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Too Many Wars - Too Many Enemies
by Pat Buchanan  
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Congressmen Refuse To Applaud
Trump For Record Low Ethnic Unemployment tSxNNU8F78dFUWek21PFcSEeOdITyzw4QjGqs9f8NPG-4iQqHCHapM7vQ3gWOVYyddFHA_127uxTKGI804dZp5p7735EeSgKlmzdIlTb_93oCJQAv106p3sTfRR6qQI5csRlf6HrzYH_9CVukJ9L=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?width=450
{ rickwells.us } ~ It was humorous to watch the members of  the racist Congressional Black Caucus, all Democrats... as they exposed themselves as the anti-American hypocrites they are, manipulating members of their own race for political advantage and betraying them where it counts. They had to choose between breaking ranks with their fellow globalist, America-last Democrats by applauding the good employment news for blacks that President Trump was touting, or sitting like a spoiled child who didn’t get their way in their seats, waiting for time to pass. Predictably, they opted for the juvenile, party first behavior. As President Trump was announcing the very favorable economic news in a variety of areas, he said, “And something I’m very proud of, African-American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded.”...    https://rickwells.us/congressmen-refuse-applaud/
Trump CDC director resigns after stock
purchases in global tobacco company revealed
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by Melissa Quinn
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned from her post Wednesday... after it was reported she purchased stock in a global tobacco company one month after she took the helm of the agency. “This morning Secretary [Alex] Azar accepted Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald’s resignation as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Fitzgerald owns certain complex financial interests that have imposed a broad recusal limiting her ability to complete all of her duties as the CDC director,” Matt Lloyd, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement. “Due to the nature of these financial interests, Dr. Fitzgerald could not divest from them in a definitive time period.”...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/head-of-cdc-resigns-after-stock-purchases-in-global-tobacco-company-revealed/article/2647660?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/31/18&utm_medium=email 
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Trump asks Congress to cut aid to US 
‘enemies’ who opposed Jerusalem recognition
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by ERIC CORTELLESSA
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ US President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday night to limit foreign aid to only countries that align themselves with his administration... following up on his threats to suspend funds to countries that refused to support his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The promise of new legislation came toward the end of his first State of the Union address, a landmark annual speech at which the administration typically sets major policy goals for the year to come. Referencing a United Nations vote in December, in which the world body voted overwhelmingly (128-9) to reject the president’s unilateral move, the president elevated his past rhetoric of withdrawing monetary support for such countries into legislation...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-asks-congress-to-cut-aid-to-us-enemies-who-opposed-jerusalem-recognition/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=96611a86a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-96611a86a6-54638825 
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Trump Decision To Keep Gitmo Open 
Leaves Dems Stuck To Their Seats 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Democrats attending President Trump’s first State of the Union address had a lot to sit about... He’s putting America first despite their best and most repulsive efforts to confound him. They kept their seats once again as he discussed his plans for dealing with terrorist, whom he described as “evil.” President Trump was applauded as he announced that he had signed, just prior to his entry into the chamber that evening, an executive order directing General Mattis to keep the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Gitmo, open. We all remember that Hussein liar-nObama falsely declared it to be a recruitment tool of those terrorists we couldn’t possibly fight, at least not with him as the pretend president, hanoi-John Kerry as the sellout Secretary of State and Jihadi Jeh Johnson at DHS...  https://rickwells.us/trump-gitmo-open-dems/
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Lawmaker: FBI Memo Will ‘Shock Americans,’
Warrant Removal of ‘FBI, DOJ Officials’ 
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by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ A classified memo alleging abuses by the FBI and Department of Justice in its handling of a surveillance operation against President Donald Trump... and his associates will "be shocking to many Americans" and likely prompt the removal of "a high number" of senior officials in these agencies, according to one member of Congress who has viewed the highly classified document. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines late Monday to declassify the hotly contested memo, which outlines alleged surveillance abuses by senior FBI and DOJ officials pursuing what many have described as partisan campaign against Trump. Following that decision, the president has several days to decide whether he will allow the memo to be released to the American public or kept classified... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/lawmaker-fbi-memo-will-shock-americans-warrant-removal-fbi-doj-officials/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=cca9a725fe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-cca9a725fe-45611665 
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Too Many Wars - Too Many Enemies
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by Pat Buchanan 
{ townhall.com } ~ If Turkey is not bluffing, U.S. troops in Manbij, Syria, could be under fire by week's end, and NATO engulfed in the worst crisis in its history.

Turkish President Erdogan said Friday his troops will cleanse Manbij of Kurdish fighters, alongside whom U.S. troops are embedded.

Erdogan's foreign minister demanded concrete steps by the U.S. to end its support of the Kurds, who control the Syrian border with Turkey east of the Euphrates, all the way to Iraq.

If the Turks attack Manbij, the U.S. will face a choice: Stand by our Kurdish allies and resist the Turks, or abandon the Kurds.

Should the U.S. let the Turks drive the Kurds out of Manbij and the entire Syrian border area with Turkey, as Erdogan threatens, U.S. credibility would suffer a blow from which it would not soon recover.

But to stand with the Kurds and oppose Erdogan's forces could mean a crackup of NATO and loss of U.S. bases inside Turkey, including the air base at Incirlik.

Turkey also sits astride the Dardanelles entrance to the Black Sea. NATO's loss of Turkey would thus be a triumph for Vladimir Putin, who gave Ankara the green light to cleanse the Kurds from Afrin.

Yet Syria is but one of many challenges to U.S. foreign policy.

The Winter Olympics in South Korea may have taken the threat of a North Korean ICBM that could hit the U.S. out of the news. But no one believes that threat is behind us.

Last week, China charged that the USS Hopper, a guided missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Scarborough Shoal, a reef in the South China Sea claimed by Beijing, though it is far closer to Luzon in the Philippines. The destroyer, says China, was chased off by one of her frigates. If we continue to contest China's territorial claims with U.S. warships, a clash is inevitable.

In a similar incident Monday, a Russian military jet came within five feet of a U.S. Navy EP-3 Orion surveillance plane in international airspace over the Black Sea, forcing the Navy plane to end its mission.

U.S. relations with Cold War ally Pakistan are at rock bottom. In his first tweet of 2018, President Trump charged Pakistan with being a duplicitous and false friend.

"The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!"

As for America's longest war, in Afghanistan, now in its 17th year, the end is nowhere on the horizon.

A week ago, the International Hotel in Kabul was attacked and held for 13 hours by Taliban gunmen who killed 40. Midweek, a Save the Children facility in Jalalabad was attacked by ISIS, creating panic among aid workers across the country.

Saturday, an ambulance exploded in Kabul, killing 103 people and wounding 235. Monday, Islamic State militants attacked Afghan soldiers guarding a military academy in Kabul. With the fighting season two months off, U.S. troops will not soon be departing.

If Pakistan is indeed providing sanctuary for the terrorists of the Haqqani network, how does this war end successfully for the United States?

Last week, in a friendly fire incident, the U.S.-led coalition killed 10 Iraqi soldiers. The Iraq war began 15 years ago.

Yet another war, where the humanitarian crisis rivals Syria, continues on the Arabian Peninsula. There, a Saudi air, sea and land blockade that threatens the Yemeni people with starvation has failed to dislodge Houthi rebels who seized the capital Sanaa three years ago.

This weekend brought news that secessionist rebels, backed by the United Arab Emirates, have seized power in Yemen's southern port of Aden, from the Saudi-backed Hadi regime fighting the Houthis.

These rebels seek to split the country, as it was before 1990.

Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE appear to be backing different horses in this tribal-civil-sectarian war into which America has been drawn.

There are other wars -- Somalia, Libya, Ukraine -- where the U.S. is taking sides, sending arms, training troops, flying missions.

Like the Romans, we have become an empire, committed to fight for scores of nations, with troops on every continent, and forces in combat operations of which the American people are only vaguely aware.

"I didn't know there were 1,000 troops in Niger," said Sen. RINO-Lindsey Graham when four Green Berets were killed there. "We don't know exactly where we're at in the world, militarily, and what we're doing."

No, we don't, Senator.

As in all empires, power is passing to the generals.

And what causes the greatest angst today in the imperial city?

Fear that a four-page memo worked up in the House Judiciary Committee may discredit Robert Mueller's investigation of Russia-gate.
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