Yeah, and we can leapfrog blame back generations. Clinton had Bin Lauden in
his cross hairs and did not pull the trigger. We installed the Shaw of Iran...
it goes on forever. A book called The Looming Towers puts some of the blame on
a girl in the midwest the spurned the romantic interest of an islamic cleric
when he was living here in the 1970s.
We have earned a bad rep for trying to do “nation building” across the globe.
Everyone in the upper levels of the government is somewhat to blame.
From: CBB - Jay Fuller
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2016 10:07 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT does it really matter?
I remind you....congress had to vote on that.
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From: "Jaime Solorza" <losguyswirel...@gmail.com>
To: "Animal Farm" <af@afmug.com>
Subject: [AFMUG] OT does it really matter?
Date: Sun, Oct 16, 2016 10:50 PM
Well Bush decision to invade Iraq did affect my family.. My son who proudly
served in Iraq came back injured physically and mentally. He is still under
medical care . We should have gone after Taliban in Afghanistan and wiped
them out along with poppie fields. Hussein was a dictator I know but our
reason to invade was based on weapons of mass destruction which didn't exist.
We messed up the status quo, left and gave ISIS an opening... If you study
history of region it has shown no outside nation has ever been able to conquer
area for very long.. These folks have been at war since forever and we got
caught up in it. When you travel on plane you are affected... Large public
events are different now because threat of terrorism exists. So we are all
affected some way. The times, they are a changin
On Oct 16, 2016 9:21 PM, "Bruce Robertson" <br...@pooh.com> wrote:
Exactly right. Who is president has some effect, but not game changing.
Most people in the country are middle of the road, and the progress of the
country reflects that. The pendulum swings back and forth, but always reverts
to the mean.
On 10/16/16 8:17 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
Congress makes and changes law. Supreme Court makes a few important
decisions. Regulators are who really run the country.
Does it really matter who the president is?
What did Obama do? Encouraged the ACA. Dropped the ball in Syria. But
how did he affect me, my degree of wealth, my amount of spare time?
Ditto Bush. They affect foreign policy. They have the ability to really
mess up other people’s lives in other countries, but do they really have much
effect on me?
Granted, altering the make up of the Supreme Court changes things like can
I choose to marry a dude or do I have to sell wedding cakes to gays. But that
really does not touch me. My granddaughter having to cope with dudes in the
bathroom at school hits a bit closer to home, but I trust congress will
eventually settle on something a bit more common sense.
I guess I am trying to convince myself that a president really doesn’t do
much here at home. Congress does. The court does. Bureaucracies do.
Now, if the president could get a whole truckload of cheese delivered to
the Whitehouse and give it out to anyone that drops in for a visit, then we are
talking about a real impact...
http://history1800s.about.com/od/19th-Century-Presidents/fl/Andrew-Jacksons-Big-Block-of-Cheese.htm
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