Mr. President: Back The Kurds, Cut Loose The Turks

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Mr. President, back the Kurds and cut loose the Turks.  Now!  Time and lives are wasting. You are not in Syria to annihilate ISIL merely, and ISIL is far from annihilated.  You have used the…

Kurds

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 Interview with General Mazlum Kobane The Kurds can take care of themselves.  USA has made no geo-strategic promises to them.  Their taxonomy comprises four parts, one titularly Marxist (Syrian Kurds).  Their…

Kurds Are Essential, Natural USA Allies In The Middle East

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 Kurds are USA’s natural and essential allies in the Middle East. Rational USA foreign policy would back them to the hilt. Anybody who opposes Kurds opposes USA. Update 1: Here an opportunity opens: Russia…

Sicarii

Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. Naresh Jotwani: The Harder They Come . . . . Beautifully written,…

Contemplating Force Vectors Of American, Russian, And Indian Statecraft

Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. These thoughts presuppose three terms of reference. First, Three Brothers Doctrine, the…

What Now?

The old standards remain the standards.Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals. We go here and there looking for God.Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him. Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things…

Fixing Syria — Take Five

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). FWIW, my best inference at this time: CIA-State desired to arm and…

To Exit Afghanistan And Drugs

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies, Fascists, who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). Most timely, Sir Winston Churchill, twenty three years of age, on…

Crying Of The Heart

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Jeffrey A. Friedberg, wrote an essay.  It is more rhetorical than I would make it, but I take his points because they are true: “We do not want the word to go out that…

Freedom And Reactionaries

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT History moves on.  Socialists are reactionaries. Cortez, Obama, Harris, et al are not keeping up with history.  Like Buckley before them, and his heirs Kristol, Goldberg, Podhoretz, Mirengoff, so-called Libertarians, and the mountebanks…

Eyes West

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT … that energy extraction strategy alone would have put Papadopoulos in opposition to the interests of Obama, Clinton, Turkey, Qatar and ultimately Iran and Russia. Clinton/Obama/Alexander Downer all were involved in the rival…

Forever Wars

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT VDH on the Syria pullout Rogerjb comments: God, are these Forever Wars in fact going to last forever?  Syria is a country of no significance to American interests.  But neocons are happy to…

US Foreign Policy/Military Establishment Zero

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Super Bowl III: Right Click, Open In New Tab The question of national interest, or as I call it, rational USA grand national strategic objective, is treated by several commenters, all implicitly or…

Thoughts For COCOMs: Force Vector Study One

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In view of trade and monetary policy underway from the Trump Administration, and in view of my stated intention to develop a series of posts commending attention to COCOMs as a if not…

Thandava – XV

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Robert Theobald and his wife Jean Scott in New York, France, and Wickenburg,  Radical Software explorers in New York, Liam O’Gallagher in San Francisco, and I in…

Fixing Syria — Take Four

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This is my fourth take on fixing Syria.  The previous three are Fixing Syria — Take One (06 April 2017), Fixing Syria — Take Two (22 October 2017), and Fixing Syria — Take Three (15 February 2018).…