The 4th of July has come and gone and we are into the Cape's notorious "tourist season". the roads are clogged and the weather has turned muggy. Can't wait to get up to camp where I can enjoy the muggy weather.
Headlines these days are mainly Bush's bashing of the media for "outing" another one of the administrations data mining operations, this time the banking and money transfer data. Bush claims theis hurts the national security status. That's BS. Secretary of the Treasury Snow was touting the extensive monitoring of money transfers months ago. As I see it, the administration goes about its ham handed way, botching up everything it touches, and then blames the media for giving it bad press.
Most recently the N.Koreans shocked everyone by launching several rockets of various ranges in spite of threats of dire consequences by policewoman Rice. The fact that the long range rocket that was most feared fizzled less than two minute after launch was sort of anticlimatic. It showed the threat to our nation was not so bad after all. It also saved us the embarassment of attempting to shot it down with our own faulty antiballistic missile missile.
Speculation is that the purpose of N. Korea going ahead with the launches is to get our attention and get the U.S. to deal with them directly. According to a former Korean expert, Wendy Sherman, what N. Korea wants is a security guarantee from the U.S. that they will not be attacked. Next it is important for them to get "respect" and not be treated as pariahs or bad children that need discipline. They are a failed state and in need of all sorts of aid. There leader probably is a little kooky, but then so are a number of other "leaders". To lead them out of the darkness they must be assured we will not zap them, not that we could even if we tried.
There is no question that the U.S. is the preeminent military power on the globe at the presnt time and that power can be projected anywhere on the globe. The problem is the present U.S. leadership is so ideologically hide bound that it can't project anything but its own incompetence.
The best thing to come along so far is a movement entitled Unity08. The idea is to marshall all those who see the short comings of the present political mess.
Look it up on Google and add your comments to the program.
Headlines these days are mainly Bush's bashing of the media for "outing" another one of the administrations data mining operations, this time the banking and money transfer data. Bush claims theis hurts the national security status. That's BS. Secretary of the Treasury Snow was touting the extensive monitoring of money transfers months ago. As I see it, the administration goes about its ham handed way, botching up everything it touches, and then blames the media for giving it bad press.
Most recently the N.Koreans shocked everyone by launching several rockets of various ranges in spite of threats of dire consequences by policewoman Rice. The fact that the long range rocket that was most feared fizzled less than two minute after launch was sort of anticlimatic. It showed the threat to our nation was not so bad after all. It also saved us the embarassment of attempting to shot it down with our own faulty antiballistic missile missile.
Speculation is that the purpose of N. Korea going ahead with the launches is to get our attention and get the U.S. to deal with them directly. According to a former Korean expert, Wendy Sherman, what N. Korea wants is a security guarantee from the U.S. that they will not be attacked. Next it is important for them to get "respect" and not be treated as pariahs or bad children that need discipline. They are a failed state and in need of all sorts of aid. There leader probably is a little kooky, but then so are a number of other "leaders". To lead them out of the darkness they must be assured we will not zap them, not that we could even if we tried.
There is no question that the U.S. is the preeminent military power on the globe at the presnt time and that power can be projected anywhere on the globe. The problem is the present U.S. leadership is so ideologically hide bound that it can't project anything but its own incompetence.
The best thing to come along so far is a movement entitled Unity08. The idea is to marshall all those who see the short comings of the present political mess.
Look it up on Google and add your comments to the program.
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