Debt of Horror
Perhaps history imitates art. At the very least it sometimes anticipates it. In 1898 author Morgan Robertson wrote a novella called Futility, which was about of all things, a ship called the Titan striking an iceberg in the Atlantic and sinking with great loss of life, due to a shortage of lifeboats. And then there was the 1994 Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor, which amused readers with the absurd idea of suicide pilots flying airliners into American landmarks and buildings.
People stopped being amused at the idea after September 11. But at least one prediction in the book never happened: the takeover by America’s enemies of Guam in the Marianas island. But it may happen yet. “The Guam Election Commission proposes to conduct a vote on Guam’s “self-determination” of its future relationship with the United States. The commission has rejected voter-registration forms filed by white citizens on racial grounds.” It is now the subject of a lawsuit, Davis vs Guam.
But what is most interesting about the suit are the emerging but tenuous connections between between “decolonization” and the Chinese and Cuban diplomatic efforts. The UN Special Committee on Decolonization issued this report:
Special Committee on Decolonization Urged to Visit Guam as Petitioners.
Deplore Militarization of Non-Self-Governing Territory
Speaking out against the militarization of Guam by the United States, several petitioners today called upon members of the Special Committee on Decolonization to visit the Non-Self-Governing Territory and see the situation for themselves as soon as possible.
Many called attention to the release of an 11,000-page draft environmental impact statement by the United States, which the people of Guam had been given 90 days to study and comment on. Hope Antoinette Cristobal urged the Special Committee to study the document, which was “in direct violation of various international human rights instruments, including United Nations resolutions and declarations”.
Rima Ilarishigh Peter Miles, speaking on behalf of Women for Genuine Security, noted that United States Navy activities carried out on the island had gravely impacted the environment, human health and the welfare of the territorial government. Considering such challenges, she stressed the position that “the United States does not care what it destroys as long as no one knows about it”.
Asserting that the United Nations must not allow negative impacts to further block the process of decolonization, many petitioners requested that the Special Committee declare the militarization of Guam to be a major impediment to Guam’s exercise of its right to self-determination. They also requested that the Special Committee ensure that United States congressional appropriations and other United States military projects be put on hold until past injustices were remedied, current adverse impacts were negated and the potential for future adverse impacts completely removed.
Interestingly, only the “non self governing” territories the UN committee is concerned with are those of the UK, US, New Zealand and in one case — Morocco are of concern to the World Diplomats. But none of those countries are members of the committee. Instead the fate of their oppressed territories are being studied by countries like China, Syria, Cuba, Congo, Mali, Iraq, Tunisia and Venezuela. Cuba is the vice chair of the organization. Tibet is not a territory that concerns it.
If anyone has forgotten the strategic importance of Guam it is probably only the American public. Russia knows where it is. “The Air Force confirms that two Russian bombers on Tuesday circled the U.S. island territory of Guam, prompting U.S. jets to scramble and respond. … The incident occurred shortly before President Obama delivered his State of the Union address”.
It may remind the President of the strategic importance of Guam. Or it may suggest to him a diplomatic opportunity.
What really bothers Hans von Spakovsky, writing in the National Review, is that the Obama justice department seems perfectly content to disenfranchise all non native voters in the proposed decolonization plebiscite. Hence the origin of the lawsuit:
Guam – The Guam Election Commission may be headed to court as a non-profit public interest law firm is filing suit, alleging racial discrimination due to the upcoming vote to determine Guam’s future political status. While a series of meetings and workshops on the process of decolonization were a positive step forward in Guam’s quest for self-determination, a civil suit filed by an island resident who isn’t eligible to vote could bring the process to a standstill.
The Center for Individual Rights – a non-profit public interest law firm based in our nation’s capitol, is taking the GEC and its commissioners to court. On behalf of Guam resident Arnold Davis, the CIR alleges racial discrimination after he was not allowed to register for the plebiscite because he didn’t meet the definition of a native inhabitant of Guam.
CIR president Terry Pell told KUAM News, “In our view, this plebiscite, which is going to decide or help the future of Guam’s relation to the United States, ought to be open to all registered voters of Guam, regardless of their race. That’s what the Constitution says – that’s what the law says.”
But maybe fewer and fewer care what some old law says. As others have pointed out, the Constitution is more than a 100 years old and “we won”. Clancy’s novel, however is less than 20 years old, however. The words in it may still still apply. If Guam is ‘decolonized’ its new masters will owe a Debt of Honor to whom?
In his novel Clancy wrote of the transience of territorial claims: “The businessman clapped his hands once and bowed his head, both to call the attention of the lingering spirits to his presence and to show proper obeisance to their influence over his destiny. It was fitting, he thought, that his purchase of this parcel of land now meant that 50.016% of the real estate on Saipan was again in Japanese hands, more than fifty years since his family’s death at American hands.”
But perhaps more evanescent than territory was the nature of modern money. He observed that modern money was nothing more than a signal that we all believed in.
“Money” was mainly an electronic expression, a matter of sending a message: You, First National Bank of Podunk, now have an additional three million dollars which you may lend to Joe’s hardware, or Jeff Brown’s Gas-and-Go, or for new homeowners to borrow as mortgage loans to pay back for the next twenty years. Few of these people were paid in cash—with credit cards there was less for a robber to steal, an employee…
Crashing airplanes into buildings was a scenario that eventually came true. Making money up, why, could anyone actually do that? And as to a foreign power taking over Guam … nah, that is too far-fetched.
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Whew. Congressman Hank Johnson can rest easy. Maybe Guam won’t tip over after all . . .
Guess this means all those “Free Tibet” bumper stickers we used to see back in the Bush era were all just BS, huh?
The future is fun! … The future is fair! … You may already have won! … You may already be there!
(Hank Johnson -> Fudd’s Law -> Bozos -> The Obamanation)
The “between between” in the first sentence of the third paragraph and redundant “however”, as in “Clancy’s novel, however is less than 20 years old, however,” suggest a posting written in haste. Perhaps it’s editable?
“Many called attention to the release of an 11,000-page draft environmental impact statement by the United States, which the people of Guam had been given 90 days to study and comment on. ”
And I suspect the USA is the only nation of any consequence on earth that would actually fund and produce an “11,000-page environmental impact statement” (probably too long by 10,940 pages, btw). It is the only nation that then would give the people of Guam “90 days to study and comment on”. It is the only nation of any consequence which would then actually pay some heed to the Guamian(?) comments. And it is the only superpower in history that would allow the lilliputians in the UN and the stone-age tribal people of Guam to kick it in the teeth and do nothing about it.
Logic forces me to conclude we are not fit to be a superpower. For all the countless things we have done right, and at great cost in blood and treasure, we seem determined to do the heavy lifting as well in our own subversion and ultimate demise. I think that is unprecedented in world history…
You pull the US military out of Guam and they would starve.
People who appeal to the UN to order America to do something confuse Daddy’s coat for Daddy. The UN is not a government or the Master of the United States but our Agent. The same holds true for the other four Veto Powers. We cannot use the UN against Russia. Truman got the “Uniting For Peace” resolution authorizing the use of force in Korea when the Soviets were out of the room. That parliamentary trick was probably a mistake. Unfortunately Obama’s Valkeries support the world government fantasy.
A similar racist idea has been proposed for Hawaii.
Israel has been dealing with international NGO termites for years. They were laughed at for protesting. Now the poseurs and grifters feel safe tugging Superman’s cape. Ramsey Clark pioneered the scam. John Kerry was a Minor League acolyte.
When I was at the Pentagon, among the items in our files were diplomatic communications relative to the USAF pulling its people and equipment off of some of the Atlantic and Carribean islands where we had missile tracking sites. This distressed the local politicians to no end; there would be no more rent paid for the land. And then when they realized that the Air Force more or less also ran the local airfield and provided the only fire and rescue service there, they really got upset. And when they discovered that we were not only leaving but taking all the stuff back to the USA when we left they were utterly outraged. As one diplomat pointed out, no doubt the local leadersip envisoned the equipment from the tracking site being redistributed in a fair and equitable manner to the local population – i.e., to themselves.
Several years back, Jesse Jackson showed up on Puerto Rico when a local man was killed by on a USN bombing range. Of course, he was an employee of the bombing range, but that cut no mustard with the Rev Jackson and the protesters. When the USN gave in to their demands, then shut the place down and moved their ops to Florida – and laid off all of the local workers, Jesse decried this action as being as “retaliation.”
It alls sounds great until it actually happens. Then it’s like the joke, “Land on any runway you like. We haven’t had a plane in here since last Tuesday.”
“You pull the US military out of Guam and they would starve.”
Hardly. The 11,000 page study will form the basis for an indictment against US for all eternity. We will be on the hook to support this dysfunctional little primitive island for eternity. A million $ per coconut. A million $ per land crab. A million $ to clean up all the toxic dumps which are actually where the Guamians have dumped their debris for centuries.
BTW, I am the sad owner of a magnificent 20 acre mountaintop in Maui (no kidding). Long ago I decided I could never live in a place like that. “What do you mean?!” “Sad owner?! How could that be?!”
Well, after the romance and the sheer physical beauty of the place wore off, I began to notice little things, like the rampant corruption which outstripped anything I had ever witnessed in my life. Little things like the congenital hatred among and between the “natives” real and fake. Little things like the rampant anti-Americanism on display if you bothered to scratch below the surface. Little things like the brutal mysogenistic tribal culture of the polynesian inhabitants, the serial wife and child beatings among the “natives”, the rampant crack/meth/alcohol problems. Maui ain’t no paradise. And now property prices are so depressed that if I sold now I would lock in a near $1M cash loss… I hate the place.
But I mention all this to tell a story about another mainlander who got royally sued and screwed there subsequent to my own purchase.. He paid more than a million dollars for his 3 acre seafront promentory on the N. shore… As soon as the deal closed and he went to file his papers to develop (keep in mind he had been assured that the land was developable), a coterie of “natives” came out of the woodwork and stopped it dead in its tracks. It seems a “holy and sacred” site or some such occupied the primest part of his property. Nevermind that the locals had dumped little else there for 8 decades than dead washing machines, car batteries, car hulks, TV tubes full of mercury, and tons and tons of plastic. No bones and no bodies were found. A couple random rocks which may or may not have formed part of a stoneage aquaculture at some point may have been found, but it was ambiguous at best. Anyway, long story short, what was unambiguous was the fact that the site had mainly been the sacred local dump for all the aforementioned, and everyone knew it. But the Haole was forced to set aside almost half his lot, the primest half, and had to foot a huge bill to “restore it” to a condition it had not enjoyed since before the “natives” had arrived. he also had to pay for extensive public access which (thankfully for him) nobody ever actually uses to see the sacred site. That is with the exception of County workers who inspect and fine if it isn’t maintained. But according to the guy, he ended up paying about triple what he had anticipated to put up half the house he had anticipated… It was the most disgusting fraud, and helped me to see the real racket going on… Maui is a beautifual paradisiacal cesspool.
That is exactly what will happen in Guam.
This is sad for me. My family’s 4 years in Guam when I was stationed at the Navy Hospital were wonderful. Our kids went to St. Francis School in Yona.I’m hoping this is a few malcontents or an attempt to extract more cash from Uncle.
Give Us American Money spells Guam.
(Someone else pointed this out to me, so don’t credit me for the observation.)
# 9 Morton D.
Thanks for the anecdote. I have extensive experience in Hawaii. Your narrative is similar to what I have found. Michener claimed Hawaii had become a perfect melting pot. Hardly. There is more racism per square acre there than there is in entire counties on the mainland.
Except for the major capital losses that would occur, I have often thought it would be an interesting experiment to give the place back to the “natives.” Get the hell out, leave them alone, and see how they do. Of course, as you predict with Guam, we would undoubtedly have to pay endless “reparations” that would keep them afloat for quite some time.
Sam Hall said: “You pull the US military out of Guam and they would starve.”
My thought precisely. As an experiment let’s give Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, Am. Samoa, etc back to the natives. Pull out lock, stock and barrel. Pay them something between jack and squat. Stand back and see how they fare.
No problemo for the Navy. Buy off their votes with cans of SPAM!
All the taste and nutrition of growing pigs for meat, with none of the mess or smell problems. It is a leftover habit from WW II.
Would any of those member nations of the UN commission bring such wonders to the life of an isolated island nation in the middle of nowhere? Seven decades of commitment will mean more to the women of Guam than the idle promises of socialists like that group. The lesson of Obama’s socialist BS ought to be quite evident to a people with no real viable alternative to the reliability of Uncle Sam.
Of course, that won’t prevent the socialist cabal from having their wet dreams of a socialist paradise. Castro’s Cuba should be enough to expose those dreams as nightmares.
You want horror? Just watch foolish women jump to their deaths because they listened to liars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65EShYbK5ww
9. Morton Doodslag
Was the parcel you describe just to the right (as you face the ocean) or northeast of the Turtle Bay hotel?
I was asked to develop an auqaponics project on it as a workaround.
There has always been conflict between groups in Hawaii. The first Polynesian inhabitants were decimated by later arrivals. More recently the newer Filipino migrant have come into conflict with the earlier ones. Everyone faults the latest group the Micronesians.
I have had my throat slit by a Samoan, guns pointed at me by Hawaiians, even been attacked in front of my grandmothers home at the surf break Laniakea by a Japanese guy who said I should go home to the mainland.
It had gotten worse since the US adopted an anti white policy in the 1970′s and the Trank sisters came back from college.
I live in the mixed neighborhood of Kailua. We all help each other. We are very polite, know how good we have it and do not want to blow it.
I would not live anywhere else.
” … a USN bombing range … ”
Ahhh–that would be Vieques Island, about 6-8 miles off the coast of the main island of Puerto Rico. Back in the day–summer of ’71–I went to Camp Garcia there, about 190 Marines on a base that was basically a huge target. It took up a big part of the island and there were air impact areas, naval impact areas, and zones where the Battalion Landing Team cruising the Carib would practice amphibious landings, do mortar practice, etc.
The naval gunfire wasn’t frequent but was fun to watch, esp since the ships were out of sight. But the most fun was the air impact: wrecked vehicles were parked to simulate a convoy or a motor facility and there were also simulated SAM missile sites.
The navy trainees–flying F4s I think–would practice ”toss bombing”: come smokin’ in over the ocean low, big vortices of vapor whirling off their wingtips and as they approached the target they’d pull straight up and let loose a practice bomb which trailed smoke. The bomb would keep going up a bit, then fall back down to the ground. Meanwhile the plane would do a half-roll and haul ass back the way he came, then rejoin the students’ formation while another took his turn.
I watched a landing , mortar practice, and retrieved small parachutes from the illumination flares which I took home to the kids.
It was a tropical paradise where I was told Lord Of The Flies was filmed and all the best beaches but one were off limits to everyone but us.
I have no idea how it’s working out now. And, they had these huge land crabs that would rear back and clack their claws at you when making the morning run to the beach and back–spooky.
“You pull the US military out of Guam and they would starve.”
Hardly. The Chinese military would move in, and would pay pretty good rent to do so.
Well, there’s always Cam Ranh Bay. I hear that’s available now, for a price.
It’s kind of “The Long Good-Bye”
We have pulled out of Subic Bay, Clark Field in the Philipines. We are probably soon to pull out of South Korea, and then Okinawa. The Japanese kind of want us to stay in Okinawa, but the native Okinawans really want us out of there.
The Guamians, well, they want us out off Guam. If it tips over then, well, it’s all on them.
And probably lastly, giving the Hawaiians their overpriced real estate back. Maybe within a generation. And then we’ll never get a look at Obama’s real birth certificate.
I kinda hope we can hold onto California, but it just might get annexed by Mexico if they have a plebiscite on it in 2030.
#17: Nah, the Chinese would not pay one Yaun, and give anyone who complained a 7.65mm and charge the family for the cartridge.
Frankly folks, in my redneck opinion, we are going to have to change the way we operate in this big wide world. When living in a rough neighborhood, having the biggest house and throwing a block party every year will not keep you from getting burglarized. What will is a real nasty doberman, a pistol and a willing to turn them loose.
I had a patient from Saipan a couple of years ago. He was waiting for a liver transplant. He had retired there after an Air Force career and married a Guamian woman. They had a nice concrete house (typhoons every two years or so) and the Air Force guys from Tinian would come over every weekend with a couple of cases of beer and have a barbeque. That finally killed his liver. He had some nice pics of his house and the locale.
Nancy Pelosi and her husband have a major interest in a tuna cannery in American Samoa which has been exempted from minimum wage laws. Nancy takes care of her own.
R. Daneel #13:
Some years back I heard a radio piece (probably NPR) about how some in the 3rd World wanted their cultural treasures back,, e.g., statues, and artwork, and carvings, and crystal skulls, and stuff.
I thought that we should respond that Okay, then we wanted ours back, too, e.g, antibiotics, clean water, electricity, telephones, radios, etc. No lights, no phone, no motorcar, not a single luxury – and see how they like that.
15 – Langley – OMG I’m sorry to hear you had your throat slit! ungodly. I’m sorry too for bad-mouthing Maui. It’s the most visually beautiful of all the islands IMO. In a way I can say my heart was truly broken from a series of poisonous experiences there, including lawsuits filed by some nasty neighbors, the story above, and much more. My property is above Seahorse Ranch/Kahakaloa area. Maluhia. Top of the hill, astounding and one-of-a-kind views of Haleakala, Molokai, and the whole north shore, etc.
Anyway, you might remember this other nasty story on the topic of explosive Samoan rage… About ten years ago a friend of mine was driving near Kahakaloa and was dragged out of his car through the driver’s side window, and nearly stomped to death. this was a 350lb Somoan – the guy slammed on his brakes on the highway, dragged this neighbor out, and stomped his chest, including jumping up and down on him. He claimed he was too close to his car. My neighbor had to have open heart surgery to repair the internal injury and very nearly died. He was never the same after that. The Samoan served barely a year for attempted murder. Please be careful – it was just too much for me. I desperately hope property prices come back, I’m desperate to get out of it.
“Instead the fate of their oppressed territories are being studied by countries like China, Syria, Cuba, Congo, Mali, Iraq, Tunisia and Venezuela”
Syria, Cuba, Congo, Mali, Iraq, Tunisia, and Venezuela are still western colonies. They have never pulled out, only hired actors to play president with new flags using very offensive color arrangement.
“I thought that we should respond that Okay, then we wanted ours back, too, e.g, antibiotics, clean water, electricity, telephones, radios, etc. No lights, no phone, no motorcar, not a single luxury – and see how they like that.”
Do take your drugs, spies, and iPods away please… Your sailors spread more disease than a Carnival cruise. Look at their evil flag – red has been totally pushed off of the earth: Carnival Corporation house flag
My buddy who lives in Kailua and is a successful real estate developer just sold two large shopping centers in Agana, Guam to Japanese. The Japanese are buying up the place as Guam is only a short haul flight for Japanese tourists as opposed to an eight hour flight to Hono. I lived in Kailua for fifteen years and moved to Mexico seven years ago. Hawaii was one big socialist nightmare with the “native” Hawaiians led by the Trask sisters leading the sovernty movement that Bill Clinton spurred with his apology for the US illegal seizure of Hawaii from Queen Liliokalani. The Dems and labor unions run the place as they do in Guam. If the US armed forces ever pulled out of Guam or Oahu, the “locals” would indeed starve to death. Now that the “one armed bandit” Inoue has passed on, it will be much harder for Hawaii to “get the gold” out of DC. If the Obama administration pivots to Asia which seems to be their preference( since the war on terror has been won, the US will never give up the bases in Guam. The Navy is already in the process of leaving Okinawa since the Japanese want us out which leaves Agana as the only deep water port with a big airstrip. If China and Japan go head to head over the disputed islands intheUS South China Sea, things could heat up fast. The Spratley’s may be next. If that happens, the Philippines may be sorry that the US Navy is no longer in Subic bay. Then there’s little Kim and his nuclear tipped rockets that can hit Guam or Hawaii. CINPAC has its hands full trying to sort all of these developing threats out…not to mention protecting the Obama’s when they are on their multi million dollar vacations in Kailua.
Aloha Nui Loa y Adios
“Guamians”?
I had a high-school roommate (recently retired from his USAF career) and a couple of his friends who were also from Guam. They all referred to themselves as Guamanians. (That was 40+ years ago, and all I can remember of the language lessons is how to say hi and a bit of cursing.)
I still cherish lumpia, though.
Carter on Steroids
@25
‘They all referred to themselves as Guamanians’
are you talking about Gangnam Style…
Stange wor(l)d and ‘vely’ interesting times indeed !
SF
I’d think that most of this nonsense, such as flying Russian Bear bombers around Guam, is a show of activity to hide weakness.
What Americans should do is not get distracted and keep their eye on the ball. Obama’s socialist takeover of large segments of the economy (healthcare anyone?) had one major failure, that he is now spouting off about correcting now that he has been re-elected, control of energy.
The cover story is AGW. He got close to passing Cap & Trade legislation in 2010, having already succeeded in the House in 2009. And he had the BP spill to “not waste” as a crisis. Harry Reid was on the verge of passing the bill in the Senate when the flow of oil into the Gulf stopped. (You can thank Kurt Mix for that, which is why Obama is trying to use the FBI to discredit him).
But the energy sector has since become the one reliable source of new JOBS! Obama is very vulnerable on the issue of JOBS. So attack him for high gasoline prices because he has failed to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
Obama = High Gas Prices!!!
Practically every voter, even low information voters, hates high gas prices.
So beat the MSM on the head that
Obama = High Gas Prices!!
Oh, BTW
CHU LIED, DOLPHINS DIED!
FREE KURT MIX!!!
And my little contribution to the story
WHAT DO WE WANT?
LUBRICATE AND BLEED!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
NOW!!!!
P.S. At Fukushima, we used a similar term, “feed and Bleed”, and the idea of using the grenade was to punch holes in the secondary contaiment structures to allow the hot gases and steam to vent (AKA “bleed”), as we fed fresh makeup water in.
Feed and Bleed.
You probably saw the Chinook helicopter trying and failing to add makeup water, before we brought in the water cannons and cement pumping truck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yll-VuaCjb0&feature=youtu.be&t=1s
And Greg Jaczko hated the idea of using grenades.
Guamanians? We used to call them Guamaniacs.
Strategic location is strategic location. Not only to the Chinese, Russians, etc. want to push the US out, they imagine that they can move in. You watch, China will make Guam part of their New Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. See how the Guamaniacs like it then.
So that’s where al-Qaeda got the idea for the September 11 attacks… (They’re not very imaginative.)
After the September 11 attacks, I gave up my career of writing fiction. Why? I knew that the fiction novel I had been working on would have alerted our enemies to many more of America’s vulnerabilities, and I didn’t want that knowledge falling into the hands of our enemies. Too bad that Tom Clancy cared more for cold hard cash.
Guam now has no strategic importance to the US. In the Age of Obama, the US is not going to contain China — and is certainly not going to take any risks on behalf of Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, or the Philippines; treaties be damned! By the time the next President comes along, there won’t be the military capability to do anything even if there is the will.
So what to do with Guam? Simple; give it to the French. The French will bomb anything that moves and let God sort them out, with nary a peep from the UN or the NYT. Then France can use Guam as a replacement for their old Devil’s Island prison; sort of Guantanamo Bay minus the white gloves and regular meals.
By the way, I write this with a new-found respect for the French. Those with access to Netflicks or an equivalent might like to check out the French cop/lawyer TV series “Engrenages”, loosely translated as “Spiral”. The picture of Paris as a seething mess of corruption, drug-dealing, prostitution & murder won’t do anything for French tourism. The show describes a world in which no good deed goes unpunished — not that most of the players would ever do a good deed. Totally enthralling!
Two of the clerks at my local 7-11 are from Guam, one from Tinian. I’ll ask them if they are being consulted about this or are even expected to vote.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/02/senior_irgc_official.php#comments
OT:^^^^^^^
Newsworthy, though.
The mullahs have, apparently, lost their ‘Karla.’ (Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy — le Carré)
The details are sketchy…
His death is certain — it’s where and when that remains the puzzle.
http://www.farsnews.com/plarg.php?nn=367428&st=743786
Influential cleric Hojatoleslam Panahiyan said: “Shateri was no less than Mughniyah. He had a special place, in the way that he will be missed and his purity. That’s all that can be said as his secret contributions cannot be mentioned.
From the LWJ.^^^^
It would appear that he (Shateri) was deeply involved in securing additional AAA assets from Assad for the Hez — and got burned in the process.
The timing aspect implies that he lingered on — like Heydrich — only to succumb to his wounds.
He’s now getting the ‘Yamamoto send off.’
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And, in other news, it does appear that Assad and Co. have abandoned the north and east of Syria. His minions there, vanish like Orcs without Sauron.
A fuel crisis must soon overtake Damascus — for it produces no more oil now than Berlin did in 1945.
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It would appear that Iran is already deeply engaged in a spy versus spy campaign — wet work and all.
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Putin’s disenchantment with Barry is mere cover for his disenchantment with further atomic weapons reduction.
His primary enemy is within the SCO. This terror is so close that Putin’s only option is to pretend that he needs to scale up to fight the ‘far enemy.’ (With Powder-Puff Barry ‘in charge’ it’s a tough sale.)
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The USN must, by now, realize that Barry is entirely against power projection. So, it’s no wonder that our carrier fleets are being demobilized.
Is this jimmy Carter’s second term or third term? Dear Leader ‘s reelection has confused the issue. Guam will be Dear Leader’s Panama Canal with worse consequences. Does the Philippines have any misgivings about having forced the US out of the bases there?
Meanwhile, Dear Leader’s “progressive” domestic plan requires the world to accept the fiat Dollar debt without question. That acceptance depends on the US retaining its status as the superpower of the world–maybe gradual inflation but no catastrophe. His foreign and domestic policies are counter poised to insure his ultimate failure. Ironic, no? Collectively, our politicians are not even sufficiently bright to be trainable in any useful way.
Kinuachdrach @ 31 – You mean France is no longer the home of the Three Musketeers, “All for one, one for all”?
I’m Shocked!
The kids in my sailing class perform as the color guard on Memorial Day. Their motto in “No man, woman or child left behind.” I’m very proud of them!
As to taking risks for Japan, I’d say what we want is for Japan to mature and start accepting some of its own risks. But we, particularly the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, really helped them in the aftermath of the tsunami.
The problems on Okinawa can be boiled down to getting our servicemen to treat young local girls with the same level of respect that they are expected to show to young American girls. Rape of locals has got to STOP. Who do they think they are, Secret Servicemen in training for Presidential duty in Colombia?
Pay the bill boys.
A wise king may have ordered to bomb Guam. Then the real owner would say, “You can have it!”
That owner would be given full custody.
http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/first-sightings-of-foreign-manpads-in.html
ManPADS from Red China now in operation inside Syria.
Sourcing?
Sudan
Pakistan
Nork
?
Obviously, AQ now has an open conduit of FN-6 ManPADS.
Assad will fall before the grapes are ripe.
Not enough time in the day to read even the summaries of all the intentional self-mutilation being done by the present administration.