dis and dat vol. XVII
home to rhonda and those dogs. cold here in vegas and will be glad when spring comes to warm my weary bones. if you ever get a chance to come to this part of the country in the spring, you owe it to yourself to go drive out in the desert and see it bloom. for 3 weeks or so, the desert is alive with color as all the plants come out in their easter dress.
obama seems to be making all the right moves but he must get federal money flowing into job creation before it is too late. the tax cuts, which are so dear to republican hearts, will do nothing to create jobs and jobs is what we need. jobs (to state the obvious) create more jobs as people spend the money they are making. tax cuts only help, and not all that much, those who are drawing a paycheck of some kind.
i am concerned about his plans for afghanastan which look like the plans of the russians before us. you CANNOT win in afghanastan with military, no one ever has and no one ever will. we have no real beef with the afghani's nor do we have a real beef with the taliban. oh, they are a despicable group but their "crime" was to not turn over osama bin laden right after 9-11. now, before you blow a gasket, look at the facts: we had no proof at that time that obl was involved in the attacks and afghanastan, being a sovereign country and all, refused to turn over someone in their country to another country just based on the word of that country's president. we, the united states, would not do that, why are we condemning afghanastan for doing what we would have done? the way it is going and the way obama says he wants it to be going we could be in afghanastan until next century. the only out we have, in my opinion, is to find and capture or kill osama bin laden, declare victory and boogie on out. same in iraq: declare victory and come home. why continue bush's mistake? iraq will probably divide itself up and the kurds will probably get screwed but there is NOTHING we can do about it now. the quickest way to end islamic terrorism is to get out of the middle east. withdraw our troops from their lands. put our efforts into brokering a "deal" with the palistine people and the people of isreal. notice i did not say 'governments' but the 'people'. the government of isreal and hamas in palistine are too locked into their war mentality to ever really seek peace. the answer lies in the people; they are the ones who are dying, who are living in poverty and fear in palistine and in fear in isreal. people, all over the world, want basically the same things, peace, food, education for their children, a way to better themselves etc. governments want power.
oh well, i ramble. off to play some poker. fuck 'em all.
obama seems to be making all the right moves but he must get federal money flowing into job creation before it is too late. the tax cuts, which are so dear to republican hearts, will do nothing to create jobs and jobs is what we need. jobs (to state the obvious) create more jobs as people spend the money they are making. tax cuts only help, and not all that much, those who are drawing a paycheck of some kind.
i am concerned about his plans for afghanastan which look like the plans of the russians before us. you CANNOT win in afghanastan with military, no one ever has and no one ever will. we have no real beef with the afghani's nor do we have a real beef with the taliban. oh, they are a despicable group but their "crime" was to not turn over osama bin laden right after 9-11. now, before you blow a gasket, look at the facts: we had no proof at that time that obl was involved in the attacks and afghanastan, being a sovereign country and all, refused to turn over someone in their country to another country just based on the word of that country's president. we, the united states, would not do that, why are we condemning afghanastan for doing what we would have done? the way it is going and the way obama says he wants it to be going we could be in afghanastan until next century. the only out we have, in my opinion, is to find and capture or kill osama bin laden, declare victory and boogie on out. same in iraq: declare victory and come home. why continue bush's mistake? iraq will probably divide itself up and the kurds will probably get screwed but there is NOTHING we can do about it now. the quickest way to end islamic terrorism is to get out of the middle east. withdraw our troops from their lands. put our efforts into brokering a "deal" with the palistine people and the people of isreal. notice i did not say 'governments' but the 'people'. the government of isreal and hamas in palistine are too locked into their war mentality to ever really seek peace. the answer lies in the people; they are the ones who are dying, who are living in poverty and fear in palistine and in fear in isreal. people, all over the world, want basically the same things, peace, food, education for their children, a way to better themselves etc. governments want power.
oh well, i ramble. off to play some poker. fuck 'em all.
posted by Ron Shock | 9:48 AM
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