The East Is West

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 In a post titled Columbus Day / USA Grand Design For The Middle East, I mentioned that USA has a grand strategic objective but no primary grand strategic interests in the Middle…

Columbus Day / USA Grand Design For 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 I have enumerated USA strategic objectives in MENA here.  Here I would like to broach a companion subject, one larger yet.  This is the subject of USA Grand Design for the…

Abjure The Deal

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 Nothing in all this breathing world is more important than POTUS Trump’s keeping his word to abjure (decertify) the sell-out of USA national sovereignty to Iran and the Moslem Brotherhood by…

Purity Of Essence

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 The Devil not infrequently reveals the truth, unintentionally of course.  Give Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper credit where credit is due. BG Ripper had a point regarding Purity of Essence.  Of the…

USA Strategic Objectives In MENA

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 I have danced, frequently, with the question of USA national strategic interests and USA grand national strategic objective, to include especially on the floor of the dance hall of USA national…

Russian History In Russian Foreign Policy

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 There follows an edited colloquy in which an interlocutor and I engaged on the subject of a 2016 article by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The competition…

Today’s Axis Of Evil

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 Life is dynamic, no thing stays the same over time.  Essence always is essence, beyond form and energy, beyond dialectics, but existence always is building, re-building, morphing, re-morphing; always existence, always…

Take A Knee. Have A Knee.

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 Either way, the NFL is a cash cow.  It can afford to respect the right of its players to express their political views, including by kneeling (or whatever) during the National…

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…

America Lives!

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 I have never seen anything like this: Presidential Executive Order on Imposing Additional Sanctions with Respect to North Korea Note: the sanctions are with respect to North Korea, not on North Korea.  The…

Courageously Magnanimous In Victory

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 War’s very purpose is victory.  …  There is no substitute for victory. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Regrettably, GOA MacArthur felt compelled to issue that advice.  He should not have…

Vietnam

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 Scott Johnson at Power Line wrote recently about the USA fighting in Vietnam when he was a young man.  I have written previously about Vietnam here.  Clint Eastwood wrote about it…

Ethics And Power

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 Like As A Hart Psalm 42:1 University of Redlands Choir, 1956 Rod Stephens,  UofR Choir Member and Digital Re-Masterer In my first year of graduate school, for a class in Christian…

Conceptual Consolidation

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 Part of the work of the Devil is to make endless differentiations and distinctions where there are none or need be none.  We see this occurring in all dimensions of existence.…

11 September 2012: Benghazi

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 He is a blogger who goes by the name Sundance and owns the website The Conservative Tree House / The Last Refuge.  I think he has his sensitive fingers, somehow, on…

Baghdad, Damascus, And IO Operations

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 The door to the Middle East has two hinges: Baghdad and Damascus.  The weight of the door rests on those hinges, has for millennia and appears destined to continue doing so.…