Obama Can't Stop America's Slide To Ruin
Obama Can't Stop America's Slide To Ruin
As economic troubles loom on the horizon and wars and rumors of wars continue on its upward trajectory the question of mankinds sinfulness cannot be ignored. America in particular must come to terms with its wickedness for as the poor man sits in jail as profiteers look upon creating a new slave force for corporate profits. Our leaders are too timid to deal with serious crimes committed by those who hold power and too controlled by the powerful to deal effectively with a very serious economic crisis. The era of American pre-emminence in the world appears to be coming to a rapid conclusion.
There will be little that those in Washington will do to stave off the very serious fiscal crisis we are now facing until the system has all but collapsed. Greed, corruption and wicked self-interest still rule the day in Washington and no one really cares about the nation as a whole or the citizens of this once great republic.
The Fed, Treasury and the President are in a state of denial. They are not seeing the problem for what it really is, or at least refuse to articulate it in public for fear of exacerbating the problems. Inflation is starting to rear its ugly head, especially commodities. More people are starting to receive unemployment benefits, consumer spending is suffering and homes are being repossessed at an ever quickening pace. These are just the beginnings of the things happening on main street. Wall Street is heading for an unmitigated disaster. From Mortgage Backed Securities to Credit default swaps to even municipal bonds, panic is spreading. There seems to be no way out of the pit we have dig for ourselves. We are a nation that no longer listens to wisdom or sage advise. Folly and ignorance have guided America for the past four decades; greed and avarice have been our chief counsellors, while perversions and intoxication have reigned in the minds and hearts of the American people. Now that the clouds of disaster loom on the horizon, People are clamoring for 'change'. This is why I think Obama is so popular. He represents something very different and is a person who has not been completely corrupted by politics in DC as both Hillary and McCain have been. Will Obama bring change? No. I can say that with a high degree of confidence. He has all the earmarks of a second Jimmy Carter, an 'outsider' who will listen to insiders as they continue to lead America into the proverbial ditch. For starters look at his judgment on Nato and Afghanistan. These are important questions and who he has advising him (Brezinski of the Carter years) does not inspire confidence.
Obama clearly does not understand the real problems in Afghanistan. Islamic militants are clearly our main target, but the other major problem is corruption. Karzai's government's corruption is off the scale and his administration is a direct link to drug trafficking. Everyone is doing it and Karzai along with his brother in particular (who is probably the biggest dope trafficker in Afghanistan) are not alone. Even the Taliban (whose anti-drug campaign while in power was quite exemplary) are now doing it. One UK journalists says that Afghanistan is darker and more dangerous than it ever was under the Taliban. This is why Obama's pledge of a billion dollars of aid money to be shipped to Afghanistan shows an incredible naivete. That money will go where the rest of Afghan aid money has gone, into a new wing of Karzai's palace, another heated indoor swimming pool and a fleet of Hummers for his friends as well as the usual investments in arms, trucks and GPS boxes to protect drug caravans as they cross dangerous territory.
US and Nato troops are stuck here in a terrible quagmire that simply cannot be won. History has taught us some valuable lessons about Afghanistan. namely, that it can be easily invaded, but not conquered and inevitable defeat here usually spells the end of great empires. Ask the Soviets.
One of the biggest problems with our Afghan policy is our support for Pakistan's Musharraf. That alone has fueled hatred for the US and helped swell the ranks of the disaffected into dissident Islamic groups that are very active in various ways in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. We made some extremely serious blunders there and one look at Brezinksi's plans for Afghanistan (found in the book 'The Grand Chessboard) tells us that Obama will only continue meddling in Afghanistan in ways that benefit Western Oil conglomerates. And Obama wants Nato's help? This is not likely without a workable plan and what is proposed is little more than geo-political solutions concocted by the politically immature.
If one American mistake was to merge al-Qaida and the Taliban into a single enemy, another was to imagine that Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI - itself made up largely of Pathans - could be mobilized effectively against the Taliban. The war in Afghanistan is almost certainly unwinnable. Instead of going in deeper, as the U.S. is urging, NATO should plan an exit strategy. That would be the sensible option. All the indications are that the war is going badly. Security has steadily deteriorated since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001. Insurgency activity has intensified every year. Suicide bombings have greatly increased and casualty rates have soared. The Taliban have re-grouped and are now vigorously on the warpath.
Kabul itself is no longer safe. On 14 January, multiple suicide attacks on the Serena Hotel killed eight people during a visit by the Norwegian Foreign Minister. On 31 January, the deputy governor of Helmand province and five others were killed in an attack on a mosque. At the same time, U.S. blunders continue to inflict casualties on Afghan civilians and Afghan security forces. On 25 January, for example, nine Afghan police were killed in a firefight with U.S troops - an incident described by the U.S. as a 'misunderstanding.'
The United States has been urging its allies to commit more troops to the fight against the Taliban. But several NATO member countries are refusing to comply. Germany, for instance, has 3,200 men in Afghanistan, based in the relatively peaceful northern part of the country. It has rejected a U.S. appeal to redeploy them to the volatile Helmand province in the south. The Canadians would like to pull out their contingent altogether.
Several Western leaders are beginning to doubt the wisdom of the American-led war. The Afghan war has, in fact, become a subject of intense controversy inside NATO, threatening the alliance with a major split. - Dar Al Hayat
It is my personal desire the next President spends far less time on Foreign Policy debacles and begins to address some very large and nasty domestic problems that have been ignored since the days of Lyndon Johnson. I am not at all confident that this is going to happen. The kinds of folks hovering around him are too connected with the power centers that have created this unmaintainable empire based on an economic imperium that is crumbling at the foundations and international good will that has turned into hatred in much of the world. They do not have the answers to America's predicament and their views are too parochial and retrograde to provide viable options for this extremely critical upcoming administration.
What this nation needs now is new blood not just in the White House but in the Senate and House as well, because if the same old faces are sitting there in '09, nothing will change, except perhaps the tenor of hot air blown about the chambers. We will hear pretty speeches, the lobbyists will spread money around and pork will rule the day, not sound policies that protect the nations long term interests.
Who is to blame? The American people bear almost all of it. They refuse to see what is happening and only now are vaguely aware of it because it is starting to hit their pocketbooks. While our nation has gone on a killing spree around the world, they shopped, drank, snorted and fornicated their way into a hole of debt that they only now are beginning to see is much deeper than they were told by the man on the TV news broadcast. No one cared who we killed, bombed, maimed and tortured until the mortgage couldn't be paid and the cable bill was overdue. We have spent the earnings of the next three generations on a war that is as insane as it has been destructive to both our military, our economy and our international standing. Now Americans are clinging to 'change' in a person whose record is at best, chequered and whose judgment is suspect.
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama says he'll crack down on fraudulent sub-prime lenders. If he really means it he can start by firing his campaign finance chair, Penny Pritzker. Before taking over Obama's campaign finances, she headed up the borderline shady and failed Superior Bank. It collapsed in 2002. The bank's sordid story and its abominable role in fueling the sub-prime crisis are well known and documented.
This is change? If so, then the status quo doesn't look so bad. I am not anti-Obama, for of the three remaining contenders he is by far still the best choice, provided he is capable of really listening to those whom the system has long ignored on issues where the insiders have monopolized power; Monetary policy and International policy. Mccain, as much as I respect his service is frankly one of the more corrupt Senators in Washington. A simple google search on McCain and Corruption will yield a plethora of information on him. Hillary? You will have a hard time distinguishing her actual voting record and Bush's foreign policy. It was Clintonism that sent us on the fiscal course we are now on. I am a realistic person who possesss a rare quality of being able to see past the 'image' to the realities. I see the next four years as being pivotal and our leadership as being simply not up to the task. The crisis we are facing needs solutions now, not 4 years from now. What is happening in the markets could very well lead us to a Second Great Depression. I do not see problem solvers in the race, I see only the usual politicians posturing, lying and accusing who lack any clear and concise vision on where he or she will take the nation and how they will deal with our pressing economic and political problems, not least of which is the rampant corruption that rules the roost in Washington. In short the next President and his decisions will decide if Americans are able to still maintain some semblance of their lifestyle or if we slide into a tryannical police state with third world-like economic conditions. America has made her bed and the willful ignorance, greed, gluttony, broken families (due to adultery, fornication and domestic violence) of her populace is going to be paid with a much heavier price than most imagine.
As economic troubles loom on the horizon and wars and rumors of wars continue on its upward trajectory the question of mankinds sinfulness cannot be ignored. America in particular must come to terms with its wickedness for as the poor man sits in jail as profiteers look upon creating a new slave force for corporate profits. Our leaders are too timid to deal with serious crimes committed by those who hold power and too controlled by the powerful to deal effectively with a very serious economic crisis. The era of American pre-emminence in the world appears to be coming to a rapid conclusion.
There will be little that those in Washington will do to stave off the very serious fiscal crisis we are now facing until the system has all but collapsed. Greed, corruption and wicked self-interest still rule the day in Washington and no one really cares about the nation as a whole or the citizens of this once great republic.
The Fed, Treasury and the President are in a state of denial. They are not seeing the problem for what it really is, or at least refuse to articulate it in public for fear of exacerbating the problems. Inflation is starting to rear its ugly head, especially commodities. More people are starting to receive unemployment benefits, consumer spending is suffering and homes are being repossessed at an ever quickening pace. These are just the beginnings of the things happening on main street. Wall Street is heading for an unmitigated disaster. From Mortgage Backed Securities to Credit default swaps to even municipal bonds, panic is spreading. There seems to be no way out of the pit we have dig for ourselves. We are a nation that no longer listens to wisdom or sage advise. Folly and ignorance have guided America for the past four decades; greed and avarice have been our chief counsellors, while perversions and intoxication have reigned in the minds and hearts of the American people. Now that the clouds of disaster loom on the horizon, People are clamoring for 'change'. This is why I think Obama is so popular. He represents something very different and is a person who has not been completely corrupted by politics in DC as both Hillary and McCain have been. Will Obama bring change? No. I can say that with a high degree of confidence. He has all the earmarks of a second Jimmy Carter, an 'outsider' who will listen to insiders as they continue to lead America into the proverbial ditch. For starters look at his judgment on Nato and Afghanistan. These are important questions and who he has advising him (Brezinski of the Carter years) does not inspire confidence.
Obama clearly does not understand the real problems in Afghanistan. Islamic militants are clearly our main target, but the other major problem is corruption. Karzai's government's corruption is off the scale and his administration is a direct link to drug trafficking. Everyone is doing it and Karzai along with his brother in particular (who is probably the biggest dope trafficker in Afghanistan) are not alone. Even the Taliban (whose anti-drug campaign while in power was quite exemplary) are now doing it. One UK journalists says that Afghanistan is darker and more dangerous than it ever was under the Taliban. This is why Obama's pledge of a billion dollars of aid money to be shipped to Afghanistan shows an incredible naivete. That money will go where the rest of Afghan aid money has gone, into a new wing of Karzai's palace, another heated indoor swimming pool and a fleet of Hummers for his friends as well as the usual investments in arms, trucks and GPS boxes to protect drug caravans as they cross dangerous territory.
US and Nato troops are stuck here in a terrible quagmire that simply cannot be won. History has taught us some valuable lessons about Afghanistan. namely, that it can be easily invaded, but not conquered and inevitable defeat here usually spells the end of great empires. Ask the Soviets.
One of the biggest problems with our Afghan policy is our support for Pakistan's Musharraf. That alone has fueled hatred for the US and helped swell the ranks of the disaffected into dissident Islamic groups that are very active in various ways in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. We made some extremely serious blunders there and one look at Brezinksi's plans for Afghanistan (found in the book 'The Grand Chessboard) tells us that Obama will only continue meddling in Afghanistan in ways that benefit Western Oil conglomerates. And Obama wants Nato's help? This is not likely without a workable plan and what is proposed is little more than geo-political solutions concocted by the politically immature.
If one American mistake was to merge al-Qaida and the Taliban into a single enemy, another was to imagine that Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI - itself made up largely of Pathans - could be mobilized effectively against the Taliban. The war in Afghanistan is almost certainly unwinnable. Instead of going in deeper, as the U.S. is urging, NATO should plan an exit strategy. That would be the sensible option. All the indications are that the war is going badly. Security has steadily deteriorated since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001. Insurgency activity has intensified every year. Suicide bombings have greatly increased and casualty rates have soared. The Taliban have re-grouped and are now vigorously on the warpath.
Kabul itself is no longer safe. On 14 January, multiple suicide attacks on the Serena Hotel killed eight people during a visit by the Norwegian Foreign Minister. On 31 January, the deputy governor of Helmand province and five others were killed in an attack on a mosque. At the same time, U.S. blunders continue to inflict casualties on Afghan civilians and Afghan security forces. On 25 January, for example, nine Afghan police were killed in a firefight with U.S troops - an incident described by the U.S. as a 'misunderstanding.'
The United States has been urging its allies to commit more troops to the fight against the Taliban. But several NATO member countries are refusing to comply. Germany, for instance, has 3,200 men in Afghanistan, based in the relatively peaceful northern part of the country. It has rejected a U.S. appeal to redeploy them to the volatile Helmand province in the south. The Canadians would like to pull out their contingent altogether.
Several Western leaders are beginning to doubt the wisdom of the American-led war. The Afghan war has, in fact, become a subject of intense controversy inside NATO, threatening the alliance with a major split. - Dar Al Hayat
It is my personal desire the next President spends far less time on Foreign Policy debacles and begins to address some very large and nasty domestic problems that have been ignored since the days of Lyndon Johnson. I am not at all confident that this is going to happen. The kinds of folks hovering around him are too connected with the power centers that have created this unmaintainable empire based on an economic imperium that is crumbling at the foundations and international good will that has turned into hatred in much of the world. They do not have the answers to America's predicament and their views are too parochial and retrograde to provide viable options for this extremely critical upcoming administration.
What this nation needs now is new blood not just in the White House but in the Senate and House as well, because if the same old faces are sitting there in '09, nothing will change, except perhaps the tenor of hot air blown about the chambers. We will hear pretty speeches, the lobbyists will spread money around and pork will rule the day, not sound policies that protect the nations long term interests.
Who is to blame? The American people bear almost all of it. They refuse to see what is happening and only now are vaguely aware of it because it is starting to hit their pocketbooks. While our nation has gone on a killing spree around the world, they shopped, drank, snorted and fornicated their way into a hole of debt that they only now are beginning to see is much deeper than they were told by the man on the TV news broadcast. No one cared who we killed, bombed, maimed and tortured until the mortgage couldn't be paid and the cable bill was overdue. We have spent the earnings of the next three generations on a war that is as insane as it has been destructive to both our military, our economy and our international standing. Now Americans are clinging to 'change' in a person whose record is at best, chequered and whose judgment is suspect.
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama says he'll crack down on fraudulent sub-prime lenders. If he really means it he can start by firing his campaign finance chair, Penny Pritzker. Before taking over Obama's campaign finances, she headed up the borderline shady and failed Superior Bank. It collapsed in 2002. The bank's sordid story and its abominable role in fueling the sub-prime crisis are well known and documented.
This is change? If so, then the status quo doesn't look so bad. I am not anti-Obama, for of the three remaining contenders he is by far still the best choice, provided he is capable of really listening to those whom the system has long ignored on issues where the insiders have monopolized power; Monetary policy and International policy. Mccain, as much as I respect his service is frankly one of the more corrupt Senators in Washington. A simple google search on McCain and Corruption will yield a plethora of information on him. Hillary? You will have a hard time distinguishing her actual voting record and Bush's foreign policy. It was Clintonism that sent us on the fiscal course we are now on. I am a realistic person who possesss a rare quality of being able to see past the 'image' to the realities. I see the next four years as being pivotal and our leadership as being simply not up to the task. The crisis we are facing needs solutions now, not 4 years from now. What is happening in the markets could very well lead us to a Second Great Depression. I do not see problem solvers in the race, I see only the usual politicians posturing, lying and accusing who lack any clear and concise vision on where he or she will take the nation and how they will deal with our pressing economic and political problems, not least of which is the rampant corruption that rules the roost in Washington. In short the next President and his decisions will decide if Americans are able to still maintain some semblance of their lifestyle or if we slide into a tryannical police state with third world-like economic conditions. America has made her bed and the willful ignorance, greed, gluttony, broken families (due to adultery, fornication and domestic violence) of her populace is going to be paid with a much heavier price than most imagine.
posted by shummer60 at Monday, March 03, 2008
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