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US, UK vow no change in war after Afghanistan massacre
Bill Van Auken
US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron used a joint White House press conference Wednesday to stress that there will be no shift in Afghanistan war strategy in the wake of last weekend's savage massacre of 16 civilians in Kandahar province.
The killings have been attributed to a lone 38-year-old Army staff sergeant, who left his base and went door-to-door shooting Afghans, most of them women and children, as they slept in their beds.
There will be no "sudden, immediate changes to the plan we already have," declared Obama. He said that at a NATO summit set to take place in Chicago in May, final plans will be laid for a "transition" that is supposedly going to shift US and other foreign troops to a "support role" next year and give Afghan military and police "full responsibility for security" by the end of 2014.
"In terms of pace, I don't anticipate at this stage that we're going to be making any sudden additional changes to the plan that we currently have," Obama said, claiming that the decade-old US-led war had yielded "progress."
In his remarks, Cameron echoed Obama's rejection of any accelerated withdrawal, while also claiming that the occupation had yielded "tangible progress."
Under the plan adopted by the Obama administration, some 23,000 US troops are to be withdrawn by September of this year, bringing the total number still deployed in Afghanistan to 68,000—the same troop level that existed before Obama ordered a "surge" in the war in December 2009.
There has, however, been no indication of how many troops will be pulled out and when, between this fall and the end of 2014. US military commanders, who are preparing a new military offensive in eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, are opposing further deadlines for reductions in troop deployments.
Obama was forced to acknowledge polls indicating that substantial majorities in both the US and Britain oppose the continuation of the war and do not believe that it is worth fighting. A poll conducted March 12-13 by Reuters/Ipso found that 61 percent of Americans support the immediate withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. "It's because we've been there for 10 years, and people get weary, and they know friends and neighbors who have lost loved ones as a consequence of war," the president said, while insisting that Washington would "achieve our objectives in 2014."
Washington's main objective is to secure permanent US bases and a permanent US military presence in Afghanistan under the guise of training and advising Afghan security forces and carrying out "counter-terror" operations. Ongoing negotiations on a "security partnership" agreement have been disrupted by a series of incidents that have stoked popular hostility to the foreign military presence, from the release of a video of US Marines urinating on the corpses of slain Afghans, to the burning of copies of the Koran at the US airbase in Bagram last month to the latest slaughter in Kandahar province.
Foreword to the German edition of David North's Quarter Century of War
Johannes Stern, 5 October 2020
After three decades of US-led wars, the outbreak of a third world war, which would be fought with nuclear weapons, is an imminent and concrete danger.
The talk of "progress" in Washington was belied by the growing wave of anger within the Afghan population over the latest killings, which follows a long series of war crimes, mass civilian casualties and humiliation of the Afghan people at the hands of the US-NATO occupation.
In Jalalabad on Tuesday, thousands of students took to the streets shouting "Death to America" and "Death to Obama." The protesters, who blocked the main highway from Jalalabad to Kabul, carried banners denouncing foreign occupation and called for the soldier charged with last Sunday's killings to be publicly tried in Afghanistan.
Also on Tuesday, the Afghan Senate walked out of its regular session in protest over the Kandahar massacre, the Peshawar-based Afghan Islamic Press news agency reported. Legislators had begun the session by chanting angry slogans against the occupation.
Fazel Hadi Moslemyar, the Senate's speaker, told reporters: "We do not need foreign forces in Afghanistan. All the problems which we are facing are created by them. If they leave, the neighboring countries will leave us alone and we can settle our country's problems on our own."
Like the students, the Afghan legislators demanded that the American soldier charged in the killings be tried publicly by an Afghan court.
A Pentagon official revealed Wednesday afternoon, however, that the soldier had been placed on a military aircraft and flown out of the country to a "pretrial confinement facility." This action is likely to fuel a new upsurge of mass opposition to the occupation.
Meanwhile, an Afghan whose eight children, ages 2 through 12, wife, brother and sister-in-law were shot and burned in the massacre last Sunday morning told the Times of London that he would join the Taliban and fight the occupation forces if the soldier accused in the killings is not punished.
Mohammed Wazir Agha, 35, said he wanted the soldier tried in an Afghan court. "I want the same thing done to him that he did. He should burn in the fire like they did. Like my children did. What is the sin of my children?"
Wazir recounted that in the immediate aftermath of the massacre, a crowd of over a thousand infuriated Afghans had come together in the village with the intention of storming the nearby US military camp, but were dissuaded by village elders.
"I want the Americans out of Afghanistan now," he added. "They have built nothing but just destroyed houses and martyred people."
While US military officials have insisted from the outset that the massacre was the work of the lone staff sergeant, who is said to have confessed to the killings, accounts from Afghan villagers continue to implicate two or even more US soldiers in the massacre.
And while American officials from the president on down have portrayed the massacre as an aberration, that does not represent "who we are as a country," reactions in Afghanistan place the vicious killings in the context of countless special forces night raids, bombings and other operations that have inflicted tens of thousands of civilian casualties.
As the two heads of state met in Washington, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta staged a tense visit to Afghanistan in an attempt to shore up talks with the Karzai regime on a permanent US military presence in the country.
Giving the lie to the claims by Obama and Cameron about improved conditions in Afghanistan, Panetta's visit appeared to be conducted under a state of siege from its outset. As his plane touched down at Camp Bastion in Helmand province, a truck that had been stolen earlier from an Afghan soldier was driven onto the runway, speeding toward the ramp where the defense secretary's plane was headed before it hit a ditch and burst into flames. A NATO soldier was hit by the truck in the incident, which appeared to be an attempted bombing. Pentagon officials tried to put the best face on the events, claiming that Panetta was never in danger as the truck only came within 300 feet of his plane.
Panetta's meeting with US Marines at Helmand also reflected the escalating crisis of the US occupation. Hundreds of Marines who had assembled to hear the defense secretary speak were suddenly given an unprecedented order to leave the tent and take their assault rifles and other weapons outside.
Members of the Afghan puppet security forces are routinely forbidden from carrying weapons during such assemblies. At least 75 US and other NATO troops have been killed by Afghan soldiers and police in the last five years.
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Knoxcast Ep. 05 – Chris Tedesco
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If you watch Homeland, you've heard Chris Tedesco play trumpet. His other clients? Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Oceans 12, & many more. Nephew to legendary Hollywood studio guitarist Tommy Tedesco (The Wrecking Crew), Chris is a good friend and one of the most well-known & sought-after musicians in Hollywood & beyond. Chris is the archetypal freelancer, a straight-shooter, and a music marketing guru. If you freelance in any field, you'll love listening to Chris talk business, survival, Hollywood, & more. Visit ChrisTedesco.com or AngelCityMusic.com to contact & hire Chris and his groups, and hear more of his music.
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Knoxcast Ep. 04 – Ernie Fields, Jr.
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X-Factor, The Voice, and American Idol. Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, and Bobby Blue Bland. Multi-Woodwind Artist and Music Contractor Ernie Fields, Jr. has worked with all of these, and many more. Celebrating a 60-plus-year career, he's still one of the busiest Music Contractors in Hollywood today.
Ernie has worked in every area of the music industry, and his roots go back to the days when big band and jazz was Pop Music. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ernie, who is better known to his colleagues as "Kool Man Kool," got his start playing and touring with his father's famous Ernie Fields Orchestra in the 1940's and 1950's. He's as laid-back and kool as they come, and today I'm honored we get to talk to Ernie about his life and career in music.
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Knoxcast Ep. 03 – Carl Saunders
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Carl Saunders is "the best jazz trumpeter you've never heard." And if you have heard him, you might just stop at "the best." John Williams, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Tony Bennett — Carl has performed and/or recorded with all of them and more. Now with 4 jaw-dropping solo albums of his own, all available on iTunes and wherever music is streamed or sold, he's also focused on recording most if not all of the 300+ songs he's composed over the years, which are available in his new book entitled NEW JAZZ STANDARDS, available on www.CarlSaunders.com right now. He's become a friend and musical mentor of mine, so without further ado….
young Carl Saunders
Carl Saunders composing
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Knoxcast Ep. 02 – Bob Wilson
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Bob Wilson is a Grammy-nominated drummer, songwriter, and a founding member of the band SeaWind whose sound defined an era of jazz fusion in the 70's-80's. They were also the precursor to the Jerry Hey Horns, who have set the bar for rhythm and horn section studio recording for generations. Bob later toured with Billy & Franklin Graham for over 10 years and is currently a producer with wildly successful music software company Spectrasonics, whose products Omnisphere, Stylus, Keyscape, and more are used every day by A-List music producers and film, tv, and, game composers. He's got some wonderful stories and advice… here's Bob Wilson.
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The 5 most important (and shocking) global warming facts that can save your life, business, and loved ones!
Submitted by Lawrence on Fri, 01/25/2019 - 17:37
A summary of the 5 most important global warming facts:
This article not only sums up the most important things to know about global warming, but it also simplifies the core message of our website. It is intended to assist mature and intelligent individuals to review difficult but accurate global warming facts so that they may better adapt and adjust their lives accordingly.
For many individuals, the 5 most important facts about global warming will dramatically upend their current beliefs about global warming as well as what is being done about it.
You will soon learn that there are many critical things that need to be done by our governments concerning global warming which are not being done. Luckily, there are still important things you can individually do to protect yourself and your loved ones. (This will be described near the end of this article.)
There is good news too. We can still cooperate to slow global warming down and we can still have rich and meaningful lives while we do our best to manage what we still can.
Please do not believe that we are asking you to blindly believe the following 5 facts without also reviewing the provided links to the science and analysis which supports the validity of each fact. We sincerely challenge you to also review the expanded explanations for each fact and each fact's linked documentation (found just below the summary of 5 facts,) and then come to your own conclusions.
A summary of the 5 most important and shocking global warming facts:
Fact 1: We are not being told the painful truth by our governments, our intelligence agencies or even our biggest environmental groups about how bad global warming currently is, but more importantly, how bad it's going to get in the near future.
Fact 2: Because of our long 35-year delay in fixing this crisis, many global warming consequences are not only going to be far worse than we are being told, they also are coming far sooner than we are being told.
Fact 3: Because of this long delay, we have, unfortunately, missed a critical "window of opportunity" to effectively manage global warming to prevent most of its worst consequences and crossed tipping points from occurring. (Many of the worst consequences are now unavoidable and near-certainly out of our meaningful control for as long as the next 30-50 years.)
Fact 4: If we act correctly and immediately to radically and immediately reduce global fossil fuel us, we may still have a small amount of time (until 2025,) to slow down (delay) the worst of these now unavoidable global warming consequences just enough to protect ourselves and maximize our collective chances of avoiding extinction. (If we make the required radical global fossil fuel reductions by 2025, it is still possible to prevent most of humanity (as much as 70-90%,) suffering and dying (in as little as 30-50 years.)
Fact 5: Because there is no guarantee that we will act any differently than we have for the last 35 years to slow down global warming sufficiently to prevent our fast track to extinction, it is time for rational, wise, and mature individuals to begin creating emergency backup plans and start their personal emergency preparations. This emergency preparation could even include migrating to areas that would be safer from the effects of global warming.
In the expanded 5 fact explanations below, you will find more positive news. At the very end of this document, you will also find important tips on how to better psychologically and emotionally digest this new reality of global warming.
The expanded 5 most important global warming facts with their verification and action links
Fact 1: We are not being told the painful truth by our governments, our intelligence agencies or even our biggest environmental groups about how bad global warming currently is and more importantly, how bad it's going to get in the near future.
These falsehoods about global warming will increasingly cause extreme suffering and loss to larger and larger percentages of humanity. In part, these false statements exist because there have been numerous government underestimation errors and intentionally inappropriate and incomplete calculations concerning the necessary fossil fuel reduction targets given to the public.
There has also been significant deception regarding the real consequences of the current escalating global warming. This government-sponsored inaccurate information creates the false belief that things are better than they really are.
This also makes us believe that we are making sufficient and steady progress in reducing global warming when the hard truth is we are not. To make this point even more alarmingly clear, more than half of all fossil fuel emissions have been generated and released in the last 25 years and stored in the atmosphere than in all of recorded history before that.
Therefore, even though we have known, with little doubt that we needed to reduce fossil fuel emissions dramatically, and we had International treaties since at least 1993 saying we would do so, we are about 67% higher worldwide in carbon emissions than the early 1990s. And fossil fuel emissions increased another dramatic 2.7% in 2018, and they are projected to increase again in 2019
We are not anywhere even close to where we should be in fossil fuel use reductions to save us from unthinkable climate catastrophes and extinction.
Click here to review and verify these global government supported underestimation errors.
Click here to review the intentional inappropriate or incomplete global government supported calculations used to create the false belief that things are far better than they really are.
Something to think about once you have read the above documentation links on the underestimation, and inappropriate or incomplete calculations:
a. Can you imagine what the reasons might be for why our governments and their intelligence agencies would publically give us and support such grossly underestimated global warming threat assessments and inadequate solutions when the actual threat is so much more severe?
b. Who (what types of individuals, government departments and corporations,) would benefit most by providing such false and grossly misleading information to the public?
Click here to see the REAL global fossil fuel reduction levels we must hit by 2025. You will be stunned!
Fact 2: Because of our long delay in fixing this crisis, many global warming consequences are not only going to be far worse than we are being told, they also are coming far sooner than we are being told.
The worst consequences of global warming will not be occurring around 2100 as we are now being told by our governments. They will be starting to occur as soon as the next 10 to 30 years in a continually worsening cycle.
Click here to review the 20 worst global warming consequences that will continue to increase in severity, frequency, and scale (area affected.)
Click here for the worst cataclysmic consequences derived from global warming tipping points that will also continue to increase in severity, frequency, and scale. (Crossing more major global warming tipping points also produces additional, unique and hyper-intense extinction-evoking consequences.)
Click here to see the real time frames in which the many worst global warming consequences will be unfolding.
In part, this is because the real facts and true urgency was hidden from us about the global warming crisis by our governments and the fossil fuel industry. We did not do what was necessary to resolve global warming over the last 35 years after we were informed about it by our scientists. We have squandered the time that could have been used while the cure was still manageable.
Saddest of all, we are still trying to do far too little far too late. Had we started fixing global warming gradually and effectively 35 years ago, we would still have had a good chance of doing so now.
In part, what out of meaningful control means is that average global temperatures will continue increasing for at least another 50 years and there will be a series of cataclysmic consequences and more extinction-evoking global warming tipping points will be crossed that can not be stopped or avoided!
Click here to see review the many reasons why global warming is now out of control for at least the next 50 years and a series of cataclysmic consequences and extinction-evoking tipping points cannot at this point be stopped or avoided!
Below please find the best estimates for time frames in which average global temperatures will continue to increase for at least another 50 years.
Click here to see how the global warming consequences and tipping points will unfold in what's called the Climageddon Scenario.
Because we have squandered our last 35 years of warnings with denial, inaction, and ineffective action we can't stop what is coming and what is already locked into our climate system. But luckily, we can still aggressively try to slow down the now unavoidable consequences so that, at least we can salvage whatever we can.
We slow down what is coming and prepare for it by:
A. immediately and radically reducing our fossil fuel use to the correct reduction levels.
The absolute minimum amount we need to reduce fossil fuel use to slow and prevent the processes of likely going extinct is as follows:
a. All industrially developed nations must reduce their total fossil fuel use by 75 percent by 2025 and then continue reducing fossil fuel use to net zero carbon emissions by 2035. (This means that no additional fossil fuel emissions are going into the atmosphere that are not also simultaneously being removed from the atmosphere.) There are only about 20 countries that produce 70% or more of the world's carbon emissions. This means that all individuals and businesses within the developing nations of the world must meet these fossil fuel reduction goals. (Net zero carbon emissions from fossil fuel use by 2035 could allow for a very small amount of fossil fuel use for agriculture and medical uses.)
b. All developing nations must maintain their total fossil fuel emission levels as they are at the beginning of 2019 and not allow them to go any higher. Then by 2045, all developing nations must also be at net zero carbon emissions. This allowance for developing nations to stay at the level they are now and gradually reduce down to net zero carbon emissions by 2045 is a justice equation. The developing nations have created their wealth by producing the far greatest majority of all the carbon emissions in the atmosphere today causing our global warming emergency.
To make the above fossil fuel reduction calculation work to save humanity from extinction, both China and India can no longer be considered developing nations. They must be required to immediately begin making the same fossil fuel reduction targets as all other developed nations. At this time China and India are producing far too much of the world's total carbon emissions. If they are not put into the same reduction category as the other developed nations, there will be no credible way to avoid the likelihood of extinction.
Additionally, because there is no effective international agreement on relative climate justice regarding the exact differences in required fossil fuel reductions between developed and developing nations. All that exists today considering equity and existing global warming treaty responsibilities is the usually ignored and unenforceable UNFCCC treaty.
This is the treaty most of the world signed and ratified and whose operating principles began with "Parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of humankind, on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities." The problem is there is no sufficiently detailed treaty agreement which specifies the proportionate remedial responsibilities based on who did the damage or the specifically required differences in fossil fuel reductions that each developed or developing country must make.
To make matters worse the US and many other nations do not abide by treaties anyway. Additionally, in the existing UNFCC treaty, there are no verification, punishment or enforcement capabilities. Due to the nature of this emergency, to resolve these inadequacies it was necessary to come up with at least something workable and just that could be put into action immediately, where developing nations were given far less initial fossil fuel reduction requirements and a longer time to reach net zero carbon emissions. In short, the reductions mentioned above are necessary and will work.
Other important facts about these required fossil fuel reductions.
1. The above shockingly large and radical amounts of fossil fuel reductions and soon arriving deadlines are absolutely needed because our past and current strategy has resulted in absolutely no reduction in emissions or fossil fuel use. Yes, you read that right and yes, you have been lied to about global warming reduction progress having been made. In fact, we have actually increased fossil fuel use more this century than the last two decades of the 20th century.
To make this point even more alarmingly clear, more than half of all fossil fuel emissions have been generated and released in the last 25 years and stored in the atmosphere than in all of recorded history before that. Therefore, even though we have known, with little doubt that we needed to reduce fossil fuel emissions dramatically, and we had International treaties since at least 1993 saying we would do so, we are about 67% higher worldwide in carbon emissions than the early 1990s. And fossil fuel emissions increased another dramatic 2.7% in 2018, and they are projected to increase again in 2019.
2. These calculations do not include any of the false and grossly misleading carbon capture technology calculations currently being used in all International fossil fuel reduction treaties and by all governments. These governmental calculations utilize detailed compensatory calculation for the effects of negative admission technologies (NETs,) which our governments postulate will hopefully be discovered and put into operation sometime after 2150. NETs are man-made carbon capture technologies that are projected to remove an immense amount of gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere at scale without any disastrous even worse side effects.
The belief and current reliance upon these magical carbon sucking unicorns (as we call them) allow the government's of the world today to foist bogus carbon reduction targets upon their populations which then allow fossil fuel industries and fossil fuel producing nations to continue with "business as usual" and the rest of the society to believe there is no emergency or urgency regarding the real and hidden fossil fuel reduction amounts. Click here for the whole crazy story about how these magical carbon sucking unicorns will magically save us at the last possible moment and, at the same time keep the fossil fuel industry rolling in profits for another 30-50 years.
3. If we miss these fossil fuel reduction targets, particularly the most important first 75% 2025 target we are likely to go into an extinction progression cycle that will not reverse itself for hundreds of years to centuries from now. If we fail, as much as 70 to 90% of humanity will suffer and die in as little as the next 30 to 50 years. To learn about this extinction progression cycle we call the Climageddon Scenario and why it is likely if we miss our radical fossil fuel reduction targets, click here.
4. Job One's use of the term carbon neutrality, or having a net zero carbon footprint, means achieving net zero carbon emissions by balancing any measured amounts of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere with an equivalent measured amount of carbon dioxide taken from the atmosphere and being captured for long-term storage (see carbon sequestration). In the Job One Plan, this critical carbon capture and sequestration should happen almost exclusively through our already-existing natural biological, chemical, and physical processes (see this definition of global warming for illustrations of the climate's heat controlling systems and processes). Net zero carbon emissions by 2035 for developed missions in 2045 for developing nations is a difficult subgoal to achieve. It will require that financial disincentives be placed on fossil fuel use and keeping almost all of existing fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas, tar sands, etc.) in the ground and never burned.
Please note that the Job One Plan for achieving net zero carbon emissions does not endorse Cap and Trade methods of arriving at carbon-neutral. Current Cap and Trade methods are too often a disguise for "business as usual" and will not get us to the radical fossil fuel reduction levels we need in the extremely limited time left to keep us from crossing carbon 600 ppm extinction tipping point. In Job One's own targeted version of carbon-neutral called Fee and Dividend (discussed further below,) you will not be able to buy Cap and Trade carbon credits to make up the difference and achieve net zero carbon emissions because that inevitably promotes more fossil fuel burning.
4. The above calculations do not include any extra reduction percentage or calculation for the massive spikes in carbon and methane emissions that will occur when we closely approach or cross additional global warming tipping points. To be safe, these percentages for fossil fuel emissions reduction should actually be significantly higher (10-15%,) to allow for approaching or crossing more global warming tipping points. Not allowing any fossil fuel reduction compensation for any tipping points in the above calculations amounts to planning for perfection using one variable. Planning for perfection is another way to plan fo fail. Click here to learn more about the tipping points it will suddenly release massive additional amounts of carbon and methane into the atmosphere.
5. The above calculations do not include any extra fossil fuel reduction percentage or calculation for the long history of governmental underestimation of needed reductions by huge percentages because of national political or economic conditions or advantages. Click here to learn how big these underestimation problems have been.
6. Each year we continue to delay in making the needed radical fossil fuel reductions mentioned above means that any fossil fuel reductions in the subsequent target years will also need to be even more extreme to compensate for the previous years miss targets. This makes them even less likely to be done because of the even more severe economic and other hardships that they will impose globally.
7. Once we get to net zero carbon emissions by 2035 for the developed nations and 2045 for the developing nations we still aren't safe and there is much left to get done to restore our climate's natural balance at around 270 carbon PPM.
8. The calculations above are based on current and projected carbon CO2 levels in the atmosphere provided by the United Nations. They do not show the total levels of all greenhouse gases now in our atmosphere as tracked by CO2e. Because the calculations above also do not include the necessary reductions for methane and the other greenhouse gases as tracked by CO2e, the reduction calculations above probably should also be increased by another 2 to 4%. This additional 2 to 4% reduction would in part allow for the factor that methane is 86 times more potent for increasing global warming than carbon as co2 in our atmosphere. As shocking as it sounds, methane releases into the atmosphere from fracking or natural gas distribution is seldom measured or regulated by countries around the world including the US.
9. Here are the links to two videos by climate Prof. Kevin Anderson discussing the fossil fuel reduction calculations needed as described in A and B above. Click heref or the first professor Anderson video. Click Here for the second professor Anderson video.
And finally, the above fossil fuel reduction amounts described in points a and b above are definitely minimum reduction amounts. In fact, they should be significantly higher (based on numerous uncalculated key factors described above and elsewhere on this page.)
Based on the best current science from climate Professors like Kevin Anderson, the targets and deadlines above are at least far closer to what we must do and, we have to start somewhere. These new working percentages and deadlines based on both science and climate justice must now replace our current governmental global warming reduction targets and deadlines which were agreed to at the Paris 2015 International climate conference.
If we really wanted to be safe and we took in all of the other factors above that were not considered in the calculation above in a and b, we probably should be targeting an 80 to 85% fossil fuel reduction in all developed nations by 2025 or earlier and complete reduction to net zero carbon in all developed nations by around 2032. Similar adjustments would need to be made for the fossil fuel reduction targets in developing nations that would be aligned with what was just re-targeted for developed nations.
B. instituting a government-directed "in-case we fail"backup plan.(With this government-directed failsafe and backup plan we may still be able to save and salvage enough of humanity and civilization in case we once again delay and deny and fail to reduce fossil fuel emissions adequately.)
Click here to see what exactly what those radical fossil fuel reductions entail and what the government directed failsafe backup plan preparations must be.
Martin Luther King said something that is equally applicable today to the urgency of slowing down global warming enough so that at least some of humanity and civilization will go on.
"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time... We must move past indecision to [immediate] action."
Fact 5: Because there is still no guarantee that we will act any differently than we have for the last 35 years to slow down global warming sufficiently to prevent a fast track to extinction, it is time for rational, wise and mature individuals to begin creating emergency backup plans and start their personal emergency preparations. This emergency preparation could even include migrating to areas that would be safer from the effects of global warming.
It is unwise to rely exclusively or primarily on our governments as this emergency worsens. They will never be able to reach and care for every citizen.
Having a personal plan and preparations is how you will be able to save and salvage as much of your personal life and your loved ones as is possible. This plan and prepare action is critical because most individuals and businesses are currently nowhere even close to being prepared for the severity of the unavoidable catastrophic consequences that are arriving soon.
Additionally, because of the high probability of as much as 70 to 90 percent of humanity suffering and dying within the global warming unsafe zones within as little as the next 30 to 50 years, it is critical to begin now to prepare your own personal Plan B and emergency backup plan.
This emergency plan and preparation is particularly important if you also happen to live in one of the global warming unsafe zones. If so, your personal back up plan would also have to include migration from global warming unsafe zones to global warming safer zones before it is too late.
The time remaining in which to make these personal emergency preparations or to migrate to the limited global warming safe zones is exceedingly short because of factors like immigration regulations in the global warming safe zones already becoming more restricted as well as future legal immigration becoming all but impossible as the emergency worsens. If you look closely, you can already see many areas of our overheating world where what will soon be called the greatest migration in human history of climagees has already begun. (Global warming climate crisis-related refugees are called climagees.)
Click here to learn about your needed personal emergency preparations and the factors behind the short timeframes for people living in global warming unsafe zones to assemble their emergency plan B preparations and migrate to safer zones. These Plan B personal emergency preparations will also include information on how you can physically, emotionally thrive and survive through the waves of economic, social and political trauma as well as the physical loss, and suffering that is coming.
A bit more good news
The good news here is that no matter what, even in spite of how difficult this emergency is and will become, we can still cooperate to slow it down and have good and meaningful lives for as long as is possible.
Click here for what you can still do individually to slow down global warming.
Click here if you are of a faith-based person or of a spiritual nature for a positive and helpful framework for how to make the best of this emergency. It will take you to our sister website that deals with the global warming emergency more from a philosophic and spiritual perspective.
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What's really important to remember
We also absolutely need to hit the above global fossil fuel reduction targets, because additionally, they will keep us from breaking through the very dangerous atmospheric carbon level and range of 425 to 450 parts per million (ppm.) We are at about carbon 411 ppm right now.
Once we reach the carbon 425 to 450 ppm range, there will be so much climate system heating momentum from all of the previously emitted carbon and other greenhouse gas that this will propel us towards moving quickly to even higher temperatures. Stopping this momentum will be like trying to stop a gigantic boulder from rolling faster and faster down a hill that keeps getting steeper and steeper.
The terrifying thought that is completely real and critical for you to burn into your mind is that, as much as 70 to 90% of humanity will suffer and die in as little as 30-50 years, but our ability to have any real or meaningful control over this looming emergency ends around about 2025 sometime after we enter the carbon 425-450 ppm range. But once again, this will only occur if we fail to successfully execute the now required global fossil fuel use reductions.
And in case you're still thinking technology will save us at the last minute, no new carbon removal technologies(what we call magical carbon sucking unicorns,) will be able to save us in time because, even those who believe this technology might save us are projecting that they will not even be available at the earliest until sometime after 2050. This will be long after the damage is done and long after anything can be done for the billions of people who will suffer and die!
Because of the preceding, we truly have no other rational alternative other than to never cross over into the dangerous transitional range and the tipping point of carbon 425-450 ppm. What we do know with certainty is this.
In spite of all of the challenges and bad outcomes that are possible and in spite of the possibility of failing to hit our 2025 fossil fuel reduction targets, no matter what, the single constant and greatest truth for the best possible global warming outcomes for humanity in the future is that --- the faster and more we reduce global fossil fuel use:
a. the larger the percentage of people will be that will not suffer or die over the next 30 to 50 years, and
b. surviving future generations will suffer far less from an escalating chain of global warming consequences. (This is described fully in what is called the Climageddon extinction scenario.)
What's next to consider?
1. Be sure to check out the 4 most important and scariest deadlines of the global warming emergency by clicking here.
2. Some of you have already reviewed the supporting science and analysis links provided above and you will soon begin the fossil fuel reduction actions and other solution options also found within the links above. Well done! You will reap the benefits.
3. Some of you will not or did not review the science and analysis verification links. This avoidance may only provide a brief escape from the discomfort of knowing the difficult facts listed above are true as well as acting appropriately using this information. Over time, as you watch the worsening news reports about the destabilization of our climate, the five facts above will begin to ring true and hopefully, you will remember this page so that you and your loved ones will know what to do.
If you're feeling fearful, upset, in denial, angry or anxious about what you have read
We have given you a lot of horrible news to digest. When we discovered this information at Job One for Humanity our staff also had to digest this horrible news. By necessity, we learned about something called the Kubler Ross model of change to help us deal with all of the strong emotions the above news evokes.
Because we Felt it would be irresponsible to leave you without tools to manage the feelings that the proceeding facts create, we are also leaving you the following images and ideas that should stage by stage help you come to terms with the new reality of global warming. Here's how these emotional transitions normally look.
1. Even if you are a wise, mature and healthy individual, if you're like most people, what you just read will cause you to react with shock and denial and other difficult emotions.
2. If you have the tenacity to keep learning more concerning the validity of the 5 facts described above, you will likely next become frustrated and angry at "how could we (our politicians and governments,) ever allow this to happen."
3. If you still continue processing the facts above, you will most likely then enter into a bargaining or experimenting phase to find some kind of a way to deal with such disturbing and disruptive information.
4. If you still continue researching and verifying what you read, you will most likely next enter into a transitional feeling of grief or depression.
5. As you work your way through your grief or depression, you will eventually come to a level of acceptance of what is scientifically accurate, but currently is being widely suppressedby the fossil fuel industry, mass media, and the many politicians around the world owned by the fossil fuel industry.
Once you finally reach the level of acceptance for what you have read above, you may likely begin the process of experimenting with new ways to live more sustainably and you will likely begin making new decisions to adapt and integrate this critical information into your life and businesses in other ways. You may also begin emergency preparations for the unavoidable and unconscionable global warming consequences described in the links above so that you are better able to protect yourself and maximize the chances of staying out of harm's way.
The 5 main emotional transition levels above are key parts of the Kubler Ross model. Over time, it will help you understand and deal with the global warming denial, anger, fear, grief or anxiety any healthy person would experience once they truly realize the truth of what we are saying and how dire our current situation really is.
Even though the Kubler Ross model is the emotional model commonly being used to help people deal with news from their doctor that they are going to die over some known time period. It still has relevance. This is because you will likely go through these emotional phases over and over again as you wrestle with this unbearable burden of global warming knowledge.
Once you truly grasp the true scale and seriousness of our rapidly escalating global warming emergency by working through your emotional reaction to it, you too will realize that our lives and our children's lives are clearly going to be far more time-limited than we ever imagined unless we act immediately to radically reduce fossil fuel use.
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The NP Preceptor Shortage: What NPs Need To Know
At NPHub we do two things to fight the NP preceptor shortage.
The first one is connecting available preceptors with students who need them.
We try to ensure that these preceptors are ideal for the students, and vice versa. It's more than just finding available preceptors in your area. It's about ensuring successful clinical rotations.
However, the second thing we do might be the most important, and it's the fact that we try to create new preceptors.
When we talk to NPs that could be potential preceptors, and listen to their concerns, sometimes it feels as if we're asking a little bit too much.
Many of them still find it difficult to make the decision, even though most of them are eager to precept and know about the benefits.
That's why we always ask ourselves: what is not being done here?
Why is it still so difficult to find an NP preceptor?
There are two reasons why, to this day, it's so hard for nurse practitioners to find preceptors.
First, we already have a shortage of (non-precepting) nurse practitioners. Second, there might be some barriers to precepting that are not being addressed.
To understand this better, let's begin with the benefits of becoming a preceptor.
A 2015 study on barriers and incentives to precepting showed that most preceptors identified the following benefits as the ones they wanted most:
Credit toward professional recertification.
Program information.
Access to clinical references.
Many universities, and companies like ours, now offer most of these benefits. Some of them have been around for a long time now.
So why do we still have a countrywide NP preceptor shortage?
Well, it's true that these benefits are not the norm in every state. For example, in some states, paying preceptors is considered to be illegal. Perhaps we need to make these benefits a standard.
But what about the barriers to precepting? Do these benefits help to bring them down? This might not be the case.
For example, in that same study, preceptors said that the two biggest roadblocks to precepting were "time constraints" and "productivity demands." These are two issues that probably don't disappear after you introduce CE credits and compensation.
So, what other benefits should we advocate for in the future? Let's look at what preceptors have to say about it.
What keeps preceptors from becoming preceptors
In 2019, the AANP Journal published a study on tax incentives for preceptors in Massachusetts, and mentioned some of the main reasons for the NP preceptor shortage.
The study says that clinical placements "may be delayed because of institutional issues or preceptor needs, or clinical site logistics." These include:
Difficulty completing clearance paperwork and affiliating preceptors.
A large number of committed preceptors suddenly cancelling rotations.
Preceptors refusing students for lack of financial compensation.
Implementation of new EHR systems (the training process it's too long and difficult).
"Lack of time or scheduling ability and a lack of physical space within the clinical setting" (as reported by a 2017 national study).
Conflict with academic institutions.
This study presents a good overview of the problem, and proposes a solution that has been very popular: tax incentives. We'll come back to that.
A more recent study on clinical teaching (Journal of Nurse Practitioners, 2020), offers a different approach that's also important. We haven't really discussed how prepared NPs actually are for precepting.
That study surveyed 195 NPs at a national conference and found that:
Only 23% of NPs had attended some kind of preceptor education program.
63% of them identified preceptor education as the biggest barrier to precepting.
Time and perceived costs were the second and third biggest barriers.
65% of them disagreed with the statement: "I feel prepared to teach."
It's not all bad. 58% of preceptors also agreed with the statement: "I have a clear understanding of the educational objectives when working with NP students." What's missing is only a way to properly teach. Education is a career all on its own, and not everybody does it right.
So, now that we have a better idea of what's happening today, let's look at what's actually being done about it in 2021.
How people are trying to solve the NP preceptor shortage, as of today
Tax incentives have been a popular idea for a few years now, and it seems to be a growing trend in post-pandemic times.
In Massachusetts, they considered that tax incentives might be a good solution to the NP preceptor shortage, "as evidenced by the current incentives in place" for MDs, and similar incentives for PAs.
In 2021, here's what every state is doing about tax incentives:
States with pending or rejected tax credit proposals for NP preceptors:
Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, Rhode Island, New York, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Virginia.
States with active tax credits for NP preceptors by law:
Georgia, California, Colorado, Maryland, Hawaii, South Carolina.
States without official tax incentive proposals or widespread discussion (right now):
Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
You can see how tax incentives, even though people like them, are not really that widespread.
Also, many states do have tax proposals to combat the NP preceptor shortage, but we don't count them because they only offer those benefits to physicians. They are on list number three.
Most NP organizations have their own ideas on how to take down the barriers to precepting. Many of them don't have anything to do with taxes.
However, tax incentives deserve their own section on this post, because they're the first thing that comes up on this subject.
Proposals to solve this issue that don't include taxes
There's little information on other proposals, at least on the surface, when you look this up on Google. It requires more research, which is not a bad thing, but does tell us something about how people see the NP preceptor shortage.
We can mention that Alabama recently approved legislation to create a Preceptor Awareness Campaign. Ohio has a private program that pays preceptors for precepting.
The 2019 AANP Journal study, see two sections above, also mentioned that Iowa was considering things like loan forgiveness and scholarships.
Apparently, this is also another popular idea that might get traction in the future, and some NP programs are already doing it. Like Creighton University in California.
You can find examples of beneficial programs and resources for preceptors in almost every state. So there's no shortage of ideas. All of these things make a preceptorship more appealing.
However, how about making preceptorships easier? More effective? We just read that the NP preceptor shortage is because of time constraints, problems with paperwork, institutional conflicts… Who's paying attention to that?
The "real" solution to the NP preceptor shortage
As we wrote at the top of the article, we care about creating new preceptors.
We understand that there's no "real" solution to the NP preceptor shortage, or any shortage in healthcare. It's a complicated socio-economic problem that's been going on for decades.
However, if we were to propose a "real" solution, away from the monetary aspect of it, we would try to offer solutions that don't put the onus of precepting on NPs themselves.
Yes, you can precept because you're going to get paid. Because they're giving you a loan, or cutting your taxes, or because companies like ours have an online app that matches you with ideal students.
Or, you could precept because you have all of that, and because it's easy. Because there's a structure in place, a system, a working space to do it.
The paperwork comes through, the administration has your back. You receive education before precepting, and then you get paid, as you should. There's no vagueness, no improv, no bureaucracy.
That is the world we would like to see for our preceptors. And that will require shifting away from the idea of just offering money-related solutions. Certain practices have to change at an institutional level.
We'll leave you with that idea, for now. We'll talk more about that in future posts.
If you want to become a preceptor with NPHub, check out our preceptor page. Also, what do you think about the NP preceptor shortage? Reach out on social media and let us know! Have you precepted NP students? Do you want to precept? We want to hear from you.
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Pittsburgh Sports Now reached out to 4-star JUCO center Khadim Sy tonight who confirmed that he'll be in Pittsburgh tomorrow for his official visit.
As we've been reporting to you for months, Jeff and Jason Capel have been pursuing Sy, who would fill a major hole on Pitt's roster.
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Why Chicago lost
It's pretty simple: South America has never hosted the Olympics, and by 2016 five of the previous ten will have been held in predominantly English-speaking countries (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, SLC 2002, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012).
Since the end of World War II, the United States has never gone longer than twenty years without hosting the Games, which probably makes it the front-runner for 2020 or 2022.
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33 thoughts on "Why Chicago lost"
Bruce Rheinstein says:
I'm not sure how this will play. Will Americans be mad at Obama for putting the prestige of the Presidency on the line, or will they be pissed at the OIC for dissing the President? Or perhaps it'll be a little of both…
Going to Copenhagen without having a deal in the bag — it really is amateur hour in the White House.
Jim Whyte says:
Rio's reputedly the world's most physically beautiful city. (I've never bin, only know this from pix and friends who have visited. Praia Vermelha is the hidden gem, I hear.)
Better go soon before the Olympics ruins the place. Glad I saw Vancouver before 2010.
(But I'm just an old cynic.)
Mad at the IOC for dissing the Won? Are you kidding, Bruce? He runs around telling the world that the US shouldn't be an influential super-power, just another member of the world cummooniteh, blah blah… So the IOC took him at his word.
Naw. Sending the Missus and Oprah and the Mayor was totally cool. Risking the prestige of the Office… That sucks. Gold-medal in FAIL.
http://ifyouseekpeace.blogspot.com/2009/10/ioc-were-raaaaacists.html
As Drudge said, "The Ego Has Landed." Too bad the joke goes on and on.
Chicago didn't lose; they escaped financial ruin.
Somebody needs to grab those IOC egomaniacs and wring their scrawny necks. They leave mega debt wherever they anoint.
I'll be paying for 2010 till I die.
"America Loses – Right Wing Blogs Celebrate"
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Jesus wept!
Hal,
Thanks for linking to one of Charles Johnson's insane over-the-top screeds.
"they want Obama himself to fail, and if that means America fails too, they're just fine with that."
Because if Chicago doesn't get the Olympics it means America has failed… Seriously, Johnson is beyond satire.
No Bruce, it's the ones Johnson quotes who are "beyond satire". I am a dual citizen and have generally voted Republican (I would have voted for McCain last November – holding my nose after Palin was nominated – had I not been travelling in the Far East), but I can hardly recognize the GOP these days: it seems to have been invaded by the body snatchers. Charles Johnson was steadfast against the jihadis and their useful idiots and he is equally steadfast against racists, neo-nazis, conspiracy mongers and out-and-out-wingnuts. Judging by what's been happening over the last 11 months, it seems that some of these are beginning to constitute a new fifth column in America. If decent Republicans don't diassociate themselves from these crazies, it'll be a long time before they regain the government in Washington.
You're a phony and a troll.
"Jesus wept!" right…
John B says:
Pity that Chicago lost. Had they won, it would be one more nail in the coffin preventing Toronto from even thinking about bidding for the games in my lifetime.
Cheer up Dan, Montreal finally paid off the '76 Olympics last year. Great party, even greater hangover.
Oh my, you've seen right through me, Bruce. Mea culpa. Will a promise to watch Glenn Beck do instead of Hail Mary?
Whatever LGF may have been in the past, it has decended into being one of, if not the most intolerant sites around. It would put CJ right along side any jihadi site in terms orfintolerance and hate rhetoric angainst anyone who doesn't agree with him.
Johnson was a jerk then. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/565_so_we_can_have_cheney
And he's a jerk now. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34809_America_Loses_-_Right_Wings_Blogs_Celebrate
I must admit that even though Johnson himself was careful to stay on the right side of outrage, for a long time LGF did attract the crazies. Since he was an implacable enemy of terrorism and its apologists, and since he was such an effective debunker of moonbattery (a technical geek himself, he was particularly good when it came to expose photographic and other technical frauds), some people automatically assumed that he subscribed to its opposite: wingnuttery. The first inkling that this wasn't the case came when he refused to allow LGF to become a platform for creationsim. He was a rational man and anti-science would have no home on LGF. The god-botherers and moral-majoritarians were shocked. He had always been intolerant of the 9/11 "truthers", but since most of these were Bushitlerists and loony leftists, no one seemed to notice. However, when Ron Paul's gang took up the 9/11 truther cause and allied themselves with far-right antisemties, Johnson had had enough; they too became unwelcome on LGF. Johnson's line became clear: he would have no truck with racists, aryan-nationalists, neo-luddites and conspiracy-mongers. He had supported the Republicans for years but he had done so out of principle. Now, in the void that followed the 2008 election, the GOP was being taken over by crazies, the Glenn Becks, the Michelle Bachmanns and the teabaggers. And Johnson has begun signalling the alarm.
With apologies to Yeats… the best conservatives these days seem to lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity. The former are my natural contstituency, Bruce. Can I assume that the latter are yours?
The GOP, like the Democratic Party, is a big tent. And in any big tent you can find those with whom you agree with and those with whom you don't.
In any event, the notion that Charles Johnson is some sort of moderate being driven from the GOP by Ron Paulists and Creationists is just wrong.
He was a bit of a moonbat before 9/11 — Al Qaida was wrong to target "shrub" because he is "just a figurehead", etc. And, after developing something of a cult following between, roughly, 2002-07, he's headed off into into moonbat territory, again. Here's a recent screed he's posted aimed at all organized religion. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34822_Condell-_The_Arrogance_of_Clergy
As for my own beliefs, let's just say that I consider myself to be a classical liberal.
Hmm, just listened to the "screed"… and agreed with pretty much everything Condell said. I guess you didn't read Damian's post below, eh? http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/013021.html
As for tents, the GOP these days is becoming a very small one. Maybe just a trailer park. Don't forget to remind Michele Bachmann that you're a "classical" liberal. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/09/wingnuts-unite-ron-paul-joins-michelle-bachmann-weirdest-town-hall-ever
"As for tents, the GOP these days is becoming a very small one. Maybe just a trailer park." – Hal
"The new [9/29] Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42% would vote for their district's Republican congressional candidate while 40% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent." http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot
Do you really think the GOP's electoral chances would be improved by, say, adopting Charles Johnson's campaign against organized religion?
It would be nice to believe those numbers, but…
1. Rasmussen is traditionally about 5 points off (in favor of the Republicans), so it could very well be 45-37 in favor of the Dems.
2. There's a big difference between saying who you're voting for (Democratic voters may be very dissatisfied with their reps right now) and who you identify with in the long term. E.g.,
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/parsing-the-polls/21-percent.html
3. Too bad Charles Johnson isn't running for office. I'd vote for him in a flash. Regardless, if the GOP becomes the Ron Paul-Glenn Beck-Michele Bachmann party, I'll vote Democrat (and I suspect a lot of independents will too).
"Risking the prestige of the Office… That sucks. Gold-medal in FAIL. "
Geez, you should have seen the last guy.
Dara,
You're nostalgic! Feeling guilty about transferring your innate anti-Americanism to the new guy?
"if the GOP becomes the Ron Paul-Glenn Beck-Michele Bachmann party, I'll vote Democrat (and I suspect a lot of independents will too)."
And if the Democrats become the Dennis Kucinich/Keith Olbermann party a lot of independents will vote GOP. But neither scenario is going to happen.
Contrary to Charles Johnson and various talking heads, Ron Paul is not, and never has been, a major force within the GOP. And I doubt too many people take Beck et al. seriously, either.
Seriously, Little Green Footballs is like Daily Kos. Enforced group-think does not lend itself to accurate perceptions of reality.
Guilt? For what exactly?
Nothing has changed. Half the country thinks that the President is ruining everything and the other half believe he's changing things for the better.
It's like swapping end zones at half time. The sponsors still have the same ads up and the crowd is still cheering while "pituitary retards bang their f***** skulls together."
You just have no appreciation for gridiron football.
Anyway, as Winston Churchill observed, "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
But then, given that you lump Churchill in with Hitler, Stalin, and George W. Bush, http://www.damianpenny.com/comments/display/4214#104649 perhaps you don't appreciate his wisdom.
The quote I used was easily adapted, but had nothing to do with football.
Here's another one from Churchill:
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
I like how that thread you quoted ended with some gung ho soldier suggesting that I should off myself because of his perception of my beliefs, as filtered through the panicky minds of right wingers.
You guys were a lot more fun back then, before reality set in. Everything is so muted now that it's embarrassing to even bring up the wars.
Or perhaps said "gung ho soldier" took offense at your snide moral relativism and shilling for terrorists. Just a thought.
The moral context of violent action is usually lost on the recipient.
Right is right, wrong is wrong. Dead men, women and children don't really know the difference in the end. They're just dead, and that's a considerable thing to most people left alive.
But by all means: America, Fuck Yeah.
If you can believe some random posting on the internet, that soldier saved the day. Even if he's talking about a really hard level in Call of Duty, then lots of real American soldiers did some other day.
Do you seriously not ask yourself why exactly such heroism (bordering on altruism) and opportunities haven't won over the locals?
My answer is still 'morally indifferent corpses', for the record.
Ron Paul, for what it's worth, sees it the same way:
http://www.blog.populistamerica.com/2009/10/05/bombs-and-bribes/
And if the U.S. had decided to leave Iraq to Shia vs. Sunni civil war, Dara would be equally adamant in his denunciation.
Revel observed the inherently contradictory nature of anti-Americanism:
"the intrinsically contradictory character of passionate anti-Americanism… The illogicality at base consists in reproaching the United States for some shortcoming, and then for its opposite."
"Until May of 2001, and for some years now, the main grievance against the United States was formulated in terms of the hyperpower's 'unilateralism,' its arrogant assumption that it could meddle everywhere and be the 'policeman of the world.' Then, over the summer of 2001, it became apparent that the administration of George W. Bush was less inclined than its predecessors to impose itself as universal lifesaver in one crisis after another—especially in the Middle East, where the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians was heating up alarmingly. From then on the reproof mutated into that of 'isolationism': a powerful country failing in its duties and, with monstrous egocentricity, looking only to its own national interests. With wonderful illogicality, the same spiteful bad temper inspired both indictments, though of course they were diametrically opposed." http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3498
Using a fringe element, such as Ron Paul, as an appeal to authority to support an argument is weak, even by Dara's standards.
Bruce,
"And if the U.S. had decided to leave Iraq to Shia vs. Sunni civil war,"
Your use of "leave" seems…. well, confused or disingenuous.
I think you need another verb in there. One with maybe a touch of nuance to suggest that maybe, just possibly, the situation in Iraq has been slightly influenced by the war that was brought to that country by the US. That there is some remote possibility that they didn't just kick over a rock and discover a society destabilized to the point of civil war that needed tending.
You could say "leave" the country to Saddam. That would be an accurate description of an actual choice, but I wouldn't blame the US for that as if it were their responsibility.
As far as citing Paul, it's not to support an argument. I came across it and thought it would be an interesting link in this thread.
Your argumentative technique in that last one seems to be just calling me anti-american and proceeding to attack that archetype. I've never considered the US to be isolationist nor would I criticize them for it.
"society destabilized to the point of civil war that needed tending."
You've just demonstrated Revel's point. As you say, the society needed stabilizing after Sadam was removed, yet you equate the soldiers who stuck around to stabalize the society with those who used terror to destabilize it.
Compare and contrast:
"As far as citing Paul, it's not to support an argument." with
"Ron Paul … sees it the same way"
The fact that you chose to ellipse out the expression "for what it's worth" speaks volumes for your style of argument.
I think you're deliberately missing my point about the reason why the US has any responsibility for the present state of Iraq, so I'll leave you to ponder it for yourself.
"you're deliberately missing my point about the reason why the US has any responsibility for the present state of Iraq"
That is irrelevant to the point. By your own admission, America had a responsibility for the destabilized situation in Iraq, but you damned the soldiers for stabilizing Iraq after Sadam was removed. Ergo, you've neatly demonstrated Revel's point about the inherently contradictory nature of anti-Americanism.
"The fact that you chose to ellipse out the expression 'for what it's worth' speaks volumes for your style of argument."
You used "for what it's worth" as a parenthetical. Your point was that Ron Paul agrees with you, which is an appeal to a authority.
"That is irrelevant to the point. By your own admission, America had a responsibility for the destabilized situation in Iraq, but you damned the soldiers for stabilizing Iraq after Sadam was removed."
Ridiculous. My actual words are very relevant when you want to remake my argument from whole cloth to fit yours.
"responsibility for the present state of Iraq"
is different than:
"responsibility for FIXING the present state of Iraq
I didn't say that the US was responsible for making Iraq stable again, nor did I damn soldiers for trying to do that. It's noble and maybe even just, but I don't see it making much difference.
I said that the US is partly responsible for the destabilization of Iraq because they invaded it, toppled its government, and bombed a good deal of infrastructure. This is a cause and effect statement, not a call to action.
But that doesn't fit your prefab argument so why would I expect you to read it the way it was written.
Also, look up that expression I used and check the date of the article. Like everything else you've purported to read here, you're reading far too much into it.
An "Anti-American" seems to be anyone who puts their own country's interests (or the interests of any other country) ahead of those of the Washington elite.


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