The Iran Scenarios … by Alan Caruba

The Iran Scenarios

By Alan Caruba

 

 

These days you can read as many different scenarios regarding the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facilities as there are experts putting them forth. History, past and present, may have already written the script.

 

In a recent interview with Der Spiegel; Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert asked, “Why do you need to enrich uranium if you don’t have the facilities that can make use of this uranium for civilian purposes?” Iran does have such plants, but both have been in various stages of construction and delay since 1992 and neither has ever produced a watt of electricity.

 

The August edition of Energy Tribune takes on the question of an Israeli military action against Iranian facilities refining fissionable materials for the development of nuclear weapons. John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is quoted saying that Israel has “a window” in which to conduct the strike. It would be between “the day after the November 4 U.S. election and closes with the swearing-in of George W. Bush’s successor on January 20, 2009.”

 

On August 10, the Jerusalem Post quoted U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying, “We don’t say yes or no to Israeli military operations. Israel is a sovereign country.” The U.S. election in November could have a tremendous effect on whether Israel acts or not. Sen. McCain’s support of Israel is not in doubt. An Obama administration would be filled with officials whose antipathy to Israel is well known.

 

Iran’s Islamic Revolution began in 1979 when it took U.S. diplomats hostage and held them for 444 days. They were returned the same day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office. When Saddam Hussein declared war on Iran in 1980, he had the understandable backing of the United States, but the war ground to a stalemate in 1988 after costing both nations hundreds of thousands of casualties.

 

The experience left Iran’s leaders in a cautious mood. Militarily Iran has remained a provocateur, not an active belligerent. The Iranians have preferred to fight proxy wars with Israel via their support for Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, and Hamas, based in Gaza. Even their involvement in Iraq has been through proxies. There would appear to be limits to the courage of the mullahs that run Iran with an iron hand.

 

Militarily, Iran would prove to be an extremely difficult nation to invade or conquer. Thus,

an Israeli strike would be limited to destroying or at least significantly delaying Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions. At issue is when Iran would be capable of manufacturing and delivering its own nukes.

 

The next question to be answered is what benefit Iran’s leaders would perceive in launching a nuclear attack on Israel? Any use of nuclear weapons by any nation would come with a huge price. Iran is already a pariah nation despite its oil.

 

Since 1979 the Iran government has deemed the U.S. the Big Satan and Israel the Little Satan. When people spend nearly thirty years shouting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, history teaches that it is folly to ignore them or to suggest reasons to believe that it’s just bluster.

 

Writing in the August issue of Energy Tribune, Michael J. Economides and Peter C. Glover bluntly say, “We see no reason to change our opinion that an Israeli or Western air-strike is the only realistic way to prevent Iran’s ideologically-driven extremist regime.”

 

These two experts on energy and geopolitics estimate that $55.00 of the price per barrel of imported oil represents “geopolitical tensions, fear, and resulting speculation.” Put another way, the United States of America is sending billions to oil-producing Middle Eastern nations (and other oil producing nations) as the price we pay for the threat that Iran is presumed to pose. That threat would escalate if it gained nuclear weapons.

 

History, however, offers another scenario since the end of World War II. Despite the nuclear capability of the former Soviet Union and later Red China, the U.S. and other nations preferred a patient containment policy which reduced the potential of a major war. As we are witnessing in Georgia, the Russian quest for power is never static and always subject to change.

 

An Israeli attack, if followed by the collapse of the Iranian regime, would likely result in a relatively brief disruption in the flow of oil from the Middle East. The opening of the Strait of Harmuz would become an international priority, nor is the U.S. likely to be seriously affected because it imports much of its oil from Canada, Central and South America. It would surely increase the growing demands to open up ANWR in Alaska and authorization of off-shore oil exploration.

 

In 1981 Israel put an end to Saddam Hussein’s ambitions when it destroyed the Osirak reactor in 1981 and a Syrian nuclear facility in September 2007. Olmert will be gone as Israel’s prime minister by the end of September.

 

A new government, even one led by Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, is not likely to take on the huge risks involved in an attack on Iran without explicit reassurances of U.S. approval and possible involvement. The problem for Israel is that such an attack would trigger war by a heavily rearmed Hezbollah based in Lebanon and a Gaza-based Hamas.

 

The irony is that all of Iran’s Arab neighbors would love to see Iran removed as an obstacle to peace in the region. Moreover, Iran represents Shiite Islam whereas other Muslim nations with the exception of Iraq are the majority Sunni sect. No love loss there.

 

Speculation will exist as long as the ayatollahs and the crazed Mamoud Amadinejad remain in power. In the end, like the sudden invasion of Georgia, the issue will be resolved by action, not talk.

 

Alan Caruba writes a weekly column posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com. He blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.

 

© Alan Caruba, August 2008

Redistribution of America’s Wealth by Obama?

Obama Ain’t Robin Hood!

A wise man once said:  “When your rob from Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on support from Paul!” 

 

“Redistribution of the wealth” is a phrase we hear a lot during election campaigns in America.  You folks already living in socialist countries understand what it really means.  For the most part, Americans do not.  You see, here in America we built a country based on a citizen’s ability to better himself using the talents God gave him.  He is limited only by the limits of his own capabilities.  Here in America a child can dream of becoming rich and, if he has it in him, he can make that dream come true.  Government interference is considered not only an inconvenience; it is an impediment to success in America. But that holds true in any society.  Once the government intrudes into your business, you can close the doors, because they will smother your business with their rules and regulations, applied layer upon layer, until the death of your dream is imminent.  Small businesses are the first to succumb.

 

“Redistribution of the wealth” is the watch word (watch PHRASE, maybe?) of the Democratic Party in America.  Since America has been able to hold off a complete socialist take over of our government since FDR’s term in office, they have yet to accomplish, completely, the redistribution of the American family’s money.  But that doesn’t stop them from continuing the drive to do so. 

 

For the edification of my non-American readers … how do they do it?  With TAXES!  The Democratic Party LOVES TAXES.  They create them. They raise them. They use them to embellish their own power over American business and the American citizen. 

 

So, now… their latest democratic candidate for President is preaching the same sermon as all those Democrats seeking that same office before him: Redistribution of the Wealth.  B. Hussein Obama is not Robin Hood.  No matter what he and his legion of cohorts would like you to believe.  What he is… is a democrat… the most liberal democrat in the US Senate and what he is preaching these days is socialism.  CHANGE!

 

Why would we want to change a country as successful as America has been?  For the most part Americans don’t want to change our system of government and our free market economic system. Unless of course, change means getting the government’s intervention out of the way of success for so many small businesses in America. THAT kind of change we can support.

 

We think Obama has bought into the United Nations nightmare scheme called The United Nations Millennium Declaration in which the UN calls for: “the eradication of poverty by redistribution of wealth and land,” wiping the slate clean of “the debts of developing countries,” and, it continues… a fair distribution of Earth’s resources.”  Wow!  Can you say:  S O C I A L I S M???  That’s what is described in those short little phrases.

 

Larry Petrash has a piece we highly recommend.  It is titled: “Is Obama’s change the change we want?”  You’ll find it at:

 

http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/aug/17/obamas-change-change-we-want/ 

 

If you still question Mr. Obama’s socialistic leaning, understand that he is calling for socialized medicine in America.  I mean the complete takeover of the healthcare system in America by the US government… you know, the folks who run the Post Office and the Veterans Administration… remember?

 

I am convinced the change Mr. Obama touts is, in fact, a through trashing of the US Constitution, changing America from a democratic republic to a socialist country under a socialist government, giving up the miracle of capitalism for the nightmare of socialism, giving up the idea of private property, you know,  so the wealth can be “redistributed”,  reducing the size and strength of our military and giving that money away in the form of “social” programs, again to redistribute the wealth, and finally,  placing the US firmly in the grasp of the United Nations, which is, in my opinion, one of the most corrupt organizations ever designed by the mind of man.

 

No Obama is not Robin Hood. Robin Hood was not a socialist.  What Robin Hood was… was a thief!  No matter that his victims were the rich folks of Prince John’s realm, and the recipients of Hood’s largesse were the poor, what Robin Hood did was thievery, plain and simple!  Somehow socialists have completely warped their thinking to believe that this kind of thievery is good, is kind, and is acceptable. It’s not. Judeo-Christian faith teaches us that thievery is wrong is a sin is a violation of God’s law. Why, the eighth commandment is: “Thou shalt not steal.”  It makes no difference if it is an individual actually doing the deed of thievery, or if it is the government, it is still thievery and it is still wrong.

 

So, next time you are being regaled with the Democratic Party’s calls for redistribution of the wealth by taxation, and more and more social programs, remember the eighth commandment. Remember too, that Christ’s call to take care of those less fortunate was a call for individual action, not government action. Our friends on the Left simply cannot tear themselves away from their belief that government can do it better… no matter what “IT” happens to be..

 

No Mr. Hood was not a socialist.  Recall, if you will, the government had seized Mr. Hood’s possessions. After all, Mr. Hood WAS a rich aristocrat prior to going off to war in the Middle East for HIS Commander-in-Chief.  No, the analogy just does not fit.

 

J. D. Longstreet

Not the Strong Leader America Needs.

Obama has no gravitas as a leader.

 

“I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia and urge an immediate end to armed conflict.”  Thus was the pitiful, pathic, statement from the man who would be President of the US, Barack Hussein Obama. It was a near childish, supplication, very nearly a plea, for the bad guys, Russia, to stop beating up on the little guy, Georgia.   It was exactly what I was expecting, almost word for word, from Mr. Obama.

 

If Russia’s invasion of Georgia demonstrated nothing else, it should have demonstrated to American voters where the real leadership ability lies in the two candidates for President of the US.  Although I am not going to vote for Mr. McCain, he demonstrated that he instantly understood what was going on with Putin’s Russia.

 

In any face-off between Obama and Putin, my money is on Putin, every time.  It’s not even a fair contest.  

 

The “Little Dictator”, Putin, is a product of the Soviet KGB.  No matter the Soviet Union is gone; Putin still thinks and acts as a top KGB agent, which he was.  As we have said in other writings, the invasion of Georgia was a long planned event.  It did not just happen overnight.  Our badly weaken intelligence services missed it completely. That should not have happened.  One of the first priorities of the next President should be to rebuild our intelligence community, even if that means closing a shop or two and starting over. 

 

Mr. Obama is a product of the American Left, which is inherently weak.  If members of the American Political Left share anything in common, it is their belief that they are intellectually superior to everybody else.  I have known many American leftists in my lifetime, some as friends, and every one of them shared this trait.  Why, they will even tell you of their intellectual superiority and boast about it.  They are, at all times, the smartest people in the room.

 

Well, I am just a dumb ole country boy from the foothills of the Carolinas… but… as dumb as I am, I know a fool when I see one.  The beginning of foolishness is the belief that you are the superior of all people in wisdom.  It assures that you will fail, and fail “hard”, at some point in your “stellar” life. Mr. Obama comes across as one of those intellectual leftists who have been “educated beyond their abilities”.

 

There is Good and there is Evil in this world. Evil doesn’t give a damn how smart you are.  In fact Evil will use your “smartness” against you.  A truly smart man/woman knows better that to ever attempt to negotiate with Evil. Evil doesn’t negotiate. Evil does what it pleases until Good smacks it down… hard.  Even then Good must be ready to smack Evil down again and again and again ad infinitum.

 

Mr. Obama demonstrated his naiveté, as well as his inability to understand that Mr. Putin could not have cared less what he (Obama) had to say about his (Putin’s) plans for Georgia.  My guess is… Putin enjoyed a deep belly laugh at Mr. Obama’s limp-wristed diplomacy.  Mr. Obama has just had a taste of one of the drawbacks of being a citizen of the world… he has no leverage.  Being a leader of the world, on the other hand, has leverage AND gravitas.  Mr. Obama has neither.

 

If Putin doesn’t blow all his Petro-dollars too soon we will have the Russian Bear at our throats again.  If I had any suggestions to make to our intelligence community, it would be to keep a couple of our spy satellites trained on Cuba looking for long cylindrical shapes that might indicate the reintroduction of Russian missiles into Cuba aimed at the soft underbelly of the US.  It is almost a given those missiles are going to pop up in Venezuela. If, and when they do, the US must be prepared to take them out. That will necessarily involve military action.  When the time comes, the US must act decisively and not shrink from doing what must be done to insure the security of the country.  I am convinced that will not happen with Obama in the Oval Office.

 

Yes, as has often been stated over the past few days, the bear is back.  The US desperately needs a counterweight to Putin and, as we have seen over the same past few days, it darned sure isn’t Mr. Obama.

 

J. D. Longstreet

 

 

 

 

The Voting Booth Awaits the Silent Majority!

Where did the “Silent Majority” go?  They’ll be there when the polls open.

 

During the decade of the seventies the “Silent Majority” was often spoken of in the press.  Prominent politicians, including the President, openly sought their support.

 

Well, where did they go?

 

Oh, they’re still here… and just as powerful as before.  You see them everyday.  They’re all around you.  They are the folks you see at parties who stand around the edges of a group discussing politics.  They rarely have any input into the discussion… they just absorb it.  They’re the folks who do not sit in on the coffee klatch discussion on politics and world affairs.  They’re the people who go to church, nearly every Sunday, and raise their children to be respectful of others and live useful, productive lives.  They send their kids to church supported universities and colleges for a good education, rather than an indoctrination in the ways of the political left.

 

The Silent Majority is the folk who never miss an opportunity to vote.  They believe men died to give them that opportunity, and they will not abuse the memory of those heroic men by not going to the polls to vote.  They are also the people who will not tell those taking the Exit Polls who they voted for.  They voted in secret, it’s their secret, and they will keep it, often never even divulging it to their families.  They are, for the most part, conservative in politics as well as religion.

 

These are the people who shop at Wal-Mart, and K-mart, and drive 2, 3, or 4 year old cars.  Most own their own homes. They have savings accounts and they have a family budget, which they will not abuse.  Their lives are built around their families and their church.   Many are veterans of America’s armed forces.  They believe this country is worth fighting for and they will put their own lives on the line to protect her. They view politics as a necessary evil.  They believe they should always vote for the man who best represents their belief.  They will not support a candidate just because he, or she, wears the label of the party to which they, themselves, are registered. 

 

They wield enormous power.  These people can make, or break, a presidential election.  When they step into the voting booth, they speak, loud and clear.   It is there that the Silent Majority rejects their silence and shouts their politics to the world. 

 

They did it in November of 2000, again in 2004, and I would not be the least bit surprised if they decide the presidency this coming November. Our two presidential candidates, McCain and Obama, should be mindful of these powerful Americans.  They see it all, and they hear it all, and they silently form their conclusion about who should get their support. Politicians, beware, you neglect the Silent Majority at your peril.

 

Then there is the Mainstream Media.  The voice of the American left. They make fun of one of the mightiest forces in American politics.  The Silent Majority never fails to notice the press’s stifled giggles; and their backhanded insults of the conservative politics of these very real, very patriotic, Americans.  They see it all and… they remember… and they take those memories into the voting booth with them. 

 

So, here’s to the Silent Majority!  May God bless them!

 

 J.D. Longstreet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“L.O.S.T” Should stay LOST!!!

Oppose The Law of the Sea Treaty

By: J. D. Longstreet

 

I came across something alarming a few days ago and I wanted to pass it along to you. Actually a friend of mine in Ohio alerted me to this and as soon as I read it I fired off e-mails to both my US Senators asking them to oppose it. I am referring to the Law of the Sea Treaty better known, at least among those who actually KNOW about it, as “LOST”!

Here is a snippet for the article I read:

“The United States is inching closer toward ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). President Bush endorsed this treaty in May and has since urged the Senate to vote on ratification. Initial reports indicated that the Senate may have attempted to ratify LOST before adjourning for the August recess. Recent reports indicate that a vote to ratify the treaty could take place within the coming weeks. Former President Ronald Reagan originally rejected the ratification of LOST in 1982, but recent appeals from the Bush administration, some members of Congress, and the Council on Foreign Relations, have caused the treaty to resurface.”

At first I thought it was frightening enough that the Senate had possibly attempted to slip this horrible treaty through undetected but, as I read more about it, I truly became alarmed.

Here is another snippet:

“The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) entered into force in 1994 and has been ratified by 153 countries (click here for a list of recent LOST developments). The treaty gives the UN complete jurisdiction over the oceans and everything in them, including the ocean floor with all its resources, along with the power to regulate 70 percent of the world’s surface.
The International Seabed Authority could require the United States to share intelligence, technology and even military information. LOST could impose restrictions on intelligence-gathering by U.S. submarines, activities that are essential to national defense.”

Lou Dobbs had this to say about this Treaty:

“The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently heard arguments on the 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty, which President Ronald Reagan rejected but President Bill Clinton submitted to the Senate in 1994. A vote is likely in the weeks ahead, and this Democratic-controlled Senate is the same institution whose leadership sought passage of the disastrous comprehensive immigration overhaul legislation.”

If we have captured your attention, even a little bit, we’d like to direct you to the website from which the snippets of info on this page originally came. You’ll find it here:
http://capwiz.com/jbs/issues/alert/?alertid=10443156

This is serious business. We have given away far too much of our freedom in this country in the last couple of decades, or so. We stand at the threshold of a one-world government, which would immediately place the United States, and it’s constitution, at heel behind that single globe spanning government. Do you want that? I certainly don’t. This treaty, which, when passed by the US Senate, will have the force of US Federal Law, is one of the ways your freedom and mine will be handed over to some other governing authority other than the one you and I voted for.

We Americans, who value what freedom we have left, cannot allow this monster “freedom killer” to survive! I will be urging my Senators and my Congressman to vote against this monstrosity.

J. D. Longstreet

The Military Vote Must Be Assured This November

The Military Vote

Some of you may remember the big push, by the Democrats, during the legal blow-up over the 2000 election, to not have the Military vote counted. 

 

Why do you suppose the Democrats hate and fear the US Military as they do? Is it possibly because they judge the US Military by using themselves as the measure? 

 

Look the US Military is far and away Republican. They vote that way, too.   There’s a good reason for both.  Democrats seem to have a real problem with feeling their country is worth defending. Therefore they see no reason to put themselves in danger… especially when the Republicans, they hate so much, will take on the task and protect the Democrats at the risk of THEIR (Republican) lives.  See?  It’s simple! 

 

Why does the Military vote Republican?  See the paragraph above!

 

Since Vietnam, the US Military has had close encounters with the Mainstream Media of the US.  They are now aware that the MSM is the voice of the Democrat Party.  Plus, with TV available to our men and women at arms in far off battle zones, they can see and compare the news we, here at home, are getting… to what they, on the ground in that theatre of war, are seeing… and taking part in.  They have seen the lies and the distortions told about them, and about the US efforts in Iraq, and they have been the butt of remarks (By a leading Democrat) questioning the mental capability of our military.  Guess what.  They haven’t missed any of it… and…  in November… they will have a chance to unload… at the ballot box!  And the Dems are worried.  Deeply worried.

 

I have thought for a long time now that Democrats should be barred from military service in the US Military.  They’re a bad influence on the real Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen.

 

Another thing:  I saw some figures a few days ago, which did not surprise me, but are very telling.  Forty some odd percent of the US troops, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, hail from just eleven Southern states.  (Remember how many southern states there were in the Confederacy?  Answer:  eleven.) Surprised?  You shouldn’t be.  Southerners have always answered their country’s call, whether it was the USA or the CSA.  Soldering is an honorable profession.  The Scot-Irish ancestry of much of the South produces some of the fiercest war fighters in the world.

 

 When I was a boy, the South was solid Democrat.  That came from the time prior to, and during, and the awful so-called Reconstruction Period after the Civil War.  Many Southerners connected the Republican Party, the Party of Lincoln, with the War of Northern Aggression and recoiled, even at the mention of the word “Republican”.

 

So… what changed?  The Democrat Party changed.  In the decade of the 60’s the Democrat Party adopted much of the Socialist Party’s platform and the South left!  The Republican Party saw the South was ripe for the picking and amended their ways and adopted much of the Old Democrat Party platform.  Then, being a Southern Republican became a whole lot more palatable to Southerners. Then came President Richard Nixon, and the Southern Strategy, and the South was gone from the clutches of the Democrat Party.

 

Southerners are fiercely loyal to their country.  As I said earlier, it makes no difference if their country is the USA or the former CSA.  It is their country and they will not think twice about defending her anytime, and any place, on this earth.

 

This, then, brings us back to the US Military today and their vote this coming November. Care to guess for whom the majority of their votes will be cast?  It’s a “no brainer”.  The Democrat Party knows this and they will make every effort to keep those votes from being counted just as they did in the 2000 election.

 

The GOP must be prepared to bock their efforts.  For a herd of Democrat lawyers will be let loose to throw legal monkey wrenches into the election process.

 

They must be stopped.  This election could very easily be about the survival of the United States as a free country. 

 

J. D. Longstreet

Who is up to wrestling the Bear? Obama… or McCain?

Obama or McCain vs. The Russian Bear?

The Russian Bear

 

 

With the Russian bear on the prowl again, whom do you want standing in the way of that bear?  Obama or McCain?  THAT will be the question come this November!  For me, the answer is obvious.  It should be for you as well.

 

It’s not like we didn’t know this was going to happen.  If you know the least bit about Russian history then you know Russia is going to expand and keep expanding until somebody forces them to stop.  They cannot help themselves.  A form of national paranoia passed from generation to generation kindles their “expansionism”.  There is something in the Russian mind, in the Russian psyche that demands they must have a “strongman” leader. They are ever in search of a “Czar”.  Otherwise, they feel weak, exposed, inadequate, and vulnerable. They incessantly fear attack, invasion, rape, pillage, sacking of their country by some other country, even when they cannot clearly define the “would be attacker”. That fear is ever present.  Their aggression is a sure sign of their fear.  Never, NEVER, turn your back on the Russians.  For if you do…you present them with an inviting target… and they will strike! Every time.

 

So, we have returned to the bi-polar world… the Russian half of the world and the US half of the world.

 

The US will have no choice now but to rebuild our military.  That means reinstating the draft. We need more “bodies”.  For what the Russian military lacks in technology they more than make up for in warm bodies which they have no problem using as cannon fodder. Personally, I still support mandatory military service for all Americans.  But, that’s just me. 

 

Certainly, all clear thinking Americans know this Georgia incursion was not a last minute thing.  Putin has been planning this thing for months, maybe even years. Look back over the history between the US and Russia and you will see that when Russia launches into a new adventure, they make sure our attention is diverted elsewhere. Putin cannot have missed the likelihood that Obama will be the next President of the US and he knows all the restraints he now has forced upon him by the US will fall away and… he will be on the march.  All those small former satellite nations around Russia will soon be back in the fold. 

 

Looking critically at the US…it is clear that not only must the US rebuild our military, we must do it quickly.  We also need to elect a military man, or a former military man, as President of this country, in November. We now NEED a soldier at the helm.  Mr. Obama simply does not have what it will take to lead this country.   Speaking well, having been endowed with an oversize ego, but with almost no experience in the real world certainly does not qualify him.  I refer to THE real world where a drawn out dialog with your enemy means hundreds, even thousands, more deaths occur while polite diplomatic exercises take place.  I mean THE real world where death is just minutes away delivered by intercontinental ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads. Having, as the leader of the United States, a novice politician, woefully lacking in experience, but bolstered with an oversized ego, will accomplish nothing… except invite our enemies to run, roughshod, over our interests overseas and, eventually, here at home.

 

The US is in entirely too much danger, at this point in history, to seriously even consider, for one moment, electing Mr. Obama as President. The Islamofacists are bent on striking us again, here, on our own shores.  They tell us as much. In our recent past, less than brilliant leaders in the Congress and the office of President have decimated our military and intelligence communities.  As a result, we have a military stretched to its limits fighting on two fronts we know of, Iraq and Afghanistan, and other fronts we are NOT told of, and our intelligence agencies have been so shorn of quality personnel, equipment, funding, and human intelligence resources around the world, that, oftimes, it would appear we would do better leasing assets from the Israeli Mossad! 

 

The next President of the US will inherit a war. Did you catch that?  Did that register with you? I’ll say it again, clearer this time: The next President, whoever he is, will walk into the Oval Office while bullets are flying, shells are exploding, and missiles screaming death from the skies, as silent spy planes soar in lazy circles above a mountainous region of the Middle East searching, relentlessly, for the master of the mayhem begun on 9-11-2001.

 

And now the Russian Bear has slipped it’s leash and, once again is ripping and tearing it’s way through those inhabitants unfortunate enough to reside on the fringes of its domain.  The bear is seeking, as always, to expand its domain, no matter the toll in the carnage of human lives and ruined cities, towns, and villages.  The Russians are even moving into our hemisphere with airbases planned for Venezuela, and even though they dispute it, refueling bases for their nuclear bombers in Cuba, just off our southern shore.

 

The next US President will, of necessity, have to be a Commander-in-Chief from the first moment he takes the oath of office. The life of every mother’s son and daughter in the uniform of our military will depending upon HIM for leadership that will win the war and return them safely to their loved ones… in THAT order. Cutting and running from the battle will do nothing except insure that the war goes on, on other fronts, and not on those carefully chosen and prepared  “killing fields’ in the Middle East. Abandoning the field of battle will force the enemy to bring the war to us… to America… to our shopping malls, to our sports stadia, to OUR buses, trains, airliners, churches, synagogues and yes, even to our children’s schools.

 

Every election is said to be the most important election in the history of the country.  But, this one, THIS one, may decide if you and I live or die.

 

Yes, “The Bear” is back. Seems to me… the best thing for America, this coming November, is to elect a man to the office of President who is “loaded for bear”.

 

J. D. Longstreet            

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How NOT to Have Electricity … by Alan Caruba

How NOT  to Have Electricity

By Alan Caruba

 

Electricity is so commonplace that no one gives any thought to not having access to it. Few give any consideration to how it is generated, but we are now being inundated with the most virulent nonsense about how wind or solar power is “clean” and practically “free.” Every week there’s some new proposal to cover the nation with wind farms and solar panels.

 

The problem for everyone who wants to get rich with these energy sources or those who think they are the answer to our energy needs is that neither wind, nor solar can ever power anything more than relatively small projects like a farm or a local stadium. A nation of more than three hundred million people, however, needs a lot of generation capacity.

 

All the razzle-dazzle of television advertising and public relations propaganda cannot justify the building of massive wind or solar farms. They are simply inadequate to the production of the electricity the nation requires now and in the future. The weird thing about T. Boone Picken’s pitch is that he talks about oil dependency to justify wind power, but vehicles are not powered by wind. Nor are they likely to be powered by liquefied natural gas as Pickens suggests.

 

By contrast, the July edition of Energy Tribune devoted some of its pages to the comeback of nuclear power in America. What jumped out at me was co-editor, Robert Bryce’s citation of the fact that, “The U.S. government has spent some $7 billion building a repository for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada” and that Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) has declared that it “is never going to open” and is “not the answer to nuclear waste storage.”

 

Sen. Reid recently said that “Coal is making us sick. Oil is making us sick” and then went on to blather insanely about global warming.

 

According to Bryce, “On June 3, the Department of Energy submitted an 8,600-page application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking approval of the Yucca Mountain site for waste storage. Just one day later, Nevada urged the agency to reject the application.” This is a glaring example of how to make sure America lacks the electrical energy it needs.

 

Throughout the debate over energy use the Big Lie has been that industrial and other activities generate carbon dioxide emissions that, in turn, are causing global warming. Ergo, we have to radically alter every aspect of modern life to avoid the Earth’s destruction.

 

The problem with that is a decade-old cooling period that the Earth entered in 1998 and which is getting colder, not warmer. The other problem is the fact that the Earth has passed through periods in which the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere were much higher than they are today.

 

Since it is getting colder, we are going to need more electricity and other sources of energy to keep us warm in our homes, offices, schools, et cetera. We are going to have to burn coal, currently the major source of power to generate electricit as well as the cheapest and most abundant. We will continue to use natural gas as well. All the hydroelectric sources have been identified and are in use at present.

 

That leaves nuclear. An Energy Tribune article by William E. Burchill serves up lots of information about the nuclear production of electrical energy. Worldwide 441 nuclear reactors are providing electricity to one billion people. Presently it provides twenty percent of America’s electricity needs thanks to the 104 nuclear plants operating in the U.S.

 

Here’s something to keep in mind. “No U.S. plant worker or member of the public has ever been injured or killed by an accident caused by nuclear power.” Moreover, amidst the frenzy over CO2, nuclear is “an emissions-free source of electricity.”

 

There is a literal renaissance of nuclear energy in America and this is a good thing. The U.S. Department of Energy forecasts that, by 2030, U.S. demand will increase by 30 percent. This increase reflects a worldwide trend. Currently, China, India, Russia, South Korea, Pakistan, and Japan are in the process of building a total of thirty-five nuclear plants and other nations have announced plans.

 

The worldwide demand for more electricity is growing right along with population growth and the spurt of industrialization occurring in nations that have looked at the Western model and are now beginning to compete in the process called globalization. By mid-century, the demand for electricity will double or triple.

 

The elected leaders of America have been largely deaf and blind to our national needs, opposing electrical generation no matter what source is used. Resistance to nuclear energy was part of the environmental agenda, but these days their cries and lies are mostly about what they now call “dirty fuels”, oil and coal.

 

What can Americans do when we have loonies like Sen. Harry Reid or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spouting nonsense and blocking efforts to meet current and future energy needs? One answer is almost too obvious. They and others can and should be voted out of office. They can be replaced!

 

Or maybe you want to wait while wind power, currently 0.77 percent of the sources of electricity energy, or solar power, about 0.01 percent, replaces coal, natural gas, nuclear and hydroelectric power. Bundle up! You’re going to be very cold

 

Alan Caruba writes a weekly column posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com. He blogs daily at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.

 

© Alan Caruba, August 2008

 

The Communist Party USA and Obama

The Communist Party USA and Obama.

 

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The Communist Party USA newspaper, the “People’s Weekly World”, has an editorial you need to read if you have any doubt about where Obama’s support is coming from. Actually, every American voter should read it.

The paper may be found online at:

http://www.pww.org/

The article to which we’d like to direct your attention can be found at:

“Eye on the Prize.”

You’ll find it at:

http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/975/1/27/

We have been telling you, since day one, that Obama is preaching socialism. If there was any doubt, at all, this should remove it.

The folks over at CNSNews.com have an excellent article about it. You’ll find it at:

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=33971

This should come as no surprise to anyone. The democrat/socialists are currently in charge of the legislative branch of the US government. If they manage to get a socialist in the Oval Office, you can bet the Supreme Court is next. Then, what’s left? Think about it.

 

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America, Here Is Your Warning!

A Warning to America!   by: J. D. Longstreet

Sometimes it is necessary, in order to get an objective look at a problem, to rely on the conclusion of someone detached, someone far enough away from the problem to see the “big picture”.  Sort of like the expression, “you can’t see the forest for the trees”, we American may be too close to our own problem(s) to actually SEE them.  Well, someone, far enough away, half a world away, actually, has taken a look and has seen America’s problem and has even written a warning to the people of America about it.  Her Nome de plume, or pseudonym, is Gemma Meyer.  Ms. Meyer is, or was, in fact, a journalist in South Africa.  She is married to a former “conservative” member of the South African Parliament.  When she wrote this piece, back in 2005, she was still living in the country of South Africa. 

 

The title of Ms. Meyer’s article is: “A Warning for America from South Africa”.  It is right on target. As you read Ms. Meyer’s work, you will recognize the things she warms America about.  You can’t help yourself.  It’s all there… right in front our eyes, but, for the most part, Americans simply don’t see them.    Well, that’s not exactly true.  SOME of us see them.  SOME of us TRY to sound a warning, ourselves, to our fellow Americans but we are shouted down, called every vile name in the book, castigated publicly, and generally “made fun of”. Nevertheless, America’s problems persist, frankly, because of the blindness of the majority of Americans.  Make that: “willful blindness” …  for nothing else comes close to explaining how we have allowed this to happen to our beloved country.

 

I’d like to recommend that you read Ms. Meyer’s article and see for yourself just how “on target” she really is.  You’ll find it at:

 

http://davidbenariel.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/a-warning-for-america-from-south-africa/

 

Did you catch yourself glancing, from time to time, to the top of the article to assure yourself of the date it was written?  I did.  It was written three years ago. I couldn’t help but feel a certain sense of, well, desperation, to realize that since she wrote this piece America has had three more years of circling the drain.

 

When is America going to wake up?  WILL she wake up? Will she wake up in time?  Or, will time run out?  We have been sliding down that slippery slope at an every increasing velocity since the 1960’s.  We’re not losing our freedom.  We’re not losing our country.  No.  We’re giving it all away.  

 

We have compromised and compromised until we have little left to compromise.  Yet, we have two presidential candidates, right now, who are BOTH believers in compromise.  They make a big deal of their willingness to compromise.  What is needed is the testosterone to stand up on our two feet, like men, and shake our fist in the face of our enemies and say, NO MORE!  This is it!  We are done giving you what you want just to be left along in our comfortable little cocoons. 

 

The wolves have been gathering in an ever-tightening circle.  They are closing in one step at a time.  And we Americans don’t see it.  Instead we continue to feed them while telling ourselves if we give them what they want they will be our friends. We have chosen to forget one of the laws of Nature.  Wolves are what wolves are.  They do what wolves do. Even a wolf, thought to be domesticated, is liable to turn and leap for the throat of the person who supposes he is the wolf’s master.  Yes, wolves do as wolves have always done… because they ARE wolves.

 

America’s enemies are gathered against us.  They are tightening the circle. Even now they are among us. Sadly, a look in the mirror will reveal the identity of America’s worst enemies.

 

J. D. Longstreet