Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Friday, June 13, 2014

And Obama wanted to support the Syrian Rebels - White House faces worst-case scenario with Iraq meltdown

He was stopped by the Republicans and most Americans who were too vocal for him to ignore. m/r

When President Obama sought to ask Congress’s permission for air strikes in Syria, there was enough opposition to turn him down — though the White House also lacked international support for the move. 
[ Here, The Hill, shows its bias by omission. Obama wanted airstrikes in support of these (ISIS) rebels against Bashar al-Assad.]
White House faces worst-case scenario with Iraq meltdown | TheHill



By Ian Swanson and Kristina Wong - 06/13/14

The Obama administration is facing its worst-case scenario in Iraq, which seems on the verge of crumbling as Islamic militants march on Baghdad.
Just more than three years after U.S. soldiers left the country, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has taken over hundreds of square miles ranging from Syria’s coast to the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tikrit.
The terrorist group is in control of a wide swath of land from which it could launch attacks on the West, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte warned Thursday.

“If these people succeed in multiple countries, that is going to represent some kind of permanent terrorist threat to the West, to our interests around the world and to ourselves," he said on MSNBC. 
The sudden developments have left the White House with few good options and opened President Obama to severe criticism from Republican critics in an election year. 
They argue the failure to reach a security agreement that would have left some troops in Iraq has hastened the government’s downfall.
What’s more, the group is now taking access of U.S. arms and equipment that were left behind when troops left after nearly a decade in Iraq.
Militants posted pictures on Twitter that showed they had acquired U.S. Humvees and armored vehicles.
A Defense Department official said claims the group had also captured a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter were wrong, but acknowledged that the vehicles may have fallen into the group’s hands.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/209253-white-house-faces-worst-case-scenario-on-iraq#ixzz34X17nfiH
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