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on 09/24/2006 at 01:00 AM
This is more UN Bullshit! Diplomatic immunity gives these jerks an excuse to thumb their noses....had the UN not been here to begin with this a’hole would be in jail!
Perhaps the day is coming when AMERICANS will turn on their own and eliminate this cancer, perhaps we are closer to a civil war than Iraq? It may take another 9-11 but I grant ,you know the time has come when Americans start burning MSM outlets such as the NYT’s, the Yales and Harvards. Tossing out the do nothing in the way Congressman and Senators ....until then we live and learn
I’ve got problems with anti-American Americans. Damned traitors to this country. It is the right/responsibility to question the government, but when we’re at war you’ve got to watch what you say or do lest it give aid and comfort to our enemies.
Amen, Kirk. The Quisling Party is what it is (even if most of those idiots never heard of Quisling), and it must be taken at the value it presents.
As for Maduro, he seems to be copying his master’s approach of banging on his high chair in hopes of attracting the attention of the grownups. Unfortunately, however, there will likely be no shortage of headline-hungry shysters who will swarm to him like flies to carrion.
As for banana republics?
We have had no end of trouble with them since 1910, when Diaz was chased out of power in Mexico. An unstable succession of leaders has since followed, some of them naked tyrants, such as Huerta, whom Woodrow Wilson detested and did his best to unseat, idealist that he was.
Meanwhile, the Kaiser and the Japanese both had fingers in the Mexican pie, seeing it as the “soft underbelly” of the US (which it is). Imperial Germany and Imperial Japan both assiduously courted support in Mexico, even after World War I broke out and they took opposing sides. There were continual scares about clandestine Japanese troops massing throughout Central America, bent on invasion, and there were scares about IJN units exercising (or basing themselves) in the Bay of California. These stories carried such credibility that American troops were massed on the border as never before (or since).
Huerta’s government openly entertained Japanese military missions with an eye toward alliance. Germans attempted to run shipments of arms to Huerta, thus provoking the Veracruz Incident and the arrival of the Marines. The trouble festered until 1917, when it climaxed in the notorious “Zimmermann telegram,” the Kaiser’s open proposal of alliance with Mexico. This proved the single largest factor influencing public opinion toward involvement in World War I.
As if that were not enough, however, Carranza had unseated Huerta and chased him into exile, while Pancho Villa, who tried to unseat them both, was buzzing around with his bandidos on the sidelines, raiding across the border into New Mexico when Woodrow Wilson refused to help him. This precipitated the notorious (and half-hearted) Pershing expedition, which failed to capture Villa and did little more than flammify the “Baja Los Gringos” sentiment throughout Latin America. Throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s, we were forced to fight a series of “banana wars” in such places as Haiti and Nicaragua (and FDR was forced to observe that while Somoza of Nicaragua was an SOB, he was our SOB).
The effort of fighting World War II did much to promote good feeling throughout this hemisphere--with the salient exception of Argentina, where Axis infiltration and sentiment was strong. Colonel Juan Peron, for example, believed to the end that Nazi Germany would win, and Mussolini had been his model as a politician. Thanks to such sentiment, Argentina maintained a not-so-neutral neutrality up until 1945, when it was faced with the choice of siding with the Allies or being ostracized postwar, like Franco’s Spain. Since Argentina depended on exports for prosperity, it had to come in, and so it did, but a grudge remained.
Then came Juan Peron’s drive to power in the late 1940s. Ambassador Braden did all he could (and some said he did far too much) to keep Peron out of power in Argentina. But Peron took power anyway, and spent most of the rest of his career in thumbing his nose at the “Yanquis” (while wrecking the Argentinian economy in the meantime). This was the example that led directly to Castro and his playboy pistoleros (such as Che Guevera), and his wife’s technique of mob manipulation serves as an example for the Dhimmicrats to this day (witness Shrillary!).
Had Castro been properly dealt with before 1959 (and there were plenty of warnings), we would have been spared much trouble. But they went to sleep at Foggy Bottom, and Castro took power, while becoming the darling of the loony left of that day and time. The Bay of Pigs debacle, after the example of the Pershing expedition, simply made the cigar-chomping sod into a hero throughout Latin America. Had the expedition succeeded, things would have been otherwise.
Castro’s image among our domestic political castrati slipped a little when he buddied up to Khrushchev and celebrated his political puberty with the Cuban missile crisis, but he was allowed the role of Maximum Leader for life in the deal that ended that crisis. This was THE mistake of the century in Latin American relations. For
quarantine could not keep Castro from becoming an example that inspired such wannabee comrades as the Sandinistas and Grenadines, in President Reagan’s day--and quarantine did not keep him from sending Cuban soldiers into African adventures, as he had to do something to justify the money the Soviets were squandering on him, economic black hole that he was.After the Soviet Union collapsed (and treaties with them became irrelevant), Castro should have been brought down on the spot. Had he been, it would be most unlikely that we would have to hold our noses and deal with such clowns as Hugo Chavez and Maduro today. But he is still there, while some of us fondle ourselves with delusions of our own nobility, and his imitators continue to proliferate.
Teddy Roosevelt was right. But it is not enough to merely speak softly and carry the big stick. It must be used when appropriate, and not by halves. A swing and a miss does not work, and invariably does more harm than good. If you are going to do it, then by God, do it, and don’t piddle around about it! Moderation in war is imbecility.
Peiper the German expression you are after is schadenfreude as the dictonary explains it “A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.” I think the explanation is primarily because up to WW1 Britain was the world power and we did what we wanted. Now the US has that role and it makes many Brits envious. Sometimes the US (in my opinion) acts before thinking things through. Also thay have in the past propped up some pretty unsavoury regimes (as Tannenberg notes above) but right now I think the US has got it absolutely right on the war on terror. This is a fight to the death and I am afraid Europe has not got what it takes. When Blair goes I doubt you will see the same level of support.
As for Maduro I thought I read somewhere he was a former terrorist? Well I hope they did rough him up a bit, maybe he will think twice before he tries to enter the US in future!
Tann it’s great to have you back!
Many thanks, LyndonB. I regret having been away for so long. But now that I’ve tied up some important work and have a little free time for a change, I can get back to blogging.
Hope everyone here has been doing well.
In any dispute between Satan and the TSA, side with Satan. I don’t know what happened between the (in)security guards and Mr. Maduro, but if past actions are any indication, TSA personnel demonstrated once again the truth of the adage, power without responsibility corrupts.
Irresponsible behavior of any kind fosters contempt in others.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/blitz.htm thats “serious trouble” peiper,not a load of windbags,ken liveingstones and 99.9 of the press they get,and like what LyndonB said “When Blair goes i doubt you will see the same level of support unlike the support i give Chelsea” apologizing? you must be drinking in the wrong pub mate.back to you Ditzy Chicks, letting some cheap suited spanish speaking asshole take the piss, why cant you lock him up for ever you evil yanks,
before red ken invites him to London 
09/24/2006 at 02:35 PM
