Wars, Rumors of War, and Bannon exists stage right while hypocricy enters stage left

What a week the past week has been.

There was a lot of saber rattling between the leaders of North Korea and the United States over North Korea's progress in making a nuclear tipped ICBM.

A "no" as a bright line to that" has long been US policy, sometimes stated more clearly than others, but dating at least back to President Clinton.  The problem has become that so many Presidents yielded to the cry baby of the north that there's nothing left to give.  North Korea is acclimated to the process.  It takes a step, we say no, and then we bribe it to back down, which it doesn't really do.  Now, in order to make a nuclear ICBM all it really has to do is, well, do it.

For twenty or more years its been clear that the US would make a military strike before it let that happen.  Two Democratic Presidents and one Republican have all basically held that view.  Now, President Trump, no matter what you think of him, has nowhere else to really go, unless he just basically surrenders to the concept.

There's now a lot of Democratic pundits who want him to do just that.

Because its always worked so well with dictators in the past.  Just like when Hitler was appeased by Czechoslovakia, right?

Right?

Hmmm. . . .

We better figure out a real plan fairly quickly.

Well, at least temporarily, the infant dictator of North Korea backed down on his threat to launch a test missile towards Guam.

While that was occurring, the news was full of stories about the Confederate monuments, which we've already discussed here at length.  In my first post I noted that I feared a rational approach would now be impossible and that people on the extremes of both ends would leap in, making discussion fruitless.

Well, sure enough, Democrats, who after all were the party that originally basically were in favor of all these monuments, have come out against them.  Most notably, Nancy Pelosi, who has been in Congress since before the Civil War, came out in opposition to the Confederate monuments in Congress' Statuary Hall.  That hall even includes a 1931 Mississippi contribution of a statue of Jefferson Davis.

Pelosi noted that that statue, and others like it, should "never" have been put there.  I agree.  But she takes a position on this now?  Heck, Pelosi is such a vintage Democrat that Jefferson Davis could have received instructions as a newbe on how to act in Congress from her.



In other political news, Steve Bannon left.  Apparently this has been in the hopper in the Trump Administration for some time. Good riddance.  Bannon was apparently a key figure in the Trump campaign but he creeps a lot of people out, including myself.

While all of this was going on, the Islamic extremist war against the West reared its head again in Spain, which has been on the front line of long running armed Islamic attacks since 711.  Multiple bomb blasts, one apparently accidental, have racked the nation, although the news here in the US was dominated by other things, so it didn't get the attention it deserved.