Two Tragedies: Our Nation's Loss

The murderous attacks in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Lafayette, Louisiana this month were horrifying and another reminder that our nation must continue to be on guard against domestic and foreign foes in these troubled times, and regarding the Chattanooga attacks in which several servicemen were killed, just one more reason to become nationally inward without being out-and-out isolationist, including pretty much folding up the international welcome mat that the feckless Congress's policies have promulgated.  This political party (P.O.C.) extends our condolences and sympathy to all of the families of the victims, including the injured, in both states, and pray for the very quick recovery of the injured. Yet, another loss for a nation weary of war, but inevitably prepared to defend and to be "Always Faithful," the Marine Corps' motto.

[Revised on 8/13/15.]

Unwholesome

Just recently, we accidentally turned onto a FOX-TV program about the early-day apprenticeships of former vice-president, Dick Cheney, former secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld and economist Arthur Laffer, during the presidency of Gerald Ford.  It was disgusting seeing these notorious, criminal and unprosecuted ex-politicians, Cheney and Rumsfeld, playing the role of big shots as they began their ascent to becoming big-time politicians and being architects, in the regime of Bush II, of the most disastrous foreign policy in American history.  Of course, the extremist rightist station, FOX, presented these Neanderthals as politicians to be respected and fawned over, even knowing that these two influential members of the former regime are largely responsible for much of  the geopolitical mess that the United States is mired in, today, not that the present rule of Obama is any better, nor has any real intent of being anything other than a replica of the regime that they replaced.

[First posted on Commoner on 12/28/14; revised on 12/29/14.]