TRUMP OR CLINTON FOR U.S. PRESIDENT IN 56 DAYS?
It will mean either a change for the better, or the beginning of the end for this great empire? When did the great Roman Empire pass the point of no return? When will the USA follow the same crossroad?
Under the current Obama administration in Washington, with Hillary Clinton’s past support as Secretary of State, Treasury coffers have been increasingly raided by presidential executive orders to the Pentagon for expensive new surges and military operations in Libya, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. With 17+ trillion dollars in debt and reduced international credit rating saying this has been Pentagon’s blind spending spree would be an understatement.
To prop up the Pentagon shortfall the compensatory budget adjustments have further starved desperate funding of essential infrastructure forty years overdue. Vietnam War costs at the end of 1961 were one million dollars a day maintaining two hundred thousand troops sent by President Kennedy. One million a day at the end of the fifties in the first months of the new decade seems a small amount now, but in today’s value it is an astonishingly large figure. One third of a billion dollars per annum in 1961 was no small amount then either.
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, all found the cost of Vietnam getting out of hand. During the reign of presidents Reagan and Clinton there was some respite in the pause, but both presidents: George Bush and George W Bush embarked on massive military escapades in their Far East wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and then returning back to Iraq to finish off Saddam Hussein’s rogue, but legitimate rule.
Any advantage gained from the temporary lull in hostilities was soon lost by the huge cost of the new invasions. Together the three wars after 1990 onwards had incurred a huge unmanageable deficit.
The 15 years’ war in Afghanistan still rages as the U.S. tries to defeat an enemy, which neither the UK nor Russia could overcome when they had entered on separate past occasions.
In spite of USA losing its triple A Credit Rating with Moody’s etc. the burgeoning deficit is currently 17 trillion dollars and growing by the minute. The last four years has seen a spate of new expeditions, surges, and re-surges. In the last twelve months alone there have been interventional surges and new or returning expeditions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya.
Its excuse is that it is merely helping the United Nations. However, the U.S. has merely used the cover of the UN to act independently and stem anti-U.S sentiment at the same time. Thus, it has covertly coaxed the UN into one fray after another, while pretending over the last twenty six years that it was only helping a UN initiative.
The sad irony is that in over twenty of those years it has persistently refused to pay its annual subscription account from the United Nations. This is due to President Bill Clinton’s 1995 diversion of $2 billion (USD) to Yasser Arafat, the late legendary chief Arab terrorist.
Furthermore, the deception grows as the U.S. State Department pretends it still keeps its UN commitment, while reliably sources contend that the U.S. pays the UN only a small part of its UN commitment each year. Congress continues to allow the White House subterfuge and diverts most of the $2 billion annual UN subscription to the Islamic and Arab cause as it covertly perpetuates President Bill Clinton’s 1995 decision.
Meanwhile the United Nations is left in the lurch and the U.S. declines to pay its overdue $50,000,000,000 amassed over a quarter of a century. Seeing the UN is the main global agency for hosting and feeding war refugees in camps it erects for these wandering waifs the human consequences are inestimable.
The UN’s loss of its largest contributor has seen such reductions and budget cuts that millions have died of either starvation or malnutrition over the last 25 years. To name only two of the many densely populated refugee camps: Sudan’s Darfur region and the camp in the demilitarized buffer zone between Sudan and Egypt come to mind.
Whether in the Far East, the Middle East, North Africa or Sub continental Africa below the Sahara the need is dire for UN assistance. These are not the only regions, however, where human survival of the masses is threatened by warring parties using devastatingly powerful weapons that destroy their cities; their neighbourhood, and their very way of life.
Persevering in the role of World Policeman is one thing, but the innocent citizenry often suffer more from the cure than the cause of their unrest. During those twenty six years this has increasingly been the case. Winning a war by overawing might is no longer a valid truism. Gaining superiority by missiles, drones and bombers is futile if the landscape and the habitat are left barren and bare, except for the litter of derelict burned out structures. Is it not time for the United States of America to re-divert some of its wasted war trillions?
Redirecting the flow of funds away from the present Armageddon folly will arouse the Pentagon’s ire. But, is it time for a new president to restrain its military merely destroying cities from the air and deceiving itself that this is victory over terrorism?
Maybe the next president could be outrageously radical and reinvest in his own citizenry and their ailing infrastructure? Perhaps he might even consider refinancing the United Nations by paying the nation’s fifty billion dollar debt to its creditor.
Could Trump have been right when he implied enough is enough. It is time to look after our own backyard, our own doorstep, our own decaying infrastructure and ease back as Mr. Global Policeman?
Donald Trump declares that it is time for The U.S. to care for its own health, have a medical check-up, and restructure its regimen before it is too late? But there is no hurry! It has plenty of time: a whole fifty four days before it gets to the last crossroad.
Wall Street buoyed by the 1% mega rich is both artificially high in stocks and disparate to the flagging growth, GDP, & GNP. Coal has too hastily been shut down, while nuclear energy too has become more tenuous, if not threatened. California and New England are particularly fragile in their energy grids. The situation is not improving and the cuts to Defence forces are substantial.
All of this at a time of fragile world trade inequities, and global markets that show signs of insecurity if not hesitancy. China, the European Union, Russia, and Britain (by its EU exit) are all manifesting fragility.
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