Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010: Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Well here goes.
It does not seem like we are getting any security guarantees with the current Foreign Policy that we are following. This is the one that works on stabilizing the Middle East by having an opium war with Afghanistan.
This does not have anything to do with the settlements issue. I once said that Obama has to stop settlements on the part of Israel and has to pass the Health Care reform. He has done the latter, but he has not done the former. This has also spawned a visit by the Iranian leader to Lebanon where he said that Lebanon is a part of of the Middle East implying that it is not an independent country. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean; but it does demonstrate that Iran will help the Hezbollah when the time comes. Hezbollah is already lobbing bombs into Israel, just not dirty bombs. Some people say it is only a matter time before the dirty bomb is used; for the moment, I do not think Hezbollah would use a dirty bomb, but who knows.

Then there is the inability to deal with Genocide with Tibet and in Darfur. This leads the Chinese and Omar E. Shariff to believe that they can get away with it. Well, they are getting away with right now, so a Foreign Policy needs to be created that stops both Genocides. The inability to deal with these two issues highlights just how weak this Foreign Policy really is; and how intractable these problems really are. Nobody but us, the United States, really challenges the Chinese on Tibet;or Bashir with his deplorable policy with Darfur. Bashir has gotten away with ignoring the ICC for 2 years now. I think we need to push more aggressively for concrete results with both of these issues. If not for the fact, that rape is becoming so commonplace is some places that it is not seen as the sinful injustice that it is; it is seen as some kind of game.

Then I just wanted to say that one of my ideas has taken root where Encore International has partnered with Peace Corps so as to extend the time, by a considerable amount, that a project has to be up and running. This is a much more honest approach to these kinds of development issues.

These are my thoughts for today........