Things to Ponder: ISIS, Racism, Guns, Chris Christie, Gay Rights, Joe Biden

Neo-conservatives really need to think about exactly what they hope American troops would accomplish if they enter the fight against ISIS.  ISIS we learn today is now fighting Hamas in Gaza.  They have lone wolf's in Tunisia, Kuwait, France, the U.K. and the U.S.A.  These lone wolf's uniformly say they want to fight America and its allies because there is a war on Islam.  America and its allies see a War on Terrorists (or anarchists as I prefer).  But the one thing that is clear is that if we put American troops in harm's way, ISIS's recruiters will be very successful in increasing their numbers of people who join ISIS.  Might it not be better to go after the money that is necessary to support this gang and might it not be better for Islamic Armies to put them down.  After all, if there is a non-anarchist philosophy to ISIS it is a Sunni-Shiite divide and why should American troops be part of that.  It has been 1500 years in development and breaks out now?  We should try to fix the source of what caused it to break out now (which means restoring Sunni governance somewhere in Iraq) and allow Islamic armies to control the radicals.  American troops can only do so much and they cannot do that unless they occupy Iraq, Syria, Gaza, Libya, Yemen and who knows where else.  We haven't even gotten to the Taliban and if American troops were in all those places, it sure would look like a Western War on Islam, even if we were doing the Saudi's and Iran's bidding.  Those 2 countries are after-all the source of funding for ISIS, AlQaeda, HAMAS, and Hezbollah. I don't know who funds the Taliban.

Conservative GOP leaders who want to expand their party need to look closely at what is going on in the South.  Low life pick-up truck drivers flying confederate and American flags together parading around small towns in the South.  6 African American churches burned to the ground in the South, at least 3 known to be arson, in the last week.  The Congressional GOP rhetoric against Obama has fueled this by giving it political cover.  When you want to ruin a Presidency and do everything in your power including shutting down the government to try and accomplish that and fail, the hate in that message provides fuel to low life action, which in the rural south, is aimed at local African Americans and results in different forms of violence against those African Americans.   The GOP needs to ponder what cost their messaging creates.

And Chris Christie calls Obama feckless.  He took out Osama Bin Ladan, has drones taking out everyone they can.  Just what does Chris Christie want to do in addition to that?  I hope he reads the 1st paragraph.

And finally, with almost 300 million guns in America, we cannot put the genie back in the bottle anytime in anyone living's lifetime.  But I do not believe mentally ill people should have access to guns.  And I do believe that Policeman kill young unarmed black men because they are in fear for their lives from not knowing who possesses a gun when they are in difficult situations, although there are certainly examples where they had no valid reason for fear and they shot/killed someone anyway.  So I hope police everywhere will ponder their responsibility to protect everybody.  And I certainly respect the civilian populations desire to hold police accountable, just as I respect the job the police do when they put their live's in danger from people who just want to cause harm to them.

Any while I know Conservative bloggers are mad as hell at the Supreme Court for extending what 36 states had already done to the last 14 states, I am putting a quote below that one of my Evangelical Conservative friends put on his Facebook page.  I give him credit for seeing the equality rights of individuals as a unifying theme in the American fabric.

"Claiming that someone else's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a doughnut while you are on a diet.

And lastly as an edit add-on thought that I picked up in a Washington Post op-ed column.  Run Joe Run.  I know it will be painful, but you care deeply about the issues without being a liberal wing nut and don't have Hillary's baggage.  Please Joe, Run.  Save us from Bernie.  Save us from a Bush Clinton race.  Joe Biden for President, YES!!!!