Well, well, well. Russia ’s plane is bombed in flight;
224 souls killed immediately. Paris
attacks slay 129 souls with 99 hanging on for dear life, and 253 more in
hospital with injuries. Somalia
reels. Syria reels. Deaths one at a time or enmasse. Terrorism takes its toll
plodding onward, ever onward.
And now France
feels threatened, so too England ,
Germany , Spain , Turkey
and the USA .
Allies before. Allies against ISIS
over the past few months. Now focused allies waging war against the lawless and
unconscionable perpetrators of something the rest of us don’t quite understand.
But that’s OK. We don’t need to understand just at this moment. What we need to
do is protect and defend.
So, 118 fuel trucks have been blown up. Perhaps the ISIS headquarters town should be leveled? What is the
proper response? Don’t know just yet, but we are working on it. Working on it.
Stop the flow of
bombs, guns and bullets to ISIS . Where are
they getting this materiel? Who is funding it? Two new targets: the weapons
flow AND the money flow. How hard is this to find and block? Not my field of endeavor so I don’t know
this. Who does? Are they working on it this moment?
Meanwhile, where are ISIS
camps, offices and domestic locations? Bomb these as they would do to ours.
Have done, really. And their pledge to continue to do this. So, we must respond
in order to defend our own.
Meanwhile, another step to take. Close down Syria
completely. Russia , America and all allies stand together to stop Syria , Libya and the Sinai from being
misused against the peace loving world. Our response must be relentless.
The refugees. What to do about them? Feed them, house them.
Educate and nurture them. Find new homes. Monitor communications to track nefarious
schemes by ISIS , but otherwise treat them
well. Now is not the time to make martyrs of the already homeless. No nation
understands this better than America .
That is our history. So let us not shirk our duty in this department!
Presidential campaigns are noise and distraction. Only
experience need apply, and agile minds focused on the largest of problems. That
is governance. The rest is and has been useless window dressing designed to
keep our eyes off of what others want from our way of life.
Surely we won’t be stupid at a time like this? Well, who
knows? Who would have projected Trump being so popular or even Carson, a
vacuous nonentity without any experience except in hospitals? That is not the
hall of congress. It may be more civil than congress, but it doesn’t teach you
how government works behind the scenes and needs to transact the business of a nation of 330
million souls.
Yes, governing is hard work. It is blended history,
philosophy, values, intellect and policy formation. It is hopeful while
transacting the work we need to have accomplished for us. It is leadership. It
is application of heart and mind intelligently.
So far republicans continue to argue for no Syrian refugees,
all along party lines. Thirty two republican state governors; 26 of them
claiming no refugees. They don’t have the constitutional authority to do this,
but they do have the right to make political noise and they have done so in
concert with their party. Shame on them. And now the presidential candidate
puppets are doing the same.
I’m most disappointed with Jeb Bush who I thought was more
intelligent and thoughtful. But no; keep out strangers! Don’t trust anything
Obama does or has done. Don’t provide any helpful suggestions on what to do.
Don’t give us your policy template and direction for the future. Just complain
and gripe about what the other party has done. Even when they did not create
the policy nightmare that has given rise to ISIS
and its horrors.
Let’s remember what we are about and keep on track. We must
defend, nurture and build a fresh generation of tomorrows. Will noise keep us from this most important
task? Will America
remember who she is in time not to make really stupid emotional mistakes like
the Japanese internment camps of the 1940’s?
Let us pray not!
November 19, 2015
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