As a born again Christian, my personal opinion is that the President does not set Foreign Policy.  If Ecumenicals want peace, Blame the Joint Chiefs, The Dept of Defense, the Pentagon and of course Americas own Tribe of #kittykutter Torturers in the CIA.  
Ecumenical Christians!, Your Hero's, are killers and torturers.  You want, bath house beatings, summary executions by Americas Police forces, white KKK Ecumenicals hanging minorities or worse throwing a chain around a minority and dragging them until they fall apart.  Ecumenicals cheered when Christian Thugs kill abortion providers.  In the world you want, you are on top ... everybody else is shit.  Ecumenical Killers hiding within the Gospel of Jesus Christ, while worshiping the Old Testament
I have bad news for You,  The world is Brown, "Not White".  Jesus Christs NEW Testament rules the modern world.  The Old Testament is for Historical reference onlyWho the HELL is "the stream"? I say Fuck "the stream"! whatever or whomever thinks they are morally superior to the people who are commenting . I however, agree that decorum is important, not because of you (who/what are you) but because name-calling indicates a lack of brain power and a person consumed by hate/rage. I personally stop reading at the first signs of name calling. This is the reason why I blocked Donald Trump on twitter. I don't want to listen to his pottymouth

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  Robert M Ramstad • an hour ago Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by The Stream.

Letter to Rachael "asking for forgiveness"

 May I say. I've thought a lot about what happened on my visit to the Ramstad house in Ballard. I was totally and completely crushed by your daughters, "My mind has so completely blocked the names of your children that it refuses to remember their names. it is so sad it can't continue" wiggling out of my arms .. "when the very nite before she happily showed me her princess outfit" I was completely stunned and taken back by what happened ... i was stopped. And remained so for many years festering in  my soul festering in my gut, rotten!   So here I'm today asking for forgiveness because, maybe I was thinking only about me, ... as usual.  Maybe, everyone was as shocked, as I was, when (she)wriggled out of my arms. and i totally over reacted to and misinterpreted it ... and maybe I just completely over reacted to it and found guilty parties who were just as stunned as I was. And so I lost my children and grand-children. I am completely broken. Well, as, Usual, my deadbeat, unemployed, pot-head friend has just arrived and so, I must go. I ask for your forgivevness of my sins even if they are un-forgivable feelings and stupidity seem to go hand-in-hand, and of course, he is talking on the phone so he doesn't have to watch me cry.

Re-Thinking Israel

Everything you say is true.  But, Israel is becoming a failed state because Israel has not been able to make peace with Palestinians. So,perhaps it's time to rethink Israel.  What does God want?  I do not see his hand working in Israel.  Maybe, God wants His Jews to be scattered across the Globe.  Maybe he wants Palestine to be a World Heritage site.
I consider Jews to be an extremely valuable asset for the world.  America has been blessed because of Jews and it is possible that Jews are the most valuable or as valuable as America's other treasures.
Maybe, we should help make Jerusalem a world heritage site, the financial hub of the Middle East/World.
Maybe the United Nations should run Palestine as a duty free hub for Europe, Africa and Asia. 
The key to peace is to give every person a stake in peace by giving them a piece of the action like Washington D.C. and the Virginia, Maryland suburbs.
Maybe it's time to rethink Israel?

Rethinking the Middle East

It pisses me off!  Gen. Nicolson was trained by the losers of the Vietnam War.  As such,  Gen. Nicolson must believe that the people lost the war in Vietnam Not the Generals.  And the commanders were fragged by cowards that didn't want to fight...Not because the commanders hid behind blast-proof walls and wouldn't lead the fight.  Gen Nicolson was born in Germany to a Father who was a General.  He attended private schools in Germany and exclusive Schools thru-out his career including West Point.  He's no leader of Men.  Perhaps It's time to pull the pin and roll the dice.?
I predict that ISIS, ISIL, whatever, That Wahabi Head-choppers will line up 6 American G.I.s and remove their heads.  What will General Nicolson do then?  We've already leveled their countries, tortured, fried and frick-a-see them while calling them Barbarians.  Go figure!
The only way Gen. Nicolson can lead is if the USA Dept of State makes a Strategic turn in the Middle East.  Secretary of State John Kerry says that this is a clash between civilized countries and Barbarians.  If that is the case, the bookends Are now in place to make the turn.  We should honor the barbarians desire to be barbarians.  Our need for their oil isn't as necessary as it was in the past.  They spend 50 fifty cents to kill us and we spend a million to kill them.  So, who is winning and who are the dumb ass'ss ?

A reply to an American patriot

The United States is currently killing in Pakistan (undeclared)  Iraq (undeclared) Syria (undeclared) Yemen (undeclared) Somalia (undeclared) Libya (undeclared)   As for moral equivalence your right except Iran has morals and ethics and the USA has none.

Strangely, you say your a modern American....your right.   You accept torture, rectal feeding, holding without charge for lifetimes...all kinds of brutality and bitch slapping.  You accept a country that disregards any agreement, treaty, Army field manual, International laws,  Domestic laws.  A country that thinks ethics and morals apply only to fools.  A country that used turkish proxies to use poison gas and blame Assad. A country that used turkey as a proxie to shoot down a Russian jet.  The USA has also shot down passenger airlines over the persian gulf (Navy)  

A country that long ago, in a far off place, an alien planet where children ran free of shoes all summer long, Where we could play until dark without fear.

Then you came along,  You called out the bogeyman and he came on your welcome.  

Now, you have created so much fear--No One can walk safely, kids can't play outside and Americans can't travel in safety anywhere on the Globe.  You can't even have a cup of coffee in peace.  Hell!  I don't know who is more fearsome ISIS or the RWNJ nut jobs carrying AK-47's claiming "they" are protecting me.  Over the last 50 years the USA has been poking Muslims in the eye.  Weather in Somalia, Qutar, Bahrain,Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, etc.  The USA is there, meddling.  You think the USA is the victim of circumstances....poor us...always being bullied when all we wanted was to steal everything of value. and reduce the countries to rubble.  Don't worry! we'll rebuild everything....on your dime Fool.

reply to Defense one article

Lying #kittiekutters in Pentagon are now proposing that Americans have a National Service Obligation  aka NSO, "Draft."  Any American that travels abroad put themselves in harms way.  Why?,  Because our @Dept of def., Pentagon and CIA #kittiekutters have infiltrated the Peacecorps and USaid and all Christians/Jews/Muslims, Western agencies and  businessmen, are in fact recruited by CIA #kittiekutters to infiltrate and spy on which ever country.  So, while claiming they are making the world safe for Democracy,  they are actually making the world recoil away from Westerners and putting the lives of ordinary and well meaning Americans in mortal danger.

One more thing, The attack on Hospital in Kunduz was no accident.  Does anyone really believe that had there been USA Officiers being fixed up there,  that this attack would have taken place.  It was leveled because of "enemies" were being treated there and our Deptof defense loves creating and killing its enemies, which in their mind is anyone not in USA military or under USA thumb "contractors"

AK comes to visit

Ok,  so last night some people stopped by to inquire if  the golden lab they had in their Black Suv was rocky?  It was immediately obvious that a mistake was made as Rocky bolted! out the door for a pet.  The Golden lab,  barking in the car, looked suspiciously like Bailey, the golden lab that I've been taking to the river, once a week.  However, it could have been the other golden lab that lives across the street from Baily.   Yup! we have 3 golden labs living within a 100 yds of each other.  But, bailey has been known to sneak under his fence and come over hopping for a ride.
In other news, AK should up a few days ago.
I was sitting with my good friend Allen.  " My deadbeat, unemployed, pot-head friend Allen"!  
Anyway, AK came rushing in as usual.
But he's not a puppy anymore.  I was happy to see him.
After running around the coffee table and kindly clearing it off, he graciously ate our last two pieces of pizza!!
He made space for my laptop which was  in danger of falling off my stool... 
With Allen sitting on top of the couch, I noticed AK eyeballing my computer chord, I wrapped it up and visited AK.   He looked really good, shiny short black coat and all muscle.
Rocky doesn't mind him too much anymore...but wonders why the Mongolian invasion!.  AK for his part was wearing a shock collar.  he still doesn't have a collar and tags.  He's extremely smart and follows my directions.  He shows no socialization skills...hence the shock collar,  but he knows that he is 2nd fiddle to Rocky, bowed down to Rocky and wanted to play.
Allen volunteered to see if anyone was home,  and reported people in garage were partying.  So, after checking to see if he knew how to sit and laydown and chatting with him and telling him to "keep a big heart"  Fist to Heart and pointing to him, to him.
I sent him home.
They never missed him.