Letter to PDN, December 4, 2013
The following letter appeared in the PDN today, titled "Obama's Munich."
The good news for the above letter-writer: There's already a club for people just like him. [See below]
The Obama Administration's disastrous foreign policy continues. We paid the price for British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's 1938 "peace in our time" deal with Adolph Hitler. Now President Obama is going down the same path.
In the Middle East in particular, irresolution is seen as an invitation to attack. Osama bin Laden related how seeing the U.S. abandon Somalia after the 'Blackhawk Down' debacle in Mogadishu emboldened him to plan larger attacks. First President Obama lets al Qaeda murder our ambassador to Libya without using our military assets in the Mediterranean to intervene. Then, he rattles his saber, threatening military intervention in Syria, only to back down ignominiously when he sees that he lacks domestic support for attacking Syria.
Now he strikes a deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Under the Obama deal, Iran retains the capacity to enrich uranium, abandoning long-standing U.N. Security Council and U.S. insistence that such capacity be eliminated. The important areas of centrifuge manufacturing, nuclear weaponization research, and ballistic missile research are not even covered by the Obama deal. Iran gains international legitimacy and access to billions of dollars previously blocked by sanctions in return for unenforceable promises by a regime that has proven it cannot be trusted.
When mortal enemies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia publicly agree that Obama's deal is fatally flawed, it should give us something to think about. A Saudi nuclear bomb, which will be the inevitable consequence of an Iranian one, will not make the world a safer place.
The good news for the above letter-writer: There's already a club for people just like him. [See below]
posted by Tom Harper at 6:29 PM
17 Comments:
This kind of Soviet era thinking which purports the false assumption that Democrats are weak on defense while Republicans are tough, has in part, lead to the election of a two-term liberal President that believes that diplomacy is a virtue and not a weakness. Many Americans believe this too. Actually, what the author is suggesting is that the American people are ignorant and have short memories. Gee, have there been any recent Presidents who were "tough on terrorism?" I can think of one who was "stupid on terrorism?" To think that people have forgotten about the disastrous Bush years, both domestic and foreign, is to live in a "bubble" or to exist in a constant state of denial. This might come as a surprise to the author, but the vast majority of Americans would prefer that their President be "smart on terrorism". Apparently, that might have something to do with the fact that Americans have twice rejected the author's assumptions about how the US conducts its Foreign Policy.
By jove I believe the expression "Moral enemies" is becoming quaint!
(sung to the tune of "Hallelujah!")
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
For ever and ever, forever and ever,
King of kings, and Lord of lords,
King of kings, and Lord of lords,
And Lord of lords,
And He shall reign,
And He shall reign forever and ever,
King of kings, forever and ever,
And Lord of lords,
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
Oops - Mortal enemies...
9:22 - excellent.
Boy, it's cold, the stuff in the outside fridge is starting to freeze.
"Honey, this young skunk is freezing, look at it shaking."
"Put it between your legs."
"But it stinks."
"Cover its little nose."
This is local news? It's a letter to a local paper, yes, but...
Oh THAT was enlightening.
We all know Kaj's views. He is a former Wall Streeter. The very type that have done so well with this "jobless recovery".
Of course, the fact that the US was one of 6 nations on the negotiating team with Iran means nothing. There are no other participants in anything, but the US. The US, with Obama personally at the table, constructed this deal with Iran.
Right Kaj?
Kaj writes frequently to the PDN, so it is easy to see his ultra-right wing views.
Ironically, Neville Chamberlain was a Conservative.
RIP Mandela. The struggle continues! Environmental issues are being wedded with the struggle for human rights. What an interesting and inspiring area to live in, if one feels this way.
Speaking of environmental concerns and social issues, I see that the City is looking to increase the debt to local taxpayers by another $12 million.
If anyone examines what the City is doing with this stormwater/CSO project, they will see just how crazy things have gotten at City Hall.
At almost the same time this week that the City discussed asking the State for more money, they were announcing closures of a number of alleys to pursue the construction of rain gardens in them. This follows earlier announcements that the City would give homeowners hundreds of dollars in "rebates" if they disconnect their downspouts, and build their own rain gardens.
We remember that the $50 million project to store and treat millions of gallons of sewage contaminated stormwater was chosen because the City Engineer went to great lengths to convince the public rain gardens won't work here, and downspouts aren't a significant problem.(You might have been subjected to his 172 slide power point on the subject a couple years ago.)
Based upon the overflow volumes recorded, the engineers determined how much storage capacity the "store-and-treat" system would need, and the City bought the 5 million gallon tank on the former Rayonier site. But now, before that tank has received one gallon of stormwater, the city is now spending untold amounts to divert stormater OUT of the system they're building!
If they succeed in getting people to disconnect the downspouts alone, the 5 million gallon tank at Rayonier would not be needed. If the rain gardens the City is working to build in the alleys succeed, they also will negate the need for that 5 million gallon tank.
It is like buying a really expensive new car, and throwing away the engine. If ya really didn't want to go anywhere, why did you buy the damned car?!?!
If the City was going to stop the sources that flood the sewer system and cause the overflows, why did it spend so much on a system to store and treat stormwater it planned to remove?
Oh, that's right. There were other goals.
Tyler
Old “Kaj” is a double bagger. A first degree Tea-Bagger (just read any of his squirrelly shit) as well as a Carpet Bagger, here, like Dick (less) Piling, to Fleece the rubes.
No doubt this imported pile of poo is biding his time, and waiting for a phony appointment to some bullshit or another.
He’ll never get elected here in Crazy Town (he’s a furiner) but he stands ready for any duty that allows him a platform for his crazy, kooky, crooked, crap.
Thanks to the PDN for reminding us …
Hey Tyler...As you know, Max Mania was the only one who really stood up against the boondoggle CSO bullshit. He called it for what it was, and is: A giant waste of taxpayers money that is actually intended to provide a way for well-connected people in Port Angeles and Clallam County to siphon off public dollars to line their own pockets.
Why spend so much on something that - DUH! - doesn't work and isn't even necessary? Because if provides more dollars to siphon off. Simple as that. And simpletons like Cherie Kidd go along with it.
Port Angeles is one of the most horrible, corrupt places there is. The CSO project is just one of the great examples of that, along with the transit station...the "Incubator"...etc.
I do want to say that, of course, the City disconnecting downspouts and building rain gardens in the alleys is the right approach to take. Just to be clear. As the simple math shows, doing so eliminates the need for that $50 million tank system, and all it's ongoing, annual costs (which no-one talks about).
It is just sad to witness that the local leadership can be so buffaloed by City Staff, as this project shows so clearly.
Tyler
"The estimated radiation level is the highest ever detected outside reactor buildings. People exposed to this level of radiation would die within 20 minutes."
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20131207_01.html
You can watch the video.. which I saw in their news cast, last night..
FYI,
Tyler
I lived in South Africa, while Mendela was in prison, and the Africaaners acted like Germans in the 40s.
People like Kaj, who benefit from the system that uses public resources to spy on other countries, that engage in industrial espionage to further the interests of these corporate finaniers, can "escape" to the perceived safety of a remote community like Port Angeles with their families and their wealth.
But watching the poor wretches in South Africa in the mid-60s being treated worse than the dogs the Boers owned showed what the actual costs of that wealth and safety really are.
Speaking of carpetbaggers, didn't Max pick up $15,000 in swag before he scampered out of town?
12:38 - You are from here? I'm surprised one of your relatives didn't steal your computer. I'm also surprised that you have internet access. Oh, you are at the library.
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