.
Kerry lacks any moral standing [as does the US government] to instruct other nations and states on matters of democracy in light of the invariably corrupt electoral system in the US and that Kerry voted to kill/murder/invade Afghanistan and Iraq merely personalizes his individual ethical failings.
Will Netanyahu now apologize for lying to the rest of us? It's a simple proposition. Zionism cannot tell the truth just as Apartheid and Jim Crow couldn't. Some 'truths' are unacceptable if the Zionists wish to be considered part of the West. They want the West's weapons but not its ethics. When you have decided that you are chosen by God there are no human limits to behavior. That is the danger here. Just as with other extremists of 'the book'.
It's a "we" thing... "What we Lost: Top Ten Ways the Iraq War Harmed the US". I wasn't and am not part of the "we". These things were not lost, they were thrown away by 'them.' "We" pay the bill, true. That's how "we" lost.
"We Meant Well" is a either a lie of a title or is too 'ironical' to catch. There was no "We" there was a "they" and they lied to light the fires of war to burn a government to get the oil. And 'they' never meant well. The persistent mything about intent is part of the problem. The failure to call a liar a liar means these authors 'enable'. The lying to start wars in the US began at least as far back as "El Robo" thru the War on Spain, I'd include WWI, skips WWII [the last 'good' war], into Tonkin, and into WMD. It is time to quit covering the lies.
Only in a country with no serious security threats would the insane clown posse in the US Senate exist and be given media. Such unserious individuals were backseated during real crises such as the War for Southern Succession and WWII. Having no real existing threats means that fake ones must be promoted.
Almost all of the 'good' is negated by the 'bad'. Immunizing torture, institutionalizing the murder of bystanders by remote control machines, perpetuating the empire by violence rather than by example...these are the permanent, unscrubbable stains. Bush gets an F-. Obama C+ but F in world citizenship.
"There’s one particular nightmare that Americans need to face: in the first decade of the twenty-first century we tortured people as national policy. "
ditto the twentieth century... look to the history of the War for Filipino Independence, 1898-1906...
On what basis can one expect a 'national facing-up'? It seems not to have happened the last time.
A small, perhaps some might assert, petty point, more about the "West". Ricks at about 10:20 remarks in words to the effect that "September 1, 1939" is when "World War II really begins". The Chinese might fairly object to selecting that date for their "WWII" beginning as September 18, 1931 with the Mukden incident. The comment [quibble some might say] is to the effect that the West isn't the center and the West timeline isn't the world's time.
Podro, Robert Graves and Joshua. The Nazarene Gospel Restored. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. presents the married argument also.
Republicans like science for their own personal medicine; for how to get out the vote; for weapons.... but not for the environment. The empirical strikes back. It didn't have to Katrina the place to make the point. You can have government regulate or nature regulate. You won't like nature's regulation as it has the conscience of a shark.
One thing wrong with the famous Lincoln quote is that it is possible and sufficient for the plutocracy to fool most of the people most of the time.
Only in certain brief periods of time is wool pulling needed... election seasons.
You only have to fool some of the people [enough voters to win] briefly. The structural problems [electoral college; ancient priestly in the Roman sense supreme court ideologues; gerrymandering in the House; the permanent gerrymander of the Senate) outweigh temporary aberrations of the electorate.
"Likewise, Nicaragua’s commitment to green energy is such that that Central American country is hoping to get almost all its electricity from renewables by 2016." The selfsame Nicaragua that Reagan waged an illegal, and brutal, war of aggression against.
It's called spreading democracy. Why should the installed democratic governments be viewed by their populations any differently than the installer governments be viewed by their populations: corrupt financial sector [U.S. 2008]; questionable elections [US 2000]; widespread corruption among the pols in the capitol [Washington]. I imagine I am missing other parallels. There are degrees of differences but its the same road to ruin.
"It is unclear to me why the Right wing is so insecure. Everything has been going their way for decades, why bother to try to snuff out even embers of dissent?" They "bother" because they are exterminationists in a long line of American exterminationists beginning with the wars against Native Americans. Not content to merely prevail this intolerant philosophy demands extermination of opposition. This, from their point of view, is existential. No opposition may be allowed to exist. It is a totalitarian point of view.
David Duke was/is Klan and a Republican so that makes all Republicans Republiklans? Of course not. Well maybe this isn't a good example of guilt by association.
Republicans? Nah, Teapublicans. Behavior, including verbal behavior, has consequences. Talk murder long enough and loud enough and you get murder. Behavior is truth, including verbal behavior.
the losingest military on the planet but it's not their fault they are tasked with fighting unwinnable wars.
Why are there more than 30,000 US troops in US occupied Germany? When the troops begin leaving I'll take notice of some actual change in the situation
The US bombs, China builds. All interventions have severe negative downsides for the intervenee and the intervenor. But if the choice is framed as "Bomb or Build" it is easy enough.
If you remove USG and Israeli G from calculating causes, there's not much that remains. Refugees is what you get from their war crimes.
Placing troops in a country without that country's government's position is an act of war. Acts of war create a state of war. The USG is now warring on the Syrians. Cheers.
It's fair to blame some of the voters but the blame lies with the "sainted" founding fathers who created an electoral college. Blame the constitution, not the majority of voters. the u.s. has a constitution that 40% of the time in this century has returned a minority president and which rewards political parties that disenfranchise voters and results in non-representative government.
It's their neighborhood and is of virtually no concern to legitimate US interests in protecting US soil and US nationals.
The phenomenon of arming one side to have it lose the arms to the other side occurred in China before 1949. Vietnam was a reprise followed by Afghanistan, Iraq...... The US criminal war against Vietnamese liberation may have, in fact, contributed to nation-building.... quite unintendedly. cheers.
The national media is "owned" by War street and can't make a profit if there is no war. Some things are that simple and pretty much have become that simple since 1898.
"The dissenters maintained that the five justices in the majority usurped the right of states and of the people to engage in the democratic process."
This hypocrisy from the Bush-Gore participants; the mis-named justices who have upheld gerrymandering [partisan and racist] and put elections up for auction and purchase by not allowing regulation of money in campaigns isn't lost on any serious minded observer. The votes in these other cases have done far more damage, fatal if left unremedied, to any remaining democracy in the US. It is the reactionaries that have murdered the republic and constructed an oligarchy of wealth.
This is the necessary "hip fake" to the left and the beginning of the "bait" phase of the campaign. The "bait" will be followed by the "switch". This is the Birch Evans Bayh III and Obama playbook. Always remember that Obama seriously considered Bayh as VP. That told me all I needed to know about Obama.
The only "defense" Americans need is border patrol and coast guard. All the rest is simply empire policing international corporations. Since 1946, possibly, and since 1989, certainly, the USG has committed the greatest number of murders [killings, direct and indirect, if you will] of any government in the world.] One can fairly wonder if the "world is a better or worse place for USG killings". The killing seems to be returning back into the US. Cannot be an empire abroad and a republic at home. The US isn't that "exceptional".
but does Paul want to stay out of Ukraine?
The USG 'democrats' bomb. The PRC 'communists' build. Sums it up.
She may be able to prove the theory that sometimes there is no lesser evil. She's never really done anything constructive, she's got several assists in demolishing governments and replacing them with chaos but not actually constructed anything. LBJ without the Great Society only Vietnam.
The current president's learning curve regarding this situation has been unusually slow for such a purportedly bright man.
This wasn't proposed when there was a Democratic majority in the Senate. Obama shows himself in his full-pander mode. Proposing something now that it is impossible while not proposing it when it was merely improbable. Obama-Disappointing since Day One. Ohhh, ohhh, Guantanamohhhh.
Then under Giuliani's theory every acquittal should result in criminal prosecutions against the state's witnesses. One wonders if RG actually believes the shite he spouts.
It's tough to have any respect for a President who would endanger his administration for a hummer. His profession is politics, he knew the political consequences of being found out, yet proceeded in the face of a known danger. He tainted his obituary as well. Everything we do is a test of character. His character is shown by Ricky Ray [who wanted his jailer/executioners to save the leftovers of his last meal for the next day] Rector; Monica; Death Penalty 'reform'; and banking 'reform'. One can legitimately ponder whether the country was better off with Bush I losing. It felt good, but was it good? Rather like what Bill should have asked himself before his predatory moment with an employee. Clinton gave them the club, can't really fault them for beating him with it. Under first causes, this is Bill's doing. There's much, seemingly endless fault, in D.C.
"The crazies can just move on." The 'crazies' who oppose promoting war criminals will move on. C. Rice should be in the dock not on the board. No peace for war criminals. Any accomplishments she had before becoming a war criminal can be used at the sentencing stage.
Ted "Mein Kampf against reality" Nugent.
Recognizing it as a [presently] "Jewish" state necessarily brings the recognition that it is a religious-based apartheidist state and the moral equivalent of Saudi Arabia or other religious based apartheidist states. In a sense it would be the fact and would remove any Zionist Israeli objection to other states discriminating against [those who happen to be] Jewish by other religion based states. It is an admission that it is a 'pre-modern' state which is what it has, in fact it seems, become since the intoxication of conquest and occupation.
Next step..... lynching or other forms of extra-judicial murder.
"He doesn’t explain how the US can be “arrogant” and “trespassing” but also allow itself to be bossed around by a small country of 7.5 million." Rome rules the world, Caesar rules Rome, but Livia rules Caesar. You do the substitution.
The US's empire project was always about control, never about empire. Ask the Hawaiian Islanders whose neutral, peaceful, free, open democracy was invaded and occupied in 1893 and replaced by American supported sugar oligarchs.
and by 'misled' you mean lied to. so we have been systematically lied to. why should the topic of marijuana be any different than say Vietnam? or Iraq, or the Contras, or Social Security Reform.
The owners of mass media profit from wars so they encourage wars. The owners of mass media profit from scare, so they encourage scare. Media ownership is a root problem creating many others. In countries without this media ownership by weapons makers there seem to be fewer, or no, wars.
Snowden's lawyers would be well advised to raise 'selective prosecution' as a defense because that is what de facto immunity for approved 'leakers' is.
"1. People are still willing to come out and vote for president in impressive numbers, despite the widespread feeling that the 2009 polls were tinkered with by the regime in favor of populist hard liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even if the 75% turnout claimed by the Iranian press is exaggerated, turnout was impressive."
Echoing Bush v. Gore tinkering. Except US turnout is lower. Ergo, Iran is more democratic or representative than the 'primitive' US democracy.
Yes dear, the Americans are that stupid
Another count added to McCain's list of war crimes.
Human caused climate change is environmentally the equivalent of the "big one" meteor strikes that helped write "paid" to the dinosaurs.
It's more like 38,000,000 plus for California http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06000.html
"Israel invests significant amounts of money in the independent educational systems run by ultra-Orthodox political parties, however, “the boys who study there will never learn math, English, geography or civics. This is so they will never be able to earn a decent living and emerge from under the rabbis’ thumbs." not much difference from the madrassas run by the extremist Islamists fundys.
As two of the 'most occupied by the US' nations, the situations in Afghanistan and Haiti are the results of US presence in the countries. So much for 'state building' or 'nation building'. The Philippines isn't far behind. The US needs to pivot on home.
The Washingtonian American way to 'help' people is to leave them alone. It's cheaper and more effective in the short, middle and long term. But Americans have this uncontrollable urge to scratch things that itch them. Scratching leads to inflammation and infection, ask a dermatologist.
Kerry lacks any moral standing [as does the US government] to instruct other nations and states on matters of democracy in light of the invariably corrupt electoral system in the US and that Kerry voted to kill/murder/invade Afghanistan and Iraq merely personalizes his individual ethical failings.
Drone murders are simply drive by shootings done by the USG.
Will Netanyahu now apologize for lying to the rest of us? It's a simple proposition. Zionism cannot tell the truth just as Apartheid and Jim Crow couldn't. Some 'truths' are unacceptable if the Zionists wish to be considered part of the West. They want the West's weapons but not its ethics. When you have decided that you are chosen by God there are no human limits to behavior. That is the danger here. Just as with other extremists of 'the book'.
It's a "we" thing... "What we Lost: Top Ten Ways the Iraq War Harmed the US". I wasn't and am not part of the "we". These things were not lost, they were thrown away by 'them.' "We" pay the bill, true. That's how "we" lost.
oops, I left out the lying about the invasion and occupation of the Hawaiians Islands in January 1893.
"We Meant Well" is a either a lie of a title or is too 'ironical' to catch. There was no "We" there was a "they" and they lied to light the fires of war to burn a government to get the oil. And 'they' never meant well. The persistent mything about intent is part of the problem. The failure to call a liar a liar means these authors 'enable'. The lying to start wars in the US began at least as far back as "El Robo" thru the War on Spain, I'd include WWI, skips WWII [the last 'good' war], into Tonkin, and into WMD. It is time to quit covering the lies.
Only in a country with no serious security threats would the insane clown posse in the US Senate exist and be given media. Such unserious individuals were backseated during real crises such as the War for Southern Succession and WWII. Having no real existing threats means that fake ones must be promoted.
She called his bet by covering his face with a shoe.
Almost all of the 'good' is negated by the 'bad'. Immunizing torture, institutionalizing the murder of bystanders by remote control machines, perpetuating the empire by violence rather than by example...these are the permanent, unscrubbable stains. Bush gets an F-. Obama C+ but F in world citizenship.
Ask who/what owns the 'controversy making' machine. and turn off the television.
"There’s one particular nightmare that Americans need to face: in the first decade of the twenty-first century we tortured people as national policy. "
ditto the twentieth century... look to the history of the War for Filipino Independence, 1898-1906...
On what basis can one expect a 'national facing-up'? It seems not to have happened the last time.
comparable to 1896 which led to the war on spain and US embrace of imperialism on a global, rather than continental, scale.
A small, perhaps some might assert, petty point, more about the "West". Ricks at about 10:20 remarks in words to the effect that "September 1, 1939" is when "World War II really begins". The Chinese might fairly object to selecting that date for their "WWII" beginning as September 18, 1931 with the Mukden incident. The comment [quibble some might say] is to the effect that the West isn't the center and the West timeline isn't the world's time.
Podro, Robert Graves and Joshua. The Nazarene Gospel Restored. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. presents the married argument also.
Republicans like science for their own personal medicine; for how to get out the vote; for weapons.... but not for the environment. The empirical strikes back. It didn't have to Katrina the place to make the point. You can have government regulate or nature regulate. You won't like nature's regulation as it has the conscience of a shark.
One thing wrong with the famous Lincoln quote is that it is possible and sufficient for the plutocracy to fool most of the people most of the time.
Only in certain brief periods of time is wool pulling needed... election seasons.
You only have to fool some of the people [enough voters to win] briefly. The structural problems [electoral college; ancient priestly in the Roman sense supreme court ideologues; gerrymandering in the House; the permanent gerrymander of the Senate) outweigh temporary aberrations of the electorate.
"Likewise, Nicaragua’s commitment to green energy is such that that Central American country is hoping to get almost all its electricity from renewables by 2016." The selfsame Nicaragua that Reagan waged an illegal, and brutal, war of aggression against.
It's called spreading democracy. Why should the installed democratic governments be viewed by their populations any differently than the installer governments be viewed by their populations: corrupt financial sector [U.S. 2008]; questionable elections [US 2000]; widespread corruption among the pols in the capitol [Washington]. I imagine I am missing other parallels. There are degrees of differences but its the same road to ruin.
"It is unclear to me why the Right wing is so insecure. Everything has been going their way for decades, why bother to try to snuff out even embers of dissent?" They "bother" because they are exterminationists in a long line of American exterminationists beginning with the wars against Native Americans. Not content to merely prevail this intolerant philosophy demands extermination of opposition. This, from their point of view, is existential. No opposition may be allowed to exist. It is a totalitarian point of view.
David Duke was/is Klan and a Republican so that makes all Republicans Republiklans? Of course not. Well maybe this isn't a good example of guilt by association.
Republicans? Nah, Teapublicans. Behavior, including verbal behavior, has consequences. Talk murder long enough and loud enough and you get murder. Behavior is truth, including verbal behavior.