The big news around the world is the war in the in the Middle East, but back in DC we had our own explosion as Mike Johnson, possibly the worst choice for the job that is only two steps from the Presidency, was voted Speaker of the House. This is a clown that when asked about his foreign policy, suggested that the questioner take a bible off the shelf and study it.
Sure, a book written two thousand years ago by illiterates is definitely the best place to look for twenty first century foreign policy and military planning. I guess he expects a new flood to solve the Palestinian problem. He must be looking for Netanyahu to part the waters and then let them close back when Hamas tries to cross the Jordan.
This is a guy who stands against almost everything anyone with any brains is for.
He is an adamant gun nut, violently against any kind of abortion at all regardless of circumstances, and dead set against programs like Medicaid and support for Ukraine. He’s also a gay baiter who wants to make gay marriage illegal and identify sodomy as a crime. He supports Israel but wants us to drop Ukraine and allow Russia to embark on a series of land acquisition wars that will threaten most of eastern Europe and destroy the world’s economy.
And yes, the line of succession to the presidency of the most important nation in the world, now stands at Biden, Harris, low grade moron.
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The most dominant question of the current war in Israel is a moral one, something that would normally be anathema in any situation of war. Sure, we have, as civil human beings, instituted certain conditions under which man can wage wars. But as a rule, those conditions are only dealt with, after wars are over. The Nuremburg War Crimes trials punished the remaining leaders of Nazi Germany along with many of the lesser lights for their attack on humanity, but only after the war was won. If Germany had won those trials would never have happened, and those inhuman monsters would never have been punished, just as monsters in succeeding conflicts have escaped retribution for their deeds in conflicts before and after WWII.
Now we are faced with the reality of the acts attributed to Hamas during its heinous attack on Israeli civilians and the subsequent attack of the Israeli forces on Gaza, combined with Israel’s vow to completely destroy Hamas and all its leadership and capabilities.
Although no military leader in America or Israel will admit it, especially given the current state of hostage holding and Palestinian civilians trapped in Gaza, the promise of the destruction of Hamis is impossible to execute without devastating casualties.
But where is the responsibility to humanity? Does it lay with Hamas, which is holding hundreds of hostages as human shields and preventing Palestinian civilians from leaving Gaza? Does it lay with Egypt which refuses to allow Gazans to flee across its borders and seek refuge in its country, or does it lay with Israel for moving forward with its bombing and planned invasion of Gaza?
It’s pretty clear that the Muslim world, even in this country, along with large groupings of anti-Semitic political groups feel that it is Israel’s responsibility to back off its invasion and save the civilians.
No one except gun manufacturers like war. The elements of the peace lobby are active across the globe, but in this case maybe they should stop and take a breath. Hamas has an established position. They want all Jews dead and Israel destroyed. To that end, they put in motion a sneak attack that was nothing but one huge war crime. Now their supporters want them protected from retribution by claiming that Israel’s move against them would be a war crime because regardless of who is responsible for keeping the Palestinians in Gaza, civilians would be killed in the process of an attack. But Hamas is the one preventing the civilians from escaping to safer ground, not Israel. And of course, if Israel doesn’t attack and wipe out Hamas, Hamas will go right back to their old behavior of attacking Israel with the goal of killing all Jews.
The group logic seems to be to declare that Hamas is holding human shields, so it’s their fault if civilians are killed during an Israel attack. But that doesn’t save any Palestinian lives. The important question seems to be, “Where the hell is Solomon and the damned baby?”
And because no one has answered that question we have speeches like the one from Bibi Netanyahu last weekend in which he stated: “We did not want this war. We did not start this war. But we will win this war and capitulating to calls for a cease fire will not achieve our goal.”
And that unfortunately is where it’s at. If the Israelis don’t wipe out Hamas, Hamas will destroy Israel. It’s a simple matter of survival, just as it has been so many times before in the desperate history of this struggling nation. I really believe that Hamas has set the stage and Israel has no choice but to start the action. If they don’t wipe out Hamas, they will he destroyed by Hamas. That means that civilians and hostages will be killed but because Hamas has created the rules of this conflict, it will be their responsibility and their war crime, even if the destruction is accomplished by Israel. We dropped the atom bomb to end WWII, but the deaths of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are on the conscience of those leaders of Japan that ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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JD Vance of Ohio was on Face the Nation this past Sunday, proving that he is indeed one of the slow ones.
Vance’s big blunder is that he wants to spend taxpayer’s money in Israel and Taiwan but not in Ukraine. Of course, he won’t say why he doesn’t want to spend money in Ukraine, which is odd, considering the war in Ukraine will have the biggest effect on the US and the world if the wrong guy wins. It goes without saying that we don’t want to lose any of these conflicts for any number of reasons, but Vance doesn’t want to help Ukraine for only one reason and it’s typical of the MAGAverse. Vance wants Trump to win the presidency and then, if we shut off the money and Russia can defeat Ukraine, Trump will smile at Vance while he kisses Putin’s ass on international TV.
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I have been listening lately, to a number of people, who when they speak, what they say, gets taken to the bank. There seems to be a general consensus that Trump will be convicted on at least a number of the charges on which he has been indicted. There also seems to be a surety that he will never go to jail. What will happen? Well, a lot of weight has been given to the locked up in Mar-a-Lago scenario, but there is also a strong possibility that he will flee the country. Don’t laugh. I even heard that on the tube the other night, and it came from a serious source.
The second possibility, and this one is really scary, is he could win the election even as he is convicted. This is a truly terrifying concept because this one could lead to open insurrection by the same clowns that invaded the capitol and that would be the end of democracy as we know it.