Iraq: There Was A Solution

The World today is parlously endangered. Barack Obama is President, and most likely will continue to be for another two and one-half years. In our time -- that is a long time. Add an incompetent, unqualified, and pathologically stupid State Department and National Security team, one should conclude that the world would remain in tumult.

As I wrote on this Blog since 2007, aka I told you so, Iraq is an artificial State. To believe that Kurds, Sunni, and Shi’a can live peacefully together contradicts realty. The solution to the Iraqi civil war is to construct a new compact. That new compact will be the partition of Iraq into three distinct States. 

A Kurdistan Solution for Iraq

20 October 2006

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2007/06/kurdistan-solution-for-iraq.html

Iraq War III

11 December 2011

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2011/12/iraq-war-iii.html

Diplomatic Malpractice: Sectarian Violence In Iraq

25 July 2012

http://www.eurasiareview.com/25072012-diplomatic-malpractice-sectarian-violence-in-iraq/

It's Simple Logic: Obama Supports Terrorism

10 October 2013

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2013/10/its-simple-logic-obama-supports.html

Inveterate Interventionism Is Bad Foreign Policy

23 October 2013

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2013/10/inveterate-interventionism-is-bad.html

Where It’s At: Perspective for Memorial Day

26 May 2014

http://thegreygrater.blogspot.com/2014/05/where-its-at-perspective-for-memorial.html

It’s a broken record – still the vacuous denizens in the State Department and our National Security team will never listen to it. There are options – there are solutions. It doesn’t have to be this way, unless your intent is to destroy the United States and World Order. That begs the question, who has been educating these people, at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Denver University?

In my view, America has had enough. We have had it with Mr. Obama’s and Mrs. Clinton's and Mr. Kerry’s deceitful, pathetic, apologetic, naïve, and schizophrenic foreign policy. And, we had it with Mr. Bush’s and Ms. Rice’s foolish naive foreign policy, and mismanaged military campaigns restricted by absurd rules of engagement. If you go to war – you go to war. Moreover, trying to build a nation while conducting a war is a fool's errand. 

Not one more American needs to die to implement the failed policies of incompetent leadership.

Lawrence S. Schneiderman is an International Consultant and Dr. of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University. The views expressed are the author’s own.

Quisling: Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl

By all accounts, we are finding out that, Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl is a deserter and traitor to the United States of America. His words and deeds speak for themselves. Still, to fully understand and make sense of his and his family’s nature, you need to understand his pedigree: a Norwegian quisling.

Contemporary Norway is a duplicitous country. As Churchill observed in a speech at St. James’s Palace on June 12, 1941 – Norwegians are “a vile race of quislings* to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.”

Founded in the 11th century by King Olaf II, Norway was a frozen and isolated nation for 200 years. From the 13th century, the Danes ruled Norway until the 19th century. Afterwards, the Swedes took control under a union that lasted until 1905. Well, there you have it; they didn’t participate in the Renaissance, the Reformation, or even the Enlightenment. Is it any wonder that they admire Lenin and Stalinist Russia, the Soviet Union, Authoritarian Socialism, and Communism?

This is Norway, where not long ago (August 24, 2012), Anders Breivik murdered 77 people, and was sentenced to a mere 21 years in prison. But if you think the Norwegian penal system is no walk in the park – think again. His lawyers say, ‘Mr. Breivik will spend his confinement in a prison outside Oslo in a three-cell suite of rooms equipped with exercise equipment, a television, and a laptop, albeit one without Internet access.’ Oh my, the inhumanity! No Internet! In other words, you can without contrition gunned down 77 unarmed fellow citizens, the majority of which were children, and received only 21 years in prison, with benefits.

If, Alfred Nobel, a Swede, had not thrown the Norwegians the 5th portion of the Nobel Prize to administer (the other four belong to Sweden), we would most likely never hear from them again. But he did -- and so we do. And as a result, every year or so we have to put up with their insult, called the Nobel Peace Prize.

And now, in the embodiment of Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, we are again reminded of Churchill’s spot on insight, they are “a vile race of quislings.”

*Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway in 1940, who cooperated and collaborated with the Nazis when Germany invaded Norway in 1940.