HAS AMERICA GONE COLD-BLOODED? - Just a Minute Radio for Monday Jan. 04, 2010

            Hello on the first Monday of 2010…

 

            Welcome to the FrigidAir…(sorry about the brand name… not intended)  we don’t usually have it this cold around these parts… but I guess it’s part of the scenery. Brrrr…..

 

            Today – it was announced over the weekend – we are closing our embassy in Yemen apparently because of the so-called underwear bomber… I won’t attempt to pronounce or spell his name.  You know who I’m talking about.  The State Department apparently believes Embassy Personnel are endangered there – and from what I’m inclined to believe, they are right.

 

            The difficulty is this is mainly just so much temporizing.  This threat, if the Homeland Security people are to be believed – and I think for the most part they are… just not the upper level political appointees … it’s probably a good move to make and most likely comes a little late.  The difficulty is, it’s not really aimed at solving our problem. 

 

            Mr. Obama has thought from the beginning of his campaign and now almost to the end of his first year of presidency, in a way that appears to be a non-starter regarding his policy toward getting bad guys to turn into good guys.  Frankly, the previous administration doesn’t come off so well either… but in my view that probably ought to be laid more at the feet of the professional appeasers in the Dept. of State than the workaday professionals. The problem seems to go back to the fact we have a lot of soft-headed-policy people in State who think that their job is ‘makie-nicey’ to the world’ and they’ll smile back at you.  But the world runs on honesty and performance – not ‘makie-nicey’.

 

            I don’t subscribe to the growly-grouchy tone of being Mr. Grumble to the rest of the world either… we already have the burden of being “too” rich and “too” powerful and all the rest – which generally gets us assigned the role of being responsible for all the woes of the world.  At the same time it gives us as a nation a lot of opportunity to ignore and be the “ugly Americans” even when we don’t realize it.  Foreign policy isn’t rocket science – [Sorry Dr. Kissinger] and it does require an appreciation of culture, and customs etc. I don’t profess expertise.  However America’s role in the world, like being the leader of the parade, is an opportunity to have a lot of kicking and back-biting going on where you don’t easily correct it.  Well… time for my non-professional seminar in what we do wrong overseas will come another day. Nonetheless – we surely could do a better job of loving our neighbors as ourselves!

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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HAS AMERICA GONE COLD BLOODED?

          Just A Minute – America didn’t roll back the Tiananmen tanks in 1989, but the brave students at least knew we were on the side of liberty; even some in their own government thought so too.

          But recently Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flies all over Latin America saying, "Ideology is so yesterday…" allowing dictators Chavez and Castro to believe America is losing her grip.  Do we think the Yemeni Al Qaida tremble because yesterday America announced we’re closing our embassy there?  Were it not for a damaged syringe, we would probably be mourning 300 casualties from the Yemeni radical flying Amsterdam to Detroit with high explosives in his underwear.  

          What’s our response?  It took only a week to get our vacationing Hawaiian President to connect the dots.  Will he get the UN to pass a resolution?  Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says Homeland Secretary Napolitano’s initial remarks were “inappropriate – bizarre.”  Our Senator DeMint says we need to stop politicizing crimes, get on with it.

          If you want a good prayer to guide your thoughts about war – just read Psalm Eighteen.       

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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