Dear America,
we are acting in a "supporting role" only; whatever you think is happening in Libya, make no mistake, "American forces are not facing the hostilities that would require the president to seek such congressional consent under the War Powers Resolution." see the rest of the post from the Washington Post, here
that, and it is merely Kinetic Military Action.
You can change the name; you can redefine it; we all know what war looks like, sounds like, smells like, by now.
This is what our Founders envisioned:
how we have strayed, how we have strayed.
But you would think, of all people, the anti-war (especially the one that was not the good war), anti-imperialist president, like Barack Hussein Obama, would take these words and founders intentions to heart and then some, and be able to communicate such throughout his administration in thought, word, and deed.
I mean, after all, he is the president in receipt of a Nobel Peace Prize, based upon perception alone; he had two weeks under his belt as president when nominated for such a feat. Just where is the follow through on that? And if in fact Obama's actions do not deliver on such a promise -- would not the rescinding of such a prize ensue?
How awkward is this? Or is this just me, being G?
The entanglement in Iraq, or the dis-entanglement thereof, is still, completely, engaged -- the entanglement in Afghanistan (THE GOOD WAR, he said) is becoming totally frayed, with mission creep getting the best of us, while we sit very much confused deciding just when enough is enough -- and in Libya, after nearly 90 days now, beginning with a so-called mandate to take down an evil dictator (but without the mandate to do whatever it takes to do so) creating an entanglement that keeps making an even bigger knot, with the mission unknown leading the way and with rebel leaders still very much undefined -- to Yemen, the new drone dropping zone, equaling perhaps the un-war in Pakistan, where relations have never been at their worst -- to Syria, only begging for equal protections and attention under the Law of Entanglement as defined by the Obama Doctrine (and clearly, confused, in that he is running on several doctrines at once). Take a breath, gretch...
Washington unveiled this rule of thumb:
Washington did his best to warn us of making the mistake of becoming associated with causes not our own in a very big way; making it clear -- whatever action we take in the direction of preserving another nation's best interests over our own, through "artificial ties" and allegiances, to meet the demand of a current age, would be just plain wrong.
Yes, why?
It's a simple question.
Of course, maybe even George wasn't expecting things to get so complicated.
And then again, maybe this is exactly what he thought would happen.
The thing is, I really like the part defined by the extending of "as little a political connection as possible."
With a step back, politics has played too big a part in supporting roles all around the globe; and with that comes, a nation appearing nearly completely bi-polar half the time, running entirely dependent upon which way the bough breaks. We have engaged and disengaged, become entangled and dis-entangled, on the fly and as the political winds blow. We have spent good money on good wars, bad wars, and wars only defined as "military kinetic action."
We have spent good money after bad politics; dirty money on good intentions; and have allowed America's compassion to dictate the day, or take it away. It is almost as if, the more you know about the way things were first intended, the more you grow in disgust in the way things have ever since been.
But isn't it the POLITICS of the engagement, no matter foreign or domestic, that gets in the way of true progress in everything!?
No longer can we figure out, on our own, what is really the RIGHT answer, without checking it with our political ideology first. No longer can we decide, emphatically and on our own, that is wrong and here are all the reasons why, without making sure it does not cross with the partisan bias already firm in place. No longer do we run on "right is right, even when nobody is doing it; while, wrong is wrong, even when everybody's doing it."
With any given amount of deeper study upon the words and intentions of our Founding Fathers (reminding me of Father's Day come Sunday), it takes about two seconds to figure out we have gone astray; and not only astray, but have grown ignorant, misguided, and shamefully unaware of exactly what makes this country tick and why.
Our alliances can be made oh so simple from this day forward, if only we "here let us stop;" for with certain, would not our politics then, be in there most pure form? To find our way back to Universal, Natural Law, as according to our founders, gives us the best hope in correcting our course, without politics so much involved.
In short, our attention to the best interests of this fair land should remain the only preservation we must be vitally concerned. Especially now.
I am trying to catch the last two weeks of Glenn Beck, in his final days of disengagement from his Fox audience...and something he said made me wince in shame, for the proficiency level of our children has become a startling example of just how far off base this nation has become. Students at, or above, Proficiency Standards, in the 4th grade are at 20%; in 8th grade, at 17%; in 12th grade, at 12%. (while this easily qualifies for throwing in my bad word of choice running for the week...unfukeenbelievable)
If these numbers don't shock a nation back into submission back to our Founder's best intentions -- in principles, values and goals, especially with regard to entanglements, both foreign and domestic -- then I don't know what will.
It is hard work being a responsible parent these days; and yet, call me crazy, adding the element of politics into the fray, only makes things all the more convoluted, implicating ourselves with artificial ties which serve no purpose, complicating a relationship to God, Country, and Ourselves, in ways unnecessary and totally unwarranted.
Making a child's education just part of political controversy -- instead of building upon the benefits and best intentions of everything our founders set forth, giving way to all that a truly free market can bear, and thereby making way for a world of possibility and prosperity for all -- becomes so very apparent; both foreign and domestic, we can see exactly what veering from the path has done. and it ain't pretty.
A closer look at this nation's birth, and the definition set forth by being a Republic, is genius. EVERYTHING that our forefathers set forth was all about creating a more perfect union in every way -- I have no doubt in my mind.
America IS exceptional in every way -- and no country, on the whole entire earth, is like ours -- NONE. We do not think we are exceptional just like the German's think, just like the Venezuelan's think, just like Iranian's think, and just like our president believes -- WE REALLY REALLY are. All things considered, and playing the game of which one of these things doesn't belong? We don't; we, the people, of The United States of America belong in the category of whole 'nother level of Divine Providence. Don't believe me, then read this:
Read The 5000 Year Leap and take a leap a faith in your country for once and for all. Read it with your children; teach them what the progressives have swiped clean from our history books. Engage in becoming re-engaged and fully entangled into the heart and soul of who we are as Americans -- not by party -- not by policy -- not by the throws of political power infiltrating our true spirit.
We are all Americans first and foremost; and if there is any part of you that does not comprehend, understand, or respect that part of you, then you need to leave, or, learn more about who you are, from a place of truth and reason, not politics. And taking this one step further and applying a phrase we seem to understand, while also following the Obama Doctrine way, please accept this task on the ground as a moral imperative, as the budding arm of the apparent civilian military force that you are [confused? go back to G from just yesterday].
Here's to our founding fathers today and always; may we realize the waywardness of our entanglements large and small, here and over there, foreign and domestic, and recognize our power to change our world back to the way we were. It is not too late.
This baby goes out to fathers everywhere -- be good, do good, and all else shall be added unto you; and to my own papa, I love you and thank my lucky stars for you everyday.
Make it a Good Day, G
hysterical, really... we are 'not engaged in any hostilities in Libya'...and 'ATM's steal jobs'... and 'shovel ready um ah not exactly shovel ready as we expected'...and 'if it were me, I would resign'...
...and what a week it has been for this president of many words.
happy friday.
we are acting in a "supporting role" only; whatever you think is happening in Libya, make no mistake, "American forces are not facing the hostilities that would require the president to seek such congressional consent under the War Powers Resolution." see the rest of the post from the Washington Post, here
that, and it is merely Kinetic Military Action.
You can change the name; you can redefine it; we all know what war looks like, sounds like, smells like, by now.
This is what our Founders envisioned:
"Peace, Commerce, and Honest
Friendship with All Nations --
entangling alliances with NONE."
Thomas Jefferson
and especially, keeping our neutrality in full force was the primary objective.
The only time to take up arms against another country, was in instances where they engaged in hostilities against US. Under such terms, Libya's War most certainly does not apply. And at the tune of spending millions of dollars every day, nearing the ONE Billion dollar mark, me thinks this supporting role is misguided, over budget, and against America's best interests.
And then we have, from George Washington, a reminder of the delicate balance of what I like to call, the Frenemy Treaty. He gives us this (pillaged from The 5000 Year Leap, by W.Cleon Skousen):
"In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."
and continuing this thought even further:
wow. talk to me, George."So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions, by unnecessarily parting with what ought to be retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld."
how we have strayed, how we have strayed.
But you would think, of all people, the anti-war (especially the one that was not the good war), anti-imperialist president, like Barack Hussein Obama, would take these words and founders intentions to heart and then some, and be able to communicate such throughout his administration in thought, word, and deed.
I mean, after all, he is the president in receipt of a Nobel Peace Prize, based upon perception alone; he had two weeks under his belt as president when nominated for such a feat. Just where is the follow through on that? And if in fact Obama's actions do not deliver on such a promise -- would not the rescinding of such a prize ensue?
How awkward is this? Or is this just me, being G?
The entanglement in Iraq, or the dis-entanglement thereof, is still, completely, engaged -- the entanglement in Afghanistan (THE GOOD WAR, he said) is becoming totally frayed, with mission creep getting the best of us, while we sit very much confused deciding just when enough is enough -- and in Libya, after nearly 90 days now, beginning with a so-called mandate to take down an evil dictator (but without the mandate to do whatever it takes to do so) creating an entanglement that keeps making an even bigger knot, with the mission unknown leading the way and with rebel leaders still very much undefined -- to Yemen, the new drone dropping zone, equaling perhaps the un-war in Pakistan, where relations have never been at their worst -- to Syria, only begging for equal protections and attention under the Law of Entanglement as defined by the Obama Doctrine (and clearly, confused, in that he is running on several doctrines at once). Take a breath, gretch...
Washington unveiled this rule of thumb:
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign relations, is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect faith. Here let us stop."
Washington did his best to warn us of making the mistake of becoming associated with causes not our own in a very big way; making it clear -- whatever action we take in the direction of preserving another nation's best interests over our own, through "artificial ties" and allegiances, to meet the demand of a current age, would be just plain wrong.
"Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships and enmities...Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interests, humor, or caprice?"
Yes, why?
It's a simple question.
Of course, maybe even George wasn't expecting things to get so complicated.
And then again, maybe this is exactly what he thought would happen.
The thing is, I really like the part defined by the extending of "as little a political connection as possible."
With a step back, politics has played too big a part in supporting roles all around the globe; and with that comes, a nation appearing nearly completely bi-polar half the time, running entirely dependent upon which way the bough breaks. We have engaged and disengaged, become entangled and dis-entangled, on the fly and as the political winds blow. We have spent good money on good wars, bad wars, and wars only defined as "military kinetic action."
We have spent good money after bad politics; dirty money on good intentions; and have allowed America's compassion to dictate the day, or take it away. It is almost as if, the more you know about the way things were first intended, the more you grow in disgust in the way things have ever since been.
But isn't it the POLITICS of the engagement, no matter foreign or domestic, that gets in the way of true progress in everything!?
No longer can we figure out, on our own, what is really the RIGHT answer, without checking it with our political ideology first. No longer can we decide, emphatically and on our own, that is wrong and here are all the reasons why, without making sure it does not cross with the partisan bias already firm in place. No longer do we run on "right is right, even when nobody is doing it; while, wrong is wrong, even when everybody's doing it."
With any given amount of deeper study upon the words and intentions of our Founding Fathers (reminding me of Father's Day come Sunday), it takes about two seconds to figure out we have gone astray; and not only astray, but have grown ignorant, misguided, and shamefully unaware of exactly what makes this country tick and why.
Our alliances can be made oh so simple from this day forward, if only we "here let us stop;" for with certain, would not our politics then, be in there most pure form? To find our way back to Universal, Natural Law, as according to our founders, gives us the best hope in correcting our course, without politics so much involved.
In short, our attention to the best interests of this fair land should remain the only preservation we must be vitally concerned. Especially now.
I am trying to catch the last two weeks of Glenn Beck, in his final days of disengagement from his Fox audience...and something he said made me wince in shame, for the proficiency level of our children has become a startling example of just how far off base this nation has become. Students at, or above, Proficiency Standards, in the 4th grade are at 20%; in 8th grade, at 17%; in 12th grade, at 12%. (while this easily qualifies for throwing in my bad word of choice running for the week...unfukeenbelievable)
If these numbers don't shock a nation back into submission back to our Founder's best intentions -- in principles, values and goals, especially with regard to entanglements, both foreign and domestic -- then I don't know what will.
It is hard work being a responsible parent these days; and yet, call me crazy, adding the element of politics into the fray, only makes things all the more convoluted, implicating ourselves with artificial ties which serve no purpose, complicating a relationship to God, Country, and Ourselves, in ways unnecessary and totally unwarranted.
Making a child's education just part of political controversy -- instead of building upon the benefits and best intentions of everything our founders set forth, giving way to all that a truly free market can bear, and thereby making way for a world of possibility and prosperity for all -- becomes so very apparent; both foreign and domestic, we can see exactly what veering from the path has done. and it ain't pretty.
A closer look at this nation's birth, and the definition set forth by being a Republic, is genius. EVERYTHING that our forefathers set forth was all about creating a more perfect union in every way -- I have no doubt in my mind.
America IS exceptional in every way -- and no country, on the whole entire earth, is like ours -- NONE. We do not think we are exceptional just like the German's think, just like the Venezuelan's think, just like Iranian's think, and just like our president believes -- WE REALLY REALLY are. All things considered, and playing the game of which one of these things doesn't belong? We don't; we, the people, of The United States of America belong in the category of whole 'nother level of Divine Providence. Don't believe me, then read this:
Read The 5000 Year Leap and take a leap a faith in your country for once and for all. Read it with your children; teach them what the progressives have swiped clean from our history books. Engage in becoming re-engaged and fully entangled into the heart and soul of who we are as Americans -- not by party -- not by policy -- not by the throws of political power infiltrating our true spirit.
We are all Americans first and foremost; and if there is any part of you that does not comprehend, understand, or respect that part of you, then you need to leave, or, learn more about who you are, from a place of truth and reason, not politics. And taking this one step further and applying a phrase we seem to understand, while also following the Obama Doctrine way, please accept this task on the ground as a moral imperative, as the budding arm of the apparent civilian military force that you are [confused? go back to G from just yesterday].
Here's to our founding fathers today and always; may we realize the waywardness of our entanglements large and small, here and over there, foreign and domestic, and recognize our power to change our world back to the way we were. It is not too late.
This baby goes out to fathers everywhere -- be good, do good, and all else shall be added unto you; and to my own papa, I love you and thank my lucky stars for you everyday.
Make it a Good Day, G
hysterical, really... we are 'not engaged in any hostilities in Libya'...and 'ATM's steal jobs'... and 'shovel ready um ah not exactly shovel ready as we expected'...and 'if it were me, I would resign'...
...and what a week it has been for this president of many words.
happy friday.
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