Well,Brad makes a good point. I have spent a lot of time pointing out the pit fall's of having the Texas Hat Rack In Office.
danickst, I too am very very pissed at those who are willing to kill Innocent people in the public square. Especially when they do it in the name of some screwed up "take" on what WAS a GRAND religion. It's sad, and I DO think people can be educated out of these idea's though. I hope and pray they can be.
The first thing we face, that could be dangerous, right now is Iran. So, we are on the ground there now, you can bet on that. We CAN find out if they have a bomb. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise,, they can not hide a nuke. They can hide parts of a "program" but it is very very hard to hide the capability to throw them a long way and it's hard to hide blowing them up to make sure they work. We DO have time.
If different leadership we're in the White House and the Pentagon? I would be,,{Oh, I forgot to tell you, I'm King, we still have a prez and stuff but, I'm king for this post. see? Like my Crown?
}um,, I would be considering telling Iran this,,
" You will stop what you're doing now. Then, you will grant 1000 diplomatic entrant's to your country. They can come at random and look at what ever they want. If you don't do this, we are going to come GET your Nuke program."
The problem with this right now is the total lack of credibility attached to this white house.This is why you don't go to a place Like Iraq without. A reason, A plan,and overwhelming force, oh yeah and A PLAN, HELLO!!??!! anyhow,,
We should not do the kid gloves thing but, I'm here to tell you, {as King,of course} that the next time we use our military over there, we better not be kidding and we had sure as hell better listen to Generals who have been covered in blood about how to get it done. {there are not many left these days and many have been ignored by the pentagon.}
We need to be known for the "don't tread on me" semi-hawks we used to be."hey, we don't like war but if you hurt us or our friends? we'll kick your ass, BIG TIME!!}
Please note this is something we may NEVER get back!! See? Problem.
I think it's time to let the possible Civil war in Iraq take place. We will be blamed for this but that will be because we are partly to blame for it {Duh!} We have almost nothing to loose by starting to get out. As the Texas Hat Rack was told by lot's of smart people before we went into Iraq, "you will never do anything about how much these people hate each other" His Old man warned against this very thing.
So, I would be leaving.
I would be making every deal possible to get oil from everywhere I could except the Middle east. I would be moving way faster on alternative energy. If we were moving fast enough and I thought REAL things were being done, I would start drilling big holes all over the country. Yep, this Liberal hippie peace lovin' freak would drill for oil right in his own back fucking yard.
In General, I would want way fewer dealings in the Middle east. I would NOT I say NOT want a presence in Saudi either.
I'm all for the American way. Let people into our country legally but, not from States that are known for producing people who want to kill us. Yep. I said it. That's right. There is no reason to, nor is it written anywhere that we need to let people into this country willy nilly. It's stupid and it doesn't help the people who really want to come be Americans. People from certain countries MUST be looked at more closely. Call this what ever you want but I just think it's true.
Muslim Leaders with peace on their minds need to step up to the plate here and this will mean that they have some war's to fight amongst them selves. Our soul purpose in that part of the world should be making sure they can't/wont Nuke each other.
Close the door. For a while anyhow.
The UN is a mess and has about the same cred as OUR government right now. It needs rebuilding and I would toss a few nations out because, the word "United" should mean something. I'll leave it at that for now.
In general, what I'm saying is, we need to be tough. Really tough. BUT, we need to be smart. Really fucking smart. The smartest. Right now? We look like scared and weak, religious Ideologues out to take over the world. This is a fools game run by fools.
Tik's optimism is not miss placed. Given the history of the world to date, things could be way worse for sure but,, these are very very critical times. We don't have time to fuck around. This means we need new blood in Washington and this means people have to vote. Not JUST vote but, understand who and what they are voting for. I dare say that "W" won the last election based on votes cast by people who don't what's going on. He won a marketing campaign.
Random thoughts from your King sorry for the long post.
JI.......................................................... ..
