Welcome to Home & Away. As always these days, a lot has happened since I last wrote. The Trump administration is escalating its campaign against Harvard, declaring it ineligible for federal grants and doubling down on threats to revoke its tax-exempt status. The risk of a serious conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan is growing following Indian strikes on targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. These came as retaliation for a recent terror attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that India blames (for good reason based on my experience) on Pakistan. More positively, President Trump announced what appears to be a mutual standdown between the United States and the Houthis. Also on the positive side of the ledger are U.S.-China talks announced for this weekend that could begin to unwind the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
Netanyahu can not let go of Gaza as then he would lose his office and face jail time. A better path for Israel is to bring in The PLO with backing from Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia and an agreement with Israel.
Mr. Haass I am sure you read many documents and articles each day and perhaps you have read what I am proposing but if you have not I urge you to read David Brooks' article in the current Atlantic Monthly. It is rather long but here is an excerpt that stood out to me,
"“Yes we have reached a point of traumatic rupture. A demagogue has come to power and is ripping everything down. But what’s likely to happen is that the demagogue will start making mistakes because incompetence is built into the nihilistic project. Nihilists can only destroy, not build. Authoritarianism is inherently stupid. I don’t mean that Trumpists have low IQs. I mean, they do things that run directly against their own interests. They are pathologically self-destructive. When you create an administration in which one man has all the power and everybody else has to flatter his voracious ego stupidity results.”
History is not kind to people who attack their neighbors. War and death is horrible, but it should be noted that approximately 0.5% of Palestinians have been killed while 6-7% of Germans lost their lives in WWII.
So, you’re saying Democrats may choose to be Democrats or Republicans? But, Republicans no longer exist as previously defined. I really picked the wrong time to be here.
Netanyahu can not let go of Gaza as then he would lose his office and face jail time. A better path for Israel is to bring in The PLO with backing from Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia and an agreement with Israel.
Mr. Haass I am sure you read many documents and articles each day and perhaps you have read what I am proposing but if you have not I urge you to read David Brooks' article in the current Atlantic Monthly. It is rather long but here is an excerpt that stood out to me,
"“Yes we have reached a point of traumatic rupture. A demagogue has come to power and is ripping everything down. But what’s likely to happen is that the demagogue will start making mistakes because incompetence is built into the nihilistic project. Nihilists can only destroy, not build. Authoritarianism is inherently stupid. I don’t mean that Trumpists have low IQs. I mean, they do things that run directly against their own interests. They are pathologically self-destructive. When you create an administration in which one man has all the power and everybody else has to flatter his voracious ego stupidity results.”
History is not kind to people who attack their neighbors. War and death is horrible, but it should be noted that approximately 0.5% of Palestinians have been killed while 6-7% of Germans lost their lives in WWII.
So, you’re saying Democrats may choose to be Democrats or Republicans? But, Republicans no longer exist as previously defined. I really picked the wrong time to be here.
I don’t think Elon needs 100B. I think he’d fine with 100M. See how that works?
the UN ceased to do the job it was created for circa 1991 and turned to meddling in science and culture (with much the same results)