Obama and Syria - Syria Crisis

Guardian: Reports that after the failure of the Geneva talks on Syria that President Obama is looking at all options minus ground troops. 

Lets Get Real: 

This is a hollow threat from President Obama, the Syrian Regime knows that after the failure of the US to strike Syria over its use of WMD there will be NO military action, the Oval does not have the public support and the Congress is in no mood for another War, that includes Republicans and Democrats.   Thus the poor Syrian people can expect more hot air out of President Obama, one wonders how many Syrians have to die or become refugees before the West takes action, does it have to be half million dead, millions forced to run for safety in other Countries.   When the US is weak others suffer, one has to feel sorry for the poor people of Syria, a murderous Assad Regime on one hand and a weak and frightened West on the other, so many lost while the West waffles. 

The Failure of the Geneva Talks - Syria Crisis

BBC News: Reports the following from the UN talks in Geneva on the Syrian Crisis, " The UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has apologised to the Syrian people after peace talks in Geneva ended without making progress. ".

Lets Get Real: 

This talks were always going to fail, the sides had two different outcomes, the opposition want Assad OUT, while Assad himself and his Regime wants to stay in power.  The failure of the US to strike Syria when it was found that Syria had used WMD on its own people showed the weakness of Obama to the world.   The Assad Regime is going nowhere while it is backed by Russia and Iran.  The Obama Oval wants a deal with Iran over its nuclear plans thus is prevented from putting to much pressure on Iran.    The end result is there will be more deaths, more innocents will be killed while the Oval seeks an illusion of peace with Iran.    The US always gets burned in the Middle East. 

The FAILURES of ObamaCare - 2nd Term Blues

The New York Times: Reports on the latest failures of ObamaCare, " One-Fifth of New Enrollees Under Health Care Law Fail to Pay First Premium ".

Lets Get Real:

ObamaCare is a mess, the majority of those enrolling in ObamaCare had cover before ObamaCare, they only went on to the scheme because they were forced off their old health plan by the regulations of ObamaCare, the scheme does not hit the rich as they can afford to pay out of pocket for medical cover, ObamaCare takes patients away from their Doctor, removes some of the best hospitals from cover, ALSO ObamaCare has seen Doctors remove themselves from the scheme as they are not paid enough to care for their patients.  No wonder Democrats are running away from POTUS, ObamaCare is a growing cancer around Obama and the Democrats. 

The problem with Afghanistan - Afghanistan Theatre

Guardian: Reports from Washington D.C on the decline in the relationship between the US and Afghanistan, the article notes the following, " Obama administration looks increasingly likely to gamble with Afghan president’s successor over signing of security agreement ".

Lets Get Real:

President Karzai is looking after number one, himself, he does not trust President Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan as he closes his Presidency in 2016, the last Afghan leader backed by a Super Power was captured, tortured, castrated and hung, that of course was in the time of the USSR, with a few years of leaving Afghanistan there was no USSR.   That is why President Obama's weakness over Syria and Iraq has ramifications in other areas, leaders do watch the news and read the newspapers, the Obama Oval is seen as weak, thus the relationship between the US and Afghanistan will have to wait for a new leader as the article suggests, of course a new leader might have the same worries, its a vicious path when dealing with Afghanistan. 

Who is to BLAME for World War One - 100 Years On

BBC News: Has ten different viewpoints on who is to blame for World War One.

Lets Get Real: 

This blog likes to be different, its not who is to blame, its WHAT, and that is a simpler answer, it was technology, ALL the powers had to move troops, thus the WHAT was to blame for the War was train timetables, once WAR looked like the result the Military had to move troops to face the threat from their viewpoint, once the Russians mobilised their troops the Germans needed a quick victory in the West, thus the invasion of Belgium, one of the contributors states the following and is close to this blog's view of World War One and the role of Imperial Germany, " Finally, they violated international treaties by invading Luxemburg and Belgium knowing that the latter violation was virtually certain to bring in Britain... ".  Although the invasion of Belgium SOLD the War to the public, the British Empire could not allow France to FALL, this would have made Imperial Germany the central power in Europe and a threat to the British Empire in the long term.   Thus the WHAT that pushed the powers to WAR was the railways, the WHO was Germany, a Kaiser so saw the threat to late, and could not back down or stop the developments that lead to World War One. 

Hillary Clinton and REVENGE - 2016 Election

CNN - Politics: Reports on more secrets from the archive of a late friend of Hillary Clinton, the latest is the then First Lady asking how to keep records of her time in the White House, the article notes the following, " When asked why, according to the friend’s June 20, 1994, diary entry, Clinton said, “Revenge.”.

Lets Get Real:

The US voter has to asked do they want another Richard Nixon in the White House, we have heard that in 2008 the Clinton Campaign kept a list of those that had been seen to betray the former First Lady and then Senator when she ran against President Obama, with ALL the good stuff that comes with the Clintons, they are real policy wonks, there is also the scandals and the women, the article notes that Hillary Clinton called Monica Lewinsky a “narcissistic loony toon.”, can a President Hillary Clinton keep Bill under control, can Bill Control himself, one does lose count of actual women and the alleged women from his time as Governor and President.    Politics is an art, Clinton is seen as the front runner for the Democrats in 2016, three years is a long time, we shall see if its another Clinton vs. Bush match up again, it could be back to the future again. 

F**k the EU - US/EU Debate - 2nd Term Blues

Guardian: Reports on the reaction of Germany to the leaked conversation between State Department officials, " Angela Merkel: Victoria Nuland's remarks on EU are unacceptable...German chancellor condemns comments by US state department official in leaked conversation about Ukraine crisis ".

Lets Get Real:

The Kremlin must be loving this discord between the powers, the Russians sees the Ukraine as their backyard, they do NOT want to see the Ukraine join the EU, this would be a disaster for their influence abroad, it would make Putin look a like a hollow leader of Russia.    Thus the very reason that the US should force the pace, the US should lead, if the EU wants to be slow, so be it, the EU does not have  common EU Foreign or Defence policy, just what a majority can agree on, they will join the US lead push to force the Ukraine to hold fresh elections and support the demonstrators in the streets, so "F**k the EU", what a excellent and honest reaction  by the US State Department Official.   It is about time London said the same thing to the EU.