Another of my op-eds for my friends at Legationes….I appreciate their confidence in me and my work…..please if you would like a good well informed place for news……. give them a visit…
Iraq is a slow motion train wreck…..
Iraq’s slow demise
Day: March 1, 2016
A 2016 Foreign Policy Report Card | The American Conservative
I may be AFK (away from keyboard) for awhile today….my lady is in the hospital for tests and I will be making my way to see her…..so please bear with me…..chuq
As I have stated many times before foreign policy is the most important issue, at least for me, in this election…….I feel that without constant war then we could set about fixing this country in so many ways with the savings of not having to fight everybody’s war for them…..
I found a good report card on the candidates in this election on the American Conservative website……….if you are concerned on what the direction of this country will be on the international stage after the election….then please check out the article …….
Presidents have more latitude in foreign affairs than in domestic policy, and the trend over the past two administrations has been for presidents to be more hawkish than their campaign pledges……..
Source: A 2016 Foreign Policy Report Card | The American Conservative
If that source is not to your liking and would like to know more then please turn your attention to the following article…..
The 2016 presidential election in the United States may lead to a sea change in foreign policy.
Each of the five main Republican and Democratic candidates have their own opinions on how to handle issues from Israel/Palestine to relations with Russia. The way the next US president tackles these problems may have implications for the rest of the world.
So where do the candidates actually stand?
Super Tuesday Arrives! (If You Really Care)
The SEC Primary is here…..BTW that is what the media wants all of us bloggers to call Super Tuesday……but what if anything will change after today’s vote?
If you are interested then this what you will need to know if you are looking for something to write about……
Super Tuesday is upon us—and it could be the day that changes the Republican Party forever. With 11 states holding GOP primaries and caucuses, rival candidates are doing their best to dent Donald Trump, but the party establishment fears that the time when his candidacy could be stopped is already in the past. On the Democratic side, meanwhile, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will battle for 11 states plus American Samoa, and analysts say it will require victory in a few close-run contests for Sanders to keep his candidacy afloat. A roundup of coverage:
- FiveThirtyEight has a detailed guide to every state voting in the Republican and Democratic contests, including poll numbers—which suggest both front-runners are headed toward huge wins.
- With Trump poised to win up to 10 states, Politico looks at how his momentum has split Republican leaders, and at what Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz plan to do in the days ahead.
- The Wall Street Journal looks at why Massachusetts will be a must-win for Bernie Sanders.
- The AP has a guide to when results will start rolling in. Caucus states Minnesota, Colorado, and Alaska may experience more hiccups than others.
- Fox News takes a closer look at the states where victory will be most important, including Texas, the biggest prize and possibly Cruz’s only win.
- It’s also primary day for Democrats living overseas. The AP talks to voters in New Zealand, where Super Tuesday arrived first.
- Politico breaks down five numbers it says will define Super Tuesday, including Rubio’s share of the vote in northern Virginia.
- The Washington Post reports on Sanders’ jabs at Clinton on the eve of Super Tuesday. He has vowed to stay in the race until all 50 states have voted.
- Peter Beinart at the Atlantic has three reasons why liberals in states that allow non-Republicans to vote in GOP primaries should give up their chance to vote for Sanders or Clinton and cast a ballot for Marco Rubio.
- Today is do or die for Cruz, according to the National Review, which explains how he managed to paint himself into this corner.
- The New York Times looks at the GOP’s revamped delegate selection, designed to “turbocharge the campaign of a front-runner”—and at how it could help Trump wrap things up very quickly.
There you are…..everything you never wanted to know about today’s circus we call voting…….
You may thank me by donating to Wounded Warriors Project……(just a suggestion)……..
A Vote For Hillary
Today is the much anticipated “Big Day”…..at least for the media……will Super Tuesday” be a make or break day?
Would like to address the GOP race…….LOL…..why would I even talk about a bunch of infantile antics of what use to be adults…..so when they start acting like responsible adults I will refrain from saying anything other than negativity………
Lots have been said about Hillary’s connections to Wall Street….of course she denies that it will have any effect on her presidency…..
Let’s take a look at her campaign manager…..shall we?
Yeah….she will be the candidate for change. If you believe that then you need to share whatever crap you are smoking….
I really wish she would flush the line “we are all in this together” (and voters are buying this bullsh*t) down the toilet…..I do not appreciate millionaires trying to sound like they have any idea what the rest on us humans go through……it is just sickening……I really get overwhelming urge to take a shower after listening to her speeches…..just when does a millionaire really care about anything or anyone beyond wealth and power?
That is not rhetorical……I want a solid answer to that question……
Your turn!
War, Peace, and the Next President – Reason.com
With the election in November I have been trying to get a grasp of what will the nature of armed conflict be….
I am pretty sure that if any one of the GOP front runners will be just a continuation of the world of war we have today….the Dems …..will Clinton be any different? Then there is Bernie…..to tell the truth I am not too sure about Bernie…..(and this is a post for later today)…….
I have been reading a lot of the analyses concerning these people…..
Are you concerned about what the world of war will look like in the near future?
This analysis is a good one and may shed some light on the subject……
When President Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election in 1916, as Europeans slaughtered each other on an unprecedented scale, his slogan was, “He kept us out of war.” If Barack Obama were allowed to run for re-election, he could use this slogan: “He kept us out of Syria.”
Will his successor? Given that the United States has been continuously at war for more than 14 years, you might think this topic would be a focus of the presidential campaign. But it’s been largely ignored. Military involvement in foreign conflicts is no longer unusual enough to warrant much attention from the candidates or the electorate.
More military engagement seems likely. (Read On…….)
5 Establishment Democrat Myths About Bernie Sanders
For a couple of months now the Dem establishment has been pressing hard to discredit Bernie……the DNC is pull no punches…..and then last weekend Clinton whopped Bernie in South Carolina and I expect the attacks on Bernie to intensify because the DNC will want to try and knock Bernie out as quickly as possible…..assuring that their pet project is the nominee…..
Today will be trying for the two Dem candidates……and after the attacks on Bernie will deepen and get more crazy……Clinton and her entourage cannot let Bernie get the upper hand…..look for the nasty side of the Clinton’s emerge from the shadows especially if Bernie has a good showing on Super Tuesday……
The Clinton campaign has since begun to spin a web of obfuscation, claiming the numbers must be wrong considering she won in Hispanic populated precincts, such as Clark County. While true, it does not change the exit polling results. Although Latino voters make up a large subsection of Clark County (30 percent), they are still a minority of the voting population which would explain why a win in those precincts does not directly translate to a win amongst Latinos. No matter how her campaign attempts to spin them, the numbers remain the same.