Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Monday, May 14, 2018
Way Out...
Most of our decisions in the Middle East, in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Iran helped the Saudis, and other oil producing countries by increasing the prices of oil. A geopolitical missteps one after the other. We justified by using the unclear phrase of "America's Strategic Interest".
The problems in the Middle East and other parts of the world is caused by the high oil prices. The extra funds support terrorists all the time somewhere.
We pay high prices for oil, and we pay high prices to defend ourselves against terrorism. Let us break the cycle.
Sunday, May 13, 2018
Close...
The White House condemned Iran’s “reckless actions,” accusing the country of “exporting destabilizing influence throughout the Middle East.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders called on “responsible nations” to pressure Iran to “change this dangerous behavior.”
An Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights prompted an Israel attack on Iranian targets in Syria. Saudi Arabia is also accusing Iran of providing missiles that Yemeni rebels have fired toward Riyadh.
Israeli airstrikes struck Iranian military installations inside Syria, its biggest coordinated assault on Syria since the 1973 in retaliation for an Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights.
Comments: We took down Sadam of Iraq with a very high cost of human death and destructions. That opened the door for Iran to be in Iraq.
Now we are trying to take down Assad of Syria, again, with a high cost of Human death and misery, and that opened the door for ....
Who are we helping?
Be Best...
First lady Melania Trump rolled out her "Be Best" campaign earlier in the week, a children-focused policy platform that targets bullying, drug use and suicide.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Similar...
As Donald Trump’s legal challenges multiply, so do comparisons of him to Richard Nixon, the only president ever removed from office.
“How Trump’s Scandals Mimic Watergate,” “Trump Is Going Full Nixon on Mueller” and “Who’s Worse, Trump or Nixon?”
Frequently on MSNBC you’ll hear veterans of the Watergate scandal explaining the parallels the special prosecutor, the witnesses who may “flip,” the possible subpoena of the president.
At the same time, however, prominent liberals, including Democratic Representative and others, are trying to tamp down talk of impeachment.
Democrats had large majorities in both the House and the Senate in July 1974, when the House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of three articles of impeachment. Nixon said he was quitting because he no longer had a “strong enough political base in the Congress.” Watergate was a political story, and a legal one as well..
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