Stephanie
Miller is saying that maybe why the media was so eager to have all those war
hawks back on the Sunday news shows is because the media is thinking “Well we
got it wrong on the war, so maybe if we get the really heavy hitters on the who
were such serious “contenders” if you will, and they say that the war was a
good thing then maybe we won’t look so bad”.
That’s something I didn’t think of.
I highly recommend all of my blog readers listen to Chris Matthews from
last Friday night and this morning’s Stephanie Miller program. Of course the big news is that Rand Paul is
like me who believes we should just walk away from that whole situation and not
do another thing. Because as I told Paul
“I can’t conceive of any material thing we could do that would help anything in
that area but only make it worse”. But
of course I had Face the Nation yesterday afternoon around three. There were technical problems like showing
two commercials at once and having the pictures all out of sinc, so by the time
I got to the second half of the show, I booted up the link just for the second
half of the show and that worked much better.
But the situation as portrayed by Face the Nation is even more dire than
even I imagined. In the first place ISIS
has captured for more cities, mostly along the Syrian borders and as such they
are regarded as “smart to do this” because many people who were on a roll
capturing one local after another would just keep going. I’ve played enough games of Risk to know that
this is not a wise way to proceed because you spread your manpower too
thin. But it would strengthen my idea, courtesy
Joe Byden, of just consolidating the country into thirds and having an in place
cease fire right where they are. There
was concern on the show expressed that ISIS would now go into Jordan and into
Lebanon. As such my philosophy is “containment”. And we should strengthen Jordan in
particular, and Lebanon, in order to protect Israel, which is the vital
thing. I am also pondering the Truth
that perhaps my opinion on Libya and Syria was a little misinformed. Qadafi was this terrorist who kills our
servicemen in Germany and takes down the Pan Am Lockerbee Scotland flight- -
but I hadn’t gotten the word that Qadafi is now a “good guy” and if you’re Pat
Buchannon or Michelle Bachman- - now Quadafi needs to be protected. I was told by the media that Bashier Al Assad
was the mad man who wanted to take over the world and had killed 150,000
civilians. Now according to these two
guys on Face the Nation yesterday- - no, it’s Assad who is the “responsible’
guy and that ISIS was this powerful and dangerous insurgent organization who is
seeking a vast “land base” in the area in order to plan terrorist acts against
the United States. We are informed that
ISIS is heavily armed and also heavily financed by these stealth Westerners who
go over there and offer their help. So
like, is this what Diocletian faced with the Christians in 305 AD? I mean if we are to believe this Rogers guy,
referred to as Chairman Rogers, Republican congressman from Michigan- - states
that somehow the Al Qaida “messaging” is so perswasive that Europeans see the
wisdom behind Al Qaeda and cant wait to enlist and help in any way they
can. Now you have this vast, heavily
armed mass that’s controlled- - shades of Ghengis Khan or something. They just seem unstoppable. As to the matter of asking Meliki to step
down- - this is easier said than done, and there seems no feasible way of doing
it. To get Meliki into power in the
first place took from January of 2005 when the first Iraqi elections were held,
to October of 2005 and that was with all sorts of help from NATO and such and
negotiating and forming a workable coalition.
To suppose for a minute that Meliki is going to step down just because
we want him to is really pie in the sky delusion. It’s said on the show that if Meliki steps
down at all, it will be because Shiite Clerics ask him to step down because we
hear Iran itself is unhappy with Meliki these days. But again I only know what the media lets us
know. I’m not psychic. In fact you know perhaps my WORST record of
psychic predictions concerns the course of Soap Opera plots- - because these
people- - write scenarios that are implausible beyond belief and seem to be
continually surprising me. Thank God the
real world usually isn’t like that. But
who would have predicted that we would NOW be debating whether to get back into
the Iraq War, or the third war in Iraq in 25 years. Rand Paul was on Meet the Press and I agree
with his hands off policy on that, and I also admire his “enlightenment” on the
idea of non violent convicted felons voting.
Because people shouldn’t be disenfranchised from voting for life because
some silly drug conviction in their youth.
Henry Hyde, “It was an indiscretion of my youth”. But as Stephanie Miller and the Mooks point
out- - “It will be a strange Presidential Debate with Rand Paul staking out a
position on Iraq to the left of Hillary Clinton, the democratic standard bearer”. Indeed.
But as to the resumption of
bombing- if we killed at least 120,00 Iraqi civilians during the war- - maybe
this hardened their will. Robert Kennedy
in his book said “For a long time during the Berlin bombings in WW II, our
bombs did not soften the resolve but only hardened it, and only twords the very
end of the war- - did this will to keep fighting relent.” This was the argument that Bobby Kennedy
made against stepped up bombing in North Viet Nam. And the Islamic community almost “feeds off
violence” like mother’s milk. Al Qaida
wasn’t even in that theater of conflict will we declared war- - and bombed the
hell out of their civilians. So I guess
I agree with Stephanie and the Mooks, that bombs are less than perfect “diplomatic
implements”. Mitch Mc Conell is
disappointed that President Obama is not able to resolve a religious war in
Iraq that’s been going on since the seventh century. Yeah.
What incompetence!
I
was visited by Stewart Sutcliffe during Sixty Minutes and his views on
everything are so controversial I wasn’t going to air them. But I figured since I have been complaining
about not having enough conversational interaction with “the other side” I
figure I owe Stu that. The first segment
was on the Coptic Church of Egypt. In
the first place claims of having roots back to the first century are bogus. Bones pointed out that they weren’t just tattooing
those little children with crosses on their arms, but were actually branding
them. Stu says “Brands are the signs of
slave ownership and God regards it as an abomination to be “mutilated” like
that on your body”. Bones was also
less than sympathetic about all of the forty church bombings by the Al Qaeda
type group. Personally I think the
military were the good guys. But Stewart
points out that Copts are “an extremist organization themselves”. And “When you come right down to it the
Islamic community represent a truer representation of God than do these
Christians. And what do you think about
the idea that they have these exorcisms during every service. You wan’t sit there and tell me these are
normal people”. On the subject of
drones Steward said that “For any planet under Romulan cloaking and that
includes Sirius A and Aldeberan VIII, that drones are illegal anywhere on the
planet”. I mentioned “Aren’t there a
whole lot of interesting geological formations on Aldeberan VIII? Seems to me you could get amazing photographs
of that planet”. And Steward says “Not
with drones you don’t. If those things
ever came around here, the law explicitly states that if you see a drone, any
citizen has the right to shoot it down on sight”. There is something a little “disturbing’
about these drones. They’re almost like
android insects, or something, that are intelligent and know where to fly all
by themselves. Then there was the blind
pianist. Here Stewart went into hyper
critical mode. “He’s really not as good
as this obvious puff piece says he is.
He’s too heavy handed”. I was
puzzled at what he meant, and Stu went on.
“That is, there is an altogether lack of finesse and manuel dexterity on
the keyboard, almost as if he were impaired by alcohol or something. And that old clip they showed back in the
forties- - the piano playing was way better not to mention the whole band was
better”. Then it was John Lennon’s turn
in the hot seat. Stu actually claims to
have been THERE in the studio when that “Dave” guy – Beatle memorabilia collector
was visiting with John Lennon at a New York studio in December 1971. Stu says “John
seemed a little schizophrenic”. And I
expressed puzzlement. Stu went on “Yeah,
he expressed joy at seeing Dave and everything, but he seemed very unimpressed by all the collectables Dave dumped out on the table, except for that bootleg
album that John had the strangest amnesia about not even knowing the fifteen songs
that were actually on the Decca tapes.
You can tell instantly, you know- - by the sound engeneering, even if
you had no background”. I said “Well the
drumming, too, is very different”. And
Stu says “Exactly”. Stu actually tried
to track down John Lennon when he came out of his nine year “soul sleep” or
hiatus or whatever in late 1971. But Stu
says “After hanging around John Lennon a little I felt that I really didn’t
know him anymore, and felt he wasn’t the guy I wanted to be hanging around”. So Stu went back to his Torranto band and
picked up where he left off in 1962, and the band had all the same members in
it. Stu doesn’t like Yoco. David was bewildered by Yoco who just grabbed
that card out of his hand in signed it.
She seemed almost almost cold.
She didn’t make a good impression at all”. After eight- - I went out and talked to
Glen.
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