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2014-01-15 Government

What's driving dems to defy the Champ on Iran sanctions

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-15 09:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 many lawmakers are convinced that Tehran is bluffing in its threat to walk away from the talks.
So what?
new sanctions would decrease the chances of war by keeping Iran in line.
Maybe, but they were not particularly effective against other tyrannical regimes such as Saddams or Pudgy or his father in Norkland.
Sanctions, IMHO, would be crippling strategic carpet bombing but then that's just my jaundiced view of foreign policy.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-15 11:28|| 2014-01-15 11:28|| Front Page Top

#2 What's driving dems to defy the Champ on Iran sanctions

Common sense and the desire to be re-elected.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-01-15 17:24|| 2014-01-15 17:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Methinks its called OWG Globalism + risking traditional US beliefs or identity e.g. WASP-ISM, + US, Western geopol dominance in return for massive uncertainty + poten strategic weakness [read, "GREAT GAME"-STYLE TAKEOVER BY HOSTILE POWERS].

As per #2, it didn't help vee NOT ASKING THE US MAINSTREAM/VOTERS IFF THEY WANTED OWG ANDOR GLOBALISM, LET ALONE SOCIALISM + REGULATORY, SOON-TO-BE-TOTAL TOTALITARIAN, PERENNIALLY DEBT-BUSTING/EXPANDING "BIG[GEST] GOVERNMENT".

E.G. POST-2015 "BORDERLESS" ANTI-SOVEREIGN OWG -
NWO NAU, ETC. AMERIKA = TRADITIONAL "NATIONALIST/
FEDERALIST"-LEVEL SOVEREIGN US GOVT. REDUCED TO STATE OR LOCAL-LEVEL SEMI-SOVEREIGN OR AUTONOMOUS? GOVERNMENT = HIGH POTEN FOR "UNIFIED/UNITARIAN" INTEGRATED GOP-DEM POLITICAL PARTY, ESTABLISHMENT SUBORNED TO OWG "GLOBAL"-LEVEL [NAU, Trans-Pac,Trans-Atlant, etc.] GOVT-ESTABLISHMENT = SYMBOLIZED BY SPECULATION OF HILLARY CLINTON-CHRISTIE POTUS TICKET FOR 2016???

See at Democratic Underground + assor LeftBlogs.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-01-15 21:12|| 2014-01-15 21:12|| Front Page Top

#4 See also TOPIX > US FOREIGN POLICY IS IN SHAMBLES.

Uncertainty = FEAR.

* INDEPENDENT.UK > BRITISH SOVERIEGNTY AT RISK IN EU-US TRADE DEAL, UK IN DANGER OF SURRENDERING ITS JUDICIAL INDPEPENDENCE TO MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS [MNC's], WARN ACTIVISTS [+ UK MPS].

INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > BRITAIN'S [post-911] WARS HAVE "NO STRATEGY", SAYS KEY MILITARY ADVISOR, i.e. Oxford University Prof. RICHARD HEW STRACHEN].

UK = Bammer USA???

* WORLD NEWS > AL-QAEDA'S NEXT COMEBACK COULD BE AFGHANISTAN OR PAKISTAN.

Dats "Nuke-armed Pakistan" to Youse + Moi.

US "going back in", from scratch???

* FREEREPUBLIC > [Gizmodo]CHINA'S NEW HYPERSONIC MISSLE CAN SCREAM PAST US AIR DEFENSES.

RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS = ... ...
> [House.gov] US CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS SEND FEAR OVER CHINESE HYPERSONIC MISSLE TEST |
CONGRESS VOICES CONCERN ABOUT CHINESE HYPERSONIC MISSLE TEST.
> CHINA'S INNOVATION ABILITY IS VASTLY UNDER-RATED.

US Congress recog that East Asia is fast becoming a "powder keg", + few iff any GOP-DEMS know how the Bammer is going to act.

Given ...

* TALKING POINTS MEMO > WHITE HOUSE TO GOP: IFF YOU WANT US TROOPS [back] IN IRAQ, YOU "SHOULD SAY SO".

More Admin-led "Throwing under the Bus" ="Falling on [One's Own]Swords", + NOT JUST THE GOP-RIGHT EITHER???

* US NEWS & WORLD REPORT > US MUST DRAW "RED LINES" FOR CHINA IN WESTERN PACIFIC " DRAWING A RED LINE FOR CHINA.

See "red Lines" for Libya, Egypt, Syria = Baby Assad andor FSA, Iran NucProgs + ...???

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Asia Times] CHINA CASTS RED TAPE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.

* SAME > [PhilStar] REPORT: CHINA PLANS TO SEIZE PAG-ASA ISLAND [China = Zhongye Island] THIS
YEAR.

RELATED GLOBALNATION.INQUIRER.NET > [Philippines]DFA NOT AWARE OF CHINA PLAN TO SEIZE PAG-ASA ISLAND.

ARTIC = US ALLIES + NON-ALIGNED IN EAST ASIA + SOUTH CHINA SEA NEEDS A POTENT, PERMANENT OR NEAR-PERMANENT US NAVY = USDOD? PRESENCE TO COUNTER CHINA'S TERRITORIAL CLAIMS + FISHING RULES, FEES, ETC. LEST CHINA + PLA/PLAN PROCEED = RUN AMOK MILPOL UNCHALLENGED THROUGHOUT THE REGION.

D *** NG IT, WHAT COULD POSSIBLE GO WRONG? A HELLUVA F ****** LOT, + ITS NOT GUARANTEED THE USA OR US-WEST WILL EXISTENTIALLY, ETC. SURVIVE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-01-15 21:53|| 2014-01-15 21:53|| Front Page Top

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