Category Archives: Historical Reference

Israel: Two-State Moving Closer?

To better understand the importance of the President’s move to push forward with relocating the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem one needs to understand the history of Palestine particularly as it relates to the Israelites (historical geography and religious terms) and the historically temperamental role the British played, largely for preservative-economic reasons, in the mock-up of present-day Middle-East.

Today, oddly enough, much of the plenum-in-opposition to a two-state solution maintains the very same preservative-economic motives. Even if resting on the historical and religious arguments it’s quite difficult to substantively object to Israel’s right to a homeland securitized by International endorsement which is, by the way, no less the case for non-Jew’s/Arab’s and while the U.S. has, since 1948, supported and has come to represent the most conspicuous solution-advocate and, we should note, without the kinetic forces of other influential States.

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Timeless Emerson

When chaos, like an all-consuming fog, makes its presence known, it’s good to have great wisdoms at hand to aid in righting your thoughts. I offer you a few of my favorites, all of which are from Emerson. Were it the case that these were all I were to have ever had the privilege to read, I’d have surely been the better, for what we consume becomes the image etched in the mirror.

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”

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The Possibility of a Promise-Kept Remains

Regardless of the various faults we too frequently layer upon its design, the American Representative Constitutional Democracy is a thing of beauty. It’s ability to return to the Consenting Governed the possibility of a promise fulfilled is, in itself, a near perpetual promise-kept and one which must never be taken lightly; one which too few Nations afford their People.

The World watches the U.S. and once again stands still with amazement at how, despite our feeble appearance of shrewdness, we still manage to reveal to the world what may possibly be our single greatest attribute as a nation. Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker and historian from the mid-1800’s, stated it best by way of the following two comments:  

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Clinton; redux LBJ?

“Gentlemen, I want you to know I’m not going to let Vietnam go the way China did. I’m personally committed. I’m not going to take one soldier out of there ’til they know we mean business in Asia…You just get me elected, and I’ll give you your damned war.” (Source: Oliver Stone’s “JFK”).

While it is not known that these words were actually (ever) used or that the conversation ever occurred however, LBJ’s acrid temperament was well know from as far back as his Texas origins along with his insatiable appetite for breaking norms, to the extreme in some cases, to affect his will.

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“Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.” Andrew Jackson

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