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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!

North Korea which has counterfeited American currency and whose economy is in total ruin, is going to join the export to America wave! Darfur should take note of this! What are the North Koreans possibly going to produce that they can export to us? Why “PEACE IN OUR TIME”!

In return for not violating the treaties they already accepted, North Korea is going to restrain it’s Nuclear ambitions in return for TRIBUTE FROM AMERICA! Thus Bush and his fellow travelers will become “enablers” of the North Korean regime. I hope the poor starving people of Darfur, who never threatened us and are fighting alone to survive the ravages of Islamic fascism, learn a lesson from George Bush and his fellow travelers. Bush meanwhile rants about what would happen if we left Iraq where we had no business being in the first place!

Well Mr. President if the news media where to treat the carnage of the Iraqi Civil War as they have treated the GENOCIDE IN DARFUR then we in America would not be troubled. We would hardly even know about it! If we want to fight Islamic fascism, what about the genocide in Darfur Mr. President? Now to justify the lack of Iraqi WMD we are doing the very “nation building” that we were promised would not occur. No WMD so tie us down in a NEO-CON SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT!

QUESTION: What is similar to Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and why?

ANSWER: George Bush’s service record in the National Guard. Like Iraqi WMD neither can be found!

Back in the 60’s this now bald hippie remembers how conservatives would lecture liberals, drawing lessons from the fall of Rome allegedly correlating to our “permissive” society. Rome fell, according to these noble pundits of immortal truths, because her society became weak within rather than follow her Stoic past. The Romans paid tribute to the Germanic barbarians to the north. Might I ask what are we going to do with North Korea? No I don’t want to see another Korean War. But here is an idea. Suggest to the Chinese that they undermine the present regime in North Korea and replace it with a new communist regime! Our intent is not to take North Korea out of Beijing’s sphere (though that would be nice) but rather to make them less a threat.

Perhaps it is the conservatives who need to understand “the lessons of history”, as they so nobly lectured us 60’s hippies! Just observe China where CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS demonstrate their loyalty to “Portfolio Security” over “National Security”. Here they and their lackeys in the Republican Party co-opt out for the “FEELS GOOD” solution of a quick buck even if it means the loss of our technology. You know the same technology that they so proudly called “SHOCK AND AWE”.

The time has come for the Silent Majority: America’s great Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to stand up and take our nation back from these effete snobs of corporate America who are even ashamed of their American identity. These new globalization elites!

George Bush has got his priorities all mixed up yet again. While North Korea is about to test nuclear weapons and has tested an ICBM prototype that could hit our homeland, George Bush and his fellow travelers have been focusing on the more important issues of the day. Iraq which was third in line behind North Korea and Iran for developing WMD is Bush’s prime focus.

Meanwhile the extreme left is readying their usual litany about how America is the cause of all the world’s problems while Republicans see this as a great “investment opportunity” to send capital and jobs abroad to China. Hey but what the heck when the next cold war starts guess who will no longer be “multinational” but true “American” Corporatists! After being the “enabler” for China’s economy to be a military threat to our nation just think of the new investment opportunities in the reemerging American Industrial Complex. Naturally these same cut and run corporatists will now rediscover their “American identity” when there is a buck to be made!

Oh but America’s middle class will have an investment opportunity to make also. Our youth will die in the battlefields that could have been prevented if vigorous action were taken today. You don’t think Bush’s class would lower themselves to actually going to their National Guard meetings now do you?

America’s middle class (and those who aspire to be) will be stuck with the bill! No problem! That’s why Bush’s strategy in Afghanistan is so important! Instead of going after Osama Bin Laden he instead cut and ran from this to concentrate on Iraq.

But again I say no problem. When North Korea gets more nukes and puts them on ICBM’s and they fall on our cities which will be empty of jobs and capital that the Republicans sent to China then why not enjoy some good Afghan Opium? Sprinkle it on some mangos from India! You know “India” that’s where all our computer programming jobs are going. That is the ones that corporate America is not filling with lower paid H1b guest visa workers now.

George Bush who cut and ran from his legal National Guard meeting requirements has no problem sending America’s middle class sons and daughters to die for his pet schemes. With his friends in the Christian Right and the pro – Israeli lobbies we can all rest secure in our beds while North Korea aims nuclear tipped ICBM’s at our nation’s homeland. The news media lets Bush get a free ride on this while concentrating instead on small conventionally armed katusa rockets going 25 miles into northern Israel. George Bush had better get his priorities straight.

Oh he whines about fighting Islamic fascists. What about Darfur and the genocide that the Islamic fascists are conducting there?

Oh but that does not generate any votes from the Christian right that has to justify the failure of the second coming that they believed should have taken place within a generation after the rebirth of Israel. Since the “second coming” did not occur their theological spin doctors reason that Israel has not yet fully been restored since they do not occupy all of Palestine! Hence the “one generation clock” has not yet started ticking. Oh yes and our nation is being held hostage to this kook theology! Meanwhile Bush’s lectures us on the need for secular liberal democracy in the Muslim world while the zanies influence him and our foreign policy here at home.

Please understand I am NOT against Israel. I just want them to mind their affairs while we place our Homeland’s Security first. I wish just a part of the attention that was directed to katusa rockets was instead focused on the genocide in Darfur.

George Bush is trying to “define” the issue as “fight the terrorist abroad or fight them at home!” I agree. The problem is when are we going to do that!

We are loosing in Afghanistan. They now produce 92% of the world’s opium. If we don’t fight that crop there in Afghanistan we will be fighting drug terrorism on our streets! Under Bush we have the choice to let the profits of the addiction of America’s youth go to a so-called friendly Afghan government or a hostile one lead by the Taliban! I say the choice is wrong! Life is more that a choice of two solutions. Indeed many of you who read this blog may wonder how I can label myself a liberal democrat (and I am). But I am a NON politically correct liberal democrat. I do not advocate “cut and run”. I just wonder what is the target? Certainly not North Korea! Certainly not the Islamic fascists in their genocidal war in Darfur! We need more than two orthodox choices of liberal and conservative! This blog is part of a social process taking place in America to give us more choices!

We need a new political alignment in our nation. These cut and run capitalists must be stopped! While America’s left whine and apologize to America’s enemies abroad the right wing sees it as and investment opportunity. They invest in our enemies!

The time has come for our nation’s Silent Majority: America’s great Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to rise up and take back our country!

North Korea has nukes. She has built even more while we got side tracked in Iraq. Now she is testing ICBM’s and Iran is going into the nuclear game. Afghanistan is experiencing a rise in Taliban activity. Next door in Pakistan they are making peace with the terrorists.

(SEE Christian Science Monitor article on peace deal).

Let me raise an important question concerning North Korea and Iran! If we are to disarm North Korea and shut down Iran’s nuclear capabilities are we going to occupy both nations? I doubt it. We are equipped to deal with the problem with our superior military technology. We will use surgical strikes against their facilities and even against their economic institutions without sustained extensive occupation. Iran is Islamic! So are we going to start a crusade to spread democracy to Iran? Will we occupy their nation? Most analysts say no that it will be done by “shock and awe technology”! Well then why must we occupy Iraq especially that North Korea and Iran are FAR greater threats to our nation and we are not going to occupy them?

The issue is not fighting Islamic Fascism. The issue is the definition of the battlefield and the tools of that encounter! By the way if we are so into fighting the Islamic Fascists what about the genocide that these Islamic Fascists are waging in Sudan against the Christians?

George Bush who cut and ran from his full commitment to the National Guard in his youth now spends the lives of our brave young troops in Iraq. He worries more about small conventional warhead katusa rockets from Lebanon going 25 miles into northern Israel than the fact that North Korea has nukes already and is testing ICBM’s capable of going thousands of miles reaching our homeland. Not to mention that she could supply a nuke to terrorists. Yet Bin Laden roams the Afghan mountains and we do nothing but allow the new Afghan government to raise a bumper crop of opium!

The real threat to America is not being addressed. Bin Laden is in Afghanistan or the tribal areas of Pakistan. Our troops there need more resources not only to fight the Islamic fascists but the bumper opium crop! If we don’t destroy the Afghan opium and fight this crop and it’s supporters in the Afghan government, then we will be fighting drug terrorism in our homeland.

Our troops did not die in Afghanistan to make the world safe for Afghan opium! Bush has cut and run:

• From his youthful duty to the National Guard!
• From capturing Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Bush’s ego diversion to Iraq must stop.
• From securing our borders from invasion from the south.
• From placing “PORT SECURITY” over “portfolio security”!

The time has come for the SILENT MAJORITY – America’s great middle class (and those who aspire to be) to stand up and be counted!

President Bush in a recent radio address said the following:

“If we give up the fight in the streets of Baghdad, we will face the terrorists in the streets of our own cities. The security of the civilized world depends on victory in the war on terror, and that depends on victory in Iraq, so America will not leave until victory is achieved.”

READ FOX NEWS ARTICLE

Putting terrorism aside just for one moment, since Bush’s argues that we must defeat the terrorists in the streets of Bagdad else we will fight them here on our streets, then what about the issue of drugs Mr. President? We correctly, IMHO, invaded Afghanistan as that nation was a safe haven for Ben Laden. Afghanistan’s main crop then was opium! The problem is that opium still is Afghanistan’s main crop and export. Their government, the one we helped install, does not want to shut down the opium fields.

READ Global hangover article on Afghanistan

READ MSN/NEWSWEEK ARTICLE

Our brave troops died in Afghanistan and I do not believe they gave their lives so that Afghan drug lords could continue to harvest opium! Nor did our brave troops die so that:

• Our streets would be the battle fields for drug terrorism and addiction.
• Our youth would be infected with addiction as a result of the failed social engineering experiments of Bush and his fellow travelers!
• Mr. Bush and his fellow travelers could harvest pseudo-patriotic hoopla from a Commander – in Chief who CUT AND RAN from his National Guard meeting requirements!

Bush is whipping up fear in the general public and trying to rally his base by giving a substitute goal for winning the war on terrorism. Instead he is trying to upshot his dad by getting involved in Iraq when we had more important fish to fry!

Using Bush’s logic then we MUST defeat the war lords and even the govenrment we installed in Afghanistan in their harvesting of opium. If we do NOT then we will be fighting that opium and the terror it produces in our city streets!

Mr. Bush and his fellow travelers love to provide “feel good” bravado! I am all for “KICKING ASS”! But let us focus on the correct target. Afghanistan was a good target. The problem is we did not use enough troops for a follow-up in destroying the opium fields. Instead we got sidetracked into Iraq! Nothing wrong maybe in knocking off Sadamn AFTER we first take care of North Korea and Iran. Then we should have left Iraq to a puppet general. North Korea and Iran can be dealt with by our advanced technology! China could even be “invited” to install a new communist goverment in North Korea. Our goal is not to push the communists out of North Korea but just stop them from becoming a threat. To force North Korea militaraly to become democratic would invite a major war. That is not in our national interest. But Bush is sidetracked in up showing his dad in Iraq.

You may have heard of North Korea Mr. Bush. You know the nice folks who ALREADY have nuclear bombs and are testing ICBM’s that could travel thousands of miles to hit our homeland. Instead Mr. Bush is more concerned with small conventional war heads fired by Katusa rockets 25 miles into northern Israel!

Mr. Bush you have the correct issue which is homeland security! However my question is just whose homeland you are trying to secure! Certainly not ours when:

• We back a government in Afganistan that is exporting drug terror to America’s streets.
• Our borders are wide open five years after 9-11 and your party controls all branches of government!
• Shipping containers are barely inspected entering our ports.

Mr. Bush do you want to fight Islamic Fascism? What about the GENOCIDE that is taking place in the Sudan against the Christian minority? Instead of focusing on that, Mr. Bush, you and your fellow travelers in the Christian right have an agenda to bring about the second coming by focusing on Israel. Israel has the resources to take care of it’s own problems. Indeed our outward backing may even hamper Israel from doing what it really wanted to do and that is attack the terrorist bases in Syria!

The problem is we Democrats let him get away with this. We also have a stupid subset of PC Democrats that want us all to believe America is the fault of all the world’s problems. When Bush then presents some bravado, even if it is misdirected, most will rightly chose action over guilt trips.

I do salute the President for the successful anti-Missile test just recently conducted. In that issue he is on the right track. But not in Iraq and Homeland Security. If the fate of the free world is at stake in Iraq then we need far more troops! Imagine Germany three years after the end of the war with Berlin in revolt! Do we want to pay that price for Iraq while North Korea builds yet more nuclear weapons and Iran prepares? Time for a change this November!

North Korea has tested several short and long range missiles. Their tests were as pathetic as their country’s leadership. None the less these tests have created a different “Fourth of July” fireworks in the international community. North Korea has proven its word cannot be trusted. Now the issue is the United Nations, following as the successor to the League of Nations, can it be trusted? Both democrats and republicans have to face some “inconvenient truths”.

We live in a world were competition and natural selection are taking place on a cultural and societal level. In this arena of both “cooperation” and “competition” our society must maintain a superior “SUSTAINABILITY INDEX”. This sustainability index is a function of our cooperation and competition on a geo – economical – cultural – military -industrial landscape. If we do not score high on the above sustainability index then dictatorships will force us to score high on a “casualty sustainability index”.

Our sustainability index is being harmed by both liberals and conservatives, both of whom want to live with their heads in the sand like an ostrich. Each pulls its head out of the sand to accuse the other correctly of its own peculiar myopia, while not taking responsibility for their own short comings. First I will deal with the myopia of liberals and next with the conservatives.

Inconvenient truths for democrats.

Carl Jung in writing about his early life tells about how he discovered his doctrine of “The Shadow”. Liberals would be well advised to understand this Jungian concept. Jung mentions that as a child he believed in a perfect ordered world with God on top. He visualized people on earth worshiping God in a crystal cathedral with the Deity on his throne above in the heavens. Being a young boy with a boyish imagination he visualized God on his throne high in the heavens. Day after day people worshiped God in a beautiful crystal cathedral. They worshiped God high above the earth in the sky. Then one day in his boyish imagination the youthful Carl Jung visualized the Deity fidgeting on his throne! God is squirming on his throne being stuck in it for days on end. Jung thinks what he would feel like. God has to go potty! All of a sudden as the folks down below are praying in their nice clean picture perfect crystal cathedral the high and mighty ruler of the universe has to go pooh pooh!

Then it happens! PLLLLUUUUUURRR PLOP! Right down on the startled worshipers below, crashing through their ordered clean picture perfect crystal cathedral! Crashing through the crystal roof right on to the high altar covering it completely with a cosmic TURD! God made a pooh pooh! Jung reminds us of the myth of “The Flying Boy”. He made his wings from wax and feathers because he wanted to live among the Gods in an idealistic world. But when he flew the heat from the sun melted the wax holding his wings and he crashed back to earth.

The morale is that while we must be idealistic the needs of the earth must be taken into consideration. If the needs of the earth are not taken into consideration they will crash through our crystal cathedral. Ultimately this will build a better life! We must embrace both the earth and the sky.

What does this mean and especially to the situation at hand? PLENTY! You see Jung realized as years went by that we live in both an “idealistic” realm and the “earthly” realm. Some times the mundane earthly realm comes crashing through our idealistic orderly idea of what reality is or should be! North Korea and other totalitarian states present a similiar “inconvenient truth” to liberals and democrats. While sipping latté in a nice American internet café, liberals would like to believe:

• That no sane person would start a nuclear war or that no nation wants to send its troops to die in a conventional modern day battle field.
• Well that is except for the nasty energy sucking wicked America. After all we sacrificed over 26,000 of our troops in the quest for oil? – Right?
• The UN if given the chance and can solve this problem with North Korea.

Well let me present some “inconvenient truths” for this simplistic Latté crowd. You are living in the same crystal cathedral as Jung’s worshippers in the story above. There are certain earthly forces at work. You know the same forces that direct competition, natural selection and extinction! Your safe orderly latté sipping environment inside your American internet café is preserved by our armed forces and eternal vigilance! Would you like to trade places with an internet café user in China? It is time to blow off the “FLUFF” and foam from the latté and wake up with the coffee “below” to some inconvenient truths:

These regimes have no problem sending over 26,000 of their youths to die in war for their “dear leader” or “fuhrer”. Even if some of these dictatorships have smaller population bases then us. The sacrifice of hundreds of thousands or even millions is no problem to them. If we do not want to engage in a contest of sustainability of casualties we MUST engage in a contest of sustainability in the superiority of military technology and have the perception of our willingness to use it when (and only if) our national interests are at stake.

These very same liberals who scream and rant about the military term “collateral damage” are the very same who fought against the R & D of smart bomb technology. They used to term smart bombs “capitalist bombs”. Now they demand a Crystal perfect ability of our military to only hit the bad guys and not civilians. But lets not forget our friends on the right. The conservatives and republicans.

Conservative AND REPBULICAN Sophistry

Republicans love to rant and rave about “cutting and running”. They would agree with my attack above on democrats and the need to maintain our military technological superiority. Yet these very same conservatives aid the enemies of America by diminishing our “SUSTAINABILITY INDEX”. They do this by the sanctioning the free flow of trade with the China and others. They sanction the hemorrhaging of American capital and jobs to foreign nations. Nations that frequently are totalitarian.

While loyal American workers keep a separate Labor day from the internationalist socialists, these effete snobs of Corporate America rally around Bush and join in singing the republican party globalization Internationale! These effete snobs of Corporate America want us in the middle class to remain silent while they SELL OUT AMERICA and change their identity from “American companies” to “Multi-National Corporations”!

While American’s sons and daughters give their blood, limbs and lives, these 21^st Century sophists invest in China. Their Judas like sophistry to the nation and society that gave them birth, succor, substance and profit is that “business is business”! These effete snobs of corporate America have engaged in diminishing our nation’s SUSTAINABILITY INDEX in the geo – economical – cultural – military – industrial conflict of societies. Oh they preach “the lessons of history” with silver tongue yet line their pockets and their portfolios with the silver of free trade that diminishes America and it’s technological advantage. These silver tongued sophists of the right preach the need for “absolutes”, “family values” and “anchors” in an age of angst. Yet practice licentious permissiveness in a portfolio investment strategy that encourages child labor and even slave like labor in third world nations. These silver tongued sophist orators of the right wing preach “individualism” but would have the American middle class employee subvert his health care and job security to these corporate “collectivists” who no longer label and identify themselves as “American” but “multinational corporations”! They preach individualism as a cover for their “SOCIAL ENGINEERING PROJECT” which is the leveling of the American middle class by turning us into a nation of “temps”!

When China becomes a threat to us because these effete snobs of Corporate America’s ethical relativist revolution, then these same sophists who now label themselves as “multi-national” will then raise the furor of patriotism and change their identity back to “American”! Guess who will profit from “enabling” China as our enemy? These very same people who will then invest and profit in America’s military industrial complex. But then America’s sons and daughters will have to pay with more blood!

Oh they preach the “free market”. Yet when students struggle to learn computer science these same people have no problem with government intervention to lower programmer’s salaries by importing foreign H1b guest workers. Then they whine no one is taking the hard subjects in college! Is it any wonder why Atlas shrugged? Karl Marx has said that communists will use capitalism’s own internal contradictions to overthrow it. If we in the middle class want to save a responsible capitalism we must stop being the silent majority! Go to the polls and vote not only in the election but your party’s primary. While I am a democrat I urge you republican readers of my blog to take an active interest in your party.

The time has come for America’s great middle class, and those who aspire to be, to rise up and end this era of licentious permissiveness where portfolio security is raised above national security!

We need laws to protect our culture. With malice toward no culture and charity to all, as Lincoln said, we must use the same philosophy to defend our borders from the bleeding of capital, employment and military technology to potential rivals. There is nothing wrong with foreign investment. So long as it is in the national interest.

Corporate America must learn responsibility to the nation that gave it birth, succor, substance and profit. These sophists of the right must not be allowed to make the “Republican Globalization Internationale” the anthem of America!

It is time for the “SILENT MAJORITY” – America’s great middle class (and those who aspire to be) to wake up and take back our country from these effete snobs of the left and right!