America Needs to Be a Better Broker

Comments on General Wesley Clark’s speech at Capitol Hill, Dirksen Senate Office Building, January 30, 2006. Main points of his speech: On the Domestic front . The U.S. policy should value the country always before the party, and needs to respect political opponents. . We need an independent Supreme Court investigation on Abramoff and “culture of corruption”, to get the facts out in the open and get it over with. . Pushing for the tax cut to become permanent compounds the budget deficit, these tax cuts were passed as a temporary fix for the recession. The tax cuts compound the budget deficit. Also, we should encourage pay to play. In past 5 years, we have seen leadership without vision and foresight. Foreign relations For 1940 to 1990, American military was outstanding against the tyranny of communism. The effort was bipartisan, deterring the Soviets without using force. We had a unified strategy, persevering in diplomacy. In the end we won, the Berlin Wall came down, and the Soviet Union disintegrated into 11 separate states. . America needs to be a better broker to bring back the Sunnis to the political process, and to avoid the civil wars in Iraq. We didn’t mitigate strategically. We rightly struck back after 9/11, but soon the errors began, we went in without a plan, and without committing enough force, so that the locals ride the coattail of impunity. . North Korea and Iran profited, and are now accelerating their nuclear programs. . To create a better American thrust, and a new Atlantic charter, together we can move along with international forces. . Giant China grabs resources for their stupendous growth. We need to readdress grievances. We need to have transnational institutions for sets of multinational threats that are besetting us now. Free Mind comments: America sold China to appease Soviet expansion after WWII. It was a grotesque mistake. The U.S. thanked Soviets for their sacrifice in Leningrad, but without thanking the Chinese people for the greater sacrifice by the Chinese Nationalists in the Pacific region. An international scale of war, everything is interrelated, including the logistics and manpower. As supreme commander for all U.S. forces in World War II, why would George Marshall refuse to look up to the Nationalists soldiers’ accomplishments? If corruption is the excuse for the Nationalists, can we assume that America has no corruption today and during that era? What was the Americans’ fear and debt toward them? That is only bearing on God’s mind right now, and it will start to unfold and enlighten to the conscientious ones. This is a lesson for humanity.