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World News See other World News Articles Title: Patrick J. Buchanan: Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era? Trump should go further, turn the tables, and seize this crisis to do what he was elected to do — impose a new foreign policy. To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq. When NATO scaled back its war games in Europe because of the pandemic, Russia reciprocated. Moscow announced it would cancel its war games along NATO’s border. Nations seem to be recognizing and responding to the grim new geostrategic reality of March 2020: The pandemic is the real enemy of us all, and while we fight it, each in his own national corner, we are in this together. Never allow a serious crisis to go to waste, said Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel during the financial crisis. Emanuel was echoed this month by House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, who called the coronavirus crisis “a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.” What Clyburn had in mind is what Democrats advanced as their alternative to the $2.2 trillion emergency bill. It was designed to force President Trump either to swallow it whole or to take responsibility for vetoing a critical transfusion of federal funds to keep the economy alive. Among the items stuffed in the Democrats’ proposal: A $15-an-hour minimum wage imposed on companies receiving funds. Blanket loan forgiveness of $10,000 for students. New tax credits for solar and wind energy. Full funding of Planned Parenthood. Federal dollars for fetal tissue research. $300 million for PBS, which has been promoting the LBGT agenda to school kids. Mandating “diversity” on corporate boards as a condition of companies receiving funds. Election “reforms” to increase Democratic turnout. Insistence that airlines, to get a bailout, offset carbon emissions from jet engines. $35 million for the Kennedy Center. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and congressional Republicans ash-canned almost the leftist wish list. But Trump should go further, turn the tables, and seize this crisis to do what he was elected to do — impose a new foreign policy. Isolate America, not from the world, but from the world’s wars. Have something to say about this column? Visit Gab – The social network that champions free speech – Comment without Censorship! Or visit Pat’s FaceBook page and post your comments…. The New York Times and Washington Post editorialized Thursday for an easing of the economic sanctions we have imposed on Iran. This would be a humanitarian gesture when Iran is suffering more than any country in the Middle East from the virus. More than that, it would be a statement that America is not at war with the Iranian people. This unilateral gesture by Trump, asking nothing in return except negotiations, would put the onus for Iran’s isolation squarely with the ayatollah and his regime. As for Vladimir Putin’s cancellation of war games in response to NATO’s cancellation, Trump could seize upon this as an opening to engage Russia as candidate Trump promised to do. Does anyone believe Putin wants a war with NATO? Should he do so, does anyone think Italy and Spain, two of the largest NATO allies, but both suffering greatly in the coronavirus crisis, would invoke Article V and declare war on Russia? When Hitler was our foe, America created a wartime alliance with Stalin in the common cause of crushing the Axis powers. Liberals and leftists yet defend the Popular Front between the democracies and Stalin. If we could unite with Bolsheviks to defeat Nazis, surely we can join with Iran’s rulers to cope with and crush the coronavirus. When, if ever, will there be a better time to make good on Trump’s campaign pledge to extricate America from the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan? Consider also the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong Un has been testing rockets again over the Sea of Japan. Transfixed by the coronavirus crisis, however, the world is paying him no attention. We should make a final offer to Kim Jong Un to pull our U.S. forces from South Korea and lift sanctions for verifiable reductions and restraints on his nuclear arsenal. We are ready for a deal. But If Pyongyang refuses to talk, we should tell him we are going home and are allowing South Korea and Japan to develop their own nuclear weapons. And let Kim deal with them. The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis since the Cuban missile confrontation of 1962. After that crisis, John F. Kennedy sought to use the world’s brush with Armageddon to establish a detente with the Soviet Union of the Communist dictator who had put the missiles in Cuba. Following our Cold War victory, we have not done that. Instead, we plunged into wars that were none of our business to deal with imagined threats and advance utopian causes like establishing Jeffersonian democracy in lands where tribalism and dogmatism are rooted in the very soil. The coronavirus is the enemy Saddam Hussein never was. And the ayatollahs never had tens of millions of Americans “sheltering in place.” What the coronavirus crisis tells us is not that we should turn our backs on the world but that, in engaging with the world, we should put our own interests first, as every nation in the world is doing now Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 11.
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When I worked for State Highways in Illinois, we had an Iranian foreman. He was so stupid we called him "the brain". When he passed away I knew a guy that went to his funeral. He told me his two daughters were "stoned foxes". I hope they did not inherit anything else from him. ;)
And these are the types swarming into Silicon Valley to throw white programmers out of work >:[
I lived there for 20 years. Noticed lots of people over 50 begging for jobs. Only hired young people with H1-B visas. But we had to pay $2,740 a month rent for a one bedroom apartment in Los Gatos. If you want to live in a dangerous neighborhood, you can try near downtown (25 block walk. Do not ride the bus at night. Too dangerous. Lots of illegals and thugs.)
That's just brutal -- the politics, economics and demographics of brutality. How did you make your escape?
I retired in 2009 and left town. I was born there. As far back as the 1950s, I knew the place was going to hell because of all the illegal aliens. I didn't believe in the Holohoax either. I was in the north. Jews over ran southern California.
Correct. But there was a Croatian Waffen SS General Odilo Globocnik. He would rob the Jews of their gold, kill them in a mobile trailer and then dispose of the bodies. He buried treasure in several locations around SE Europe. Most of it was found, but one place turned out to be a parking lot. :-/
What a hero -- I hope there are schools, streets, parks named after him. But I doubt it. Ppl like him are the real patriots. I hate to tell our soldiers and veterans that :-s
I think the Waffen SS was a bit like the KKK in a way. Protecting Christians from the ravages of carpet baggers (Jews). ;)
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