Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
By Prozac:
By Several Writers | The New York Times
By Bernard Gwertzman | Council on Foreign Relations
By Mark Landler | The New York Times
By Robert Marquand | The Christian Science Monitor
By Christi Parsons and Kathleen Hennessey | Los Angeles Times
By Aaron David Miller | Foreign Policy
By Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy
By Andrew J. Bacevich | Commonweal Magazine
By Staff | Washington Free Beacon
By Ian Tuttle | National Review
Comment: Girl in mid-30s, apparently never took time (years) to learn subjects she has to address. Speaks PR fluently, not scholarship/experience/learning. Perfect spox for permanent juveniles. Give her credit for the power of will necessary to conduct shameless effrontery. No normal personality can do that. I think Giuliani turned them.
And Harf jumps from analyst to spox at CIA without years of learning. Then more spox elsewhere, without learning. Meaning CIA et al also are permanent juveniles.
Thin, bumptious juveniles done in Nixon… and Nixon employing such.
God save us from the screaming unlearned! A military officer is past 40 years and has a post-graduate degree or two before trusted with command of about 800 souls, e.g., an Army battalion. They are past 50 before trusted with general or flag rank. And the State Department sends fresh female Harvard BAs in gender studies to war zones to tell military officers how the world works and what they must do to work with it.
By Richard Spencer | The Telegraph
By Thought:
By Elliott Abrams | The Washington Post
By David Rothkopf | Foreign Policy
By John Bolton | The Wall Street Journal
By Richard Fernandez | The Belmont Club
By Richard Fernandez | The Belmont Club
By Robert G. Kaufman | Orange County Register
By Angelo Codevilla | The Claremont Institute: Statecraft As Warcraft and on victory in the “war on terrorism”.
By Matthew Continetti | The Washington Free Beacon
By Daniel Kochis | The Daily Signal
By Nile Gardiner | The Daily Signal
By Walter Russell Mead | The American Interest
By David R. Graham | Theological Geography
By Richard Spencer | The Telegraph
By Recognition
Statecraft comprises three components: Diplomatics – Finance – War Fighting.
Diplomatics comprises three components: See Thoroughly – Hear Carefully – Speak Softly.
These components of Diplomatics may be described as: Clear Eyes – Clear Ears – Clear Voice.
These components of Diplomatics also may be described as: Spying – Influencing – Negotiating.
Finance comprises three components: Stability – Fluidity – Impartiality.
These components of Finance may be described as: Strong Body – Hard Mind – Soft Heart.
These components of Finance also may be described as: Acquiring – Husbanding – Distributing.
War Fighting comprises three components: Constant Readiness – Quiet Vigilance – Lethal Seriousness.
These components of War Fighting may be described as: Active Feet – Open Eyes – Raised Arms.
These components of War Fighting also may be described as: Drill – Anticipate – Hit.
USA Statecraft comprises deepening the strength of USA diplomatic, financial and war fighting assets and deploying them for the purpose of not only maintaining but, par excellence, expanding USA national sovereignty.
Update 1: My friend Bob Belvedere has very kindly used the latter part of this post as a Thought For The Day at his blog The Camp Of The Saints. Bob is a great warrior for truth and beauty.
Update 2: Robert Spencer: Whitewashing The Caliphate.
Update 3: On 20JUN14, one Raymond Ibrahim, at PJMedia(!), essayed superficially on Islam’s Protestant Reformation. I commented:
Historical, textual and form criticism of the Koran proceeds quietly and with palpable risk to life and limb. But it proceeds. These tools were applied to the Christian and Hebrew Bibles over the last nearly 300 years, since Reimarus. Probably the best work of this kind will come, as it did for Christianity and Judaism, from Germany.
This is the most powerful threat to Caliphist pretensions and its potential has triggered the several visible reactionary vectors of puritanical Caliphist violence just as did the several Enlightenments of the 18th Century, including the American one, trigger the puritanical, hateful reaction of Wahhab. USA has been at war with Wahhab’s terrorized, purist minions since Jefferson sent a Naval and Marine punitive expedition to the Med and Tripoli.
It’s not a ten-year war. It’s a 200+-year war. Time to end that war in victory through unconditional surrender of every trouble-maker in the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Then we can get on to the big enemy today: China (and here), and here.
It’s not about who is good or bad. It is about who is right and who is wrong. Puritans, purists, violent ones, are always wrong. They deserve power crashing down on them and flattening their wills to fight.
Update 4: On 27 January 2015, Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis addressed the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject A New American Grand Strategy. At Hoover Institution, who published an adapted version of General Mattis’ address, I commented — with edits here — as follows:
Not that it matters, but, I both appreciate and despond over General Mattis’ address here. Appreciate because (1) as a genuine warrior he says what he sees and eloquently and (2) his heart is unalloyed courage and compassion. Despond because (1) his address reflects lack of situational awareness — half his auditors at least regard the nation state, including USA, as obsolete and perishing — and (2) his address, although latterly specifying or implying serious tactical weaknesses of current operations, transits the periphery of his title: grand national strategy.
It is rare for a military leader to grasp and execute the several strands — principally diplomatic, economic and military, but others as well — of grand national strategy sufficiently to create a rational grand national strategic *goal* that is also inspirational. It is rare for anyone to be able to do that. General David Petraeus has that ability, which is why the Anti-American, Globalist-partisan US Justice [so-called] Department is persecuting/prosecuting him. Asking Congress or a bureaucracy to develop that ability and execute with it compares with asking a herd of cats to organize an expedition to summit Annapurna. Distilling and serving a happy grand national strategic *goal* is a personal, leadership thing few can do, but some definitely can and do accomplish. Their thoughts merit discovery and attendance.
The cynosure of a nation is not her grand national strategy. It is her grand national strategic *goal.* Given what we see now, project and anticipate — always expecting the unexpected, as General Mattis mentions, thankfully, in his address — where and what do we want to be as a nation three, five, ten, etc. years hence? What is our goal? What do we really, truly — as a nation — want for and of ourself to be, to do, to think? What is our inner necessity as a nation? What are we on this earth to accomplish as a national presence? And why do members of Congress not live in the states from which they were selected for office?
Related: On 04 March 2015 Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis wrote for Hoover Institution under title Using Military Force Against ISIS. I commented:
I am content that GEN (Ret.) Mattis’ thinking, clear and compelling, be expressed in public. Thank you, General! Our countrymen are working their way towards how they will think and what they will do when they are quit of the hag riding their back. And they will be that. This exercise in preparation for the restoration of national sovereignty and wealth flowing from national moral and intellectual strength is what should be happening and what is happening. I am content.
Update 5: Angelo M. Codevilla: While The Storm Clouds Gather and here
Update 6: ISIL/ISIS in Libya
Update 7: Leadership: The Key To The Baltics (Russia testing and training in Syria and Ukraine)
Update 8: L. Todd Wood: Putin Getting Played By China, Needs A Deal With Trump
Update 9: Henry R. Nau: What Trump Gets Right About U.S. Foreign Policy
AUMNAMAH SHIVAYA
