{"id":43858,"date":"2016-07-20T06:41:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T10:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=43858"},"modified":"2016-07-21T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T00:28:17","slug":"rudy-promises-more-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=43858","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Promises More War!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Ferndale, WA<br \/>\nJuly 19, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has changed with the GOP because of Trump! In fact, if what former<br \/>\nNYC Mayor Giuliani had to say last night is a preview of The Donald&#8217;s presidency,<br \/>\nthings are gonna get a lot worse.<\/p>\n<p>More war is on the way! Instead of Bush lite with Obama we are going to have<br \/>\nBush heavy&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.especially against both branches of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>For most listeners, Giuliani&#8217;s speech conflated the two opposing Muslim sects, the<br \/>\nSunni and Shia, when he labeled Iran the world&#8217;s leading source of terrorism<br \/>\nshortly after promising to go after &#8220;radical Islamic fundamentalism&#8221; that is<br \/>\nsupposed to be responsible for recent events in Europe, the US and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>All the fantasies of those who thought there might be some hope that Trump<br \/>\nwas different after he criticized W and Hillary for taking us to war in Iraq, Syria<br \/>\nand Libya plus bringing up 9\/11, vanished quickly for me after Rudy&#8217;s 16 minute<br \/>\ntirade.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=luzajJDsGOY\"> http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=luzajJDsGOY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was warmed over Neocon bromides and propaganda. The only thing missing<br \/>\nwas labeling Russia and China our enemies. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=43505\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=43505<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are a card-carrying member of the military-industrial-intelligence complex,<br \/>\nyour employment prospects remain quite strong, at least for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>Absent from his discussion and analysis of the problem was any mention of<br \/>\nour complicity in funding ISIS, of illegally invading other nations to implement<br \/>\nregime change in violation of international law or the immense cost of these<br \/>\nfailed foreign adventures undertaken by both Republican and Democratic<br \/>\nAdministrations.<\/p>\n<p>No: it was designed to work up the crowd into a frenzy of enthusiasm for<br \/>\nmore killing, more wars and less attention to the serious problems at home.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us disgusted by the prospect of unending wars, it looks like<br \/>\nwe are faced in 2016 with a choice of the &#8220;greater of two evils!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some day, long after I am gone, my descendants will be able to<br \/>\nchoose between two candidates embodying the &#8220;greater of two goods!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}