I found out last night that Gus Gusler, owner of Raleigh’s Player’s Retreat, discovered to his surprise that he was now a fan of Mitt Romney’s Facebook page. Anyone who knows Gusler knows how ludicrously improbable it is that he chose to do this willingly.
“I wouldn’t vote for that empty suit phony for dog catcher,” Gusler says.
Still hoping that the media starts taking this Mitt Romney Facebook hacking seriously.
Speaking of Foreign Affairs, I was delighted to see a writer make the same point about Israel as I did.
Israel is an ally, true, but Netanyahu needs to shut his piehole.
But it is Americans who ought to be incensed with Netanyahu. By insisting on red lines and threatening to launch a unilateral strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Netanyahu is trying to commit the United States to fighting a preventive war on Israel’s behalf. In effect, he is demanding that the United States do far more to protect Israel’s security than it does for any of its other allies. Netanyahu is also inserting himself into a U.S. presidential campaign to a degree unprecedented for the leader of a close American ally, implicitly echoing the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s charge that the Obama administration is “throwing Israel under the bus.”
During a recent visit to the wonderful Quail Ridge Books (boy how we need more local bookstores), I picked up a copy of the latest Foreign Affairs magazine. I used to subscribe to Foreign Affairs as an enlisted sailor in the Navy, trying to learn more about why the military was doing the things it was doing. It’s a wonderful (if pricey) magazine. Anyhow, the latest issue has an essay that says China sees America as a bully out to block its rise.
I don’t think that’s an accurate view of America-China relations. If America really wanted to thwart China, however, here’s how it would be done:
With the rest of the world going green by reducing car dependency and building greener military fleets, this strategy should set China back for decades.
