Comments on: Powerpuff Policy http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/28/powerpuff-policy/ Digging for golden resonance, and resonant gold Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: harmonicminer http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/28/powerpuff-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-2848 harmonicminer Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:24:40 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/27/powerpuff-policy/#comment-2848 None of that has a bearing on Obama's attitudes towards Cuba, Honduras, Iran, North Korea, etc., of course. None of that has a bearing on Obama’s attitudes towards Cuba, Honduras, Iran, North Korea, etc., of course.

]]> By: harmonicminer http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/28/powerpuff-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-2847 harmonicminer Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:23:49 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/27/powerpuff-policy/#comment-2847 True in some cases. Not true in the cases of Iran or North Korea, which are nation states causing us lots of trouble. Re: terrorists in hiding, it isn't that nation states are helpless... it's that WE are helpless to do anything about terrorist presence in other nation states (and use of them as staging grounds) without putting direct pressure on those nation states. Basically, nation states still control the world... and are certainly willing to use the "we can't help it" argument to fail to take necessary steps to control what happens within their borders. Consider if a US "militia" group decided to "take the law into its own hands" and began sniping on coyotes bringing across illegals, crossing the Mexican border in raids (as opposed to pitched battles with battle-lines) on staging areas for illegals, maybe on known hangouts of "drug lords" that seem untouchable by Mexican police, etc. Your imagination is as good as mine. Not one nation, anywhere, would believe that the USA was doing all it could to control such groups, even if they did "melt back into society" when they came back. The best yardstick I have for the credibiliy of such "we can't help it" arguments is to consider the world's response if the USA tried to use them. True in some cases. Not true in the cases of Iran or North Korea, which are nation states causing us lots of trouble.

Re: terrorists in hiding, it isn’t that nation states are helpless… it’s that WE are helpless to do anything about terrorist presence in other nation states (and use of them as staging grounds) without putting direct pressure on those nation states.

Basically, nation states still control the world… and are certainly willing to use the “we can’t help it” argument to fail to take necessary steps to control what happens within their borders.

Consider if a US “militia” group decided to “take the law into its own hands” and began sniping on coyotes bringing across illegals, crossing the Mexican border in raids (as opposed to pitched battles with battle-lines) on staging areas for illegals, maybe on known hangouts of “drug lords” that seem untouchable by Mexican police, etc. Your imagination is as good as mine.

Not one nation, anywhere, would believe that the USA was doing all it could to control such groups, even if they did “melt back into society” when they came back.

The best yardstick I have for the credibiliy of such “we can’t help it” arguments is to consider the world’s response if the USA tried to use them.

]]> By: Bill http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/28/powerpuff-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-2846 Bill Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:36:33 +0000 http://www.harmonicminer.com/wordpress/2009/12/27/powerpuff-policy/#comment-2846 One of the interesting trends is many "wars" today are not between nations, but between idealogies. We keep looking to fight a "country", but that isn't our enemy. There is such division within groups, we are actually fighting factions within an idealogy. Finding the enemy and being able to do battle will become much more difficult. You won't find them behind borders, or within given locations - they are hidden in plain sight within allied or neutral sects. One of the interesting trends is many “wars” today are not between nations, but between idealogies. We keep looking to fight a “country”, but that isn’t our enemy. There is such division within groups, we are actually fighting factions within an idealogy. Finding the enemy and being able to do battle will become much more difficult. You won’t find them behind borders, or within given locations – they are hidden in plain sight within allied or neutral sects.

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