Let me be brief.
As a prelude to President
Obama's address to the nation tonight,
I am thinking:
Warning! Warning! Warning!
Rome is burning while too many Americans are having a typical knee-jerk reaction to hate, to govern by Bible, to build an arsenal and to isolate,
preferably, but not always, in white, American Taliban groupings. ( Knee-jerk defined here )
And, lack of education will be our downfall...
Watching this parochial reaction
spread like wildfire among the willfully uninformed and the willfully
ill-informed, fueled by a willfully ignorant media is highly
disturbing and my brain reflexively seeks clarity, not randomly, but
drawing from American History, study, observation and outcomes.
To date, I've concluded:
ONE:
We live in a global world.
TWO:
The President understands
that and, despite the GOP preference for nullifying him and those of
us who voted for him, his work toward peace and prosperity by
bringing like-minded nations to the global table based on The Common
Good underlies his vision for American success but those of us who do
not do our homework do not know that.
THREE:
The Obama Doctrine, as
conceived by himself, has been and is being implemented by
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of
State John Kerry and all of the public servants who support their
effort in shifting U.S. Foreign Policy from one of might is right
thinking to one of let diplomacy work thinking but those of us who do
not do our homework do not know that.
FOUR:
We live in a
representative democracy but we act as if we live in a direct
democracy and that clash gridlocks the United States government (us)
just a much, perhaps more so, than said strategic GOP nullification. Systems are only as good as those who are running
them and those of us who of us have abdicated our responsibility by
not voting are accountable for what we have wrought, a country nearly
completely run by the GOP.
FIVE:
Finally, we have no excuse for not
being informed citizens. Aside from seeking trusted interpreters of
facts without ulterior motives (who still have to be fact-checked, BTW), I encourage going to the
source which is as simple, in the case of U.S. Foreign Policy, of
accessing the White House and the State House websites and beginning
to read.
Tonight, President Obama
will address the nation in the context of terrorism.
Personally, throughout the
week, I've watch a gaggle of media-types divining and pontificating
on the topic. But, I don't think I've seen one, single person in the
President's loop invited to join the conversation ~ exactly the
people who should be hosted 24/7 to discuss a national threat. Aren't
they?
So, let me leave you with
one video to get you started on doing your homework and/or adding to
your homework before President Obama speaks to us tonight so we might all become more informed. It is
Secretary of State John Kerry, a direct source, who spoke at the
“Saban Forum 2015: Israel and the United States: Yesterday, today,
and tomorrow” …
It is my hope that it will
put into context the complexities of Foreign Policy in the 21st
Century and remind all of us why we elected President Obama in the first place ~ it is his lead we need to follow not the lead of the uninformed and/or the ulterior motivated.
Secretary of State John Kerry: Keynotes @ Saban Forum 2015.
TY for your attention to
this matter.
( FYI: You should be able to access
Hillary Clinton's keynote speech at the same event today here )
( And you can watch the President's address live here )
( And you can watch the President's address live here )
( * First of the Month Favorite Hillary Clinton Posts ~ Shareable and Sometimes Actionable Depending... will return January 3, 2016.)
G., aka Partisan
Democrat
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