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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

FEIN: Unaddressed issue

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soxconn

Mr. Fein does not have to worry. U.S. primacy is receding. It started with the globalization and the multilateralism of the Clinton Administration. You can have global consensus as a base for multilateralism but when it evolves because of exceptions and regional interest compliance, multilateralism becomes a dysfunctional global or "superpower" policy (John Van Oudenaren). Compliance stability does not depend on military force alone, especially when economic, political and cultural "rules of engagement" are applied and the superpower is not total authoritarian, i.e. when the global legalists take over military power and it is constrained and therefore not influential on economic, cultural and political competition. The superpower therefore becomes economic, political and cultural by region. Such is the case with Russia and China. A type of power entropy occurs in that as the U.S. recedes, someone always fills in, authoritarian or otherwise. Eventually Russia will intimidate or overwhelm the EU unless they can consolidate their constitution. Without energy independence and the help of the U.S. I doubt they will be able to withstand Russian primacy. China on the other hand is seeking military parity, has unlimited human resources to expend and is the dominant power in Southeast Asia.
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kc1

Mr. Fein is right to address these issues. They are life and death for our Constitution and our republic. Tyranny has been planted like a malignant seed in our republic by the current occupants of the executive branch. With the servile help from a Con controlled congress the executive has increased his powers. He now wages war where ever he deems it fit. From far off lands (denying any right of Congress to modify his behavior and willfully supported by the Con Congress whose power increases with the executive.) to here at home where he has usurped the power to declare even a citizen an enemy combatant. The Con media has given legitimacy to these unconstitutional policies. They strike out at any who oppose as traitors or liberals. Their hate of those they deem liberal is such that any action that decreases the so called libs power is seized and made a Con banner. Even those policies that threaten our very liberty are endorsed if it increases they're wealth and power. We are seeing the beginning of America's Weimer days. How it will end depends on how the next administration treats the actions oft he out going executive. If no one is held accountable. If no one stands up and declares the policies wrong, illegal and unconstitutional then the days of our Republic are numbered. P.S. to soxconn...no where in our history can you find a mandate to confront other powers in the world. Our greatness as a nation has never been in confronting the rise of other powers. Such rise and falls have no bearing on our Constitution of our liberty. Those two pillars are what makes our nation great. Only the rise of Fascism required we rise up to destroy another power overseas. No such power has risen since then and we do not need to seek out enemies to destroy to make ourselves great or powerful. Our history and traditions are completely contrary to such actions.
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