++The New York Time editorial admits they have found nothing wrong --yet--in the millions accepted by the Clinton Foundation and any of Hillary Clinton's actions as Secretary of State, they think she should reveal as much as possible about the donations and state what her policy as President will be if she becomes President.
++Media Matters has taken up the sword against the Times by pointing out "Her alleged breach" of her promise that the Clinton Foundation would not accept foreign government donations when she became Secretary of State is false. Indeed, the Clinton Foundations pointed out that countries such as Norway,and other European countries would continue on projects that dealt with health and humanitarian issues. That her so-called pledge was not that.
++The right as can be expected is circulating stories about the two press reports. Jennifer Rubin says that Hillary's standard for no quid pro quo is phony. Yes, it's the optics, my dear. Mitt Romney tweeted it looks like bribery after reading the Russian piece.
++The e-mails from the right indicate they think the Foundation is Hillary's Achilles' heel.
++Joe Scarborough of "Morning Joe" fame went crazy on Howard Dean who simply said the reporting has been shabby and lousy. Conservatives are surprised by how many on talk shows are dismissing the allegations.
++But they will always have #Benghazi!
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
UN Discussing Listing Iranian Sanctions Once Deal Is Done
++The United Nations Security Council began discussions today about how to lift sanctions if an Iranian deal is done. State Department spokespeople said this would be binding according to international law.
++Al Jezeera today had a story about how such a deal falls under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and that it has to be cleared by the UN Security Council.
++Never to be outdone, Jennifer Rubin claims that President Obama will be breaking the Constitution if he goes ahead with this. She rants on in semi-logical ways except not to acknowledge why a multi-national agreement governed by the Security Council has weight.
++Rubin quotes Mark Kirk, another signatory to the letter,saying that Congress needs to be involved because you can't just say laws are null and void.
++What GOP lawmakers are really saying is that sanctions passed by law, need to be lifted by law. True. However, the most effective sanctions have been by executive order and also by Europe. All these can be lifted ,leaving sanctions from George W.'s time.
++I shudder to think about the ignorance being shown by the Republicans on all those matters.
++The petition now has gained 20,000 more signatures.
++Bibi is now using his speech to Congress as a campaign ad to persuade voters for smaller right-wing parties to vote Likud. Neither Bibi or Herzog will agree to a rotating Prime Ministership.
++James Baker has been invited to speak at J Street. Baker rings bells for the Israelis. Now he is an adviser to Jeb Bush.
++Al Jezeera today had a story about how such a deal falls under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and that it has to be cleared by the UN Security Council.
++Never to be outdone, Jennifer Rubin claims that President Obama will be breaking the Constitution if he goes ahead with this. She rants on in semi-logical ways except not to acknowledge why a multi-national agreement governed by the Security Council has weight.
++Rubin quotes Mark Kirk, another signatory to the letter,saying that Congress needs to be involved because you can't just say laws are null and void.
++What GOP lawmakers are really saying is that sanctions passed by law, need to be lifted by law. True. However, the most effective sanctions have been by executive order and also by Europe. All these can be lifted ,leaving sanctions from George W.'s time.
++I shudder to think about the ignorance being shown by the Republicans on all those matters.
++The petition now has gained 20,000 more signatures.
++Bibi is now using his speech to Congress as a campaign ad to persuade voters for smaller right-wing parties to vote Likud. Neither Bibi or Herzog will agree to a rotating Prime Ministership.
++James Baker has been invited to speak at J Street. Baker rings bells for the Israelis. Now he is an adviser to Jeb Bush.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Bibi Leads Turds In The Road
++The Imperial Post, which has never met a war it didn't like,has an editorial that President Obama must answer the questions raised by Netanyahu about the number of centrifuges and the short time line for a nuclear bomb. They say President Obama hasn't explained any of this --maybe because the final deal hasn't been finalized.
++David Ignatius said that Bibi's speech was a zero-sum game. He thought that Bibi raised the bar to convince the American public that any deal was good.
++Jennifer Rubin got off a second column that said that Bibi destroyed all of President Obama's talking points and that Democrats and Republicans were more sensible than Obama and would stop the deal.
++Scott Ritter, an arms inspector from the Iraq days,writes in the Huffington Post that the process by which Bibi got to address the Joint Congress on the anniversary of the "Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill was dubious and raised the specter of a foreign leader being given carte blanche to criticize the president of the United States.
++Trita Parsi, writes in the Huffington Post, that the whole gist of Bibi's speech was that he never ever wanted a deal with Iran.
++Chris Matthews threw a tantrum about a foreign leader trying to hijack American foreign policy behind or in front of the back of Barack Obama.
++Max Fisher at VOX says wait a minute. Only 5% of Americans now think that Iran is a mortal enemy compared to 25% three years ago. And that Bibi's words do not resonate with the American people.
++The Iranian foreign ministry said Bibi's speech was boring and repetitive.
++The United States Senate is moving to pass a bill that they must approve of any Iranian pact. Do fall for it ,Barack.
++Negative reviews in non-Beltway press and favorable reviews in the Beltway. The danger remains that Bibi will feed the neo-cons thirst for war. The line that war wasn't the only alternative was the one the Beltway bought, including the Washington Post. The problem is that the do nothing plan of Bibi's doesn't get us anywhere but on the road to war.
++David Ignatius said that Bibi's speech was a zero-sum game. He thought that Bibi raised the bar to convince the American public that any deal was good.
++Jennifer Rubin got off a second column that said that Bibi destroyed all of President Obama's talking points and that Democrats and Republicans were more sensible than Obama and would stop the deal.
++Scott Ritter, an arms inspector from the Iraq days,writes in the Huffington Post that the process by which Bibi got to address the Joint Congress on the anniversary of the "Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill was dubious and raised the specter of a foreign leader being given carte blanche to criticize the president of the United States.
++Trita Parsi, writes in the Huffington Post, that the whole gist of Bibi's speech was that he never ever wanted a deal with Iran.
++Chris Matthews threw a tantrum about a foreign leader trying to hijack American foreign policy behind or in front of the back of Barack Obama.
++Max Fisher at VOX says wait a minute. Only 5% of Americans now think that Iran is a mortal enemy compared to 25% three years ago. And that Bibi's words do not resonate with the American people.
++The Iranian foreign ministry said Bibi's speech was boring and repetitive.
++The United States Senate is moving to pass a bill that they must approve of any Iranian pact. Do fall for it ,Barack.
++Negative reviews in non-Beltway press and favorable reviews in the Beltway. The danger remains that Bibi will feed the neo-cons thirst for war. The line that war wasn't the only alternative was the one the Beltway bought, including the Washington Post. The problem is that the do nothing plan of Bibi's doesn't get us anywhere but on the road to war.
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++President Obama said Bibi didn't offer any constructive alternatives.
++A senior official said that it was a "regime change" speech not one on the nuclear deal.
++Paul Waldman said it reminded him of the Bush days without nuance or subtlety. He noted that Bibi equated ISIS and Iran, without mentioning that Iran is fighting Isis. Personally, I felt it was the Axis of Evil revamped and why Bibi mentioned North Korea. Waldman says when you boil it all down--Don't Negotiate, let's see what Iran does. He says this is the GOP policy precisely.
++Jennifer Rubin loved the speech.
++Walter Pincus urges Obama to keep the Congress out of any deal because they are nuts. He cites a long list of deals without congressional approval.
++A senior official said that it was a "regime change" speech not one on the nuclear deal.
++Paul Waldman said it reminded him of the Bush days without nuance or subtlety. He noted that Bibi equated ISIS and Iran, without mentioning that Iran is fighting Isis. Personally, I felt it was the Axis of Evil revamped and why Bibi mentioned North Korea. Waldman says when you boil it all down--Don't Negotiate, let's see what Iran does. He says this is the GOP policy precisely.
++Jennifer Rubin loved the speech.
++Walter Pincus urges Obama to keep the Congress out of any deal because they are nuts. He cites a long list of deals without congressional approval.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Initial Unemployment Claims
++Initial unemployment claims were at 265,000. Anything under 300,000 is good news. But why this number is important is because this is the best since 2000.
++I will not bore you with Jennifer Rubin's rant about the Obama White House flipping out about Bibi's speech. It is clear we are in for a counter-offensive since the NYTimes article hit home.
++Conservative blogs have been running posts about different Obama operatives acting as political consultants in Israel for campaigns against the Likud coalition.
++Andrew Sullivan promises you the Dish will go out with a bang once his staff recovers from their hangovers.
++I will not bore you with Jennifer Rubin's rant about the Obama White House flipping out about Bibi's speech. It is clear we are in for a counter-offensive since the NYTimes article hit home.
++Conservative blogs have been running posts about different Obama operatives acting as political consultants in Israel for campaigns against the Likud coalition.
++Andrew Sullivan promises you the Dish will go out with a bang once his staff recovers from their hangovers.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Grand Illusion
++Josh Marshall ends the night with a tour de force. Writing as an American Jew and a Zionist, Josh picks up on Jeffrey Goldberg's piece and believes as Goldberg did that any way you look at the Boehner/Bibi ploy,it ends in disaster--except for, maybe, Bibi's electoral fortunes. Marshall thinks Goldberg's focus on Bibi's Iranian focus doesn't put enough emphasis on his domestic electoral policy.
++Marshall feels the tremors of an earthquake in the bipartisan consensus on Israel and the reactions from the American audiences. He quotes Bibi saying he has had enough with President Obama as if he is the one managing the relationship. Marshall points to Bibi dismissing any of the United States' marginal efforts on the settlements and the Palestinian issue as evidence that since the Israel-United States relationship grew so large that this went to Bibi's head and he fails to realize anymore that America is the anchor for Israel's defense. He blames some of this on the language coming from the extreme right parties, who want to find another superpower patron.
++Marshall also believes Bibi's Iran obsession is totally off base since it is at odds with Israel's military establishment. He notes that Bibi really doesn't have military experience except for a short time in an elite IDS unit. As Goldberg pointed out, at least he didn't attack Iran.
++Read Josh's piece at TalkingPointsMemo because all week he has been trying to grabble with the Bibi ploy.
++Now for a counter to this Jennifer Rubin goes off the rails tonight with her call for the end of the Benghazi Oversight Committee. But not for the right reasons. She wants a Oversight Committee on the issue of the failure of the Obama Administration to deal with the Iranian nuclear program and its failure to develop a strategy to defeat Islamic Jihadist Terrorism. IJT is the new GOP talking point since President Obama has not used the phrase. If the Democrats won't agree to the new Oversight Committee then their should be a special commission headed by Leon Panetta and General Murphy with full subpoena powers to get to the bottom of it.
++ (Note: the new chairman of intelligence oversight is Senator Burr from North Carolina. He wants to return the Panetta Report of the CIA Torture Program back to the Administration because the Senate really shouldn't poke in the Agency's business. It was the Panetta report that my Williams classmate Mark Udall exposed on the Senate floor as the CIA's own proof that its torture program not only went beyond limits but yielded no actionable intelligence. So Leon is now Jennifer's hero. Go figure.)
++And lastly this evening, you mention, Jews, Israel, the Holocaust and wars in the Middle East, then you know who will appear--the lovable anti-Semite Pat Buchanan. Pat rips the new narrative in Washington that the Iranians are on the march and only Bibi--a foreign leader can tell Americans what to do. Pat backs off his Israel tirades this time for an evisceration of the current Shiite Crescent theory. He says that commentators are saying Iran has won the major capitals in Beirut,Damascus, Baghdad, and Sana'a. He rips on the role the United States played in creating the disasters across the region. And says shi'ites have temporarily gained control in Sunni majority countries, which regard these people as heretics. He scoffs at John McCain and Ralph Peters crying the "Persians are coming" and says if war with Iran is where the GOP is going for 2016 then he wants off.
++He almost has lost his taste for his usually vile rhetoric about Israel. He gets a few slams at AIPAC in and his litany about Washington being led around the nose by Israel.
++He chides Bibi for coming to Washington to lecture us about the dangers of Iran's nuclear program. He recalls Bibi's speech in San Francisco that this was 1938 and that Israel can deal with the first nuclear exchange with Iran but then tehran will be going after the Great Satan. He notes--quite correctly--that the National Intelligence Assessment in 2011 said Iran had no nuclear bomb program and that assessment has not been changed.
++Buchanan points out the degree of intrusive monitoring going on and the fact that Iran has not enriched uranium to bomb levels yet. He says they have not exploded one. But he does mention that Israel has between 100-300 nuclear weapons and that Pakistan has lots. Iran has none.
++The elderly Buchanan seems more fed up with the United States screwing up with our wars than Israel at this stage.
++But if the center-left goes after Boehner/Bibi and Buchanan chimes in, you have problems.
--P.S. All the emails from conservative military types are totally pro-Bibi,anti-Obama, Obama has failed against Islamic Jihadism and Iran both. If you can tell me how you think you are going to fight everyone at the same time or even in a tag-team match, let me know. These same types believe Obama's trips to China and India are junkets. It's not like he rounded up half the population of the world on his side to combat climate change--which is a hoax anyway. It is clear from Boehner's invite was from his hatred for the President , the same reflected in my e-mails. The military types for all their bravado tend to stand down when I ask about how much war with Iran would cost, what's the final end game or the casualties they would accept.
++Marshall feels the tremors of an earthquake in the bipartisan consensus on Israel and the reactions from the American audiences. He quotes Bibi saying he has had enough with President Obama as if he is the one managing the relationship. Marshall points to Bibi dismissing any of the United States' marginal efforts on the settlements and the Palestinian issue as evidence that since the Israel-United States relationship grew so large that this went to Bibi's head and he fails to realize anymore that America is the anchor for Israel's defense. He blames some of this on the language coming from the extreme right parties, who want to find another superpower patron.
++Marshall also believes Bibi's Iran obsession is totally off base since it is at odds with Israel's military establishment. He notes that Bibi really doesn't have military experience except for a short time in an elite IDS unit. As Goldberg pointed out, at least he didn't attack Iran.
++Read Josh's piece at TalkingPointsMemo because all week he has been trying to grabble with the Bibi ploy.
++Now for a counter to this Jennifer Rubin goes off the rails tonight with her call for the end of the Benghazi Oversight Committee. But not for the right reasons. She wants a Oversight Committee on the issue of the failure of the Obama Administration to deal with the Iranian nuclear program and its failure to develop a strategy to defeat Islamic Jihadist Terrorism. IJT is the new GOP talking point since President Obama has not used the phrase. If the Democrats won't agree to the new Oversight Committee then their should be a special commission headed by Leon Panetta and General Murphy with full subpoena powers to get to the bottom of it.
++ (Note: the new chairman of intelligence oversight is Senator Burr from North Carolina. He wants to return the Panetta Report of the CIA Torture Program back to the Administration because the Senate really shouldn't poke in the Agency's business. It was the Panetta report that my Williams classmate Mark Udall exposed on the Senate floor as the CIA's own proof that its torture program not only went beyond limits but yielded no actionable intelligence. So Leon is now Jennifer's hero. Go figure.)
++And lastly this evening, you mention, Jews, Israel, the Holocaust and wars in the Middle East, then you know who will appear--the lovable anti-Semite Pat Buchanan. Pat rips the new narrative in Washington that the Iranians are on the march and only Bibi--a foreign leader can tell Americans what to do. Pat backs off his Israel tirades this time for an evisceration of the current Shiite Crescent theory. He says that commentators are saying Iran has won the major capitals in Beirut,Damascus, Baghdad, and Sana'a. He rips on the role the United States played in creating the disasters across the region. And says shi'ites have temporarily gained control in Sunni majority countries, which regard these people as heretics. He scoffs at John McCain and Ralph Peters crying the "Persians are coming" and says if war with Iran is where the GOP is going for 2016 then he wants off.
++He almost has lost his taste for his usually vile rhetoric about Israel. He gets a few slams at AIPAC in and his litany about Washington being led around the nose by Israel.
++He chides Bibi for coming to Washington to lecture us about the dangers of Iran's nuclear program. He recalls Bibi's speech in San Francisco that this was 1938 and that Israel can deal with the first nuclear exchange with Iran but then tehran will be going after the Great Satan. He notes--quite correctly--that the National Intelligence Assessment in 2011 said Iran had no nuclear bomb program and that assessment has not been changed.
++Buchanan points out the degree of intrusive monitoring going on and the fact that Iran has not enriched uranium to bomb levels yet. He says they have not exploded one. But he does mention that Israel has between 100-300 nuclear weapons and that Pakistan has lots. Iran has none.
++The elderly Buchanan seems more fed up with the United States screwing up with our wars than Israel at this stage.
++But if the center-left goes after Boehner/Bibi and Buchanan chimes in, you have problems.
--P.S. All the emails from conservative military types are totally pro-Bibi,anti-Obama, Obama has failed against Islamic Jihadism and Iran both. If you can tell me how you think you are going to fight everyone at the same time or even in a tag-team match, let me know. These same types believe Obama's trips to China and India are junkets. It's not like he rounded up half the population of the world on his side to combat climate change--which is a hoax anyway. It is clear from Boehner's invite was from his hatred for the President , the same reflected in my e-mails. The military types for all their bravado tend to stand down when I ask about how much war with Iran would cost, what's the final end game or the casualties they would accept.
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Be Forewarned
++The good news is that this blog is in its 7th year. So that will be my New Year's Resolution--to add up the numbers for this quirky diary of the Obama years.
++Having said that, Jennifer Rubin writes in today's Imperial Post that we should feel optimistic because 9 seasoned conservatives won Senate seats,the elections were a rebuke against the President on every policy issue,that Americans now realize America is the indispensable nation, the economy is coming back without government intervention (Cough) and that there is a strong conservative reform movement. The latter got trashed last year and Paul Krugman could teach you about Keynes. It is true that the Obama recovery lacks the significant public sector investment of all others. But none of the politics makes one feel any bit optimistic. Oh and by the way she thinks the Presidential field of candidates for the GOP is refreshing. P.S. Marco Rubio is supposed to tell us about his plans within a month.
++Jeb has left all his boards and non-profits to clean the slate for 2016. He now has a core 23% support and he is maneuvering to make a move to put a lock on the nomination by Iowa.
++The AP wrote the story everything has been wondering "What if Hillary doesn't run?" Draft Jerry Brown. But it would open a hole so big no one on the horizon could fill. I think the Democrats need a Western flare. I really think the self-destruction of Gary Hart wounded the Democrats' possibilities.
++We will have more demographic speculation about the fate of the parties this year. It is true the Democrats start the electoral college with 247 votes. But look at the state houses and the legislatures the GOP controls. Watch for more debates on splitting electoral votes to give the GOP a chance.
++Jennifer Rubin who annoys me no end is like a less literate David Brooks who refuses to recognize how extreme the GOP has become. Jennifer likes to show that the acceptance of gays demonstrates how more inclusive the country has become. Like the GOP on immigration and on its abortion platform.
++Another person who annoys me these days is my old Harvard Divinity Schoolmate Chris Hedges. I have seen more of Noam Chomsky the last two years than in all my previous life. See Hedges interview Chomsky on democraticunderground today. Chomsky has evolved into the nice,wise Jewish grandfather recounting real history in nice coherent chunks. But Chris as he does with other academic heroes won't let the guy the time to unwind his thoughts. Chris, he will get there. He just interrupts Chomsky's thoughts by driving his pet hobby horses--that the service industry workers are the new working class and that this country will experience Revolution just like Central Europe where both us saw the incredible democratic revolutions in the 80s and 90s. Chomsky is more interesting.The riff that got cut off was Chomsky explaining that the United States until Woodrow Wilson was strongly pacifist. It was Wilson's Red Scare that ended pacifism as a national trait. It also ended authentically Left-wing politics.
++ I saw the trailer for the new Terminator. Arnold is back! Looking a bit ragged but he is in full force.
++The New York Times mimicked the Imperial Post with a long article about how the racism of David Duke has become mainstreamed in Louisiana politics.The Southern Poverty Law Center says Scalise's statements proclaiming ignorance about the group he spoke to was nonsense. The Hotel itself and even a minor league baseball team tried to avoid the venue. David Duke has invited every extreme right party to Louisiana to form an alliance. The British National Party showed up in force. By the way their American headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia.
++But the Washington Monthly asks why are we surprised by the embrace of racism. South Carolina's Governor Haley spoke to the Republican Governor's Association about how corporations aren't avoiding the state because of the confederate flag. Our soon to be jailed Governor Bob McDonnell tried to proclaim a Southern Heritage day. There is a long list of such incidents in the past few years.
++Thom Hartman had a panel on his show discussing the David Duke flap. Hartman ran a clip of Lee Atwater explaining how to encode race-baiting in campaign speak to the point that "cutting taxes" is the easier pitch because southerners know that African-Americans will bear the brunt. One of Jennifer Rubin's new conservative reformers piped up that Scalise's speaking to an extreme right white supremacist conclave is just like Barack Obama knowing Bill Ayres. I guess--sort of.This movement has a lot of mental firepower.
++President Obama keeps slipping detainees out of Gitmo. Even the Hill has noticed that he was repatriated more since the mid-terms than in the previous two years.
++Mahmoud Abbas wants Palestine to be a member of the International Criminal Court so he can press Israel on war crimes. The United States strenuously objects. But remember the United States had refused to join even though the court has made exceptions for our military personnel. So how can we in good conscience block such a move. Well, we are threatening to hold up aid to the Palestinian Authority.
++Palestine lost its bid to be recognized by the Security Council by only 1 vote. They thought they were going to win with 9 or 10 and only gathered 8 as the United States pressured countries to either vote no or abstain.
++The Huffington Post today had an article about the rise of anti-semiticism around the globe. They attribute this to the global media covering the Palestinian situation.
++I think this will become a larger problem in 2015 because the rise of extreme right parties in Europe have a large component of the old fashion WWII anti-semiticism. Palestine is an excuse because these parties are also anti-Muslim immigrants.
++Having said that, Jennifer Rubin writes in today's Imperial Post that we should feel optimistic because 9 seasoned conservatives won Senate seats,the elections were a rebuke against the President on every policy issue,that Americans now realize America is the indispensable nation, the economy is coming back without government intervention (Cough) and that there is a strong conservative reform movement. The latter got trashed last year and Paul Krugman could teach you about Keynes. It is true that the Obama recovery lacks the significant public sector investment of all others. But none of the politics makes one feel any bit optimistic. Oh and by the way she thinks the Presidential field of candidates for the GOP is refreshing. P.S. Marco Rubio is supposed to tell us about his plans within a month.
++Jeb has left all his boards and non-profits to clean the slate for 2016. He now has a core 23% support and he is maneuvering to make a move to put a lock on the nomination by Iowa.
++The AP wrote the story everything has been wondering "What if Hillary doesn't run?" Draft Jerry Brown. But it would open a hole so big no one on the horizon could fill. I think the Democrats need a Western flare. I really think the self-destruction of Gary Hart wounded the Democrats' possibilities.
++We will have more demographic speculation about the fate of the parties this year. It is true the Democrats start the electoral college with 247 votes. But look at the state houses and the legislatures the GOP controls. Watch for more debates on splitting electoral votes to give the GOP a chance.
++Jennifer Rubin who annoys me no end is like a less literate David Brooks who refuses to recognize how extreme the GOP has become. Jennifer likes to show that the acceptance of gays demonstrates how more inclusive the country has become. Like the GOP on immigration and on its abortion platform.
++Another person who annoys me these days is my old Harvard Divinity Schoolmate Chris Hedges. I have seen more of Noam Chomsky the last two years than in all my previous life. See Hedges interview Chomsky on democraticunderground today. Chomsky has evolved into the nice,wise Jewish grandfather recounting real history in nice coherent chunks. But Chris as he does with other academic heroes won't let the guy the time to unwind his thoughts. Chris, he will get there. He just interrupts Chomsky's thoughts by driving his pet hobby horses--that the service industry workers are the new working class and that this country will experience Revolution just like Central Europe where both us saw the incredible democratic revolutions in the 80s and 90s. Chomsky is more interesting.The riff that got cut off was Chomsky explaining that the United States until Woodrow Wilson was strongly pacifist. It was Wilson's Red Scare that ended pacifism as a national trait. It also ended authentically Left-wing politics.
++ I saw the trailer for the new Terminator. Arnold is back! Looking a bit ragged but he is in full force.
++The New York Times mimicked the Imperial Post with a long article about how the racism of David Duke has become mainstreamed in Louisiana politics.The Southern Poverty Law Center says Scalise's statements proclaiming ignorance about the group he spoke to was nonsense. The Hotel itself and even a minor league baseball team tried to avoid the venue. David Duke has invited every extreme right party to Louisiana to form an alliance. The British National Party showed up in force. By the way their American headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia.
++But the Washington Monthly asks why are we surprised by the embrace of racism. South Carolina's Governor Haley spoke to the Republican Governor's Association about how corporations aren't avoiding the state because of the confederate flag. Our soon to be jailed Governor Bob McDonnell tried to proclaim a Southern Heritage day. There is a long list of such incidents in the past few years.
++Thom Hartman had a panel on his show discussing the David Duke flap. Hartman ran a clip of Lee Atwater explaining how to encode race-baiting in campaign speak to the point that "cutting taxes" is the easier pitch because southerners know that African-Americans will bear the brunt. One of Jennifer Rubin's new conservative reformers piped up that Scalise's speaking to an extreme right white supremacist conclave is just like Barack Obama knowing Bill Ayres. I guess--sort of.This movement has a lot of mental firepower.
++President Obama keeps slipping detainees out of Gitmo. Even the Hill has noticed that he was repatriated more since the mid-terms than in the previous two years.
++Mahmoud Abbas wants Palestine to be a member of the International Criminal Court so he can press Israel on war crimes. The United States strenuously objects. But remember the United States had refused to join even though the court has made exceptions for our military personnel. So how can we in good conscience block such a move. Well, we are threatening to hold up aid to the Palestinian Authority.
++Palestine lost its bid to be recognized by the Security Council by only 1 vote. They thought they were going to win with 9 or 10 and only gathered 8 as the United States pressured countries to either vote no or abstain.
++The Huffington Post today had an article about the rise of anti-semiticism around the globe. They attribute this to the global media covering the Palestinian situation.
++I think this will become a larger problem in 2015 because the rise of extreme right parties in Europe have a large component of the old fashion WWII anti-semiticism. Palestine is an excuse because these parties are also anti-Muslim immigrants.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Brat Beats Cantor
++Sounds like a bad John Stewart skit. Or a Henry Youngman joke.
++Did Cantor's religion play a role in his defeat? Yes. Next question.
++One of the most striking things about Cantor's defeat is that the entire congressional GOP is now Christian. Take the Wayback Machine--Colin Powell was supposed to be the first African-American President, Liddy Dole, the first woman President and Eric Cantor, the first Jewish Speaker of the House.Remember Jacob Javits, Warren Rudman,and thought people like Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman,Irving Kristol and junior. When you are claiming to be aiming at a goal of being a Big Tent party,it doesn't bode well to omit your Jewish past.
++Eric Cantor was in charge of outreach to recruit Jewish Republicans and to be the go-to guy for Jewish philanthropic organizations. He also was the one who arranged all those Spring congressional tours to Israel.
++Below the radar last night, something else happened. The GOP has been trying to recruit Southern African-Americans to run as Republicans on the grounds that they so dominate Southern politics that this gives African-Americans a rung up in their states. This was particularly true in South Carolina. Last night every African-American Republican, who took the chance at running, lost.
++Throw in the fact that Cantor lost on a single issue--immigration reform--and you are faced with the quite open reality that the 2014 GOP is running on racism--against immigrants, against African Americans through pledges to cut the welfare net and voter suppression, and of course that old stand-by the war against women.
++The question I have is in response to Nancy Pelosi, who said everything has now changed for 2014. How? And what are the Democrats going to do with it? LESSON: ORGANIZATION BEATS MONEY.
++The atmosphere has gotten as ugly as 2010 and the GOP has moved further to the right.
++We should not mourn Eric Cantor's unprecedented loss. He campaigned to block everything President Obama proposed from day one when he met to urge Wall Street not to invest while President Obama was in office. He was the architect of the Policy of No. He killed the Grand Bargain. He killed one budget deal. His voting record was as conservative as Senator Imhof from Oklahoma. He was thought to be a sell-out because he voted for the raise in the debt ceiling. That tells you where the rest of the party is at.
++This morning is all about Cantor and the struggle for power within the House, where plotters met all night when they heard Cantor has been slain.
++At least Jennifer Rubin didn't disappoint. She claims this is no big deal because "reform conservatism", which Cantor was again the go-to guy on will still live on.
++Despite the early morning spin about public opinion polls and positive views on immigration reform, I believe it is dead. What that means is that the Senate bill dies with this Congress and it is unlikely to be revisited until 2016.
++Did Cantor's religion play a role in his defeat? Yes. Next question.
++One of the most striking things about Cantor's defeat is that the entire congressional GOP is now Christian. Take the Wayback Machine--Colin Powell was supposed to be the first African-American President, Liddy Dole, the first woman President and Eric Cantor, the first Jewish Speaker of the House.Remember Jacob Javits, Warren Rudman,and thought people like Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman,Irving Kristol and junior. When you are claiming to be aiming at a goal of being a Big Tent party,it doesn't bode well to omit your Jewish past.
++Eric Cantor was in charge of outreach to recruit Jewish Republicans and to be the go-to guy for Jewish philanthropic organizations. He also was the one who arranged all those Spring congressional tours to Israel.
++Below the radar last night, something else happened. The GOP has been trying to recruit Southern African-Americans to run as Republicans on the grounds that they so dominate Southern politics that this gives African-Americans a rung up in their states. This was particularly true in South Carolina. Last night every African-American Republican, who took the chance at running, lost.
++Throw in the fact that Cantor lost on a single issue--immigration reform--and you are faced with the quite open reality that the 2014 GOP is running on racism--against immigrants, against African Americans through pledges to cut the welfare net and voter suppression, and of course that old stand-by the war against women.
++The question I have is in response to Nancy Pelosi, who said everything has now changed for 2014. How? And what are the Democrats going to do with it? LESSON: ORGANIZATION BEATS MONEY.
++The atmosphere has gotten as ugly as 2010 and the GOP has moved further to the right.
++We should not mourn Eric Cantor's unprecedented loss. He campaigned to block everything President Obama proposed from day one when he met to urge Wall Street not to invest while President Obama was in office. He was the architect of the Policy of No. He killed the Grand Bargain. He killed one budget deal. His voting record was as conservative as Senator Imhof from Oklahoma. He was thought to be a sell-out because he voted for the raise in the debt ceiling. That tells you where the rest of the party is at.
++This morning is all about Cantor and the struggle for power within the House, where plotters met all night when they heard Cantor has been slain.
++At least Jennifer Rubin didn't disappoint. She claims this is no big deal because "reform conservatism", which Cantor was again the go-to guy on will still live on.
++Despite the early morning spin about public opinion polls and positive views on immigration reform, I believe it is dead. What that means is that the Senate bill dies with this Congress and it is unlikely to be revisited until 2016.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
The Imperial Post Sad About Obama's Retreats
++The Washington Post isn't happy with President Obama's plans for Afghanistan. They even commissioned two former ambassadors to write an op-ed to lament the global perception of weakness our withdrawal will cause. The Post laments President Obama ending the war in Iraq,not sending troops to Libya or Syria and now ending the war in Afghanistan.They said he was just doing this so he can be seen in history as ending two wars.
++Just a factual note. The withdrawal plans for Afghanistan have been in development for 8 years. The US military commanders finally believe there is a definitive plan that provides real dates.
++Jennifer Rubin writs today that Hillary Clinton will have to repudiate Obama's foreign policy to show she is tough.
++John McCain said that just because a politician declares a war is over that doesn't mean it is. But you do have to try and end wars.
++The President delivered his West Point address today and spoke about coming to the end of a "long season of war". He went at length to say that military intervention should not be the first option of choice in policy-making. He said because of the cost of war the threshold for using force has to be higher than all the other options. I found it interesting that the three presidents he quoted were FDR, JFK and Eisenhower. Vietnam-era presidents and beyond didn't make the cut.
++The West Point speech was long on specifics, which I will deal with later.
++Just a factual note. The withdrawal plans for Afghanistan have been in development for 8 years. The US military commanders finally believe there is a definitive plan that provides real dates.
++Jennifer Rubin writs today that Hillary Clinton will have to repudiate Obama's foreign policy to show she is tough.
++John McCain said that just because a politician declares a war is over that doesn't mean it is. But you do have to try and end wars.
++The President delivered his West Point address today and spoke about coming to the end of a "long season of war". He went at length to say that military intervention should not be the first option of choice in policy-making. He said because of the cost of war the threshold for using force has to be higher than all the other options. I found it interesting that the three presidents he quoted were FDR, JFK and Eisenhower. Vietnam-era presidents and beyond didn't make the cut.
++The West Point speech was long on specifics, which I will deal with later.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
What's Up With The Resistance to the Iran Deal
++I have a well-documented history of involvement in activities protesting Iran's history of human rights violations and the nature of their political system. So I should be one against any deal with Iran over its nuclear program. But the current resistance in the United States to the interim agreement is flat out nuts.
++Jennifer Rubin writing today in the Washington Post writes about Hollande's skepticism about the prospects of a final deal and Eli Wiesel taking an ad out in the New York Times urging the "total dismantling of Iran's nuclear infrastructure" and strengthening the economic sanctions.
++Now Rubin opens her piece saying that Iran is not required to account for illegal weapons or take irreversible steps to disable them. What does that mean? What illegal weapons? This is not the case like Syria of a stockpile of chemical weapons.
++Andrew Sullivan caught the "AIPAC" bill sponsored by Charles Schumer and Mark Kirk that would rule out any deal that allows Iran to enrich any uranium at all. As Sullivan rightly points out, that would mean there would be no deal at all.
++But the bill is more proactive than that. It says that if Israel decides it is in their own national interest to attack Iran, the United States will stand with Israel and authorize the use of military force; diplomatic,military and economic aid to Israel in defense of its territory, people and existence.
++Sullivan is also right that international law does not condone attacking another country just because you don't like their programs. He is also right that this allows Bibi Netanyahu to dictate American policy and its actions.
++Remember President Obama has given Israel the latest "bunker buster" bombs and anti-missile technology. In addition, the Obama Administration gave Israel a ten-year military assistance deal.
++Luckily,neither the House or the Senate were competent enough to pass additional sanctions. Additional sanctions would have split the large coalition insisting on Iran diminishing their nuclear capability. So far,there is China, Russia,and the EU as well as Canada and the U.K. This would fall apart and there would be no deal.
++The Interim deal calls for aggressive inspection,the watering down of highest enriched uranium and actually sets their program back months.
++There is legitimate skepticism about the prospects of a final deal. The Rowhani government has a limited honeymoon period or it will face the fate of the Khatami government's overtures to the West.
++But why not give diplomacy a chance? We are talking about a government with no nuclear weapons as of yet and we might convince them not to pursue this option.
++If you are against any such deal, then please be overt in your support of a war and how you are going to pay for it? And tell me what rationale you will use. We noticed that President Obama could not get Congress to support a strike on Syria's chemical weapons so why does anyone expect the response to be any different for a more difficult target? And AIPAC lobbied like hell for the Syrian strike. There were 250 lobbyists on the House floor and they couldn't pull it off.
++The man who said he would allow Bibi Netanyahu dictate American Middle East policy lost the last election. You can see him on the new Netflix documentary "Mitt".
++As I have made plain over the years,my fears are for another Fukushima in the Persian Gulf, not nuclear weapons.
++What would happen if our allies insisted that Israel finally open up about their nuclear weapons and allow United Nations inspections of their capability?
++Jennifer Rubin writing today in the Washington Post writes about Hollande's skepticism about the prospects of a final deal and Eli Wiesel taking an ad out in the New York Times urging the "total dismantling of Iran's nuclear infrastructure" and strengthening the economic sanctions.
++Now Rubin opens her piece saying that Iran is not required to account for illegal weapons or take irreversible steps to disable them. What does that mean? What illegal weapons? This is not the case like Syria of a stockpile of chemical weapons.
++Andrew Sullivan caught the "AIPAC" bill sponsored by Charles Schumer and Mark Kirk that would rule out any deal that allows Iran to enrich any uranium at all. As Sullivan rightly points out, that would mean there would be no deal at all.
++But the bill is more proactive than that. It says that if Israel decides it is in their own national interest to attack Iran, the United States will stand with Israel and authorize the use of military force; diplomatic,military and economic aid to Israel in defense of its territory, people and existence.
++Sullivan is also right that international law does not condone attacking another country just because you don't like their programs. He is also right that this allows Bibi Netanyahu to dictate American policy and its actions.
++Remember President Obama has given Israel the latest "bunker buster" bombs and anti-missile technology. In addition, the Obama Administration gave Israel a ten-year military assistance deal.
++Luckily,neither the House or the Senate were competent enough to pass additional sanctions. Additional sanctions would have split the large coalition insisting on Iran diminishing their nuclear capability. So far,there is China, Russia,and the EU as well as Canada and the U.K. This would fall apart and there would be no deal.
++The Interim deal calls for aggressive inspection,the watering down of highest enriched uranium and actually sets their program back months.
++There is legitimate skepticism about the prospects of a final deal. The Rowhani government has a limited honeymoon period or it will face the fate of the Khatami government's overtures to the West.
++But why not give diplomacy a chance? We are talking about a government with no nuclear weapons as of yet and we might convince them not to pursue this option.
++If you are against any such deal, then please be overt in your support of a war and how you are going to pay for it? And tell me what rationale you will use. We noticed that President Obama could not get Congress to support a strike on Syria's chemical weapons so why does anyone expect the response to be any different for a more difficult target? And AIPAC lobbied like hell for the Syrian strike. There were 250 lobbyists on the House floor and they couldn't pull it off.
++The man who said he would allow Bibi Netanyahu dictate American Middle East policy lost the last election. You can see him on the new Netflix documentary "Mitt".
++As I have made plain over the years,my fears are for another Fukushima in the Persian Gulf, not nuclear weapons.
++What would happen if our allies insisted that Israel finally open up about their nuclear weapons and allow United Nations inspections of their capability?
Monday, May 23, 2011
Morning Reflections On The Bibi-Obama Row
Junior Neo-Con, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin wasted no time in taking out against President Obama's AIPAC speech. In a lengthy rebuttal to the President filed shortly after his speech, she criticized him for not referring to the issue of the right of the return, the necessity of a military presence in the Jordan Valley (a long-held belief by Bibi) and not talking about the military option against Iran. She accused the President of accepting many of the Palestinians' assumptions about the situation in Israel.
Philip Weiss, who writes about Israel from a progressive perspective, said "It was a histroic speech, maybe the most remarkable speech he has ever given."
Josh Marshall, writing for Talking Points Memo,was effusive in his praise of President Obama's speech. Marshall writes," On its present course, Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, a status in which it cannot indefinitely or even perhaps long survive." For Marshall, "The occupation itself represents the true existential threat to Israel."
Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com views President Obama as the superb imperial manager without strong beliefs but thinks people must defend him for his ever slight deviation from orthodoxy on the peace negotiations. Greenwald argues that this flap opens the door for more intense debate and discussion on Israel and the Middle East. And he sees this as a way to change American attitudes on the issue and peal back the Washington consensus built up over years of successful lobbying by the American Jewish community.
Writing to Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Dish on May 21, an Israeli citizen thanks Sullivan for his commentary on the recent Bibi-Obama flap saying:
"You should know that many Israelis actually do understand that we should go back to '67 border, but the environment here is so toxic. -Not unlike what the far right has done in America-that you can't say anything out loud or you'll be denounced as almost anti-semitic. What's going on here is awful. Bibi is taking us straight to hell. It's amazing to think that if Olmert were still in charge, he would have to cut a deal with Obama a year ago. What a waste to finally have an American President who is so sincere, serious and decent, at a time wyhen there's no leader, no vision and no hope in Israel."
Writing in the Daily Dish, Peter Beinart muses on "Netanyahu's Bizarre Response to Obama's Palestinian Proposal". Beinart sees Obama as throwing Bibi a lifeline to stave off the September General Assembly vote at the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state along Israel's 1967 borders. Obama's parameters for these new peace talks would help de-rail this eventuality. I don't know whether Beinart's analysis is correct that if the Resolution passes the General Assembly, according to international law Israel would be occupying a sovereign country. What he envisions then is a calvacade of lawsuits, divestment campaigns and cancelled business deals. Israel would be more and more beseiged as a result. That I agree with him on. For this reason, Bibi's outright and public rejection of Obama shows no real grasp of the real world, where America is no longer the single superpower capable of dictating results.
Beinart also notes that Bibi's response was bizarre when he said that the 1967 borders were indefensible. Clinton proposed a more dramatic solution in late 2000 as did Ehud Olmert in 2008 when both endorsed a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
Michael Tomasky, also writing in the Daily Beast in a piece entitled "Bibi's White House Tantrum" said that Bibi this time miscalculated President Obama's power, playing the scene as if it were the first time they met and AIPAC and others ganged up on Obama for his initial peace initiatives. Seeing President Obama much stronger and with serious foreign policy credentials,he views Bibi's White Huse performance as verging on petulence.
The Economist noted that the Palestinians were holding off the reapprochment between Fatah and Hamas until after President Obama's speech. While Palestinian spokespeople were generally pleased with the trhust of President Obama's parameters, they said they needed to hear from Bibi whether Israel was in fact serious. They noted that Hamas was currently having an internal debate between their exiled leadership which favors negotiation with Israel and their domestic leaders who do not.The Economist noted that the European community is getting a little tired of two decades of American-led talks leading nowhere. Which to me signals Europe simply allowing the UN General Assembly vote happening.
One point that President Obama alluded to in his remarks about the urgency to restart the peace talks was the changes brought about by the Arab Spring. A few commentators note that now that the Palestinians are resorting to non-violent tactics they have the Israelis flummoxed. President Abbas on May 15th blessed a campaign of civil resistance by Palestinian refugees aimed at encouraging the return of Palestinian refugees by breaching Israel's armistice lines.
In short, the Arab Spring has arrived at Israel's footsteps. When Muburak was overthrown, the Israeli national security elite annouced that the world had been turned upside down and that things would never be the same. I think that's true and it also means that the pressures on Israel will become more complex and sophisticated and can not be solved by its leader trying to browbeat the President of the only country that supports them.
This past week's events took place after more than a year of Israel isolating itself. You will recall the gratuitous insults by the Foreign Minister to the Turkish Ambassador and the over-reaction to the Gaza Flotilla, which basically ended Israel's closest military and intelligence relationship with a Middle Eastern state. The arrest on the high seas of people like world famous author Henning Menkell only alienated that part of the European public still sympathetic to Israel. Basically, people like Benard Henri-Levy had to plead with his fellow Frenchmen and Europeans to tolerate Israel's actions. Things were not helped by the collapse of the settlement moratorum and the gratuitous insults to American envoy George Mitchell.
At the begining of the Obama Administration, the United States by quiet diplomacy and shuttle diplomacy had choreographed a deal among 22 Arab countries to simultaneously recognize Israel if its government went back to negotiating with the Palestinian Authority and suspended any further settlements. It didn't and the grand bargain failed. In the ensuing months,Israeli actions, which appeared more maladroit than malicious, further alienated the region and the world community.
Clearly, the Israelis need to manage their foreign policy better than they are currently doing. By apparently betting on the American Right to save their bacon, this only will alienate the larger American public who would like to support them. With the seige that lies ahead, Israel is going to need every friend it can get. That's why the behavior of Bibi Netanyahu was inexplicable to old friends of Israel and totally self-destructive. The last thing Israel needs to do is isolate itself further and by its own choice.
Philip Weiss, who writes about Israel from a progressive perspective, said "It was a histroic speech, maybe the most remarkable speech he has ever given."
Josh Marshall, writing for Talking Points Memo,was effusive in his praise of President Obama's speech. Marshall writes," On its present course, Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, a status in which it cannot indefinitely or even perhaps long survive." For Marshall, "The occupation itself represents the true existential threat to Israel."
Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com views President Obama as the superb imperial manager without strong beliefs but thinks people must defend him for his ever slight deviation from orthodoxy on the peace negotiations. Greenwald argues that this flap opens the door for more intense debate and discussion on Israel and the Middle East. And he sees this as a way to change American attitudes on the issue and peal back the Washington consensus built up over years of successful lobbying by the American Jewish community.
Writing to Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Dish on May 21, an Israeli citizen thanks Sullivan for his commentary on the recent Bibi-Obama flap saying:
"You should know that many Israelis actually do understand that we should go back to '67 border, but the environment here is so toxic. -Not unlike what the far right has done in America-that you can't say anything out loud or you'll be denounced as almost anti-semitic. What's going on here is awful. Bibi is taking us straight to hell. It's amazing to think that if Olmert were still in charge, he would have to cut a deal with Obama a year ago. What a waste to finally have an American President who is so sincere, serious and decent, at a time wyhen there's no leader, no vision and no hope in Israel."
Writing in the Daily Dish, Peter Beinart muses on "Netanyahu's Bizarre Response to Obama's Palestinian Proposal". Beinart sees Obama as throwing Bibi a lifeline to stave off the September General Assembly vote at the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state along Israel's 1967 borders. Obama's parameters for these new peace talks would help de-rail this eventuality. I don't know whether Beinart's analysis is correct that if the Resolution passes the General Assembly, according to international law Israel would be occupying a sovereign country. What he envisions then is a calvacade of lawsuits, divestment campaigns and cancelled business deals. Israel would be more and more beseiged as a result. That I agree with him on. For this reason, Bibi's outright and public rejection of Obama shows no real grasp of the real world, where America is no longer the single superpower capable of dictating results.
Beinart also notes that Bibi's response was bizarre when he said that the 1967 borders were indefensible. Clinton proposed a more dramatic solution in late 2000 as did Ehud Olmert in 2008 when both endorsed a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.
Michael Tomasky, also writing in the Daily Beast in a piece entitled "Bibi's White House Tantrum" said that Bibi this time miscalculated President Obama's power, playing the scene as if it were the first time they met and AIPAC and others ganged up on Obama for his initial peace initiatives. Seeing President Obama much stronger and with serious foreign policy credentials,he views Bibi's White Huse performance as verging on petulence.
The Economist noted that the Palestinians were holding off the reapprochment between Fatah and Hamas until after President Obama's speech. While Palestinian spokespeople were generally pleased with the trhust of President Obama's parameters, they said they needed to hear from Bibi whether Israel was in fact serious. They noted that Hamas was currently having an internal debate between their exiled leadership which favors negotiation with Israel and their domestic leaders who do not.The Economist noted that the European community is getting a little tired of two decades of American-led talks leading nowhere. Which to me signals Europe simply allowing the UN General Assembly vote happening.
One point that President Obama alluded to in his remarks about the urgency to restart the peace talks was the changes brought about by the Arab Spring. A few commentators note that now that the Palestinians are resorting to non-violent tactics they have the Israelis flummoxed. President Abbas on May 15th blessed a campaign of civil resistance by Palestinian refugees aimed at encouraging the return of Palestinian refugees by breaching Israel's armistice lines.
In short, the Arab Spring has arrived at Israel's footsteps. When Muburak was overthrown, the Israeli national security elite annouced that the world had been turned upside down and that things would never be the same. I think that's true and it also means that the pressures on Israel will become more complex and sophisticated and can not be solved by its leader trying to browbeat the President of the only country that supports them.
This past week's events took place after more than a year of Israel isolating itself. You will recall the gratuitous insults by the Foreign Minister to the Turkish Ambassador and the over-reaction to the Gaza Flotilla, which basically ended Israel's closest military and intelligence relationship with a Middle Eastern state. The arrest on the high seas of people like world famous author Henning Menkell only alienated that part of the European public still sympathetic to Israel. Basically, people like Benard Henri-Levy had to plead with his fellow Frenchmen and Europeans to tolerate Israel's actions. Things were not helped by the collapse of the settlement moratorum and the gratuitous insults to American envoy George Mitchell.
At the begining of the Obama Administration, the United States by quiet diplomacy and shuttle diplomacy had choreographed a deal among 22 Arab countries to simultaneously recognize Israel if its government went back to negotiating with the Palestinian Authority and suspended any further settlements. It didn't and the grand bargain failed. In the ensuing months,Israeli actions, which appeared more maladroit than malicious, further alienated the region and the world community.
Clearly, the Israelis need to manage their foreign policy better than they are currently doing. By apparently betting on the American Right to save their bacon, this only will alienate the larger American public who would like to support them. With the seige that lies ahead, Israel is going to need every friend it can get. That's why the behavior of Bibi Netanyahu was inexplicable to old friends of Israel and totally self-destructive. The last thing Israel needs to do is isolate itself further and by its own choice.
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