Question For 2016 Presidential Candidates

Candidates for the U.S. 2016 Presidential race agree on the need for job, housing and stable environment in Middle East.Then and only then will ISIS be stopped and peace returned. QUESTION: "Will the candidates pledge to stop bombing the region when the Mid East is peaceful and stable?"

SNAP: The Information Age and Random Acts Of Violence

An act of terrorism aimed at airlines happened on September 26, 2014. A worker set fire to an air traffic control facility in Chicago.Resulting in thousands of delayed or canceled flights. Only luck prevented collisions and deaths. The next day on September 27, 2014 a man somewhat connected to al Qaeda beheaded a co worker in Oklahoma.Snap, snap. Prior to ubiquitous instant communication these horrible events would not have happened.These events are tied to what our government is doing in the Middle East.Rightly or wrongly our mission there are causing snaps in people's behavior around the globe who heretofore were not part of active plans of espionage or terror planning. Ad hoc revulsion of indiscriminate bombing is the motivation for individual copy cat retaliation against barbaric war in the Middle East.Who hit first in that region? You will probably get as many opinions as the people you ask. Warriors cause wars. That self evident fact should be reason to stop our participation in wars we don't have a need to be in. Or else we will get more random acts of terror and more retaliation.

How many Nations Has The United States Bombed?

There are 193 member states in the United Nations.Perusing the list left me with roughly the calculation of approximately 154 nations that we as a nation at one time or other have been at war with officially or bombed or fought gratuitously .The fields of battle are too long to list. But a few stand out as stupid engagements. World War I, Vietnam and Iraq immediately come to mind.Iraq is particularly stupid because of its justifications used by our administration.Who can forget WMD ? Weapons of mass destruction were certainly possessed by Saddam Hussein.Why? Because they found invoices and had pictures of "aluminum tubes". There were surveillance photos taken at 60,000 feet of mobile homes that certainly were command and control centers for missile firings of presumed nuclear or chemical or biological weapons. And what about "yellow cake" from Niger? We had Dick Cheney's word that was the smoking gun of nuclear fission war heads.History has pointed out all that evidence was spun lies.Now we have a new yarn to re-invade Iran.ISIS beheaded a journalist.It did happen but the yarn is ISIS will soon be beheading people around the world.That wont happen.But the fact already has given Syria's Assad the use of America's Air Force to help him fight ISIS in Syria.No one will talk about collateral bombing damage.The powers that be want everyone to focus on the beheading as justification for eternal war.

Troops In Afghanistan are Live Targets

Did it ever occur to the blockheads at the Pentagon that our troops are in uniform, while the "enemy"is not. That makes our troops very visible targets while the "enemy" is largely undetected till it's too late. How does the enemy know when to explode an IED? They know because they see a U.S. troop dressed in uniform walking on top of the hidden explosive device. Who's more clueless, the soldier with the target on his back or the demographics that support the troops with the targets on their backs?

Support the troops at home.

U.S. In Iraq & Iran : Finally Getting It Right

For the past 5 years the U.S. has suffered defeat after defeat in the preemptive Iraq War debacle. Unphased the U.S. now is considering expanding the mess into neighboring Iran. Even if Iran didn't respond to American targeted bombing, worldwide commodities funds would drive the oil futures market up minimally to $175.00 /bbl. That would further cripple our economy and may cause a collapse in tangental economies. It would also exacerbate the world food crisis. But of course Iran would respond and the fallout from a preemptive war in Iran would severely greater to world economies.

It's a truism that " People who can't remember can never learn". And so if people refuse to learn from yesterday in Iraq, today in Iraq and all those tomorrows in Iraq then it will get worse. So how will it all end for the U.S. in Iraq and the Middle East? We will lose big. And then and only then will America finally come up with a sustainable Middle East policy.

The implied corollary to this predictable outcome is that preemptive war is not a wise policy and by extension all preemptive wars SHOULD BE LOST lest they become a bad habit.

The Party Of Incumbents: The Oldest & Strongest Political Party In The United States

Who are you going to vote for? No matter what you answer the person who goes to Washington will join a new political party. The party doesn't have an official name. But it's hold on new arrivals is immediate and overwhelming. "All politics are local" is a truism. And the politics of our nations capitol is not immuned. Simply, the local politics in D.C. is about incumbents remaining incumbents and the incestuous players will do most anything to stay in their cushy powerful jobs. That's the explanation for the seemingly unchanged and predictably increasingly out of touch performance of our elected representatives since the founding of our republic.

The most recent example of the incumbent party trumping the democratic and republican parties is the complete capitulation of the anti-war 2006 congressional elections. That group led by Pelosi and Reid now routinely extend war funding. And what's more Pelosi and Reid will give this president all he wants and will also start the next administration with a free 6 months war funding starter kit.

As with all hypertrophies the incumbent party will only lose when an extraordinary event slams into their careful planning. In this case the extraordinary event will be the unequivocal failure of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Time is on the side of the truth of things. Be truthful and life is a pretty easy thing to enjoyably live.