This is going to be a critical month for the budget fight. The Republican House wants to make trillions in cuts over the next ten years and the Democratic wants to keep spending money until the 2012 election. They do not want to cut anything that will make a difference. I think at least until the next election the Democrats are going to win these budget battles and I think in the end the establishment Republicans will go with the Democrats to get a budget passed.<\/p>\n
The consequences of that in the 2012 elections is hard to say. But by 2013 cuts will be futile anyway because we will be the midst of an inflationary depression. If government is shut down the Tea Party people are the ones that will lose in the opinion polls. The deck is stacked against them. Don’t for a minute think that most Americans will want anything cut that will impact their own bottom line and without doing that major cuts are quite impossible.<\/p>\n
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The Middle East and North Africa is a real can of worms. There is nobody on earth who knows how all this will all play out. If we actually had a sane national foreign policy in the Middle East it would be centered around our Israel ally.<\/p>\n
The best we can hope from Libya is that it does not become a terrorist state. We traded protecting civilians for talking part in a civil war where both sides hate us. I think that no matter who wins the civil war or even if Libya is divided, it is very likely to result in more safe\u00a0 harbors for terrorists and even state sponsored terrorism.<\/p>\n
We know that weapons that can be used against us are now getting in the hands of al Qaeda in Libya. So what do we do about it when we have already ruled out boots on the ground? Of course, don’t believe anything you hear from this administration. We already have covert boots on the ground. Just hope that these people do not end up as hostages because I still see the potential of a Jimmy Carter situation here. Meanwhile, we know that poison nerve and mustard gas shells from Gaddafi weapons depots have been sold to terrorists enemies of Israel.<\/p>\n
The Obamaites have told the leader of Yemen to step down. I don’t think that is wise because instead of a friendly state Iran will control that Shiite region.<\/p>\n
Probably the most understated story in the Middle East is Bahrain. Saudi Arabia has sent in their military to keep down the majority Shiite uprisings. Saudi Arabia by permission of King Hamad has become a Bahrain protectorate. I hear that there are plans for a Saudi Arabian military base across the sea from Iran. All this really has Iran pissed. A Shiite Sunni war could start over something like this. Iran can’t really back down or they will lose face in the Middle East and the Saudi Arabia Royal family has already determined that their survival is at stake if they allow a hostile Shiite Bahrain majority to radicalize their own Shiite population. So nobody is likely to blink here and the outcome is unpredictable.<\/p>\n
If this leads to local military action the Saudis have the forces to handle Iran and if there were a full-scale attack on Saudi Arabia by Iran the United States would not hesitate to neutralize Iran. So perhaps the taming of the Monkey (Ahmadinejad) does not come from Israel after all. A fatal flaw for Iran is that they might be getting themselves over their head before they actually have the power to deal with the Sunni majority and the West. Even so, when a nation expects a supernatural savior to come and save the day for them, why expect rationality?<\/p>\n
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Our war against the Taliban and our nation building in Afghanistan is a disaster. The people there have been rioting and killing foreigners for about a week now because a pastor in Florida burned a Koran. General Petraeus says the Koran burning puts the whole war effort in jeopardy. If that is really the case what does that say about a nation that thinks it can build a democracy within a lunatic asylum. Let’s face it, were never going to build democracies in nations controlled by religious cults and warlords.<\/p>\n
Next that Florida pastor wants to put Muhammad on trial. That should go over well in the Muslim world, but I guess someone needs to get the truth out. When 1.5 billion people are trapped in a cult and live in denial it’s probably time someone finds the guts to educated them and set them free. I know it’s just easier to put off the confrontation the world is going to have with Islam to the next generation but we seem to put off everything that is painful to the next generations because we do not want to make the necessary choices and sacrifices. The western world now lives in denial and many of these old hippies running the world are just plain cowards. Hitler and Stalin would have had a field day with this generation.<\/p>\n
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It looks like at least 25,000 people lost their lives in the Japan earthquake. They have not found that many bodies yet and they never will, because many were swept out to sea. The Japanese has a cultural that keeps good track of people and if all these people are still missing you can be almost certain that they are now dead.<\/p>\n
Japan will now create a new Dead Sea or dead zone by pumping millions of gallons of highly radio-active water into the Pacific. It looks like the nuclear plant will take decades to entomb. I suppose before long this news story will go on the back burner in the West. Unless of course the thousands of core rods actually start burning and irradiating the Northern Hemisphere. That is not out of the question because Japan could always have another earthquake that could stop the cooling process. No matter what happens, this is going to have a major impact on the Japanese economy and it will impact the world economy.<\/p>\n
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If Obama drops to about 40 percent in the polls I expect Hillary Clinton to enter as a democrat challenger and I think she will defeat Obama if she does enter. She will be very difficult to beat in any presidential election unless some unknown star rises. The Republicans are not going to win with Romney, Palin, Gingrich,\u00a0 Hucklebee or most of the rest. The main difference between Hillary and Obama is that she will have the clout to finish the destruction of America through a slight move toward the center. In reality, if the left center takes over, the democrats we will have the same people who brought the crash of 2008 and they will not have any remedy for the stagflation depression that will be upon them. When the CEO of Wal-Mart says that there are going to be massive price increases by summer people ought to take him seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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