hard HEARTS and weak MINDS, to be precise!
Coming off his "victories" over the USA and Europe, in Ukraine, PUTIN seems to be "doubling down" in the Middle East! Our State Department is woefully derelict in explaining to the American People, preicsely, WHAT in HELL is going on!!
It doesn't take a great mind to see that PUTIN "wins" through a DUPLICITY; that is in your face!
He talks Peace, while waging War; in submerged, and plausibly deniable, ways. He seems to be a genius at knowing precisely WHERE and WHEN to STRIKE! While the WEST waffles between NEGOTIATING and WAR; PUTIN wages BOTH, simultaneously!! He has Assad in his pocket, he appears to be getting Netanyahu in his pocket, and he seems convinced that the Arabs would rather make money and fight among themselves, more than anything! The Bombing in Turkey, reported this morning, smells of this sort of thing!
What are we, average Americans, doing?? Entertaining ourselves with a craven MEDIA that features the loud-mouthed, empty minds of the likes of TRUMP, CARSON, and FIORINA!!
Looking back over my adult career, Eisenhower's warning leaps out! Where Eisenhower was afraid of the collusion between our Hard Right and the Defense Department, Nixon was NOT. To get off the Vietnam hook, Nixon ended the DRAFT! Iraq showed clearly the folly of doing that WITHOUT drastically changing our approach to WAR. Congress has refused to take this seriously, since the late Fifties.
The Backlash against Civil Rights found a home inside our "Volunteer" Military, metastasizing into "Abu Ghraib"?? Our State Department was left, after Nixon's resignation, to the designs of Kissinger, who was preoccupied with riches from trade with China and Russia. Our Diplomatic Talents wafted off into some nether-land! George Marshall was best, and Dulles, was the last clear-eyed Leader at STATE??
Stay Vigilant! WE need to meet PUTIN on his playing field, and stop trusting solely in "Diplomacy"! It's becoming more and more evident that our Hard Right envies Putin!! Adlai Stevenson proved that BRAINS, alone, don't appeal much to the average American Voter!! DickandDubya showed us what we get without brains!
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