Keeping On With the Way We Are Now

Shallow ignorant politicians lacking any integrity always say at once what they think will make them viewed favourably. Linsey Graham and Nikki Haley both came out with resounding endorsement of the Israeli military action on the first day. They are not honest and far-seeing enough to know that they were committing themselves to support what would become ongoing genocide. The attempt by both them to position themselves as leaders in foreign affairs is a joke that they probably still don’t recognise. They are posturing without any thought beyond the moment.


As a citizen of the United States, willingly or not, you are bankrolling and approving a foreign country that is committing obvious genocide. You are vetoing in the United Nations every condemnation and attempt to relieve the genocide, although we were taught that the U.N. is a place for humane representative world opinion.


Terrorists are small groups committing violent acts against occupying powers. There is nothing surprising about a terrorist group fighting back against the occupying power, even with unconventional methods. However, a terrorist act DOES NOT JUSTIFY the occupying power killing the women children in the occupied area.


And all our Americans supporting the genocide are the same people who react indignantly to any other offense around the world that oppresses non-white people. And the same people who have been busily inviting Muslims into the U.S. for half a century. A government that is as deeply into dysfunction as the U.S. today is very close to failure.

There is no need to be sympathetic to Islam, which is a dubious creed whose adherents often fight among themselves and show little fellowship. Yet Islam is the faith of millions and they have quite as much right to be free of foreign occupation as any people.

​Joe Biden is a horror as President. The only reason he is President is because Barack Obama chose him as Vice-President. At that time he was without any standing as a national figure. Did Obama pick the worst man he could find?
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