Before I touch this subject I would like to present a “Middle Class Populist” perspective on the usage of American Military power! Never look at “both sides” of an issue! Doing so implies there are only two sides to an issue! We are getting caught up in the old Hawk vs. Dove Debates! Allow me to present a Maxim that most Americans, like it or not will agree with!
When dealing with rouge nations and terrorists if you do not KICK ASS then you are an ASS KISSER! The American people will approve the first and never the second! Both Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama know this!
However it is the misapplication of this maxim by George Bush that has kept us in Iraq! We are not kicking terrorist butt in Iraq only making money for Halliburton! If we want to kick terrorist ass then we should be winning the war with extensive use of our “Shock and Awe” Military Technology in Afghanistan. At least that is until CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS sell our technology to China and they export it for their profit! Worse still China may even use it against us directly! Make no mistake about it we can win in Iraq if it was in our national interest. A smart general knows his strengths and weakness and commits to a battlefield where he can maximize his strengths to the pursuit of his nation’s goals. Iraq does not meet that criteria but the Al Qaeda homeland on the Pakistani - Afghanistan border does meet that criteria!
Some time ago Barrack Obama said that he would launch a surgical strike (non-nuclear) against the Al Qaeda homeland in Pakistan if certain conditions were met:
We had creditable intelligence that Osama Bin Laden was there
And/or a Al Qaeda base camp was in use for a strike against our Homeland!
The Pakistani Government did not want to take action.
Hillary Clinton said that this showed Obama’s inexperience as Pakistan was a nuclear nation! I find it very strange that when our Homeland is threatened by Al Qaeda Central, neither Hillary Clinton nor John McCain want to take decisive surgical action where it would count! Yet both are willing to bomb even nuke Iran if Iran struck Israel! I wonder if Hillary Clinton and John McCain have their priorities correct!
Why is Barrack Obama inexperienced and foolish for defending America’s Homeland Security against Al Qaeda Central but Hillary Clinton says it is ok to nuke Iran if a non-treaty friend is attacked! Guess they really want the Pro-Israel lobby now don’t they? We cannot allow Iran to have nuclear weapons - PERIOD! We cannot allow Israel or any Arab nation to be nuked by Iran.
We must extend a blanket of protection over both Israel and her Arab neighbors for two reasons:
We need to minimize the Middle Eastern nations’ need for the development of nuclear weapons. (Sure Israel already has them but at least not overtly).
We cannot allow Iran to gain control of these strategic sources of oil.
Yes that’s right going to war for oil is a necessity in our modern world! Going to war for oil company profits is not! Again this blog is written by a Middle Class Populist not a knee jerk PC Liberal! But let’s not forget George (never show up at his National Guard meetings) Bush! Just what kind of message is Bush sending Iran, if he wants to build an Anti-Missile System not in the United States but in Eastern Europe to defend it against rouge nukes from Iran?
This presumes that we are going to sit back and let Iran develop nukes! But then again since we are wasting our military and our budget in this great SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT IN Iraq we have no determent against Iran! Great work neo-cons!
The time has come for America’s Silent Majority to stand up and say no to Bush and McCain!
For most of the world today is May Day! The “Interantionale” is sung and the class interest of the working class is affirmed as transcendent to national interests. I find it amazing that while loyal American employees and unions correctly place loyalty to our nation above loyalty to economic class the same is not true of those effete snobs of the corporate class!
They accuse liberals of seeking to “redistribute wealth” while they seek to redistribute American jobs, technology and wealth globally. They seek to undermine the economic security of the American Middle Class while they act as the Real Estate Agents of the World, redistributing wealth and taking a usury level commission for their economic class! They do this irrespective of our national interests! They sing a “Corporate Internationale”. “EFFETE SNOBS OR THE WORLD UNITE”!
We live in an era of licentious permissiveness! These CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS renounce the nation and societal values that gave them incorporation, protection, growth and profit! Instead they choose to switch their “identity” from “American” to “Multinational”. When grilled that the technology they are giving the Chinese may be undermining internet freedom they whine with the sophistry of the cultural relativist! By building up China without changing her political structures, her military budget is benefited by the stronger economic base it rests upon. Not to mention the technology that they can acquire! This does not concern the CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS. Their economic class interests come first! They even sold China secret night vision technology!
Yet their fellow travelers in our government continue to make excuses while the CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS use off shore Headquarters to dodge their responsibilities to the nation that gave them birth! Guess who will be there to rediscover their “American Identity” when China becomes military threat to our nation? The very crisis they created with their off shoring and money lobbying into the decision making process of a free people! Slowly they import poverty into America strengthening their straggle hold against Individual Freedom. They will not rest until the Corporate Collective runs supreme in the decision halls of Congress! Universal Health Care is their enemy! Imagine that as you grow older you might have some freedom from the Corporate Collective that you work for! How dare you even consider changing corporations or God forbid becoming self employed!
While the bleeding hearts in the Republican Party and their fellow travellers in the Free Trade wing of the Democratic Party continue to work against the class interest of the Middle Class, our great Silent Majority must stand up to these effete snobs of globalization and replace Free Trade with Fair Trade! We need Universal Health Care and the elimination of the H1-b Visa program that is destroying the job market for technology workers!
The time has come to stand up for America and the Silent Majority against these effete snobs! We must assert Middle Classinterests against those who sing the Republican Corporate Interantionale!
The time has come for a populist perspective concerning Iran and Iraq. Today Iran’s President announced his nuclear program is like a “train with no brake”. While Bush squanders our troops and finances on Iraq, Iran has been working on it’s own nuclear weapons program. Oh I can hear the chorus from the politically correct, “what right do we wicked evil Americans have to tell a third world nation what to do”! Yes I am a liberal democrat but I am tired of:
The overt anti-American attitude from the left and
The covert anti-Americanism from the right.
Let’s not forget the corporate aristocracy of the right.
These folks have no problem trading our technology and jobs to China. The problem is that Iran does not have an equivalent economic or population base as China; else these parasites from the corporate world would be investing in Iran! For now they are satisfied with government contracts in serving our military in Iraq while helping China build her economic base in the east.
With Iran’s smaller economic base, corporations from second rate nations like France, Germany and Russia will have to do the investing in Iran! Makes you wonder maybe we should not always be mad at these nations. They suffer from the same parasites as we do! Only their parasites are harming our national interest in areas where “our parasites” see insufficient profit! While I am against the War in Iraq, I support the “Bush Doctrine”. I just wish George Bush would follow his own doctrines. But then how can he support his own doctrine to pre-empt attacks on our homeland when after six years in office, and despite the terror attacks of 9-11, our nation’s borders are wide open!
We cannot allow third world nations to develop nuclear weapons - PERIOD! The average middle class American turns on their TV only to see constant images of Shiites whipping themselves into a frenzy and drawing their own blood while calling this a “religious experience”! Can you imagine these people having a nuclear weapon? Even without a full grade nuclear bomb they would be capable of launching acts of nuclear terrorism using reactor materials! Besides the 77 virgins are waiting!
Our national strength lies in:
Covert action to topple Iran’s leaders and
“Shock and awe” technology. You know the same technology that the Cut and Run Capitalists have no problem exporting to China!
Extensive use of ground troops is not one of our strengths because this involves higher losses.
Furthermore military occupations require the use of executions. This is a fact of life that does not penetrate the minds of the diners at Vegan eateries! We don’t live in a nice world folks! Sometimes decisive action is needed. Problem is that Bush is really indecisive as militia’s should never have been allowed to form in Iraq. Now we want the Iraqis to do the job that Bush had no guts for! We should have left Iraq long ago. Iraq is not the battle field for the war on terror.
A Middle Class populist perspective demands that both the masochistic PC liberals with their “hate America guilt trip agenda” and the “Cut and Run Capitalists” who want to export our jobs and technology to the enemies of freedom, be simultaneously challenged in our political arenas!
These nut cases in Shiite Iran and Sunni Al Qaeda don’t care about running up “bad karma”. Why should they when they can get the 77 Virgins! The Cut And Run Capitalists who export American jobs and technology don’t care about the damage to our society either! They will lie down in bed with China to curb freedom on the Chinese internet. I believe that is what is termed “ethical relativism”. You know the term that is lobbied at democrats! Cut and Run Capitalists don’t care that these practices endanger our way of life. They don’t even want to identify themselves as Americans but as “Multi-Nationals”.
The time has come for America’s great Silent Majority - The Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to take our nation back from these effete snobs of both the left and right. God Bless America!
The time has come to stop Bush from his policy of “cut and run” from the war on terrorism. Recently the Iraqi Prime Minister has visited Iran. You know that nice country that imprisoned our diplomats years ago and never apologized! The same Iran that wants nuclear weapons. The Iraqi Prime Minister has stated to the Iranians that Iraq will not be a part of any American - Iranian conflict. Read CNN report on visit!
Meanwhile the Taliban is rising in Afghanistan as fast as it’s fresh bumper opium crop. Yet we tie down our troops in Iraq and worry more about Katusa rockets going 25 miles into northern Israel from Lebanon than we do about North Korea, with its nukes, developing and testing ICBM’s capable of traveling thousands of miles to hit our shores!
If we do not fight these Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies in Afghanistan then we will be fighting them in our streets. If we do not fight the terrorists who have safe haven in Pakistan and the North Koreans who already have nuclear weapons then we will risk a mushroom cloud rising from our cities!
Bush has provided a remedy! Yes Afghanistan under the government we installed there has a bumper crop of opium! No doubt they will ship it to our cities and addict our youth. But so what better to enjoy then fine Afghan opium as the mushroom cloud from a terrorist nuke spreads over our cities. With our borders wide open so terrorists can flow in and capital can flow out by cut and run corporations that flee the nation that gave them support, succor and profits, why not enjoy a little Afghan opium!
I guess this is what Bush means by “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”! The time has come to fight these Islamic fascists and their North Korean buddies. We can use “shock and awe” in Iran and North Korea. But Afghanistan needs more troops to fight the people who attacked us on 9-11 and to destroy the opium crop. Mr. Bush talks about fighting Islamic fascists yet does nothing about the genocide in the Sudan!
Bush and his fellow travelers are engaging in a failed social engineering experiment in Iraq! They are leaving our borders open while engaging in a cut and run strategy in the war on terror! Afghanistan should be where our ground forces are. North Korea and Iran can be showcases, if need be, for “shock and awe technological attacks”! Bush talks about kicking ass but is only kicking our asses not the terrorists! Time for us democrats to show him the way!
The time has come for the SILENT MAJORITY - America’s Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to rise up and take our country back!
