Patrick Lawrence: The Democrats’ Assault on Diplomacy | Scheerpost

[Scott]

Another article from Patrick Lawrence that I thought was quite good...

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October 30, 2022

Actions speak louder than words and the Dems' "diplomacy first" approach has been all bark and no bite.

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost

It is only two years since Joe Biden, hitting the hustings in pursuit of the White House, had to promise big change on the foreign policy side. Americans were beyond weary of the forever wars. People were beginning to see that the Pentagon’s outlandish budget had everything to do with America’s miserable social welfare programs, collapsing infrastructure, poor public education, and so on.

“Diplomacy first” it was for Team Biden, resort to the military last. His main national security people—Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, William Burns—couldn’t stress the theme often enough. Lots of people—and I was not among them—thought it was terrif, a promising sign that the ship of state was at last changing course, that Burns, a former diplomat of ambassador rank, had been named director of the Central Intelligence Agency. No more covert ops and interventions.

Burns, I will remind readers, was among those who once upon a time counseled against advancing NATO eastward to Russia’s borders and provoking Moscow by arming the Ukrainians.
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Full article:
Patrick Lawrence: The Democrats’ Assault on Diplomacy | Scheerpost

 

[Scott]

Another article on the same theme, apparently written by the founder of Scheerpost, journalist Robert Scheer:
Is Dennis Kucinich the Last Democrat for Peace? | Scheerpost


Here's the introduction:

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October 28, 2022

Former Congressman and Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich joins Scheer Intelligence to discuss the Dems' infamously rescinded peace letter and the future with China.

Why will the Democrats, from the president down through the ranks of the party that controls Congress, not give peace a chance? When members of the party’s progressive caucus recently issued a call for Biden to negotiate with Putin, they were forced by the party leadership and its cheerleader chorus in the media to meekly back down and rescind their letter to the president. The message was: How dare they suggest a path of negotiation followed by every president, irrespective of party, to pursue a peaceful alternative to the inevitably indiscriminate killing of war?

Suddenly, the example of President Kennedy’s Cuban missile crisis dialogue with Khrushchev and Nixon’s visit with Mao during the Vietnam War were deemed off limits. Or Trump attempting to diffuse tension with nuclear-armed North Korea. Diplomacy is not to be considered even as a tightly restrained suggestion in a letter by 30 Democratic members of Congress to the leader of their party, our current president.

In this week’s Scheer Intelligence, former eight-term Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, states, “I read the letter several times, and it mentioned diplomacy about a half dozen times, he tells host Robert Scheer. “And what’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with trying to end a war where the U.S. has already spent upwards of $60 billion, where Ukraine is being wrecked, at least 15,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and Russian soldiers killed. This thing has all the signs of spiraling out of control and so it was appropriate for members to send that letter to the White House and to see the leadership’s response was not just disappointing but alarming.”
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[LurchAddams]

Another article on the same theme, apparently written by the founder of Scheerpost, journalist Robert Scheer:
Is Dennis Kucinich the Last Democrat for Peace? | Scheerpost


Here's the introduction:

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October 28, 2022

Former Congressman and Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich joins Scheer Intelligence to discuss the Dems' infamously rescinded peace letter and the future with China.

Why will the Democrats, from the president down through the ranks of the party that controls Congress, not give peace a chance? When members of the party’s progressive caucus recently issued a call for Biden to negotiate with Putin, they were forced by the party leadership and its cheerleader chorus in the media to meekly back down and rescind their letter to the president. The message was: How dare they suggest a path of negotiation followed by every president, irrespective of party, to pursue a peaceful alternative to the inevitably indiscriminate killing of war?

Suddenly, the example of President Kennedy’s Cuban missile crisis dialogue with Khrushchev and Nixon’s visit with Mao during the Vietnam War were deemed off limits. Or Trump attempting to diffuse tension with nuclear-armed North Korea. Diplomacy is not to be considered even as a tightly restrained suggestion in a letter by 30 Democratic members of Congress to the leader of their party, our current president.

In this week’s Scheer Intelligence, former eight-term Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, states, “I read the letter several times, and it mentioned diplomacy about a half dozen times, he tells host Robert Scheer. “And what’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with trying to end a war where the U.S. has already spent upwards of $60 billion, where Ukraine is being wrecked, at least 15,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and Russian soldiers killed. This thing has all the signs of spiraling out of control and so it was appropriate for members to send that letter to the White House and to see the leadership’s response was not just disappointing but alarming.”
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I gave you a "thanks" for this post because I remember Dennis K!

When he ran for president, I found out (and this is TRUE I am not making this up):

1. He believes aliens have landed on Earth.
2. He's uglier than sin, but he got an red-haired, English girl, half his age to marry him. When she was interviewed during his presidential attempt, we discovered she had a tounge ring

Ah.. memories

 

[Scott]

I gave you a "thanks" for this post because I remember Dennis K!

When he ran for president, I found out (and this is TRUE I am not making this up):

1. He believes aliens have landed on Earth.
2. He's uglier than sin, but he got an red-haired, English girl, half his age to marry him. When she was interviewed during his presidential attempt, we discovered she had a tounge ring

Ah.. memories

1- I myself believe that aliens exist. So do a majority of Americans:
Most Americans believe in aliens, new study reveals | New York Post

I also read a book containing a lot of evidence that they have indeed landed on earth that I thought was quite good, this one:
Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us | Amazon

At this point, even mainstream media outlets like Netflix has a host of documentaries and docu-series exploring the evidence that aliens aren't just figments of the imagination:
11 Best UFO Documentaries On Netflix Right Now | Screen Rant

2- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think most would agree that his red-haired wife is quite the catch. She married him in 2005 and they're still together. The following article gives a good idea as to why:
An excerpt from "The Secret Lives of Wives" | CBS News

From the article:
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I am settling into my seat on a Southwest flight en route from Cleveland to Baltimore, and as I'm buckling up I notice that Dennis Kucinich is in the row in front of me. The Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential candidate from Ohio, if you can't picture him, is short, in his mid- sixties, and has large ears and an elfin face. It is five minutes from takeoff and just as the flight attendant is about to begin her air- mask spiel, a six- foot latecomer with waist- length red hair and tight jeans comes racing on board, puts one long leg over the armrest, and cozies up so close to Kucinich she is practically sitting on top of him. This is not hyperbole: She is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. And she looks like a college student.

She kisses his ear, his cheek, then they start making out. They radiate the heat of teenagers in the backseat of a car. I break the "cell phone off" rule and text my friend Max: "Need NOW. Google Dennis Kucinich and tell me if he's married and if yes, how long." God love Max: In less than a minute, before we start our whoosh down the runway, she reports that these incongruous lovebirds are thirty- one years apart and have been married for six years, Elizabeth Harper is his third wife, and he is her first husband. (I then turned my phone off , for any FAA official reading this.) Back in my office, I did some more digging on her official website, on which is posted a thorough article titled "How Kucinich Found Love," by Evelyn Theiss, that ran just after they wed, in the October 30, 2005, edition of Cleveland's The Plain Dealer. I discovered that Harper is an activist from the English village of North Ockendon who grew up in a cottage where Pea Lane meets Dennis Lane. She saw this as a sign that the politician, always the shortest boy in his class, was meant to be with her, always the tallest girl in the class. She met Kucinich when she visited his office on Capitol Hill on behalf of her job with the Chicago- based American Monetary Institute.

Harper said that she knew within "eight minutes" of their first encounter that Kucinich would be her husband, and that she "loves everything" about the man known for championing humanitarian crusades. Having traveled to India at the age of eighteen to work with Mother Teresa's charity, she immediately noticed the bust of Gandhi on Kucinich's shelf, another sign of a soul mate. A few months later, they were dancing at their wedding reception in the rotunda of Cleveland City Hall. The groom was fifty- eight, and the bride, who has a pierced tongue, was twentyseven. Elizabeth shoos off naysayers of the May- December match with this explanation to The Plain Dealer reporter Theiss: "And it's not like I'm some ditsy young thing and he's an old fogey. He has the wisdom of an ancient and the energy of youth." Theiss got the first story, fresh off the blush of the nuptials. I would love to interview Elizabeth Harper Kucinich in ten or thirty years, when she has lived with her mate as long as the rest of the women portrayed in The Secret Lives of Wives. These are wives who have accrued lots of ancient wisdom about what can feel like ancient marriages. Not many of them would lope down an airplane aisle and start nuzzling and necking with their husbands, oblivious to the crowd, lost in lip- locks.
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As to the tongue ring, I personally wouldn't recommend it, but it's something the younger generations have experimented with. I think my niece had one a while back. I imagine that Elizabeth has similarly outgrown it, but if not, no big deal in my view.

 

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Burns, I will remind readers, was among those who once upon a time counseled against advancing NATO eastward to Russia’s borders and provoking Moscow by arming the Ukrainians.

I wonder how the USA would react to a hostile military alliance it's border?
NATO expansion turned NATO into an offensive organization

 

[LurchAddams]

1- I myself believe that aliens exist. So do a majority of Americans:
Most Americans believe in aliens, new study reveals | New York Post

I also read a book containing a lot of evidence that they have indeed landed on earth that I thought was quite good, this one:
Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us | Amazon

At this point, even mainstream media outlets like Netflix has a host of documentaries and docu-series exploring the evidence that aliens aren't just figments of the imagination:
11 Best UFO Documentaries On Netflix Right Now | Screen Rant

2- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think most would agree that his red-haired wife is quite the catch. She married him in 2005 and they're still together. The following article gives a good idea as to why:
An excerpt from "The Secret Lives of Wives" | CBS News

From the article:
**
I am settling into my seat on a Southwest flight en route from Cleveland to Baltimore, and as I'm buckling up I notice that Dennis Kucinich is in the row in front of me. The Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential candidate from Ohio, if you can't picture him, is short, in his mid- sixties, and has large ears and an elfin face. It is five minutes from takeoff and just as the flight attendant is about to begin her air- mask spiel, a six- foot latecomer with waist- length red hair and tight jeans comes racing on board, puts one long leg over the armrest, and cozies up so close to Kucinich she is practically sitting on top of him. This is not hyperbole: She is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. And she looks like a college student.

She kisses his ear, his cheek, then they start making out. They radiate the heat of teenagers in the backseat of a car. I break the "cell phone off" rule and text my friend Max: "Need NOW. Google Dennis Kucinich and tell me if he's married and if yes, how long." God love Max: In less than a minute, before we start our whoosh down the runway, she reports that these incongruous lovebirds are thirty- one years apart and have been married for six years, Elizabeth Harper is his third wife, and he is her first husband. (I then turned my phone off , for any FAA official reading this.) Back in my office, I did some more digging on her official website, on which is posted a thorough article titled "How Kucinich Found Love," by Evelyn Theiss, that ran just after they wed, in the October 30, 2005, edition of Cleveland's The Plain Dealer. I discovered that Harper is an activist from the English village of North Ockendon who grew up in a cottage where Pea Lane meets Dennis Lane. She saw this as a sign that the politician, always the shortest boy in his class, was meant to be with her, always the tallest girl in the class. She met Kucinich when she visited his office on Capitol Hill on behalf of her job with the Chicago- based American Monetary Institute.

Harper said that she knew within "eight minutes" of their first encounter that Kucinich would be her husband, and that she "loves everything" about the man known for championing humanitarian crusades. Having traveled to India at the age of eighteen to work with Mother Teresa's charity, she immediately noticed the bust of Gandhi on Kucinich's shelf, another sign of a soul mate. A few months later, they were dancing at their wedding reception in the rotunda of Cleveland City Hall. The groom was fifty- eight, and the bride, who has a pierced tongue, was twentyseven. Elizabeth shoos off naysayers of the May- December match with this explanation to The Plain Dealer reporter Theiss: "And it's not like I'm some ditsy young thing and he's an old fogey. He has the wisdom of an ancient and the energy of youth." Theiss got the first story, fresh off the blush of the nuptials. I would love to interview Elizabeth Harper Kucinich in ten or thirty years, when she has lived with her mate as long as the rest of the women portrayed in The Secret Lives of Wives. These are wives who have accrued lots of ancient wisdom about what can feel like ancient marriages. Not many of them would lope down an airplane aisle and start nuzzling and necking with their husbands, oblivious to the crowd, lost in lip- locks.
**

As to the tongue ring, I personally wouldn't recommend it, but it's something the younger generations have experimented with. I think my niece had one a while back. I imagine that Elizabeth has similarly outgrown it, but if not, no big deal in my view.

I would love to believe it. Dammit, I was just in New Mexico yesterday! I should have stopped by Area 51. Now, my friend, you're about to tell me Area 51 is in Nevada. <--- that's what they WANT you to think!

But seriously, I would love to believe it. Show me proof, just like proof of the Sasquatch and Loche Ness Monster and I will be a believer as well. I'm a huge sci-fi nut, as well as being a total nut, so show me proof. I want to believe!

 

[Scott]

I would love to believe it. Dammit, I was just in New Mexico yesterday! I should have stopped by Area 51. Now, my friend, you're about to tell me Area 51 is in Nevada. <--- that's what they WANT you to think!

Lol . I think we can all agree that it'd be nice to have some friendly aliens that would help us out of the mess we're in. From what I've heard, there's friendly and unfriendly types. I haven't seen any myself, and I've not seen any strong evidence that they've affected things politically much if at all, so for the most part, I don't really get into it. Not to mention that most forums tend to either delete threads that go on about evidence of aliens or shuttle them off to some conspiracy section where few tend to post.

But seriously, I would love to believe it. Show me proof, just like proof of the Sasquatch and Loche Ness Monster and I will be a believer as well. I'm a huge sci-fi nut, as well as being a total nut, so show me proof. I want to believe!

I never said I had proof . I believe there's plenty of evidence. But I'm not sure it'd be worth my time even getting into that, especially if this is one of those forums where threads of that nature are dealt with as I mention above.

 

[LurchAddams]

Lol . I think we can all agree that it'd be nice to have some friendly aliens that would help us out of the mess we're in. From what I've heard, there's friendly and unfriendly types. I haven't seen any myself, and I've not seen any strong evidence that they've affected things politically much if at all, so for the most part, I don't really get into it. Not to mention that most forums tend to either delete threads that go on about evidence of aliens or shuttle them off to some conspiracy section where few tend to post.



I never said I had proof . I believe there's plenty of evidence. But I'm not sure it'd be worth my time even getting into that, especially if this is one of those forums where threads of that nature are dealt with as I mention above.

I just wish all the rumors didn't contain so much "butt probe" stuff!

 

[Scott]

I just wish all the rumors didn't contain so much "butt probe" stuff!

Lol . The Netflix docuseries that I've seen don't make any mention of such things I believe. I think the time of outlandish stories is ending and the time of more concrete evidence is becoming the more popular thing.