It is very important, now more than ever that we ensure American Citizens the blanket of security we DO provide other nationals. And many nations have fallen into other hands. We still have people there and it is always scarry.
This guy just wanted to see his Family, and Iran uses him as a political chip under sentence of death. He was not a hiker and he told them he was coming. They could have said no. That is end all be all - just wrong. They know it, does "POTUS" know it?
What shall happen when we lose more of North Africa and the Middle East?
This should be the most important election of our lifetime. But its clear that something is seriously wrong. How can we be having such an underwhelming, uninspiring and irrelevant election campaign at such a critical juncture?
The very fact that 2012 is being carried out as if it were no different from any other election, at an extraordinary moment when profound international challenges loom, and serious national crises have gone unaddressed speaks to the ultimate disconnect between the people and their elected leaders.
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A great many people have come to the realization that elections don't matter, that all the same crap is going to happen regardless of who is elected, and that the elections are fraudulent just like any banana republic.
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..as though we've finally figured out that it is the Inner Beltway Party vs the proles Hinterland. The Outer Party bureaucracy simply follows the lead.
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A Ronald Reagan type did not show up for this election so we need to figure out who will do the least damage and hope they turn out far better than we fear.
And those unwilling to hold their noses should at least show up for the down ticket votes because no matter who wins the executive branch we will want to restore Congess as the power balance it was created to be.
....The thing about communism, at least to the uninitiated, is that it appears to be identical in all respects to a hereditary aristocracy. If one didnt know better, it would seem that the more communist a country, such as North Korea, the more it resembles a monarchy. In China, the children of the Politburo members are actually called princesses and princes, and they gad about in a style that makes the current European royalty look like a bunch of low-rent grifters.
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.
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