The "C" Country Missile Crisis

One might expect America to have some sensitivity to the placement of weapons systems near a border. The Cuban Missile Crisis occured over the Soviets placing missiles in Cuba in the 1960's. The U.S. stood strong despite the shoe banging antics of Kruschev and the armaments were removed.

Today the shoe is on the other foot. America plans to place missile defense systems in the Czech Republic. Russian President Vladmir Putin sees this much the same way, John F. Kennedy did. While the U.S. claims its system is defensive, isn't that the way all military weapons are sold, as defensive?

Hindisight shows such thinking in Kruschev's placement of weapons on Cuban soil:

The causes of the crisis have long been debated. Khrushchev conceived the deployment in the late spring of 1962, after a hasty and uncritical decision-making process involving only a small group of advisers. His goals appear to have been to deter a feared American invasion of Cuba; to redress the United States's massive superiority in strategic nuclear weapons, publicly revealed by the United States in October 1961, exploding the myth of a “missile gap” favoring the Soviet Union; and less importantly, to reciprocate the Jupiter deployment in Turkey.

Which country launched a pre-emptive invasion of Iraq? Who has and is planning to keep a clear superiority in nuclear weaponry? Which country staked a claim to space and is developing a space military capability? The United States is clearly the answer to all three.

Given our history, America should have some sensitivity in this regard. And no, it's not just a clueless George Bush making the world his stomping ground. The Project for the New American Century is replete with similar figures who occupy critical positions in government and international organizations. Despite Newt Gingrich's assertions of a sole bumbling Bush, Republicans promote and implement systems of American domination at almost every turn.

That the world has taken note is not a surprise...

Bush Nominates another P-Nocker for World Bank

With Paul Wolfowitz gone from the top position at the World Bank (and blaming everyone but himself), President Bush returned to the Project for the New American Century fold for his replacement, Robert Zoellick.

As this is the second person Bush appointed from the exclusive PNAC club, being a heavy handed American ideologue must be a qualification for the job of lending money throughout the world to improve lives and economies.

Dobsonstein Has Busy Week

James Dobsonstein tried to remake Rudy Guiliani into conservative Presidential material but the parts couldn't combine to his liking. As a result James will not endorse Rudy should he receive the Republican nomination. However, the mad psychologist continues to meet with the current occupant of the Oval Office.

According to Monday's radio program, James pow wowed with President Bush and a dozen or so conservative religious leaders on the looming danger of Iran. The long and short of his conclusions, be very afraid. Iran with nuclear or biological weapons intent on attacking America? Haven't we heard this line before?

On his program James took it one step further. One city written off by a WMD attack could become 10, 10 could become 100. He castigated the media for not highlighting the looming threat. Yet that very media runs his radio show to some 220 million listeners across the U.S.? No, this is a set up. That and the May 28th Iran-U.S. meeting. Expect some Kruschev like shoe banging.

Then Katy bar the door because another round of Bush ass kickin is fixin to start. The problem is we still have figured out which way the ass kickin has gone in Iraq.