tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27697009.post1973009076377230055..comments2024-02-29T03:21:35.007-08:00Comments on The Great Depression of 2006 : Vladimir Putin the PragmatistJim in San Marcoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09435296419912935381noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27697009.post-61043590266183776752015-10-14T23:36:39.349-07:002015-10-14T23:36:39.349-07:00The USA's foreign policy in the Middle East is...The USA's foreign policy in the Middle East is really backfiring now. Our nation-building/imperialist/meddling/military-industrial-complex/corporatocracy oriented approach of these many decades is blowing up in our faces. Hopefully the manipulators behind all of this will be exposed to some degree due to their failures and be vanquished from public office or from being adjuncts to those in office. America has turned into a very bad actor. Hopefully, when the Millenials move in to the position of running our governments and institutions we will turn back towards the good. The Boomers and the generation before them have made a terrible mess of things. When they die off and are out of government and economics things should improve. Don't know how much I'll see of this in my lifetime. I'm 63.AIMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27697009.post-11708220794377953572015-10-06T19:59:19.899-07:002015-10-06T19:59:19.899-07:00Hi Joseph
Not in my book.
We lost 620,000 soldie...Hi Joseph<br /><br />Not in my book.<br /><br />We lost 620,000 soldiers in our civil war, far more than we lost in WWI and WWII combined. Syria has about 100k soldiers dead and the rest are innocent civilians. Assad has no reason to pick on civilians. His people are fleeing the country because of the cruelty of the other side fighting him.<br /><br />I think in todays world where ISIS soldiers don't put on uniforms and hide behind masks, use car bombs and execute the men and rape the women, chemical weapons make sense. My wife has several poison gas containers for killing 6 and 8 legged creatures. You want to make sure they all die for their crimes and that none escape their just deserts.Jim in San Marcoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09435296419912935381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27697009.post-9191995961955462922015-10-06T06:38:53.358-07:002015-10-06T06:38:53.358-07:00Yeah, some in the US still think Hitler was great....Yeah, some in the US still think Hitler was great.Joseph Oppenheimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09037175611181710409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27697009.post-12171254002195621772015-10-05T20:31:38.108-07:002015-10-05T20:31:38.108-07:00Hi Anon
Glad you liked it, thank you.
If you loo...Hi Anon<br /><br />Glad you liked it, thank you.<br /><br />If you look at Iraq, our installed Democracy was busy looting the country while 100 ISIS fanatics cutting off heads panicked the Army.<br /><br />Politics aside, stability is easier from a dictatorship than from any collective form of government. I see Syria and Assad surviving. Without order, a country of that size will starve to death. You don't need fighters when it comes to food, you need farmers.<br /><br />Nobody thinks about the obvious, your starving and it takes 8 months to grow a crop. Do you plant on the hope you will be left alone to harvest it? Or not plant because you'd be shot by some hungry soldier when the crop came in?Jim in San Marcoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09435296419912935381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27697009.post-3123812620899087392015-10-05T18:14:51.434-07:002015-10-05T18:14:51.434-07:00Very good topic. Putin might look pragmatic now, b...Very good topic. Putin might look pragmatic now, but if he bombs the wrong target, he may start world war 3.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27697009.post-44283123899215614402015-10-04T22:52:59.219-07:002015-10-04T22:52:59.219-07:00Putin found a perfect opportunity to shore up and ...Putin found a perfect opportunity to shore up and restore Assad to power, prevent the Saudis from running their pipeline into Europe, and put a microscope on why the USA is ineffective in their "fight against terrorism" (i.e. the USA has the ulterior motive of toppling the Assad regime, via the CIA hiring terrorist groups to act as their surrogate army). It is a chess game between sociopaths and Putin is obviously the better chess player. Obama is a weak, ineffective, puppet (with Marxist ideologies) who is greatly contributing to the destruction of our country. The puppet masters behind this puppet are insane and have put us on a runaway train to disaster.AIMnoreply@blogger.com