By Edwin Cooney
Next November 5th, "we the people" for the eighth time in our history on that date, will elect a President of the United States of America! Thus the question: to what extent will Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 dictate our fate?
After listening to the third Republican debate last night, it's pretty clear that the GOP is actually anxious to go to war with nations from Mexico, Eastern Europe, and across the Middle East to China. Even the mild-mannered Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott says that when there's a snake you've got to cut off its head. That snake is Iran which border's Putin's Russia! Will Putin sit still while President Scott cuts the snake's head off? Really and truly?!
Other topics during that debate was whether Nikki Haley or Vivek Ramaswamy is sufficiently anti-Chinese Communist or adequately anti- TikTok.
All of the candidates with the exception of Ramaswamy are anxious to support Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu's legitimate struggles against Vladimir Putin and Hamas. Apparently any effort on the part of President Biden to mediate or modify the intensity of the Israeli war is vintage 1938 style appeasement a la Neville Chamberlain.
In furtherance of additional GOP ambitions, we must destroy the laboratories within Mexico run by the cartels that manufacture the drugs poisoning our youth. One of the candidates, I believe it was Ramaswamy, asserted that our youth weren't being merely addicted by drugs from Mexican cartels, but were being murdered by them, thus justifying practically every possible measure against Mexico although no one specifically proposed war with that country.
All of the candidates apparently oppose TikTok, the 5-year-old international media giant, for being out of control. I confess I'm at sea as to what to think about that!
Sixty years ago on Thursday, July 16th, 1964, Barry Goldwater told the GOP's National Convention in San Francisco: "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” (Note: Ironically, moderation in the pursuit of justice is exactly what many Republicans are calling for in the case of former President Donald John Trump! They appear also to be seeking moderation of virtue as well!)
The only issue about which there seemed to be any moderation is the subject of abortion. Nikki Haley said she's pro-life all the time but that the individual states have the right to allow abortions within their borders. She further urged that pro-choice advocates not judge her for being pro-life and she wouldn't judge them for being pro-choice! Do you suppose the pro-abortion rights victories last Tuesday had anything to do with Ms. Haley's politics?
What's especially amazing about the proposals coming from this most recent Republican hollering match is that these wars will profit us, not cost us. No American troops will be sent anywhere at any time for any reason unless the Chinese attempt to capture Taiwan. If that happens, nuclear submarines will handle matters quickly, cleanly and, of course, peaceably.
As for what the debate means politically for the candidates? I'm guessing that DeSantis must win in Iowa or he's finished. Haley is looking good and she's most likely the Republican Vice Presidential candidate. Senator Scott, former Governor Christie, and Mr. Ramaswamy are politically cooked and ready to be served!
In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor back on that 1941 "date written in infamy," it was observed that the Japanese cabinet was so loaded with gun smoke that it should have been obvious that war was inevitable!
SNIFF! SNIFF! SNIFF! GOP!
If we're the master of our fate rather than its victim, let's be at least a little leery of the Republican gun smoke.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
EDWIN COONEY
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