Why can’t Peace Keepers Keep the Peace?

Annan's guilt at his silence when he could have stopped the genocide in Rwanda appears to have intensified as he watched the U.N. Security Council do nothing meaningful to stop the genocide in Darfur for these three years and instead engage in crafting empty proposals that amounted to a minuet of death.--Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice

I’m for some preemptive peace so why hasn’t the United Nations worked with nation states to win the peace? Yes it’s easy to blame Israel for reacting to Lebanon militia group Hezbollah’s acts of war kidnapping of 2 Israeli military personnel. And it’s easy to fault President Bush for his policy of preemtive action and strike-first policy against terrorists.
However if you are opposed to the Bush doctrine of protecting America from terrorists who declared war against America in 1996and again in 1998 then join me in demanding that the United Nations launch an initiative of preemptive peace.

I believe that this recent escalation of violence the Iraq war and the conflict between Lebanon and Israel, should be blamed on the United Nations’ inability to effectively use their influence for peace. Why can’t they keep the peace?

The U.N. operates on an annual peacekeeping budget of approximately $4.72 billion dollars with 97.57million dollars earmarked for keeping the peace in Lebanon so just why didn’t the U.N. do anything to preempt the actions of Hezbollah?

And why are there wars raging internationally when we have an international body whose primary function has been to promote peace among the nation states of the world?

That question was put to the secretary general of the United Nations Kofi Annan twice, once in an interview that he did in Canada with Evan Solomon and one he did with Jim Lehrer on News Hour on PBS.

In the Evan Solomon interviewthe secretary general responded thusly:

EVAN SOLOMON:Tell us... Why the UN is actually relevant?

KOFI ANNAN: I think the UN is a unique organization. It is the only organization in the world that has not only the convenient power we have, bringing 191 member states together, but when it comes to development of international law and collective action and the question of legitimacy, there’s no other organization than the UN. And, in fact, it’s become quite clear that it’s the UN that can confer legitimacy on situations which individual countries, however powerful, cannot do.

EVAN SOLOMON: But even if in cases like Kosovo, which was a NATO operation, the UN missed it, in Rwanda the UN, as you well know…that in fact there’s an argument to be made that the UN outside of Korea, that really, maybe the 1991 Gulf War, that the UN has failed to accomplish its mission.

KOFI ANNAN: I think it depends on how one accesses success and failure. Even if we were to stay in the peacekeeping area, which you have indicated, you should remember the UN operations in places like Cambodia, Mozambique and many others where we have succeeded the work the UN did in Central America. But the UN is much, much more than a peacekeeping operation. We do incredible work in the humanitarian area, in the economic and social area, in development of international law…

EVAN SOLOMON: Quickly before we leave, April 7th is the 10-year anniversary of Rwanda a situation you brought up. During that time you were the head of the peacekeeping mission. General Dallaire has written a book about it and has talked about it. At that time, he sent a fax to you and to Maurice Baril saying he needed troops and he never got them. I wonder, 10 years later now that you’re the secretary general, do you regret not sending troops and answering Romeo Dallaire’s fax in a different way?
KOFI ANNAN: No, I wish we could have sent troops. I mean, this Rwanda experience and tragedy was a nightmare for all of us. It was a really painful experience for me, personally, and in fact at one stage looking for troops we spoke to 80 countries and no one would send troops. You have to understand the UN doesn't have troops. We borrow them from governments. There are two things that make that happen you need a mandate from the Security Council and then you need to get the troops. But, I think, lets back up for a minute, we must also remember that Rwanda was happening when we were pulling out of Somalia, after the death of the 18 soldiers and governments really had no appetite to take on any such mission. That fax from General Dallaire was not the only information indicating that things were serious. There were council members who had better information than we did, but the will was not there…

It is clear that Mr. Annan views the U.N. as the International answer for world governance and legitimacy but what is stunningly clear is that the U.N. is not very willing to acknowledge its failures in keeping peace in the world not in Rwanda, Kosovo or the Gulf war.

In Mr. Annan’s interview with PBS’s Jim Lehrerthe U.N.’s peacekeeping effectiveness was discussed again this time regarding Sudan:

JIM LEHRER: Mr. Secretary General, a lot of people are asking -- this has been going on for three years. Over 200,000 people have died; 2 million have been displaced. And it's right all in public view. This has been well-known and reported all over the world. Why has it taken so long to stop this?

KOFI ANNAN: That is a very good question; that's a painful part. I mean, you can imagine my anguish as a human being and as an African, an African secretary general, to see us going through this after what we went through in Rwanda. It's very painful and difficult to take.

But the question is: Why hasn't anything been done? Let me say that, first of all, it is a complex issue, but it's also a question of will, the will of the member states to move. It's a complication that the Sudanese have introduced by resisting help. If the Sudanese had been able to protect their own people and prevent what is going on in Darfur, we would not even be talking about deployment of U.N. troops. Having failed to do so, I think they have an obligation to accept help from the international community to help with their protection. And the international community has an obligation. You may recall that, at the last summit in September, the member states pledged solemnly, individually and collectively, to take responsibility for the protection of people in such situations, arguing that it is a responsibility of each member state to protect this population. But where they fail, or are unable to do so, or they themselves are the perpetrators, the international community, through the Council, has to take action, and, if need be, by force. And now we have to redeem that pledge, that solemn pledge of September…

JIM LEHRER: Would it be correct to say that this whole episode, as you just described it, is an indication of where the weaknesses of the United Nations are their inability to move quickly and stop something like this?
KOFI ANNAN: Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that we are an organization of 191 member states. You need to get the decisions taken. And since we don't have an army, we need to run around getting support and help from governments.

I have often described the way we operate and run this peacekeeping operation -- it would be a bit like telling the fire department in Washington, D.C., that, "We know
you need a fire department, but we'll get you one and build you one when the fire breaks," because it's when the fire breaks that we start putting together the army, we start collecting the money to create an army that will go in.

And so there is the built-in delay in the way we operate. And this is why where member states deem that it is extremely urgent to move quickly, they've tended to put together a coalition of the willing, a multinational force, outside the U.N. so that they can move quickly. And in these situations, rapidity of deployment is a very important issue.

Why hasn't anything been done? In 10 years of the Sudanese government’s murdersof African Christians and Animists in the south of the country –and then on African Muslims in its Darfur region the U.N. has done what the U.N. does. That is meetings, issuance of reports, conferences, issuance of statements, and talking about peace, the same with Somalia, the same with Rwanda, or Kosovo or the Gulf war or Iraq or Lebanon and Israel.

Secretary General Kofi Annan said, “UN is a unique organization. It is the only organization in the world that has not only the convenient power we have, bringing 191 member states together, but when it comes to development of international law and collective action and the question of legitimacy, there’s no other organization than the UN. And, in fact, it’s become quite clear that it’s the UN that can confer legitimacy on situations which individual countries, however powerful, cannot do.”

That’s all good Mr. Annan but if you are an international peacekeeping organization with billions of dollars of annual budget could you offer a little peace? Please?

MJDWYW

Make Jesus Do What You Want or The Church of Orwellian-Machiavellianism

“A prince,” wrote Niccolo Machiavelli in 1532, “must appear to all who see and hear him to be…pious…faithful…honest…humane, and completely religious. And nothing is more important than to appear to have that last quality.”

A prince need not actually be religious, the Renaissance political analyst hastened to add, and will probably be more effective as a ruler if he is unencumbered by genuine religious scruples. But a prince must appear to be religious “because the masses always follow appearances…and the world is nothing other than the masses.”

George Orwell coined the term doublethink in his classic novel 1984. Doublethink is the power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both of them.

This word has made its way into the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Winston Smith the novel's protagonist, described doublethink in this fashion:
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.'

The gospels record that Judus betrayed Jesus in order to get Jesus to do what Judus wanted. Betrayed with a kiss whereas men now use language. Why I’m I bring this up for discussion, because After two devastating defeats one in 2000 and again in 2004 in the early months of 2005 Democrats studied polls, conducted focus groups and visited clergy... to repent of their sins?

Naw get serious! To strategize silly, party leaders believe that they lost the value vote and if they are going to win the Congress back in 2006 and the White House back in 2008 they had better learn how to make Jesus do what they want him to. You know, they need to talk like they have the same values as Conservatives when in fact they really deplore Conservative values.

This is pure Orwellian- Machavellian fascist politics at it’s ultimate, let’s see how it works.

The Democrats now realize that they can't win by narrowing their appeal to their base they realize that they must reach out to those that they have up to now demonized and belittled, Christians.

So they have paid people to listen to Rush, to learn not only what Christians care about but also what Christians were being told.

What they found is that there was a growing God-gap between them and the voters, particularly “middle to lowerclass economic white voters,” who see the Democrats as Godless and hostile to traditional values and “anti-religious”; they’ve also found that married women, who are increasingly voting Republican, place moral values at the top of their list of concerns; and that Bush had managed to win 64 percent of non-college, nonunion white voters in 2004, 41 percent of whom attend church at least once a week.

The most significant finding was that voters were making choices based more on their faith than on their physical needs, said House Democratic Caucus Chairman James Clyburn (D-S.C.).

So what’s the fix? How are Democrats going to win in 2006 and 2008 they believe that all that they must do is change the way that they speak about religion.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), the Democrats’ presumptive front-runner in 2008, has called abortion a tragedy while endorsing pregnancy-prevention programs, including legislation to require insurance coverage of contraceptives. Like the RU-486, the morning after pill. Well isn’t that two contradictory ideas? Yes but that’s perfectly fine Democrat Orwellian politics or Clintonese as we use to call it.

When the voters listen to Democrats speak in 2006 and again in 2008, some party veterans and strategists worry about what they will hear.

In their report titled “The Politics of Polarization,” released in October, William Galston and Elaine Kamarck warned that “relying on language and ‘framing’ can be a surefire recipe for disaster in an electorate that values personal honesty and integrity even more than experience or positions on issues.”

Indeed, one veteran House Democrat said he is worried the attempt may appear manufactured.

“What worries me about the Democrats is that just when the Christian conservatives realize they have been used by Republicans they are going to see the Democrats using the same phrases and making hollow gestures,” the Democrat said.

Well, Christian conservatives have not been used by Republicans that is just another example of Democratic Orwellian speak by a Democrat who wishes that he could use the Christian conservatives to win in 2006 and 2008 but can’t so he states that Republican are using them to create the thought in the minds of some Christians in order to create a rift between Christian and conservatives. This statement was made to exploit that vurnability, if it happens, at some time. Will it work? Democrats are hoping.

What about homosexuals will Democrats leave their commitment to homosexuals to court the Christian conservative. No get real, They’ll just tweek the language just a bit.

Dan Gerstein, formerly communications director for Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and now an independent consultant and commentator, said tolerance of the civil rights of homosexuals should not turn the Democrats into an intolerant party. He means intolerant of Christian Conservatives.

“It’s an arrogant presumption that if you are opposed to gay marriage you are ipso facto a bigot,” he said.

Gerstein said he blames the “angry and activist” the netroot or leftist bloggers like the daily Kos the core Democratic base for hindering the party’s ability to connect with values voters because they have placed freedom, individual rights and tolerance before morality, fracturing the necessary balance. Democrats intend to narraw the faith gap.

“We don’t have the luxury of narrowing our appeal. We have no choice but to broaden our appeal and be more inclusive,” Gerstein said. “And there is a way to do so premised on respect that won’t require us to change or fudge our principles.”

Yes there is, and that is to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both of them. Orwellian Democrats can do this but doing this is exactly the opposite of having conservative Christian values.

Democrats just haven’t figured that out yet.

Liberalism’s Dead-end

In the past American Liberals always touted Europe as the model of what America should be. From Justices on the Supreme Court to Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry, Liberal elitists felt and told Americans that wisdom and refinement were things best taught to Americans by Europeans.

These same Liberals also promoted a push to remake America into the image of Europe. Hillary Clinton’s 1993 Health care reform was based on the European’s socialist model, Bill Clinton’s attempt to introduce social change for gays into the United States military as well as his order to put U.S. troops under that authority of the United Nations both were attempts to move America into line with European thought and values.

Europeans are ever the cultural elitists who think themselves much more refined and sophisticated than the coarse Cowboys of America. Only one thing conflicted with the thought of European superiority and that was, and is, America’s real superiority in Global influence, economic power and military power.

But alas Europe’s attempts to wrest the position of world leader away from America is failing. Considering that Europe’s attempt to become the United States of Europe (does any of this look familiar?) is wrought with problems because there is not unanimous support from the various nation states, France being the biggest obstacle to a unified Europe.

[Europe] a continent that dreamed of eliminating national borders, hostility toward immigrants — especially those from Muslim countries — is causing national boundaries to spring back to life.—Charles Kupchan, the Globalist

Also considering that the government subsidized Airbus is not doing well economically and when you think about the present social disorder that is in almost every European nation just what is it that the America Liberals wish Americans to emulate?

when they voted down the European constitution in 2005, many French citizens blamed the “ultra-liberal” EU for their economic woes. This spring, rioters took to the streets of Paris to block labor reforms. Italians grumble that the euro has depressed their economy. –Charles Kupchan, the Globalist

France, Germany and Italy, governments, are squeezed from above by the pressures of competitive markets (Corporations and Globalism) — and from below by an electorate (the people) clinging to the comforts of the past and fearful of the uncertainties of the future.

The result is a political stalemate and economic stagnation, which only intensifies the public’s discontent and its skepticism of the benefits of European integration. In other words, the people are rejecting Europe’s embrace of Globalism and its attempt to move away from socialism.


As Charles Kupchan points out, “European leaders will have to give up the pretense of business as usual — and acknowledge the gravity of the current political crisis.”

European Liberalism is losing out to Globalism. So too American Liberals will have to face the reality that policies based on the Liberal European model are Dead-ends and if they’ve got nothing else to offer, in essence they have no where to lead America.

Where is World Rage!

I’m enraged! I had this piece ready to go with every insult I could muster against anyone who would dare slaughter 190 Indian people by bomb. And then I realized that there is really not any world anger about this horrific massacre. No real out cry against terrorism and that’s sad.

Equally I grieve for the people of Mumbai, India but not as much as I grieve for a world that believes that these people or any people deserve this attack.
America 2001—3,000 people
Bali 2002—202 people
Madrid2004—191 people
London 2005—52 people
India 1993, 2006—250 and 190 people

How long will world opinion tolerate, no, favor terrorism and despise terrorism’s victims?

Who will succeed Kofi Annan

Secretary General to the United Nations Kofi Annan's second and final five-year term in Office ends on December 31, 2006. His successor, who will be chosen by the Council around October, will take over on January 1, 2007 just who might that be?

According to a time-honored convention, the secretary-general position has not been held by any of the world's major political or economic powers, thus in the past ruling out nations like the U.S., Japan, Russia, France, Germany, India and China.

U.N. General Assembly resolution 51/241 of 1997 states that attention should be paid to regional rotation and gender equality. Although its Asia's turn by convention, eastern European nations are now saying that they should be given a shot at the top U.N. spot, as no one from that bloc of nations has ever held it before; unlike Asia, Latin America, Africa and western Europe.

Some candidates being mentioned are, Surakiart Sathirathai of Thailand, Ban Ki-Moon of South Korea, Jayantha Dhanapala of Sri Lanka, Nafis Sadik of Pakistan and Shashi Tharoor of India.

Due to the U.N.'s resolutions for regional rotation and gender equality and also the time-honored convention that no one from a world major political or economic power hold the position of secretary-general former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton can not be considered.

Annan's final term in Office has been plagued with scandal and mismanagement, Oil-for-food program, sweetheart deals for his son Cojo and U.N. Corruption and sexual charges have be characteristic under his leadership.

Also the U.N. Did not seem at all effective at keeping world peace the next secretary-general will have a tremendous undertaking setting the world body's affairs in order.

Not happy with America, you could be in Europe

People are not happy in Europe and that’s really interesting because that’s where all the unhappy people who have had it with America say that they are going to go.

But these days Europe is importing happiness from America. Alright, alright maybe not exactly importing happiness but they are making their state schools teach eleven-year-old how to be happy. They can’t find anyone in all of Europe to teach happiness so they sent to America to find an expert in happiness.

Professor Martin Seligman, from the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most influential psychologists of his generation, has been drafted in to train British teachers so that they can deliver classes to nearly 2,000 secondary school pupils.
Why, because of an epidemic of depression, self-harm and anti-social behavior among young British people. So the Brits figure that they will round up all of the eleven-year-olds and teach them how to be happy.

Figures show that at least 10 per cent - three children in every average-sized class of 30 in the country - are experiencing symptoms of severe depression, including suicidal thoughts, prolonged bouts of despair and the urge to cry on a daily basis. Twenty-five years ago the average age people fell ill with depression was 30. Today this has fallen dramatically with 14 the age at which mental illness first strikes.

Not every one is happy with the state’s decision to teach happiness. Sean Gabb of the Brussels Journal says, “Only we can pursue our own individual happiness. Any government that believes itself to know better than we do ourselves how to make us happy is guilty of a most presumptuous arrogance. Any government that tries to put its belief into action is by definition tyrannical. Its means must entail a searching inquisition into our thoughts and a close control over our actions.”

He believes that, “These lessons in happiness will inevitably turn into propaganda sessions in which children will be lectured into a celebration of the moral sewer than our masters have made of modern England. They will be told that our enlarged, activist state is a good thing. They will be told that the denigration of our history and customs is a release from the dead hand of the past.”

According to Sean, Brits live in a country where strangers and criminals have more rights than citizens have; where citizen’s votes, once at the age of majority, are worthless to change British rulers, or even hold them to account; and where citizen’s lifestyle choices are constrained as they never were in the past. Sean believes this to be a recipe for despotism.

An epidemic of depression, self-harm and anti-social behavior, professor Seligman when you return to America please look up the Democrat party because nobody has been happy in that party for the last six years!

Democrats can’t defeat Bush settle for Lieberman

Get Bush that’s what the Lieberman vs. the Democrat party fight is about.

Senator Lieberman is seen as a traitor to his party because one he still supports the war as all Democrats did right after 9/11 and two he is not blindly anti-Bush and for those two Democratic sins Senator Lieberman must die a political death that Democrats had hoped would be the fate of George W. Bush.

Almost all Democrats supported the war but have now found a way to recant that support which is perfect good Democratic philosophy. As a Democrat it’s not what you voted for or what you believed in the past,often the recent past. And you’re perfectly at ease with statements like, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." No it’s what you believe currently as dictated by current democrat opinion. As opinion changes so does your belief. That’s the living breathing social and moral relativism that is at the heart of non-static reality of a Democrat.

The Democratic Party changed on the war and Senator Lieberman didn’t. Can’t have ridgity in the party someone might take a stand on principle rather than Democrat ideology and there will be none of that! If it is not approved by current democrat opinion as it is generated by the liberal blogasphere you will be hunted down by the Democrat elite. Senator Lieberman is experiencing that sad fate now.

Couldn’t get Bush so get Lieberman get somebody, anybody, connected with Bush; John Ashcroft, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, or Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman it doesn’t matter the Democrats hatred is so putridly vile that they are willing to accept collateral damage if some how they see it harming President Bush in some remote way even if it means unseating an incumbent experienced Democrat politician. That is why Lieberman is in the political fight of his life.

Since 2000 the Democratic Party has campaigned on an anti-Bush hate crusade by which they attempted to destroy anyone associated with the Bush administration.

Only recently has Democratic Bush hatred become so consuming that even anyone in the Democrat Party who supports the war or who doesn’t hate Bush will be aborted like a political fetus a la Roe. That’s the plan for Senator Lieberman, political abortion. Now that’s how the Democrats do it.

The Steady Drumbeat of War against the Traditional Definition of Marriage

The steady drumbeat of homosexual Court activism halted in New York and Georgia courts. New York'shighest court ruled Thursday that gay marriage is not constitutionally protected under state law, rejecting arguments by same-sex couples who said that present law violates their constitutional rights.

And then shortly thereafter, the state Supreme Court of Georgia reinstated its own marriage laws, just hours after New York's highest court upheld that state's marriage laws.

Homosexual activists pursuing the redefinition of marriage in America had cases pending in eleven courts throughout the country; California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma and Washington State. Nine cases remain pending since the New York and Georgia rulings.


While the world seems to be sleeping, homosexual activist are marching through the courts of this nation and the world, waging war on the traditional understanding of marriage. In Albany the Highest Court in New York heard the arguments of homosexual activists and ruled that their arguments have no constitutional merit.

The Georgia Supreme Court, reversing a lower court judge's ruling, decided unanimously that existing marriage law that was balloted and approved by voters defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman did not violate the state's single- subject rule for ballot measures. Superior Court Judge Constance Russell of Fulton County had ruled that it did.

Seventy-six percent of Georgia voters approved the measure when it was on the ballot in 2004.

The Court of Appeals in a 4-2 decision said New York's marriage law is constitutional and clearly limits marriage to between a man and a woman. Any change in the law should come from the state Legislature, Judge Robert Smith wrote the decision for the majority.

The New York decision said lawmakers have a legitimate interest in protecting children by limiting marriage to heterosexual couples and that the law does not deny homosexual couples any "fundamental right" since same-sex marriages are not "deeply rooted in the nation's history and tradition."

Howard Deanunder pressure from the homosexual wing of the Democrat party for remarks he made on the 700 club hosted by Pat Robinson stating that the Democrat plank states that marriage is between one man and one woman, remarked on the decision made by the Court he said, “Today's decision by the New York Court of Appeals, which relies on outdated and bigoted notions about families, is deeply disappointing…”


The N.Y. Court rejected homosexual activists arguments of due process and equal protection stating that these arguments where misapplied regarding the plantiffs claims.

Everything I needed to know about getting along in the world I learned in Kindergarten

Everything I needed to know about getting along in the world I learned in Kindergarten

“North Korea's "possible combination of nuclear weapons with missile development and testing" is unacceptable and requires "quick, strong action" by the Security Council”-- Kenzo Oshima, Japan U.N. Ambassador

What an extraordinary opportunity for a world leader to step up and just do something. N. Korea’s provocative 7 missile demonstration proved that they are not yet ready for challenging America but they must be reprimanded for escalating world tensions.

Japan thinks so. Japan said it is considering sanctions against N. Korea in a U.N. resolution that would condemn the communist nation's missile tests and call for a return to six-party talks on its nuclear program.

But unfortunately it's not that easy. The U.N. Security Council is comprised of 15 members. Five permanent members—China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States and it is comprised of Ten non permanent members –Argentina, Congo (Republic of), Denmark, Ghana, Greece, Japan, Peru, Qatar, Slovakia and United republic of Tanzania

Each Council member has one vote. Decisions on procedural matters are made by an affirmative vote of at least nine of the 15 members. Decisions on substantive matters require nine votes, including the concurring votes of all five permanent members. This is the rule of "great Power unanimity", often referred to as the "veto" power.

So China, France, Russia The U.K. and the U.S. All most agree on any affirmative vote of nine or the vote does not carry.

The thing is China and Russia are aligned with N. Korea and they have made it clear that they favor a weaker council statement without any threat of sanctions. So it's world politics as usual the U.N. is still incapable of doing anything.

No leadership! What do you think world opinion would be if the United States pointed a missile at N. Korea and said, “We're testing our missile systems capabilities just to make sure we can hit you if we choose?” You think China and Russia would have a problem with that?

So I went looking for some world leadership on the matter. The U.S. is so often criticized for not keeping world peace so I wanted to see just who is doing something to rein N. Korea in for the sake of world peace.

I went to the Council of Foriegn Relations site and found a report on N. Korea's missile launch but no answers on how to resolve the issue.

I then went to the U.N.'s site it told about their emergency meeting about N. Korea but the Security Council was unable to agree on what resolution to pass or what statement to issue.

I even went to the Hague's site and they didn't even mention N. Korea's missile launch. Aren't they suppose the be the international city and body for peace? You'd think that if someone was disturbing the peace the Hague would notice wouldn't you? But nothing, just how beautiful the Netherlands are and, Hey ya'll come visit!

If these august international world bodies don't have the answers or a plan to keep the peace and if they don't have a way to handle N. Korea may I suggest what I learned in Kindergaten?

Everything that I needed to know about getting along in the world I learned in Kindergaten. What I learned was:

1. Never point and launch your long-range Taepodong-2 missiles at another country
2. Never saber-rattle (that's threaten war) if your missiles are not capable of deploying
3. Never threaten retaliation if the U.N. considers sanctions against your country (sanctions are like time outs) for firing your missiles when you just demonstrated that you clearly don't have the capability to back up your threat.
4. Never show your complete ineptitude by firing 7 to 10 missiles and all of them fall into the Sea of Japan erasing all doubt about your incompetence as a political leader.
5. Never pick on a Country that even if it were engage in two simultaneous wars still could kick your country's ass with one hand tied behind it's back.
6. And never ever use missiles that are based on Scud technology which was provided to you by the former Soviet Union and Eqypt.

You would think that with all of the second guessing of President Bush's preemptive policy regarding Iraq some intelligent person/world leader would be able to solve the N. Korean provocation without any other missile launchings or threats of war.

So here it is, this is your opportunity to show just how it's done. Or... you can just admit that with all of the self-important world bodies that claim they are peace keepers no one has really figured out just how deal with the Kim Jong Il's of the world.

And if you can't keep the peace then somebody is going to have to fight for it whether you like it or not!

Or as any Kindergartener knows some people have to be hit back before they will leave you alone!

Anti-Americanism is a reflection of Europe’s “America envy.”

Anti-Americanism is a reflection of Europe’s “America envy.”

European Elitism and jealousy is the cause foranti-Americanism world-wide. This statement probably runs contrary to your belief that America and American policies are the causes for Anti-Americanism. And what’s more you may blame America’s recent disfavor in the world and with Europe on the war in Iraq or on President George W. Bush.

However you would be wrong. Sure the war and President Bush are convenient targets which to project European scorn and ridicule against, but Europe’s hatred of America is derived fromEurope’s own perceptionsand their own fear of American power combined with Europe’s own sense of economic and military weakest.

"America-bashing is in fashion as it has not been since Ronald Reagan accurately described the Soviet Union as an “evil empire”. Anti-Americanism is not confined to the usual radical chic suspects of the Left; in Britain, it infects the High Tory Establishment, “good Europeans” and little Eng-landers alike. --United Kingdom Times"

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It is American economic and military power that is the envy of the world and it is this power that draws resentment as well.

Europe’s hate for the other has long been established. As far back as the 5th century European tribalistic rivalries were displayed by warring tribes of Gothics, Franks, Anglons and Saxons each of these groups thought themselves better than the other. Each thought themselves superior to the other, and this characteristic is one that latter Europeans would carry as they colonized the known world. Europeans still hold this elitist view about themselves.

Would it surprise you to know that just as Muslims teach their children hatred of Jewish people France and German textbooks teach hatred for Americans? According to the United Kingdom Times, Adam Sage, there are school textbooks designed to give pupils in France and Germany a common vision of postwar history is colored by Gallic anti-Americanism. If this is true no matter what the U.S. does or doesn’t do like Israel we will be hated by this new generation of Europeans because of taught anti-Americanism.

More recently Europe is attempting to best America in the world economy. TheEuro and theAirbus are swipes at America economic power.

"The sharpest transatlantic disputes are economic, reflecting the interests that are bound sometimes to pit two of the world's three largest trading powers against each other.
The arrival of the European single currency, the Euro, gives a new edge to the rivalry." –BBC News

However like Hitler at the 1936 Olympics whose Arian race was bested by one of inferior race (according to Hitler), Europe can not to well boast of superiority while the inferior Americans have a better economy than theirs.

Thus the reason for the unifying of Europe or the European Union, the unifying of their currency in the likeness of American currency and the challenge in business, the Airbus, are all the results of European envy and hatred of America.

America’s economic success has long been the bane of Europeans whose boasts of superiority did not match with the reality of American leadership in the world and Europe’s heretofore weak economies and eroding social conditions.

Thus Anti-Americanism in the world is largely European envy of the economic and military leadership of America.

Europe's jealousy has damaged relationship between the two and if America is hurt in Europe's attempt to ones up on America there will be no one to protect the world from the dangers that we are all now facing.

Europe's not doing to do it! They should be praying for America's continued success if not the alternative is the end of the western world as we know it.

The Paradox of Interdependence on the 4th of July

The Paradox of Interdependence on the 4th of July

As the United States makes preparations to celebrate Two hundred and thirty years of independence from Great Britain most Americans do not realize that the United States independence is at risk once again and by the year 2010 the United States of America is on schedule to become the North American Community.Interesting enough no one bothered to ask your vote on the matter.

Mexico’s Presidential election and recent illegal alien protest in the streets of America have strained U.S. Mexico relations however that doesn’t seem to be enough to stop the plans of the Consul of Foreign Relations and international business.

The leaders of Mexican, Canada and the United States signed an agreement on March 23, 2006 in Texas. This agreement erases borders between the three countries and creates a triune trade area and dependency of trade and citizenship between the three countries.

This is the latest adoption of the 1995 NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the important thing to know is that years of border neglect is not by accident on the contrary the lack of border enforcement is part and parcel of the plan to merge the economies and workforces of all of North America.

Pointing to increased competition from the European Union and rising economic powers such as India and China in the eleven years since NAFTA took effect, Pedro C. Aspe, former Finance Minister of Mexico, said, "We need a vision for North America to address the new challenges." A Task Forcewas commissioned by the Consul of Foreign Relations to study the possibilities and establishes a blueprint for a powerhouse North American trading area that allows for the seamless movement of goods, increased labor mobility, and energy security. The following would be the outcome of the agreement:

Make North America safer:
• Establish a common security perimeter by 2010.
• Develop a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers.
• Develop a unified border action plan and expand border customs facilities.
Create a single economic space:
• Adopt a common external tariff.
• Allow for the seamless movement of goods within North America.
• Move to full labor mobility between Canada and the U.S.
• Develop a North American energy strategy that gives greater emphasis to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases -- a regional alternative to Kyoto.
• Review those sectors of NAFTA that were excluded.
• Develop and implement a North American regulatory plan that would include "open skies and open roads" and a unified approach for protecting consumers on food, health, and the environment.
• Expand temporary worker programs and create a "North American preference" for immigration for citizens of North America.
Spread benefits more evenly:
• Establish a North American Investment Fund to build infrastructure to connect Mexico's poorer regions in the south to the market to the north.
• Restructure and reform Mexico's public finances.
• Fully develop Mexican energy resources to make greater use of international technology and capital.
Institutionalize the partnership:
• Establish a permanent tribunal for trade and investment disputes.
• Convene an annual North American summit meeting.
• Establish a Tri-national Competition Commission to develop a common approach to trade remedies.
• Expand scholarships to study in the three countries and develop a network of Centers for North American Studies.

So please enjoy your Independence day, it may be one of last that you’ll celebrate as a citizen of the United States of America!

Offering up Inappropiate Praises

Offering up Inappropiate Praises

Osama bin Laden last week commenting on the death of Iraqi al Queda terrorist Abu Musab al- Zarqawi called Zarqawi a Lion of Jihad (Holy War). Praising Zarqawi's terrorist acts as works of God.

Zarqawi was response for the beheadingsof many innocent non-combatant Westerners. One of the most publicized was that of Nick Berg a contractor who was kidnapped in Iraq as he was looking for work.

Just before his murder Berg was forced to sit on the floor in a orange jump suit, say his last words then before a video camera, it is reported that Zarqawi himself hacked the head off of Nick Berg as fellow Islamic terrorist in chorus shouted Allah akbar, Allah akbar, Allah akbar. Yet their inappropriate praises failed to drown out the blood curtling screams of Nick Berg.

Bin Laden declared war on the United States first in 1996 and again in 1998 and the Jordan born Zarqawi was an Iraqi lieutenant in bin Laden's Holy war.

Bin Laden's and Zarqawi's holy war is typified by kidnappings, suicide bombers, roadside bombs, al Qaida hiding out in villages among innocents, beheading innocent men and women, blowing up mosques and killing fellow Muslims. All works that God endorses in the mind of Osama bin Laden and anyone engaged in such activities deserves much praise.

Inappropiate praise in my estimation because Zarqawi's acts were not courageous or lionese nor were they the works of God.

If courage and working for the cause of truth are attributes to be praised then may I suggest two people who are far more worthy of our notice. Ayaan Hirsi Aliand Oriana Fallaciboth courageous women who have little to no backing yet both of these heroic and courageous women have stood against Islamofascism and warned of the evils of Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali born a Muslim, this Somalia native now an atheist has spoken world-wide against the evils of Islam and the repressive treatment of women under Islamic Sharia Law. Ms. Ali became a Dutch citizen and rose to leadership in Dutch politics subsequently her citizenship was revoked in a political scandal. However due to her work exposing the plight of women under Islamic Sharia law Theo Van Gogh filmmaker and son of Legendary Master Vincent Van Gogh was murdered by Muslims because of his work on a film written by Hirsi Ali depicting Muslim women under Sharia law and Ms. Ali is now under consist protection because of threats against her own life.

Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer has attempted to warn her country about the dangers of Islamic fascism only to be sued by Muslims, her work called hate speech and subsequently she is in self exile in America. Ms. Fallaci has written two powerful truth telling books, The Rage and the Pride and The Force of Reason, these books deal with the Islamic terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Islamozation of Europe respectively.

These remarkable brave women deserve praise from all freedom loving and freedom of speech supporters. Especially when the free press of the West, motivated by fear, self-censored themselves regarding the Muhammad editoral cartoons so not to offend the practitioners of Islamic terrorism.

In spite of political persecution and threats of death these woman spoke truth to power and truth against political correctness.

Ms. Ali and Ms. Fallaci are the true Courage in the fight against terrorism because of their unwavering commitment to truth both women now reside in the United States because of persecution.

Nevertheless what is owed to each of these women is our highest praise!

Europe all Cheers over Gitmo but Refuses Responsibility

Europe all Cheers over Gitmo but Refuses Responsibility

It’s not in my back yard or NIMBY with a little twist, according to the Washington PostEuropean lawmakers and human rights groups have demanded that the U.S. government shut down the Guantanamo prison as soon as possible.

Now according to the WP they were all cheers because of the Supreme Court decision limiting President Bush’s authority to hold military tribunals at the prison at Guantanamo Bay. They hope that the terrorism prison camp will be shut down by the end of the year.

"UK Constitutional Affairs Minister Harriet Harman told the BBC on Sunday the camp should be moved to the US or shut down.

If it's perfectly legal and there's nothing going wrong there - well, why don't they have it in America and then the American court system can supervise it?"

Calls in Europeto shut Guantanamo have become louder in recent months, particularly since U.S. officials announced that three detainees had committed suicide at the camp on June 10.

But…Some of the Prisoners affect by the Court’s ruling would have to be returned to their countries of origin and that presents two problems for the self-righteous Europeans.

About a dozen Guantanamo prisoners have citizenship or residency status in Europe. Those with residency status in Europe have it because their own governments do not want them or have declined to intervene on their behalf. European countries -- Britain, Bosnia and Germany -- have balked at requests to accept their own citizens or former residents who are at Gitmo because these people are accused of having al-Qaeda links.

Also if a prisoner is a citizen of a country that might aggressively hold these Gitmo detainees responsible for terrorist acts, the self-righteous Europeans are insisting that these prisoners not be returned to their country of origin.

So let’s recant, Europeans want Gitmo closed, they want prisoners, alleged terrorist, released but they will not take back their own alleged terrorist citizens and they don’t want citizens of other countries returned to their own countries, countries that might persecute them for terrorism.

No wonder Europe is going to hell in a hand basket! And the U.S. will soon follow if it adopts policies to appease the Europeans.

Jesus rode a donkey didn’t he? …or was it an Ass?

Jesus rode a donkey didn’t he? …or was it an Ass?

“A prince,” wrote Niccolo Machiavelli in 1532, “must appear to all who see and hear him to be…pious…faithful…honest…humane, and completely religious. And nothing is more important than to appear to have that last quality.”

A prince need not actually be religious, the Renaissance political analyst hastened to add, and will probably be more effective as a ruler if he is unencumbered by genuine religious scruples. But a prince must appear to be religious “because the masses always follow appearances…and the world is nothing other than the masses.”


Not since Thomas Jefferson edited the Gospels to suit his own fancy has a politician
labored so hard to redefine Christianity to reflect his own point of view but if any one is up to the task Gov. Howard Dean the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee will best Jefferson hands down!

Democrats have had a revelation. They realize that they are perceived as a godless partylargely because of their constituency and their political positions which supports abortion, homosexuality and the anti-God policy of separation of church and state. They also realize to win elections they need to reach out to people who are religious.

Even Democratic rising star Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats for failing to "acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people…” Sen. Obama said, "Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation.

It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance feel oppressed or brainwashed as a consequence of muttering the phrase `under God,”

So what to do? With every revelation there is a change right? So is Gov. Dean thinking about a transformation? Yes but it’s not what you think. You’re familiar with the saying, “If you can’t bring Muhammad to the mountain, bring the mountain to Muhammad?

Well Dean is thinking of changebut the way he sees it he only has to use Orwellian Newspeak with Machiavellian deception to accomplish the change that he desires. Newspeak is the propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. Therefore, Howard Dean believes if the Democrats talk about values and if the Democrats offer up their own set of values that should be enough to get religious people to vote for the Democrat Party.

Gov. Dean said that, "The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says marriage is between a man and a woman," May 10 during a "700 Club" program hosted by conservative Christian leader Pat Robertson on his Christian Broadcasting Network.

This was clearly an effort to change the perception that Christian conservatives hold of the Democrat Party. However Dean’s effort to be inclusive of Christians was meet with strong opposition from the homosexual wing of his party according to them Dean’s interview with Pat Robinson was a display of pandering and insult that would not be tolerated.

Party pressure forced Gov. Dean to retract his attempt to reach out to Christians, "I misstated the Democratic Party's platform, which does not say that marriage should be limited to a man and a woman, but says the party is committed to full inclusion of gay and lesbian families in the life of our nation and leaves the issue to the states to decide," Dean is quoted as saying in his retractatory statement.

Failing to bring his party along in his attempt to connect to Christians on the marriage issue Gov. Dean moved the political discussion to values.


Dean said. "Jesus taught to help the least among us. He spent his life reaching out to the disenfranchised. The Democratic Party is the party of that value, not the Republican Party." So Gov Dean believes that if values are what Christian want then here are a few.

The twelve commandments of Democratic values according to Howard Dean are:

I. Thou shall reach out to the disenfranchised
II. Thou shall not pass debt onto children
III. Thou shall not allow kids to go to bed hungry at night
IV. Thou shall not go out on golf trips paid for by lobbyist
V. Thou shall have personal responsibility
VI. Thou shall have individual freedom
VII. Thou shall not be materialistic
VIII. Thou shall monitor thy kids T.V. viewing
IX. Thou shall be spiritual
X. Thou shall be inclusive, Conservatives or Christians excluded
XI. Democratic values shall drive all policies and law
XII. And Thou shall have fewer abortions, not just by abstinence, but family planning as well


So according to Mr. Dean any value will do if values are what you conservatives want. Sadly this depicts the problem with the left. The left believes that all things are relative so it doesn’t matter what the values are just so as long as you got some. Actually this is a glaring admission that the left knows nothing about values


The Democratic National Committee's lead pollster, Cornell Belcher, said that religious people who have been stymied economically represent a huge opportunity for the party, and that the challenge is to portray moral values as "not just gay marriage and abortion."

Which is another indication that the left really doesn’t understand the value thing!

"We have not spoken about moral values in this party for a long time," Dean said. "The truth is, we're Democrats because of our moral values. It's a moral value to make sure that kids don't go to bed hungry at night. . . . It is a moral value not to go out on golf trips paid for by lobbyists."

According to Dean,"A moral value is personal responsibility and individual freedom. And that is what Democrats are going to start to stand for -- moral values."

Well good luck with that! And I suppose because Jesus rode a Donkey once that makes him a Democrat? I’m betting Howard Dean would agree with that, but I don’t think that kind of reasoning will win many converts from religious voters.

Gov. Dean if you really want to win over religious voters don’t try to fool them with some campaign strategy that you made up to defeat the Republicans. You should really try some of the values from the people which you are attempting to woo. Values such as, Don’t lie, and Don’t bear false witness (against the President).

And don’t introduce Orwellian concepts like “marriage equality” which is coined to attempt to introduce the image of homosexuals the same as heterosexuals in all things equal.

And here’s one, “Repent for the Kingdom is God is at hand. With genuine commitment to real values Mr. Dean you and your party would do this country good.

Otherwise you might believe that you can convince religious people that Jesus riding on a donkey meant that he was a Democrat that kind of theology is not going to work with religious folks Mr. Dean on the contrary it would only make you appear to be an Ass!

Iraq is the U.N.'s War

Iraq is the U.N.'s War

Just doing a little dot connecting here and interesting enough when one connect them one finds that the fault for the Iraq war lies squarely with the U.N.

Yes I know that saying that is anathema to Bush falters but never-the-less it is true. That's correct, had Mr. Secretary General Kofi Annan done his job with Iraq, America would not be at war in Iraq! For instance dot number one,

Senator Rick Santorum announces that Congress had been sitting on a Document that proved that 500 WMDs were found in Iraq since the war started in 2003. An unnamed Pentagon official confirms this. However he quickly points out that the weapons were pre-1991 and in a degraded state.

While it is true that mustard gas loses potency, sarin gas does not according to the Congressional document that Senator Santorum exposed. According to that document the chemicals remain hazardous and potentially lethal also the document suggests that it's possible to modify these munitions for various uses and that could be useful for a vengeful terrorist. So this find is important, these weapons are real and these weapons are still dangerous.

But let's not miss the point while digging around in minutia. U.N. weapons inspectors were in and out of Iraq for 5 years since 1998 checking for WMD in that period of time they issued numerous reports that no weapons could be found therefore they concluded that weapons must have been destroyed. WRONG!

Saddam was playing a cat and mouse game with the U.N. inspectors barring them 9 times from looking for WMD but the weapons were there! The inspectors just couldn't find them, we're finding them now. Thus proving that U.N. inspections didn't work and for all of the, Bush didn't let the inspectors do their job, critics; again the incompetent U.N. inspectors rooted around in Iraq for 5 years and didn't do their job.

Hans Blix was no better than Richard Butler as Chief U.N. Weapons inspector neither man could find what was obviously there. By the way the Congressional document that Senator Santorum disclosed states that more weapons are likely to be found.

Dot number two is general U.N. corruption and incompetence. Kofi Annan is recently in the news demanding that nations keep arms secure from thieves and smugglers.

Mr. Annan you presided over the most corrupt and inept organizations that the world has ever known, your weapon inspectors failed, your 17 sanctions against Iraq failed, and your oil-for-food scandal enabled Saddam to bilk billions of dollars which was earmarked for use by the people of Iraq. Your nepotism allowed your son, Cojo to broker very lucrative sweetheart deals worth millions of dollars while you looked the other way


U.N. corruption and incompetence enabled Saddam to continue hording and hiding weapons. Kofi Annan's mismanagement of the U.N. has resulted in the promotion of terrorism and war instead of decreasing the violence that these acts produce.

And last Saddam managed to buy France and Germany's support on the Security Council and if you remember these countries blocked U.N. action against Saddam forcing America to take matters into its own hands.

If not for the corruption and the mismanagement of the U.N. America would not be in Iraq fighting this war on terrorism. Iraq is the U.N.'s war and I blame Kofi Annan because that's were the dots connect but a little thing like proof never stopped a Bush hater.

But at least we know now that hating Bush is purely based on prejudice, bias and hypocrisy the trifeca of what Liberals are made of!

Creating Orwellian World-view by Machiavellianism

Also it should be noted, the newly coined word Invasive-gration is illegal entry into this country by foreign nationals who ignore U.S. immigration laws much to the hurt and harm of U.S. Citizens. These lawless acts cause a great deal of damage to the U.S. eco-economic system.

While manipulating language for political ends is a tactic employed by each of the dominate political parties in this country, the adherents of one party in particular has based its entire platform on the machinations of the Orwellian concepts of Blackwhite, Bellyfeel, Doublethink and an Orwellian-like creation of my own, Ficpar, which is used to accuse the opposing party of creating fiction (lying) or more precisely accuse the other party of using the very Orwellian tactics that the accusatory party uses. In Oldspeak that would simply be called projection.

Liberals who have taken over the Democratic Party are in the process of attempting to create an Orwellian world-view one in which up is down, right is wrong and black is white all in the name of progressivism. What I’ve just described is an effort to force social change on the false premise that all things are relative.
It is through confusing and manipulating the language that these Neo-Orwellianist intend to introduce word meanings in opposite of their denotative meanings.

Moreover, they intend to use the state to invade on personal privacy, they’ll control daily life by the use of the state, they’ll disintegrate the family unit by state mandate, they’ll replace religious faith with worship of the state in a semi-religious manner, they’ll force citizens to learn and embrace inconsistent concepts without dissent, and they’ll deny and/or rewrite history and American tradition.

The three pillars of left's ideology are Homosexuality, Abortion and Invasion-gration. It is by these three issues that the left intends to redefine all of Western civilization’s history and tradition. They will attempt to do this by Orwellian argumentation and Machiavellian deception and manipulation in order to gain social and political change and also power for special interest groups that heretofore historically were non-existence as groups. Also the Left wishes to normalize behaviors which were up to this point considered abnormal at least and deviant at worst. Also it should be noted, the newly coined word Invasive-gration is illegal entry into this country by foreign nationals who ignore U.S. immigration laws much to the hurt and harm of U.S. Citizens. These lawless acts cause a great deal of damage to the U.S. eco-economic system.

The left’s intentions may be noble in theory, nevertheless, the left is wrong because the behaviors which it has chosen to champion are socially destructive behaviors which seem benign to the myopic view of the Left but in the broad context of civilized society the Lefts causes will inevitably cause great harm to our society at large as well as the individuals who experiment with the false choices and pseudo-freedoms that the left offers up as ersatz Constitution guaranteed rights.

This blog will track the Lefts causes, demonstrate why their arguments are Neo-Orwellianist and lastly, at the same time this blog will show the extreme Machiavellian deception and manipulation of the left as they attempt to bypass the citizenry of this country by using the third branch of our government, the courts, to impose fascist legalities on our society, legalities which are meant to force the Left’s privately held beliefs on the entire country. They will do this, all the while; they will be claiming that their opponents are forcing their Conservative views of history, tradition and religion on them.

Thus the ultimate Machiavellian ruse, to play the poor put upon victim while they, the left, aggressively uses the courts to force the heathenish Fakir majority to convert to the left’s ideas or be jailed for your disapproval of their acts of ideological imperialism. This IS Creating Orwellian World-view by Machiavellianism as perpetrated by Leftists Progressives of the Democrat Party.