Well this is what I turned up after taking a day off conducting hours of research to ferret out the difference between the words
mercenary and ally.
Mercenary: (adj) a person hired to fight for another country than their
own; (adj) marked by materialism; (adj) serving for
wages in a foreign army
Ally: (noun)
a friendly nation; (verb) become an ally or associate -
as by a treaty or marriage; (verb) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance
There you it. Time well spent, I believe.
So lemmesee, We paid the Kurds - a people
without a country or nation - to fight for the US. So under the first set of definitions for the
words, the Kurds would appear to be mercenaries rather than allies. In the second set, the Kurds were offered and
received material support – i.e. arms and money – to fight with the US. There is no treaty or marriage license
between the US and the Kurds. Again,
under the second meaning of each word, the Kurds would appear to be mercenaries
rather than allies. Let’s examine meaning three. The Kurds served for wages if not in a
foreign army at least supporting a foreign army. The Kurds no doubt provided cooperation and
assistance to US forces in Syria.
So by a score of 2.5 to .5 the Kurds were/are
mercenaries.
Add to that the fact that the Kurds, in part at
least, are commie loving azzbags and in all were as interested in securing a
plot of land to call their own as helping us.
Mercenary is, no doubt, the correct word for the Kurd’s relationship
with the US.
The Caligula, D.C. ruling class azzhats are
all aghast that PDJT is fulling another campaign promise and pulling troops
from Syria – a supposed 30 day mission that has gone on now for nearly 10 years. The ruling class weasels all feign concern about
the return of ISIS, but none has the courage to propose a real solution – an authorization
for the use of force against anyone aiding ISIS or attacking our “ally” the
Kurds or a declaration of war against NATO ally Turkey. If all of this Turkey/Syria stuff is so damn
important, why aren’t the virtue signalers demanding NATO step in to patrol the
Tukey/Syria border to ensure the peace?
Why does America always have to go it alone? Surprise assessment, I think the Caligula,
D.C. hazzhats are all virtue signaling, posturing weasels.
I’m all for joining the fight in the Middle
East and killing anyone who F-s with us – Including the Israelis.* There has to be a mission. There has to be an imperative to win. There has to be a real national interest at
stake. There has to be a strategy to exit
once the mission is complete. There has to be an understanding that if we break
it in support of NATO or the UN then NATO or UN fixes it or it lays in ruin
until they do.
I applaud House
Democrats for holding an impeachment inquiry in secret. Elections have consequences. Democrats won. They can run the impeachment process in any
manner they choose. If we have learned
one thing over the last 243 years it’s that government is always at its best
when it operates in secret and ignores hundreds of years of common law
regarding due process.
It is well within
the power of the House under Democrat’s control to blow through millions of
dollars over months and months to impeach a duly elected President of the United
States for purely political reasons when an election is about a year off. Everyone recognizes that as a very judicious and
necessary use of public funds.
Besides polls show
that there is mounting support for impeachment.
We know we can trust polls regarding PDJT because Hillary Clinton is now
in process of running for her second term…no, wait.
Wednesday,
October 23, 2019 1:00 am
Letters
Banks offers incomplete picture on impeachment
Rep. Jim Banks, quoted in an Oct. 11 article, said we have
elections “whether or not to elect or throw people out of office whether it's
the president or ... your local representative. That is what elections are all
about.” Indeed, he is correct. He goes on to say, Democrats, in their push to
impeach Donald Trump, are mounting “an attack on our democratic process
...” I believe he is incorrect. An impeachment inquiry, just like an election,
is part of the democratic process.
What Banks fails to mention is that our Constitution empowers
Congress to discipline members for wrongdoing or misconduct in office. And for
questionable behavior, the president can be held to an impeachment inquiry by
the House and trial by the Senate. All of this is part of the democratic
process.
So what is the point? We do not have to wait for an election to
pursue alleged wrongdoing by our elected officials. Can you imagine a senator
accused of misdeeds in the first year of office and the electorate having to
wait five years for a decision whether to reelect that senator?
I urge Banks to present a fair and balanced overview of all
democratic procedures available for elected officials who may have misbehaved
in office. Sometimes we cannot, nor should we, wait for elections to consider
any alleged misconduct by such individuals.
And finally, while there appears to be no outcry in the 3rd
District to impeach the president, national polls are beginning to show
something different. More than 50% of American voters are now leaning toward
impeachment. Perhaps our elected officials should examine why this trend
is occurring.
Richard N. Avdul
Fort Wayne
We’ll begin healing
on Nov 3rd, 2020.
Hip Hip Hooray for
Bonnie Caudill for calling out PDJT for his vulgar language. It’s about time. I searched the JG archives
for Caudill’s letter condemning President Clinton for having an intern service
him in the Oval Office but could not find it.
I also looked for her letter condemning Joe Biden for telling President
Obama that signing the Affordable Care Act was big F-ing deal but couldn’t find
that one either. I looked for her letter condemning Rashida Tlaib for saying she
was going to impeach the M-Fer – PDJT, but alas the JG’s archives are
incomplete.
These other letters have
to exist, because if there’s one thing we know about Democrats, it’s that they
are NOT raging hypocrites. We know they do not fly on private jets while condemning
the use of fossil fuel. We know they do
not surround themselves with armed guards while telling the rest of to turn our
self-defense weapons.
I wish PDJT would
give up the bad language at rallies and other places. That said his accomplishments far outweigh
the bad language most us fall into from time to time.
Time to begin healing from Trump's corruption
Did anyone catch coverage of Donald Trump's rally in Minneapolis
on Oct. 10? I did, and yet another shocking presidential pronouncement made my
heart sink.
[In reference to Joe Biden]: “He was only a good vice president
because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's a**” (of course, he said the
word). Think about that. Just think about those words said in front of the
usual rally crowd. And think of the irony, with Mike Pence as his own vice
president.
This should make every American cringe. The crowd behind him
cheered wildly in their red MAGA hats. There were children in the crowd
cheering and having a great time, too. Who are these people who will cheer
deliriously any vile thing this man says? The crowd's reaction says more about
them than it does about Trump.
We all know who this guy is. He will never change. No U.S.
president should get away with saying vile things referencing a former
president, former vice president or anyone else. Words matter.
This is not about Republicans or Democrats, or whom you support
or dislike. This is about decency and morality.
There are those who will say, “Oh, that's just Trump being Trump.”
I refuse to say that.
This man is corrupt, dangerous and an embarrassment to the free
world he leads. The sooner this man with his vile language, acts (remember how
he despicably mocked a disabled journalist who was in the room doing his job? I
do), and lies gets swept out of the Oval Office, the sooner our broken country
can begin to heal.
Children are watching. The world is watching, too.
Bonnie Caudill
Fort Wayne
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