Tuesday, February 07, 2012

1788- WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY?

There have been a few big stories since the last post.

Giants- yeah- they did a great job. The game was a great game- especially the last 5 minutes.

For my Texas friends- us N.J. guys claim the ‘NY’ Giants as our own- they practice down the road from where I grew up in Jersey.

I used to ride my dirt bike in that area [Meadowlands] as a kid- before they developed the land.

It’s basically swamp land- but they built it up and that’s where the stadium sits- in Jersey!

Yeah- we are short on space in N.J. - so we do ‘multi-purpose’ use.

We also use the stadium as a burial ground for former Teamsters presidents [Hoffa Sr. - an inside joke].

Okay- what’s the news right now?

A big story is the Syria situation. Syria is another one of these ‘Arab Spring’ nations that has had protestors rise up in the streets [Egypt- Libya- etc.]

But this time the world community [Russia- China] are not going along with the mantra from the West ‘he is a war criminal- he is on the wrong side of history’ if I hear Susan Rice or any other top U.S. official say this again- I will move to Libya [okay- maybe not].

This past week the U.S. tried to pass a motion at the U.N. that would condemn the Syrian leader- Assad- and call for him to step down and hand the govt. over to someone else.

Now- at this point- after the track record we [Western nations- U.S.] have- whenever protestors rise up- if we don’t like the leader- we begin saying ‘he is bad- he is on the wrong side of history- just step aside- that’s reasonable’.

The result of those who take our ‘advice’ is your family and you get arrested- or you get killed- and then those who survive- even your wife- will be tried and also possibly get executed.

So- that’s why none of these remaining guys are following our lead anymore. Yemen [Salah] - Syria [Assad] and all the rest.

Now- when the U.S. pushed thru the U.N. resolution on Libya- we swore up and down that this ‘no fly zone’ mission was strictly humanitarian in nature.

Russia did not vote for this agreement- but they abstained.

After NATO and the U.S- and France- who played a pretty big role- went in- the mission turned into an all out attack on the Libyan leader.

We hunted him and his family down- we bombed his kids home multiple times and even killed his grandkids- all under the guise of a ‘no fly zone’ to protect civilians.

Okay- Russia was pissed- and they swore they would never fall for another U.S. lead effort that said anything near what the Libyan resolution said.

That’s why they voted no.

Plus Russia has had their own protestors in the streets these last few months- and we started saying some of the same stuff we said when the protestors rose up in Libya- Russia told us to shut up and mind our own business.

They see the writing on the wall- the U.S. will sing this song ‘wrong side of history- free the people’ but we only sing it when its happening with nations we don’t like.

When Bahrain and Saudi Arabia abuse their people- which they do- we sing another song- one that basically says ‘citizens should be seen- and not heard!’

So the world community has caught on- and every where we have called for the former leader to step down- well those nations are now a total mess.

Egypt?

This week the generals- who now run the country- have detained 19 American activists and are going to try them for instigating disharmony in the country.

One of those detained is the son of our transportation secy. Ray Lahood.

The right wing media have described this as ‘the Muslim brotherhood has taken over and they are holding Americans hostage’.

Okay- I know this plays into a very real danger- one that I have written on.

But we need to be careful that we don’t ‘over’ do this fear.

In actuality the reasons these guys are being detained is because the Generals- not the Muslim Brotherhood crowd- are mad at the U.S. because we convinced them to overthrow their pharaoh- Hosni Mubarak- and after we convinced them- their nation is in total shambles.

Egypt used to be a wonderful place to go- tourism was a top business for the country- they have all the ancient sites and artifacts from thousands of years that tourists would go see.

They were the land of the Sphinx and the pyramids- but after their ‘revolution’ they are no longer a place where tourists want to go- they lost around 90 % of their business.

They are trying their former leader- and many are calling for his execution- and his wife’s too!

These are people who wined and dined with Clinton and other presidents over the years- they were seen as friends and allies- and the U.S. basically undercut Mubarak’s rule and now he’d be lucky to escape a public hanging!

So- how did we convince the Generals to overthrow the guy?

Their top military leaders all train at West Point- yes- here in the U.S.

Our top military guys had very close connections to their military- and we went behind Mubarak’s back and convinced these military guys to remove the guy.

Now- after his removal you began having more protests in the streets- some calling for ‘justice’ on the generals- and of course their families- for not doing enough.

The generals found themselves under the same criticism as Mubarak.

And yes- Obama began using the same language about them ‘we want a just transition- the military leaders will be held accountable for any abuse of their citizens’ you know- the key phrases that mean ‘heck- maybe you and your family will be next’.

The generals saw the writing on the wall- and they are gonna try these 19 American activists- they are not gonna play the game anymore with the West.

Lets end with one more example.

One of the big stories going on right now is the possibility of Iran getting a Nuke. We- as well as Israel- have been putting pressure on Iran to drop their Nuke program.

We are treating the Nuke program of Iran as the number one danger in the world today.

We often forget that many nations have nukes- many bad nations.

Iran has 2 nations on either side that have hundreds of nukes.

Israel and Pakistan.

Pakistan is a nation whose political leaders have ‘ties’ with us- but their military and their secret service are infiltrated with groups that we are at war with [Taliban].

Pakistan is a nation with many terrorist ties- and these nukes are at great risk of getting into the hands of bad folk.

So- we should treat the Iran threat as a threat- but we need to keep the thing in balance.

Ron Paul does make some sense when he talks about Iran- I don’t agree with everything he says- but some of the stuff is true.

Okay- so it would seem like any country that came out and said ‘okay U.S.- you want us to forsake our nuke program- you deem this as the worst thing in the world- so we will agree to give them up’.

You would think that any nation that did this would become our friend- right?

Libya is the only nation in recent memory that did this.

Yes- after Bush went into Iraq and we saw his sons killed and Saddam hanged- Gadhaffi’s wife told her husband lets make a deal with this nut [Bush] before he kills us all.

Yes- this is how it happened.

And Gadhaffi contacted us- and he gave up his nuke plans.

What happened next?

He became the only leader- so far- that we actually went after with planes and bombs.

What kind of message does this send?

North Korea has people starving in the streets- they are a real enemy of the world- and treat their people badly.

Why have we never [in recent history] responded militarily?

Well John- they have nukes.

So the message is ‘if you willingly give up your nukes- we might kill you and your family- but if you have nukes- well then it’s too late- we will not do anything’.

You see- the world community watches what we do- they don’t hear what we say.

Yeah- Russia- China and a few other nations are having second thoughts- they hear all our rhetoric on ‘the wrong side of history’ and they see Gadhaffi and his grandkids in the grave.

To them- that’s the wrong side of history.

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