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Our society depends on banks, air traffic control computers, electrical grids and computer controlled communications! Our military is heavily dependent on computers! If our banks and financial institutions lost their computer capabilities our economy could collapse! I believe this attack should be responded to by our military computer experts even if covertly! Yes I am a European style Social Democrat. But I am sick of our nation being indecisive in the face of North Korea and Iran. Indeed my opposition to the Iraqi War is that it side tracked our nation from our own National Security Interest to focus instead on a vast Republican Social Engineering Experiment.
What the Republicans just don’t seem to understand is this basic maxim:
Petty two bit Dictators are NOT afraid of being overthrown and replaced by Democracies! They are simply afraid of being overthrown! When our nation changed it’s goals in Iraq from the mere overthrow of Sadam Hussein to a vast Republican Social Engineering Experiment we completely lost our Military Deterrence with Iran and North Korea! Both Iran and North Korea realized that instead of presenting a demonstration of our “Shock and Awe Technology” we were shifting to a masochistic “bleed and procrastinate” military strategy of engagement! Iraq made us procrastinate against Iran and North Korea not to mention Al Qaeda on the Afganistan – Pakistan border.
We were no longer a threat to Iran and North Korea! Indeed the very fact that we are going to build a Star Wars Anti-Missile System in Europe to protect Eurpope from rogue nations means we are not serious about stopping nuclear proliferation in the first place!
The very premise of such a system is predicated on the fact that we will allow Iran to have nukes! Now this cock roach of a nation, North Korea is playing games with our computers! These nations must be stopped not simply by economic means but by blatant high tech military force if needed.
But Democrats must realize we cannot allow another nation to rival us in military technology. Since we do not want to shed the blood of our military we must keep the image of Technological Leader. These Cyber attacks are a threat to our military deterence!
Our strength is not in occupations, except when really needed, but in our “Shock and Awe Military Technology”! (Oh my God a Liberal quoting Rumsfeld). I support Star Wars Technology. I just don’t believe it serves our national interests to place it in Eastern Europe which only alienates Russia and sends the wrong message to Iran! It makes me proud as an American to hear that the tests of our Star Wars Technology are running very well! Yes one can be both a liberal and for defending vigorously American interests! We do not have to even cause loss of life in North Korea. We could use EMP Bombs. See video below.
This blog is not your standard liberal blog. Yes I am a rabid Social Democrat and believe in the roll back of not only the Bush but the Reagan tax cuts as well! But I also believe we must be forceful in the defense of our nation. Bush squandered our resources in Iraq. My fellow liberals must understand something very fundamental about the American electorate!
Americans love action figures!
We got attacked on 9-11. Bush used forceful action! He jumped in the polls. He dropped when his “action” turned out to be a loss. We had an economic crises! The Republicans advocated laisse-faire! Obama advocated ACTION! Obama then won! Americans love ACTION FIGURES!
If we expect economic sanctions to work against both Iran and North Korea then we are fools! We will see a mushroom cloud over our cities in that case. This cyber-attack must be met with a counter attack against North Korea’s computers! Even if they did not launch the attack they are a cock roach of a nation that deserves punishment for their nuclear testing! If we Democrats do not act FORCEFULLY then we will loose the elections.
Americans love action figures! The time has come to take action and unlike George Bush, we must take focused action using our advanced technology rather than mere infantry and occupations!
I remember the Republicans used to say that foreign policy differences ended at our shore line! I guess that does not apply when they want to criticize President Obama and his handling of the Iranian Crises! Yet the Republicans and their fellow travelers in Halliburton had no problem doing business with the terrorist nation of Iran’s Mullahs! (See Video below)
These CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who want to be the pals of terrorists not only Iran but China also. Isn’t it amazing how the Republicans criticize our President in these difficult times yet I did not see them attempting to place a hold on American companies doing a “CUT AND RUN” to China after Tiananmen Square to make a buck! What is even worse is that brave students are using the internet as a means of communication in both the current Iranian and Tiananmen Square revolt. Yet American Corporations in their pursuit of profit before people have even assisted the Chinese Government in policing their internet and capturing dissidents! (See video below).
We live in an era of licentious permissiveness where “Individual Freedom” is subjugated to needs of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others. Did they care about the freedom loving students of China? Yet these same pompous asses preach “individual freedom” and the danger of big government! What about the effects of the CORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS with their usage of K Street on the American body politic?
The Republicans say President Obama is timid and weak in dealing with Iran and they mock him for his past desire to talk to the Iranian leadership about their nuclear program. Yet they have no problem talking to China and shipping American jobs, technology and wealth to China as long as they profit from such transactions. We in the Middle Class have seen these CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS conduct a massive wealth redistribution program from the middle class to their own pockets while our national security suffers from such transactions!
President Obama realizes that both candidates in the recent Iranian Presidential elections were similar. However the followers of Mir Hossein Mousavi are evolving. First they opposed Ahmadinejad but now they are moving against their Supreme Leader and this could place them in opposition to the entire concept of the “Islamic Republic”! The crucial factor is not only their leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, but the educated classes of the cities! By being placed in this evolving situation they are becoming outcasts of the Islamic Republic and ripe for conversion to real change! Hopefully as I mentioned in my prior post, to restoring some sort of Constitutional Pahlavi Monarchy!
Understand this crucial factor:
Change of that nature comes when anchors are cut. That is the reason for Obama’s reaction. Not simply that the Fundamentalists will crack down if we speak up. That is not the issue. The issue is the attitudes of the Iranian middle class in the cities. If the masses feel America is threatening them then the fundamentalists will succeed in their propaganda. Remember the VIETNAM WAR when blue collar workers where recruited by Republicans to fight the college students? The fundamentalists in Iran are attempting a “Richard Nixon” on the Iranian Silent Majority! They are claiming to be the advocates of “law and order” and defending the nation. Richard Nixon made the middle believe communists where behind the peace movement. The Islamic Fundamentalists are saying it is “the great Satan America”.
Yes the time is coming when Obama can come out of the closet and attack the fundamentalists.
But in social psychology when you wage psychological operations you change attitudes when the individual comes to the conclusion on his own. The young of Iran are now coming to that conclusion and most importantly “owning that conclusion”! As that occurs then we must overtly support them. Till then we must twitter away the time while using covert operations!
Let us just hope that American Multinational Corporations don’t sell their internet expertise to the current Iranian government! The time has come for all Americans to rally around our President!
Yes I am a Social Democrat and voted for Jimmy Carter. I believed the Shah had to go at the time. Now I feel the opposite. Partially because I believe both Liberals and Persian Monarchists have both matured.
While our direct support could hurt the forces of “Change” in Iran, I do believe in the Audacity of Change and that the vehicle for such change is the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in a Western Constitutional framework! While the Shah has passed on, his son the Crown Prince, is alive and capable of becoming the new Shah. (See the video of him below) History has given the Crown Prince the opportunity to serve his nation by becoming a Constitutional Monarch whose future, like the restored Spanish Monarchy is to serve his nation as a respected “Referee” and Constitutional Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
Above the Crown Prince addresses an audience at an American University. Despite the fact that his father had some flaws, under the Shah, Iran advanced in Western Liberal values. I believe his son has learned from the mistakes of the past. I believe we western Liberals have also learned and matured.
Under the Shah there was religious tolerance. The older religion of Iran “Zoroastrianism” has suffered under the mullahs. This heritage of Persia must not be snuffed out by extremists!
If we who label ourselves as “Liberals” decry religious fundamentalism and the Christian Right then we should also decry Islamic Fundamentalism. Just as we should denounce “atheistic fundamentalism” of communist states. All of the above have their rational tolerant advocates. The two films above show the pride that many Iranian “Persians” take in the monarchy and their history.
When a monarchy acts like the British and now Spanish Monarchies they insure the survival of Western values and freedom by placing their future not as “rulers” but as respected “referees” who enable “Parliamentary Democracies” to flourish without fear of a military takeover or one party rule. The forces who are fighting Ahmadinejad are slowly realizing that the so called “Islamic Republic” is as dangerous as we view a Christian theocracy. By the way I am an Episcopalian not an atheist.
While a Constitutional Monarchy is not for us in America, I strongly support the restoration of the Pahlavi Monarchy in Iran in a Constitutional framework!
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”!
Take the case of Halliburton. They have an affiliate in Iran. You know the nice country that is sending armaments to kill and maim our brave troops in Iraq! They have also moved their Corporate CEO Head Quarters to Dubai! But they are just one example of many.
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 Class interests 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!
