Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The USA has to go forward with the Sequester.

Four decades of Republican strategy for our National Defense is completely wrong going forward.

The Republicans have no ideas. They just don't. Their answer is to do as they have always done. They postpone and postpone and postpone GOVERNING to pander to cronies.


Updated: January 18, 2013 | 1:34 p.m.
January 17, 2013 | 5:42 p.m.
...House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., (click here) said Republicans at a closed-door retreat in Williamsburg were weighing a short-term increase in the country’s borrowing limit, giving all sides time to work on a broader fiscal plan in March that would include substantial spending cuts.
“Sometimes you’ve got to lay down a sacrifice bunt,” said Rep. Dennis Ross of Florida about the debt ceiling increase. He said there was a realization among his House GOP colleagues that they had to be ready to deal when negotiations began....
The MILITARY SEQUESTER will require furloughs where as the DOMESTIC SEQUESTER will mean non-profits have to double their efforts to address the condition of the poor. Let the furloughs begin, because, it is not going to be the same anyway.
There is absolutely no use in moving forward in the same manner we have for decade after decade since Eisenhower for a National Defense for the USA. The USA is not going to shed blood in order to be the world police anymore.

The USA has witnessed a huge error in it's National Defense when Algeria came forward to handle the insult to it's sovereignty. There has been gross negligence of Third World countries to live in the same century The West does. As a result, countries like Iran and North Korea have put nuclear weapons before the well being of their own people. NO MORE! If that strategy continues, the USA will be in a hemisphere full of nuclear weapons. THAT IS NOT A NATIONAL DEFENSE. That is not a strategy, that is Wall Street and Republicans with no ideas.

As witnessed with Algeria, The West needs to move into a DIPLOMATIC PROMISE to move forward with the Third World rather than without them. We need to bring aid and alliance to these nations. I am quite sure Russia and China has already tried. 

The USA military's strategy in the Third World by rolling in a huge military machine to secure things back home is no longer a real solution and to ignore that is not only a mistake, it will bring war to the USA borders.

No more nukes.

Non-proliferation and MEANING IT!

Alliances of strength where the USA actually elevates the people of other nations and is appreciated for it. Rather than nation's cowering in fear and seeking weapons to level the playing field.

No more! Absolutely no more!

Since World War I the USA has sought weaponry to protect itself from war. It has fought wars in foreign lands. There is no nation on Earth that wants war. Other nations want to prosper, but, every time they begin the most minor of hope to that end they are invaded because their resources are fought over by rebels and their achievements are removed and destroyed. What could have happened in Algeria could have begun a world war in the long view.

No.

The Third World has to be addressed. Nations need their sovereignty guaranteed to them and a global peace has to be envisioned and sought. The ICONS of peace these days are Nuclear Treaties between Russia and the USA, Olympics now known to have been contaminated by Wall Street and G20, G8 and G, G, G, meetings as an expression of success toward that peace.

IT IS NOT ENOUGH.

Real measurable peace going forward is to realize there is STABILITY throughout the world with BENEVOLENT leaders. Leaders willing to live with the hopes and dreams of their people and not oppress them. In a chronic global conversation, there is no oppression anymore. In places where cell towers do not yet exist, there is profound misunderstanding of reality and the next burgeoning war when people organize with al Qaeda to overcome their ineffective and hideous government. That is exactly what has occurred in Mali. 

In Mali, a grossly impoverished people turned to the only force available to them to stop the hideous killing of their holy men by an ineffective government. The USA can't afford that anymore, as if it ever could. Those deaths directly interpreted into a rebel force moving into Algeria. Ultimately those deaths IN REAL MONEY equates to billions and billions of war planes, bombs and blood and treasure the USA can no longer afford. 

We need to turn to a far different venue of National Defense called PEACE. We need to teach the Republicans how to spell it in case they don't know how to do that. 

So, the military sequester is correct and important in reducing the hideous amount of money the USA now spends on a National Defense WITHOUT a strategy so much as the backing of Wall Street. The USA needs to pivot from it's path of disaster for it's children and to a place where it can flourish while containing damage to it's only planet.