Category Archives: Poli-Philos

What Become of the New Year?

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Curtis Greco

The short answer is: precisely what you make of it. True, I am an itinerant optimist; I elect to look for unfolding promise whatever its phase, fully aware that a relentless force lies in opposition willing an alternate point of view.

Take for example, this Nation; a testament to the durability of its foundation is seen in the heights of its success so much so that it has been sufficient to keep it fighting for its life – scarred, demoralized and fractured though it may be – through a seemingly relentless plunge toward its own self-destruction.  Read more...

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The Art of Dysfunction

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Curtis Greco

Government, when left to its own device, devolves into a demoralizing medium; the outcome of a bureaucracy-mentality operating in the only way its design will allow it to persist.

It cannot look toward the ideal of perfecting its function or even efficiency, to do so would lessen its fundamental mandate and so, instead, it works devilishly to fatigue the public’s expectation of what constitutes appropriate outcome from proper form. The result of course is near perfect dysfunction.

While the rolls of dependency expand so do the numbers disenfranchised, metered by a dominating sense of overwhelming mediocrity. Faithfully endorsed by those with expectations based on what comes at no price; or so it seems.  Read more...

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Intentional Failure & the Folly of “Recruiting Tool” Logic

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Curtis Greco

The Visa Waiver Program, including the K-1 Fiancé Visa Waiver, predates the Obama Administration and, likewise, so does the Islamic ideal of a Global Caliphate predate the existence of the U.S. Prison at Guantanamo, Cuba. Point being: Despite the stated use of “vigorous vetting” and the President’s claim that aggressive actions by the U.S., in even the most basic applications of security protocols, are somehow “recruiting tools” for various Terror-Driven Ideologues.  Read more...

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Economic Picture

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Curtis Greco

As Rahm Emanuel said; “never let a serious crisis go to waste”. It is often the distraction of a crisis that leads our attention away from something far more critical. In fact, one might often wonder if the entire scheme isn’t manufactured for that specific purpose.

Condensed version: Both the global economic and political climates (presently) are eerily similar to that of the late 1920’s; serious economic and international unrest that led to what we now think of as WWII. It should be interesting to note that it was the advent of WWII that ultimately served as the genesis of the U.S. and ultimately Europe and Japans economic recovery.  Read more...

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Trump calls for Shutting-Down Muslim Entry into U.S.; Merchandising a Political Narrative?

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Curtis Greco

The real problem is not with Trumps statement but with the failure to acknowledge and address a problem that has been known to exist for nearly 4 decades. Hezbollah, for example, goes back to Khomeini’s Islamist Regime’s Takeover of Iran circa 1979; thank you President Carter.

The U.S. has been unwilling to control its boarders, it has been unwilling to secure or even adequately tighten its “entry processes” and, far worse, the Administration has continued to refute the causal relationship between Terrorist Actions and their defining Ideology. So in what sense is Trumps pronouncement so extreme given the threat and the targets unwillingness to move from victim status to either the aggressor or, at the very least, an impregnable target?  Read more...

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