++Iran claims they will not send the enriched uranium to Russia and they claim that the issue of what to do with the unused centrifuges hasn't been solved.
++Senator Bob Menendez said the deal must be reviewed and approved by the Senate. He will put forward his legislation of additional sanctions on April 17. Menendez claims he will not allow Iran to become a threshold nuclear state.
++Louie Gohmert says we should bomb Iran now.
++The DailyKos has a piece today on the Regime Change in Iran Act of 2015 and the insanity of recent moves in Congress.
++I totally missed the budget amendment that passed 100 to 0 in the Senate that called for the reimposition of sanctions if Iran violated the interim deal or the upcoming deal.
++John McCain yesterday said that the only way you treat Obama is bully him. (Which is exactly the opposite of what has been successful.) he said that the Israelis should do what the Saudis did. The Saudis turned down the position on the Security Council out of protest over Obama's Syria policy and forced Obama to visit to make amends. McCain claims that Bibi should just bomb Iran and Obama would cave.
Showing posts with label McCain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label McCain. Show all posts
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
John McCain Endorses Lindsey Graham for President
++John McCain really did endorse Lindsey Graham for the Republican presidential nomination.
++Graham advocated this past weekend sending 20,000 troops to Iraq.
++Scott Walker wanted 20,000 troops for Syria.
++Former Secretary of Defense Gates said there is no way you can defeat ISIS but some troops may be necessary.
++Former General Wesley Clark says that the United States must send arms to the Ukraine to blunt the Russian advance and shore up the negotiating position of NATO.
++Alan Dershowitz called President Obama a "Neville Chamberlain" on Iran.
++The new cry is that Iran has ICBMs that can send a nuclear weapon to the United States. Remember Tony Blair and his hour to London is destroyed speech against Saddam Hussein?
++Rudy Guiliani says that Bibi must address Congress because Bibi knows what a threat Iran is.
++Pakistan really did test a stealth nuclear missile but no one cares.
++James Baker said that the whole Bibi speech thing was a serious breach of protocol and should raise concerns among Israelis about Bibi's ability to manage relations with his number 1 ally.
++Senator Durbin said basically the same thing.
++Marc "I heart Torture" Thiessen says that "Obama"'s attacks against Bibi are misfiring.
++Josh Marshall reports that Bibi is taken a slight lead now in the polls because of the recent fighting on Israel's northern border.
++Bret Stephans in today's Wall Street Journal has an op-ed on what Bibi should say in his speech.
++Newly elected Senator Thom Tillis says he is against mandatory hand-washing for restaurant employees. Because Big Gu'mint.
++Graham advocated this past weekend sending 20,000 troops to Iraq.
++Scott Walker wanted 20,000 troops for Syria.
++Former Secretary of Defense Gates said there is no way you can defeat ISIS but some troops may be necessary.
++Former General Wesley Clark says that the United States must send arms to the Ukraine to blunt the Russian advance and shore up the negotiating position of NATO.
++Alan Dershowitz called President Obama a "Neville Chamberlain" on Iran.
++The new cry is that Iran has ICBMs that can send a nuclear weapon to the United States. Remember Tony Blair and his hour to London is destroyed speech against Saddam Hussein?
++Rudy Guiliani says that Bibi must address Congress because Bibi knows what a threat Iran is.
++Pakistan really did test a stealth nuclear missile but no one cares.
++James Baker said that the whole Bibi speech thing was a serious breach of protocol and should raise concerns among Israelis about Bibi's ability to manage relations with his number 1 ally.
++Senator Durbin said basically the same thing.
++Marc "I heart Torture" Thiessen says that "Obama"'s attacks against Bibi are misfiring.
++Josh Marshall reports that Bibi is taken a slight lead now in the polls because of the recent fighting on Israel's northern border.
++Bret Stephans in today's Wall Street Journal has an op-ed on what Bibi should say in his speech.
++Newly elected Senator Thom Tillis says he is against mandatory hand-washing for restaurant employees. Because Big Gu'mint.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
War Drums along the Potomac
++Saudi King Abdullah says the terrorists will hit Europe this month and America next month. As Steve Benen notes that the Saudis are one of the reasons we are faced with ISIS today. Sultan Bandar, removed from his position as counter-terrorism chief in Saudi Arabia,was responsible for shipping arms to ISIS in the Saudi attempt to overthrow Assad.
++Prime Minister Cameron of the UK has announced the UK is canceling the passports of those who went to Syria to join the jihad. The UK also announced that the threat level in the country was "High".
++Homeland Security has announced they have not seen any evidence of any immediate threat to the United States by ISIS.
++Conservatives criticize the FBI's recent Terrorism report because it does not list Islamic terrorism as a major current threat to the United States.
++John Kerry has called for a global coalition against ISIS.
++While he may not have a strategy,President Obama has persuaded Australia to ship arms to Iraq. Germany, Australia and France assisted yesterday's humanitarian relief mission to airdrop supplies to the Turkmen population in Iraq surrounded by ISIS.
++Bill Richardson popped up on the Sunday News Shows to support President Obama taking his time to create a deliberate strategy to deal with ISIS. John McCain and his sidekick Lindsey Graham wrote in the New York Times that President Obama should not dawdle any longer in dealing with this threat.
++The New York Daily News printed an editorial entitled "The Pundits and the Presidency", which went after the punditry for chastising the President constantly over foreign policy while making impossible recommendations that could never see the light of day,especially with this Congress. It suggests that the actual threats in the world have gotten less and the actual direct national interests--either in Gaza,Syria or the Ukraine--are not of sufficient importance to get hysterical about. They also pointed out that their our limitations of America's power and that managing the world or our own foreign policy is a more deliberate exercise than pundits admit.
++The overseas media and the New York Times today focused on ISIS' use of the social media to horrify the West and recruit more jihadists who view themselves as marginalized in Western societies.
++The State Department has opened a social media offensive against ISIS using twitter and social media to counter their image.
++When you dig down into the issue of who and what is to counter ISIS, you get some interesting questions to ask. Which Kurds are you arming? The PKK has been one of the most successful forces in both Syria and Iraq fighting ISIS. Yet,they are on our terrorist list. If you don't want boots on the ground--at least no more than the 1,000 in Iraq and the special forces in Syria, do you ally yourself with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which is on the ground both in Iraq and Syria? But if you do, then do you also support Assad fighting ISIS since he has killed over 150,000 of his countrymen and caused the exodus of 3 million Syrians to neighboring countries of Turkey,Lebanon and Jordan? If you are going to bomb, why don't the Saudis and Jordanians bomb with you?
++Those are some of the questions that President Obama has to answer to develop a strategy against ISIS. There is a reason President Obama is taking his time. Then if you degrade ISIS to an ineffectual force,what political entity takes its place in Syria? The answer may take years to develop and determine.
++Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has declared the future of Russia lies in the Arctic. Even so, he would like to make Eastern Ukraine and state within Russia. He ominously refer to it as New Russia. This goes on while he invaded Ukraine in the past two days after the Ukrainian military had surrounded the pro-separatists in Donetsk.
++Carnival Cruz said that President Obama is a"pussycat" compared to that "bear" Putin. Fox News again this week declared they would like to see Putin run the United States because he gets things done.
++President Obama is off to Europe to discuss further sanctions on Russia and to visit the Baltic states. NATO has announced it was forming a rapid-deploymemt force for Ukrainian types of situations. Europe now is debating whether to answer the Ukraine's request for military assistance. Already congress critters are becoming their chorus in the United States.
++Harold Koh, the former Counsel for the State Department, has argued that President Obama needs a Security Council Resolution if he is to bomb ISIS positions in Syria. Rachel Maddow has argued that he needs at least an authorization under the War Powers Act to continue his bombing in Iraq. President Obama has argued that his bombings to save the Turkmens and others under humanitarian grounds and to preserve "national interests" like protecting American personnel in Erbil and Baghdad are covered under his rights as Commander-in-Chief. Watch this space as this legal debate continues, which it will through the fall.
++Coming up this fall, President Obama will personally chair a United Nations Security Council Meeting.
++Prime Minister Cameron of the UK has announced the UK is canceling the passports of those who went to Syria to join the jihad. The UK also announced that the threat level in the country was "High".
++Homeland Security has announced they have not seen any evidence of any immediate threat to the United States by ISIS.
++Conservatives criticize the FBI's recent Terrorism report because it does not list Islamic terrorism as a major current threat to the United States.
++John Kerry has called for a global coalition against ISIS.
++While he may not have a strategy,President Obama has persuaded Australia to ship arms to Iraq. Germany, Australia and France assisted yesterday's humanitarian relief mission to airdrop supplies to the Turkmen population in Iraq surrounded by ISIS.
++Bill Richardson popped up on the Sunday News Shows to support President Obama taking his time to create a deliberate strategy to deal with ISIS. John McCain and his sidekick Lindsey Graham wrote in the New York Times that President Obama should not dawdle any longer in dealing with this threat.
++The New York Daily News printed an editorial entitled "The Pundits and the Presidency", which went after the punditry for chastising the President constantly over foreign policy while making impossible recommendations that could never see the light of day,especially with this Congress. It suggests that the actual threats in the world have gotten less and the actual direct national interests--either in Gaza,Syria or the Ukraine--are not of sufficient importance to get hysterical about. They also pointed out that their our limitations of America's power and that managing the world or our own foreign policy is a more deliberate exercise than pundits admit.
++The overseas media and the New York Times today focused on ISIS' use of the social media to horrify the West and recruit more jihadists who view themselves as marginalized in Western societies.
++The State Department has opened a social media offensive against ISIS using twitter and social media to counter their image.
++When you dig down into the issue of who and what is to counter ISIS, you get some interesting questions to ask. Which Kurds are you arming? The PKK has been one of the most successful forces in both Syria and Iraq fighting ISIS. Yet,they are on our terrorist list. If you don't want boots on the ground--at least no more than the 1,000 in Iraq and the special forces in Syria, do you ally yourself with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which is on the ground both in Iraq and Syria? But if you do, then do you also support Assad fighting ISIS since he has killed over 150,000 of his countrymen and caused the exodus of 3 million Syrians to neighboring countries of Turkey,Lebanon and Jordan? If you are going to bomb, why don't the Saudis and Jordanians bomb with you?
++Those are some of the questions that President Obama has to answer to develop a strategy against ISIS. There is a reason President Obama is taking his time. Then if you degrade ISIS to an ineffectual force,what political entity takes its place in Syria? The answer may take years to develop and determine.
++Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has declared the future of Russia lies in the Arctic. Even so, he would like to make Eastern Ukraine and state within Russia. He ominously refer to it as New Russia. This goes on while he invaded Ukraine in the past two days after the Ukrainian military had surrounded the pro-separatists in Donetsk.
++Carnival Cruz said that President Obama is a"pussycat" compared to that "bear" Putin. Fox News again this week declared they would like to see Putin run the United States because he gets things done.
++President Obama is off to Europe to discuss further sanctions on Russia and to visit the Baltic states. NATO has announced it was forming a rapid-deploymemt force for Ukrainian types of situations. Europe now is debating whether to answer the Ukraine's request for military assistance. Already congress critters are becoming their chorus in the United States.
++Harold Koh, the former Counsel for the State Department, has argued that President Obama needs a Security Council Resolution if he is to bomb ISIS positions in Syria. Rachel Maddow has argued that he needs at least an authorization under the War Powers Act to continue his bombing in Iraq. President Obama has argued that his bombings to save the Turkmens and others under humanitarian grounds and to preserve "national interests" like protecting American personnel in Erbil and Baghdad are covered under his rights as Commander-in-Chief. Watch this space as this legal debate continues, which it will through the fall.
++Coming up this fall, President Obama will personally chair a United Nations Security Council Meeting.
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