Being Ignored Can Be a Blessing, by Robert Gore
The war lobby ceaselessly conjures threats to US interests and conspiracies to dominate the world. All which must be met with US intervention—overt, covert, or both. How do you conjure a threat when a big part of the world decides to ignore you, who at best sees the US as irrelevant, at worst, a dangerous nuisance? One of life’s joys, all too rare, is telling self-important, pompous people that nobody cares what they do or say, or even if they live or die. It’s been a long time coming, but the rest of the world is starting to tell the US to keep its opinions and interventions to itself, and that’s a good thing for all concerned.
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by appointing as its head someone supposedly
hostile to it. It would be better to simply attempt to abolish it. (Not that Trump necessarily can; but he should try to get Congress to do it). Appointing a supposedly "hostile" head is like-
ly simply to corrupt the "hostile" head of it, and
just turn him into a statist bureaucrat.
Right, wrong, legal, illegal, supported, unsupported, to hell with this. This is not America's problem.
UNDP in Crimea conducted series of polls about possible referendum on joining Russia with a sample size of 1200:
Quarter Yes No Undecided
2009 Q3[36] 70% 14% 16%
2009 Q4[36] 67% 15% 18%
2010 Q1[37] 66% 14% 20%
2010 Q2[37] 65% 12% 23%
2010 Q3[37] 67% 11% 22%
2010 Q4[37] 66% 9% 25%
2011 Q4[38] 65.6% 14.2% 20.2%
A post-referendum survey, commissioned by John O’Loughlin, College Professor of Distinction and Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail), Professor of Government and International Affairs at Virginia Tech’s National Capital Region campus, was conducted during December 2014 by the Levada-Center, and published in Open Democracy on March 3, 2015.[40] The survey showed "widespread support for Crimea’s decision to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation one year ago."
While the authors of that survey felt and opined that Crimea’s secession was “an illegal act under international law,” they also acknowledged “It is also an act that enjoys the widespread support of the peninsula’s inhabitants, with the important exception of its Crimean Tatar population.” Despite the survey's distinction of Crimean Tatar support for accession to Russia being lower than the support from the rest of Crimea's population, the survey still found that significantly more Crimean Tatars either felt that Crimea's secession from Ukraine and accession to Russia was either the "Absolutely right decision," or the "Generally right decision," than the number of Crimean Tatars who felt that the 2014 referendum outcome was the "Wrong decision." Overall, the survey found that 84% of Crimeans felt that the choice to secede fro Ukraine and accede to Russia was "Absolutely the right decision."
Perhaps the past regime and its lock step media support hoped that quietly reported inconvenient fact would fly past unnoticed by most USA citizens.
1) The military industrial complex making sure it stays in business.
2) The military making sure it has something to do.
3) The above and the CIA serving interest outside of our interests. Examples: New World Order, The Crown, The United Nations, The Central Banks, or Global Corporations..etc.
4) We also can't forget some with a pure desire to protect innocent human life and a desire that all men be free. I would think these people would be a very small minority used by all of the above to advance their own agenda's.
My point: I'm not all that sure that all of the Conscious world see's it the way you describe, but I'm convinced by your dissertation, that perhaps the Non-Conscious world probably does.
There will be some from the GOP who will vote for even more cuts than that, but I doubt if there will be more than a few. So I predict another round of congress pretending to fix the deficit in the next 4 years.
The only thing that has any chance of fixing the deficit is closing down entire agencies of federal government and restoring free markets. At least 51% of the congress must change ethically and in guiding principles for that to happen.. Trump's recommendation of another Goldman Sachs denizen (with financial ties to George Soros) as Treasury Secretary does not bode well for ethics to win over banking cartel looting.
"Putting America’s own house in order, or even making a good start, would be a full-time, eight-year endeavor for the entire Trump team, and that’s if they never take vacations or sleep."
Yes. We'll have to make graphs of gov't spending, budget deficit, military spending, and overall debt including indirect "debt" of entitlements. If eight years is the time-table, we should aim to reduce the deficit by around 60 billion a year while separately reforming entitlements. You call this an intractable problem, but just holding gov't constant, not growing it, would solve it eight years. Do you predict the deficit to decrease by around $60 billion in FY 2018?