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He's good for Joisey, not good for the rest of us as a President.'
He said he's losing the weight because he turned 50 and wants to see his boys grow up, as opposed to wanting to be President. He's right if he was serious about that statement; getting the weight down would help his health substantially regardless of what he does in politics.
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Dunno about his intentions, his chances to win and sech. But he would be more fun than two hoots in a holler as POTUS. What a kick. Whirled leaders would be dumbfounded, dumbstruck and gobsmacked when their bullshit would be called to their faces.
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Kerry made this clear while announcing the appointment. He said, "He [Dobbins] has deep and longstanding relationships in the region ... Jim will continue building on diplomatic efforts to bring the conflict to a peaceful conclusion, actively engaging with states in the region and the international community."
Interestingly, Kerry left it vague as to the regional states where Dobbins would have "deep and longstanding relationships". This is where Dobbins' 2007 congressional testimony becomes important; in it, he narrated at some length how closely he worked with the Iranian diplomats to bring about the difficult transition in 2001 and more important, how obliging and keen Tehran was in working with the US.
To quote Dobbins, "America's rapid success in toppling the Taliban and replacing it with a broadly based, moderate successor ... depended heavily upon the support American military and diplomatic efforts received from all the neighboring states, notably Iran."
Dobbins recounted specific instances when the Iranians helped out in Bonn, "without which the Karzai government might never have been formed". But soon afterward the George W Bush administration opted to include Iran in the "axis of evil" instead of building up on the critical mass that formed in Bonn.
In a stunning disclosure, Dobbins said that nonetheless, two months after president George W Bush trotted out the thesis of the "axis of evil", the Iranians approached Dobbins again on the sidelines of an international conference at Geneva with yet another proposal of collaboration.
This time it was about Iran participating in a program to train a new Afghan National Army under American leadership. Dobbins noted:
Iranian participation, under American leadership, in a joint program of this sort would be a breathtaking departure after more than 20 years mutual hostility. It also represented a significant step beyond the quiet diplomatic cooperation we had achieved so far. Clearly, despite having been relegated by President Bush to the 'axis of evil', the Khatami government wanted to deepen its cooperation with Washington, and was prepared to do so in a most overt and public manner.
But, Dobbins recalled that there were no takers in Washington for the Iranian proposal although he approached the then secretary of state, Colin Powell, and national security advisor Condoleeza Rice and was even briefed an inter-agency meeting attended by defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Without doubt, what Dobbins brings into Obama's team is an invaluable insight into where things began going haywire for the US in Afghanistan, by overlooking "the impossibility of holding together disintegrating societies without the cooperation of adjoining states".
Dobbins concluded his testimony with the following advice to the Bush administration: "It's time to speak to Iran, unconditionally, and comprehensively."
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It is being repor that any successor to President Ahmadinejad may be "less hostile" towards the US.
Perhaps, but more importantly I'm inclined to think Moud's successor will still demand full rights for Iran as per its NucProgs, in similar to my belief that any POTUS Bammer successor is likely to continue the effort to suborn the post-2015 USA under anti-Sovereign, anti-Constitutional, anti-Democratic/Electoral,
"borderless", pro-Socialist, Globalist OWG + Global Federal "Unions" + related.
MSNBCs co-host of The Cycle, Touré, declared his support for the open borders movement. Touré said, just as currency and employment are borderless (they are?), immigration should also be borderless. He noted that chronic poverty plaguing foreign nations and fueling terrorism would be alleviated by open borders.
The answer to our immigration issue is open borders Tear down the fences. Rip up the red tape. Yup; Im embracing the open borders movement Open borders attacks the root cause of Muslim extremism. Impoverished men in Muslim countries are more easily radicalized. Its Muslim poverty that is threatening our security.
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Couldn't be the whole Muslim culture thingy could it? Seem to be a lot of rich ones around too. So where are all the Islamic Nobel winners in the STEMs?
As for 'open borders' - if you have no loyalty to me on a national level, I have none back to return. It's every man, women, and child for their own tribe against every other one.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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Yeah... right. Because Osama was so poor. And the Boston Bombers, speedbump and flashbang, were living in the ghetto and driving around an old 64 chevy....
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So IIUC, the way to combat pervasive Muslim poverty is to allow poor Muslims to travel across the seas to sneak into the US-West + receive mucho Welfare-Nanny State public benefits like so many Hispanic-Latino illegals, + ...
> Widout having to change their illegal status.
> Widout having to learn English or US History, etc. traditions + values.
> Widout having to swear Allegiance to the US.
E.G. BROTHERS TSARNAEV = CAN DO OR RECEIVE MOST OF THE BENEFITS OF US CITIZENSHIP + RESIDENCY WHILE PLANNING JIHAD AGZ THE US.
E.G. AZTLAN MOVEMENT = CALLING FOR CIVIL WAR IN THE US CIRCA 2015 IN ORDER TO RECOVER ANY + ALL LANDS LOST BY MEXICO TO THE US.
Yet the Gubmint is confident that, despite doing the above vee Muslim illegals, it can effec resist implementing in the US the heterogenous = separatist, Hardline Sharia that various Surveys indic most Muslims want???
Intehwesting how Muslim illegals will be coming to America at roughly the same time as the Aztlan Movement's desired civil war, + a Globalist-desired "borderless" Amerika where Scores of Milyuhns of foreign workers will be formally invited to Amerika to work.
* FYI IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > "ZERO HEDGE" Artic = IIRC denoted that the popular or well-used "11.0Milyuhn" figure for the number of illegals in the US is a CONSERVATIVE/MINIMA ESTIMATE, WID MANY PERTS BELIEVING THAT THE TRUE/ACTUAL NUMBER MAY BE AS HIGH AS 25-30.0MILYUHN???
Iff true, the GOP-Right may had already lost 2014 + 2016, + COULD BE AT RISK OF DE FACTO IDEO, ORGANIZED EXTINCTION BY 2025.
THE GOOD NEWS FOR THE GOP-RIGHT IS THAT THE DEMOLEFT MAY HAD SOWN THE SEEDS OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION AS WELL IN THE LONG-TERM - LEST WE FERGIT, THE DEMOLEFT LIKE MARXISM + SOCIALISM-GOVTISM, ETC. AS LONG AS THEY THEMSELVES + THEIRS DON'T HAVE TO LIVE UNDER IT.
FOR gun-toting, Republican-supporting and President-hating Americans, a 3D shooting target that looks like an undead Barack Obama could be the perfect gift. The controversial targets have, however, now been removed from sale at the National Rifle Association convention in Texas, at the request of organisers.
"Someone from the NRA came by and asked us to remove it," a worker from Zombie Industries, which makes the targets, told BuzzFeed.com. "They thought it looked too much like President Obama."
The move is an unusual bit of good PR for the NRA. The group seems to recognise that at a time of heightened fears over gun massacres and terrorism, encouraging people to shoot at a likeness of Mr Obama would cause upset.
It also draws attention to a desire among gun-owners to shoot at things that are a bit easier to hit than live animals, but more tangible than a piece of paper. While gun makers like to insist that people are not inspired by what they see on screen, the choice of zombie imagery follows a fashion for the genre in films and video games, such as "The Walking Dead".
Customers can choose from "bleeding zombies" that emit a bright colour when hit, as well as "mutilating zombies" that, according to the firm's website, "physically show visible bodily devastation when shot. That's right, the destruction is easy to see with every shot... Mutilation baby!"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
