Wars without a Chance are as Fruitless as Romance without Finance
The US Spends the Money, but Loses the Wars
Iraq has shut out
the US
oil firms from bidding on concessions. For $trillion the US got nothing.
How much in bribes to the Congress would dissuade them to get out of the war
business?
The peace activists are missing a good strategy. They should stop advertising
it is immoral to kill. Instead, they should emphasize the high cost of murder.
Nobody Can Give Liberty, Freedom and Independence
Somebody wrote
"once they are empowered with self determination to gain liberty, freedom
and independence."
As human beings, the Palestinians under the UN Charter automatically are
empowered with self determination. They have the right to exist. If they choose
liberty, freedom and independence as a way of life, they have a right to do so.
No one has the right to deny them this choice.
Likewise, no one has the right to deny Israel her right to exist. On seven
different occasions, a number of nations attacked Israel to deny her the right to
exist. She repelled the invaders costing her defenders 26,000 lives.
Palestinians can blame other nations for their failures to secure liberty and
freedom till the end of time. The fact remains. Nobody can become free by
taking it away from somebody else.
Congress Runs the Good Cop Bad Cop Routine
Under Reagan
and GHWB the GOP ran amok. So, we threw the rascals out. Bill Clinton brought
his harem to the WH. The GOP returned to loot the country. Barack Obama is
letting them do it.
Maybe I should have called it the bad cop bad cop routine.
10% Good and 10% Evil Fight to Control the Other 80%
If he intends
to die of natural causes in America,
the wise man must pick his spots. Both ends of the spectrum battle for his soul
and neither of them is very kind to it. The pacifist of the 1930's could be
branded a traitor in the 1940's. When the limousine liberal crossed the Hudson
River, he was taking his life into his hands in Jersey.
The year 1968 was the last in which it was fashionable to be black. Every life
has its ebbs and flows. The trick is to avoid the undertow during the
transition.
America
has had four wretched decades in a row. Sometimes, I long for the day when
Lyndon Johnson picked up his pooch by his ears.
Little Mary African Soldier 16
Mary, a
16-year-old demobilized child soldier forced to join an armed rebel group in
central Africa, remembers:
"I feel so bad about the things that I did. It disturbs me so much that
I inflicted death on other people. When I go home I must do some traditional
rites because I have killed. I must perform these rites and cleanse myself. I
still dream about the boy from my village that I killed. I see him in my
dreams, and he is talking to me, saying I killed him for nothing, and I am
crying." (Source: U.S.
State Dept. TIP Report 2005)
All Human Rights for All Human Beings
I prefer the
above UN slogan as it refers to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Its 30 Articles define a moral code of conduct. A set of particulars,
enforcement would make genocide impossible. Isn't genocide the major sin to be
rejected? War, famine and disease kill people. Wall Street fraud and political
corruption murder human beings.
Words such as enemy, good and perfect are meaningless in the definition of real
policy.
Our little homeless shelter flies in the face of all of this. We oppose the
murder of debilitated people in hospital. We resist the shooting and poisoning
of defenseless animals in the streets. We stand for the sanctity of life.
Palestinian
Protesters Might Consider an Action in Tehran
After the
rigged election in Iran,
100's of thousands of citizens took to the streets for a voice in their
affairs. As any normal people anywhere, they do not want to risk being invaded
or nuked. The Iranian government responded with repression, torture and murder
against unarmed citizens. The USA
responded by escalating in Afghanistan
not helping people in either country. Israel
has the tough choice of hitting Iran
alone or waiting until Iran
smuggles nuclear weapons into Gaza.
In any event, many people in the region will risk dying.
In the region the Americans have shown a remarkable indifference to local
suffering willing to fight to the last drop of native blood. This continues in
the "march" to break the blockade.
Egypt and Israel have
been at peace for 30 years. Do the marchers intend to disturb that?
The Souk Can Teach Us Much
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