An Act of War

America defaulting on its debt would have been an act of war. The world would have judged against the future generations of Americans, and that judgement would have been war.

There were many debt deniers in the political environment who said that the US had enough money coming in to pay the interest on our debt.

But what these debt deniers didn’t understand, our ability to use that money depends on sovereign nations accepting the dollar, and accepting it mostly freely. The act of George W. Bush dumping 9 billion of US dollars on the Iraqi economy at the start of the Iraqi War was not a wasted act. The act of dumping money made the use of the dollar in the Middle East something that many wanted, and will be for some time.

On the other hand, the US has a war machine that could be used to make a sovereign nation take our money, but not the world.

But the first act for Obama, after the House let our debt default, would still have been to introduce a Large Wars Powers Act to the same Congress.

Most likely things would have gotten worst on the second day.

Time Is Short, but G.O.P. Leaders Say Shutdown Can Be Avoided

Specifically, Mr. McCarthy mentioned a tax on medical devices that pays for a part of the health care law. The House voted in the early hours of Sunday to rescind the tax and delay the health care law by a year as conditions for financing government operations and avoiding a shutdown.

The Republicans still believe in pork (business as usual).

Rescinding the tax on medical devices sends some pork to corporations that members of the House feed on. It’s Congress’s way of taking advantage of a really bad situation.

While giving in to Corporate America seems like a good way of defusing the situation that will happen when the government shuts down, it is only going to increase the “pork” going out to Corporations, when the situation of America not paying its bills comes around.

Not only that, as the Republican say, Obamacare, like Katrina, is going to need all the help it can get to keep a massive failure from happening, and not funding any part of Obamacare, pretty much leaves everyone (at least most Americans) in a giant Industrial Medical Congressional Complex, with no one coming to give you any help.

And, like Sandy and the affect the Tea Party Congress had on the relief effort, the Republicans are going to do all they can to make sure that help is not forthcoming.

via Time Is Short, but G.O.P. Leaders Say Shutdown Can Be Avoided – NYTimes.com.

The White House – Google+ – “I’ve made a decision that America should take action. But…

“I’ve made a decision that America should take action. But I also believe that we will be much more effective, we will be stronger, if we take action together as one nation.” —President Obama before meeting with members of Congress on Syria:

The biggest problem with that statement is that Congress doesn’t really represent one nation.

A workplace is where one Orients (OODA loop) towards an advantage in the environment Observed (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act). One-nation doesn’t reside in Congress’s workspace.

While we can Observe ourselves as one-nation, the advantage Corporate America has in the environment we all (including Congress) Observe has overwhelmed every other advantage positioned in the environment.

So if the MICC (Military, Industrial, Congressional Complex) has some Manufactured goods that they would like to get rid of, there is little chance Congress will vote against getting rid of unwanted resources (bombs and all that unspent ammunition). This is, at least in part, because it is to the advantage of Congress to vote with the MICC. After all, there are very few congressmen/women, or their children who will have to risk their lives towards the advantage.

So while it might seem a victory to the U.S.A, having “one nation” supporting the Action of someone so Oriented as Obama, the truth is “one nation” is a falsehood.

At 50+ percent, Obama represents “one nation” more than Congress does. So getting Congress on-board has little to do with uniting under “one nation” and more with Acting as Obama wants, with or without the nation.

The percentage of that “one” nation, Oriented towards the MICC, shadows all other positions.

It’s like blocking out the image of the sun in the shadow of your finger. Yeah, it works, but only in a very limited environment.

via The White House – Google+ – “I’ve made a decision that America should take action. But….

Obama confident Congress will vote to strike Syria

There will be no U.S. troops in Syria, Obama said: “This is not Iraq — this is not Afghanistan.”

I don’t want to call my President a liar, but it really is Iraq.

It is not the Iraq we thought we were fighting when we went in, although Iraq  had similarities,  a country with a divided religion and outside actors that are a part of that religion. And Like Syria  before US forces went into Iraq, Iraq was a country controlled by a tyrant, whose power kept a civil war from happening.

Perhaps one difference he is talking about, is that in Syria there is another religion (Christianity) with a piece of the leadership.

The difference between Syria now and Iraq then is  that in Iraq,  the civil war happened after we broke the force that was holding them in friction, and, unlike Syria, we didn’t get ourselves into a civil war going in.

Also now, Iraq still hasn’t got that coercive friction that creates one country, and Syria has almost no friction that would be recognised, as all the parties in the civil war allow Syria  to move in one direction.

Once friction is allowed to take hold (when the war ends) then Syria will be exactly like Iraq, a country almost on the edge of civil war.

via Obama confident Congress will vote to strike Syria.