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Does America Have a Global Mission?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN.
Sen Cotton Defends Trump – Sen scum-DURBIN
LYING About Meeting Comments
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ John Dickerson plays a clip of Senator David Perdue calling out Senator scum-Dick Durbin as a liar... in an interview he had with George Stephanopoulos, beginning at the 2:20 mark in the video. Perdue said clearly, “I’m telling you he did not use that word, George, and I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation. How many times do you want me to say that?” Asked for his take on the matter, Cotton replied, “John, I didn’t hear that word either. I certainly didn’t hear what Senator scum-Durbin has said repeatedly.” Cotton goes on to point to scum-Durbin’s record as a liar, stating “Senator scum-Durbin has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meetings, though, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by that.”... https://rickwells.us/cotton-defends-trump-durbin-lying/.
'Lost' Cronkite broadcast
reveals 180-degree war flip
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ A newly discovered CBS News clip broadcast by Walter Cronkite while still in Saigon following the Tet Offensive... reveals the influential newsman had a much different perspective on the battle than he expressed in the history-making commentary he delivered after returning to New York days later. Anyone who had reached the age of awareness when Cronkite delivered his famous live editorial Feb. 27, 1968, knew the significance of what “the most trusted man in America” was saying: The U.S. had lost the Vietnam war. President Lyndon Johnson’s famous reaction told the story: “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America,” he is reported to have said. “Tonight, back in more familiar surroundings in New York, we’d like to sum up our findings in Vietnam, an analysis that must be speculative, personal, subjective,” he said in opening his brief closing report. “Who won and who lost in the great Tet Offensive against the cities? I’m not sure. The Viet Cong did not win by a knockout but neither did we.”... http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/lost-cronkite-broadcast-reveals-180-degree-war-flip/.
Jamie Lee Curtis Blames Trump -“Unstable
Idiocy” Caused Hawaii Missile False Alarm
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s probably no accident that out of control libtards Jamie Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger were cast... as a husband and wife in the 1994 movie “True Lies,” although “Truly Liars” would have been more reflective of who they are. Neither was hired for their stunning good looks or acting ability, so there must have been something more happening behind the scenes. Dedication to the proposition that America must become a communist nation ruled by their cabal would seem to be a likely basis, taking into consideration their conduct in the days since. Displaying her total disconnection from reality, logic and proper mental function, Curtis, who identifies as a female, went on a Twitter tirade in the wake of the false alarm ballistic missile warning in Hawaii...This shows how stupid Hollywood is. https://rickwells.us/curtis-trump-hawaii-missile/.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasts
the Wall Street Journal for ‘fake news’
by Chris Enloe
{theblaze.com} ~ White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hit back at the Wall Street Journal over the weekend... for allegedly doctoring President Donald Trump’s words following a recent interview. It all began when the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Trump said he has a very good relationship with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un. Trump’s comments came one day after he expressed willingness to re-enter discussions with the country over its nuclear program. However, the White House contests that reporting and they have released proof showing that Trump didn’t say what the Journal reported him saying... https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01/14/sarah-huckabee-sanders-blasts-the-wall-street-journal-for-fake-news-then-she-releases-proof.
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Sen. Perdue: POTUS Didn’t Say Sh*tholehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64GFMEMo0Xo
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Gutfeld: What Are You Complaining About, Liberals?
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Alveda King On Race Relations, Donald Trump, And Martin Luther King Jr..
Israel Destroys Another Hamas Terror Tunnel.
SNL Takes Down Morning Joe, Mika, And Michael Wolfe.
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Does America Have a Global Mission?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
{wnd.com} ~ Informing Iran, “The U.S. is watching what you do,” Ambassdor Nikki Haley called an emergency meeting Friday of the Security Council regarding the riots in Iran. The session left her and us looking ridiculous.
France’s ambassador tutored Haley that how nations deal with internal disorders is not the council’s concern. Russia’s ambassador suggested the United Nations should have looked into our Occupy Wall Street clashes and how the Missouri cops handled Ferguson.
Fifty years ago, 100 U.S. cities erupted in flames after Martin Luther King’s assassination. Federal troops were called in. In 1992, Los Angeles suffered the worst U.S. riot of the 20th century, after the L.A. cops who pummeled Rodney King were acquitted in Simi Valley.
Was our handling of these riots any business of the U.N.?
Conservatives have demanded that the U.N. keep its nose out of our sovereign affairs since its birth in 1946. Do we now accept that the U.N. has authority to oversee internal disturbances inside member countries?
Friday’s session fizzled out after Iran’s ambassador suggested the Security Council might take up the Israeli-Palestinian question or the humanitarian crisis produced by the U.S.-backed Saudi war on Yemen.
The episode exposes a malady of American foreign policy. It lacks consistency, coherence and moral clarity, treats friends and adversaries by separate standards and is reflexively interventionist.
Thus has America lost much of the near-universal admiration and respect she enjoyed at the close of the Cold War.
This hubristic generation has kicked it all away.
Consider. Is Iran’s handling of these disorders more damnable than the thousands of extrajudicial killings of drug dealers attributed to our Filipino ally Rodrigo Duterte, whom the president says is doing an “unbelievable job”?
And how does it compare with Gen. Abdel el-Sissi’s 2012 violent overthrow of the elected president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, and Sissi’s imprisonment of scores of thousands of followers of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Is Iran really the worst situation in the Middle East today?
Hassan Rouhani is president after winning an election with 57 percent of the vote. Who elected Mohammed bin Salman crown prince and future king of Saudi Arabia?
Vladimir Putin, too, is denounced for crimes against democracy for which our allies get a pass.
In Russia, Christianity is flourishing, and candidates are declaring against Putin. Some in the Russian press regularly criticize him.
How is Christianity faring in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan?
It is alleged that Putin’s regime is responsible for the death of several journalists. But there are more journalists behind bars in the jails of our NATO ally Turkey than in any other country in the world.
When does the Magnitsky Act get applied to Turkey?
What the world too often sees is an America that berates its adversaries for sins against our “values,” while giving allies a general absolution if they follow our lead.
A day has not gone by in 18 months that we have not read or heard of elite outrage over the Kremlin attack on “our democracy,” with the hacking of the DNC and John Podesta emails.
How many even recall the revelation in 2015 that China hacked the personnel files of millions of U.S. government employees, past, present and prospective?
While China persecutes Christians, Russia supports a restoration of Christianity after 70 years of Leninist rule.
In Putin’s Russia, the Communist Party is running a candidate against him. In China, the Communist Party exercises an absolute monopoly of political power, and nobody runs against Xi Jinping.
China’s annexation of the Paracel and Spratly Islands and the entire South China Sea is meekly protested, while Russia is endlessly castigated for its bloodless retrieval of a Crimean peninsula that was recognized as Russian territory under the Romanovs.
China, with several times Russia’s economy and 10 times her population, is far the greater challenger to America’s standing as lone superpower. Why, then, this tilt toward China?
Among the reasons U.S. foreign policy lacks consistency and moral clarity is that we Americans no longer agree on what our vital interests are, who our real adversaries are, what our values are, or what a good and godly country looks like.
Was JFK’s America a better country than liar-nObama’s America?
World War II and the Cold War gave us moral clarity. If you stood against Hitler, even if you were a moral monster like Josef Stalin, we partnered with you.
From Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946 to the end of the Cold War, if you stood with us against the “Evil Empire” of Reagan’s depiction, even if you were a dictator like Gen. Pinochet or the shah, you were welcome in the camp of the saints.
But now that a worldwide conversion to democracy is no longer America’s mission in the world, what exactly is our mission?
“Great Britain has lost an empire,” said Dean Acheson in 1962, “but not yet found a role.”
Something of the same may fairly be said of us today.
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