(03-04-2018, 08:32 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** Paragraph 2:

(03-04-2018, 08:00 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   Reagan and Dubya both said outrageous things, only to back
>   down. Trump does not back down.

** Paragraph 12:

(03-04-2018, 08:00 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: >   Then he backed down as the all-powerful National Rifle Association
>   made clear what it wants.

• India and Vietnam sign security agreements for the South China Sea
  
• India's relationship with Southeast Asian nations overshadowed by China
  

• As other Asian nations back down, India and Vietnam become allies confronting China (01-Sep-2017)
  
  
• Vietnam buys cruise missiles from Russia to threaten China (02-May-2015)
  
  
• Indonesia defies China and renames part of the South China Sea (18-Jul-2017)
  
  
• China's military strength and poor civilian control alarm neighbors (24-Nov-2014)
  
  
• Vietnam, Philippines unite to confront China in South China Sea (26-Mar-2014)
  

(03-04-2018, 11:55 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The sign:



Of course anyone could fault the 44th President for having the 'wrong' political beliefs... but (1) this meme is racist, and (2) Obama wasn't much of a liar.

Likewise,

(03-04-2018, 11:55 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Of course anyone could fault the 44th President for having the 'wrong' political beliefs... but (1) this meme is racist, and (2) Obama wasn't much of a liar.

• The Ghouta 'ceasefire' turns into a Syrian army scam to steal humanitarian aid
  
• Syria says close to defeating Jaysh al-Islam in Eastern Ghouta
  

• There's been no ceasefire. Syrian and Russian warplanes
  continue bombing between 9 am and 2 pm each day. The "ceasefire"
  agreement was a lie.
  
  
• Civilians are not leaving because they're afraid to leave.
  Interviews with Eastern Ghouta civilians indicate that they don't
  trust the Syrian army, and believe that if they try to leave, the
  Syrian army will kill them. This is what happened in Aleppo.
  
  
• Humanitarian aid was allowed in on Monday for the first time, but
  70% of the supplies were confiscated by the army.

• Russia's 'humanitarian pause' in Syria turns into farce on first day (28-Feb-2018)
  
  
• Syria's Bashar al-Assad steps up use of chemical weapons on his own people (06-Feb-2018)
  
  
• Syria's Bashar al-Assad targets civilians and hospitals in never-ending war of extermination (07-Jan-2018)
  
  
• Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin hug and declare the end of war in Syria (27-Nov-2017)
  

(03-06-2018, 01:48 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: Boomers currently Run the countries of the west. Therefore the responsibility to Maintaining the basic necessities of government, economy and security, rests on the baby boomer generation. It's not currently the younger generations Job to Maintain society at the moment, because the boomers are the ones currently occupying the positions that influences the maintenance of society. At the moment boomers, Maintaining society is YOUR Job. Boomers can Make so that is the Job of Xers and Millies by stepping down and allowing the young to occupy the positions of governance, when that happens the the job of governance would rest with Xers and Millies since they would be occupying the position of responsibility. However until then and until that occurs, it is Boomers who currently Have the responsibility of governing and maintain the security and well being of the west because boomers are the ones currently controlling the government.

(03-06-2018, 01:53 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: In terms of strictly governing the country regardless of generation, Congress over the last 30 years or so simply has too much power. Under the current system as interpreted over the past few decades; the president simply cannot do his/her job. If the president is not allowed to unilaterally enact policy; How can He/She properly direct national security? The answer is the he/she would be unable to, because everything is currently subject to having to be cleared through congress in order to be implemented. Granting the president the power to unilaterally authorize war and to declare war would be a major reform of the system.

• Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after Buddhist-Muslim violence
  
• Growing violence by Sri Lankan Buddhist hardliners against Tamils
  
• North Korea says it will denuclearize if the regime is 'secure'
  

• On February 22, a (Buddhist) Sinhalese truck driver was
  assaulted by four (Muslim) Tamil youths at a filling station in
  Digana, Kandy, in Sri Lanka. The truck driver died on Saturday.
  
  
• The funeral was held in Digana on Sunday. During the funeral
  procession, the Sinhalese began attacking Tamil-owned shops and
  properties, setting some shops on fire. More than 30 shops and houses
  were damaged, and dozens of mosques were attacked.
  
  
• Clashes between Tamils and Sinhalese erupted all over the region
  on Monday, and in other Sri Lankan cities as well. The police imposed
  a curfew on Monday evening.
  
  
• On Tuesday, Sri Lanka's president Maithripala Sirisena declared a
  nationwide state of emergency for seven days. Under the emergency,
  security forces can carry out searches without warrant and detain
  suspects without charges.

• Sri Lanka has deep split with U.N. on war crimes report (23-Apr-2011)
  
  
• Britain threatens Sri Lanka with war crimes investigation (17-Nov-2013)
  
  
• Sri Lanka follows a predictable pattern after its civil war (15-Jan-2015)
  
  
• Sri Lanka Sinhalese Buddhist monks accused of racist hate speech against Hindu Tamils (20-Nov-2016)
  
  
• Report: Sri Lankan government repeatedly torturing and raping Tamils (14-Jan-2016)
  
  
• Sri Lanka targets radical nationalist Buddhists in Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) (12-Jun-2017)
  

• China angrily demands that the US retract the new North Korea sanctions (25-Feb-2018)
  
  
• US considers military options as North Korea continues nuclear weapons development during Olympics (21-Feb-2018)
  
  
• US officials plan for military strike on North Korea and war (05-Dec-2017)
  

(03-06-2018, 01:53 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: In terms of strictly governing the country regardless of generation, Congress over the last 30 years or so simply has too much power. Under the current system as interpreted over the past few decades; the president simply cannot do his/her job. If the president is not allowed to unilaterally enact policy; How can He/She properly direct national security? The answer is the he/she would be unable to, because everything is currently subject to having to be cleared through congress in order to be implemented. Granting the president the power to unilaterally authorize war and to declare war would be a major reform of the system.

(03-06-2018, 10:49 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(03-06-2018, 01:53 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: In terms of strictly governing the country regardless of generation, Congress over the last 30 years or so simply has too much power. Under the current system as interpreted over the past few decades; the president simply cannot do his/her job. If the president is not allowed to unilaterally enact policy; How can He/She properly direct national security? The answer is the he/she would be unable to, because everything is currently subject to having to be cleared through congress in order to be implemented. Granting the president the power to unilaterally authorize war and to declare war would be a major reform of the system.

Strange that you should say this, since Congress is the one branch of government that isn't under control of Boomers, Paul Ryan being Gen X.

(03-06-2018, 02:35 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > We will need a President with a moral compass, respect for process
> and precedent, high levels of integrity and wisdom, and
> clear-headed rationality as a rule. I think that Xenakis would be
> perfectly happy with someone like Obama except for having a
> conservative agenda. Indeed, I can predict that the next
> conservative President who has real success will have a
> personality much more like that of Obama even if he has an agenda
> that includes the evisceration of trade unions, a big cut-back on
> the welfare state, privatization of much of the public sector, and
> tax reforms that load more taxes on the non-rich but create
> capital for investment in job-creating plant and
> equipment.

(03-07-2018, 09:01 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Writing my daily "World View" articles, I see fanatical hatred all
over the world.  There's your fanatical hatred of Trump, Cynic's
fanatical hatred of Boomers, Sunni jihadists' fanatical hatred of
Shias, al-Assad's fanatical hatred of his opposition, Burmese
fanatical hatred of Rohingyas, Sri Lankan Sinhalese fanatical hatred
of Tamils, and so forth.

(03-06-2018, 10:46 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ****
**** North Korea says it will denuclearize if the regime is 'secure'
****

The media are all agog about the sensational statement that came out
on Tuesday, as a South Korean delegation returned from its meeting
with North Korea's child dictator Kim Jong-un on Monday.  According to
South Korea's chief delegator Chung Eui-yong:

   <QUOTE>"North Korea made clear its willingness to
   denuclearize the Korean peninsula and the fact there is no reason
   for it to have a nuclear program if military threats against the
   North are resolved and its regime is secure."<END QUOTE>

So North Korean officials have thought about nothing else but nuclear
weapons and ballistic missiles for decades, but now they're willing to
give them up for some promise of security?  I don't think so.

There's nothing that the US could do to guarantee that would cause the
North to say: "OK, now I agree that the military threats are resolved,
and the regime is secure."  The North Koreans could make demands --
withdraw all troops from South Korea, withdraw all ships from the
region, close all military bases around the world, etc., etc., but
there would always be new demands.  So the whole promise is a scam.

So let's see where this goes next.  Daily Telegraph (Australia)

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Maithripala Sirisena, Myanmar, Burma, Rohingyas,
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(03-07-2018, 11:03 AM)Cynic Hero Wrote: North Korea's Missiles are there to blackmail the US into remaining Neutral in an potential North Korean invasion of the South. If the US is Neutral then the North Considers it's objectives to have been achieved. The Solution here is to Arm South Korea and Japan with Nukes to add deterrence against the North.