The situation will become direr. Mosul requires help. Basra would logically be in for it. And before one can say, ‘mission accomplished’, or mumble anything about ‘rose petals in the streets’, Baghdad may need reinforcements, leaving Falluja to change flags once more.
Such is the nature of what is happening and here are some hints of what may be Message 20763638
A bit less unlikely, but certainly possible, is a global spread of lawlessness, first to Karachi and Kabul, then to … Tanto of Yala Province in Thailand … oops, that is actually happening already.
Before you know it, the Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus and perhaps even Buddhist, and Shinto folks will be mixing it up, and fuel-soaked fertilizers going off here, there, and everywhere. What will the Taoists and Confucian standard bearers be doing? Did I leave anyone out? Oh, yes, the FaLungGong people, headquartered in New Jersey, wanting to spread aerobasizing routines throughout the Central Kingdom.
Then there is always Mr. Kim’s N.Korea with something considerably more substantial than fertilizer and diesel fuel. On second pondering, never mind N.Korea, for it is just another fire in the fast burning forest. Let us not get too distracted, and focus on the more immediate requirements …
… say the impending changing of regime in Cuba.
What if the atheists and agnostics get organized, rag tag and willy by the nilly, into roving bands of conversion persuaders?
A division here and a brigade there, and pretty soon we are talking global warming planet-wide war of more than words and ideas.
Speaking of brigades and divisions, there are rumors about that China is dispatching contractors to Sudan and sub-contractors to Iran, to do something about providing security for the liquid that fuels the globalizing world, and to protect the humming machinery that produces General Electric branded refrigerators to be installed in Joe6Pack’s refinanced main residence and second and even third homes. If them Chinese contractors are meant to provide security in the desert of far away patches of sand in Sudan and Iran, what would be the purpose of Han class nuclear submarine in Japan’s waters … to make sure the oil gets to Japan and machine tools gets to Tianjin, of course, and that Taiwan folks are not bothered while moving to Shanghai to design the geegaws J6P like to dangle from his rear-view mirror of the SUV.
This Joe6Pack must be someone quite important.
I foolishly hope we get some firm and unwavering leadership of great competence before long … eh, I misspoke, we got that one settled already.
January elections in Iraq? I suppose it can happen, but pity the winner, as the loser walks away to clean his weapons. Yikes, sorry, there may not be losers, because the election is likely fixed to begin with, in the name of expanding democracy, but better to secure another hollow victory.
Naivety, foolishness, pipedream, self-delusion, and neo-nincompoop are words that readily come to cynical minds.
To others, like ACF Mike, buy stocks, for heaven’s sake, skip the details of scenario planning and risk management, but get stocks. The Promised Land is straight ahead, or was that behind, to the left, or right, or somewhere between Falluja and Mosul.
America has acted as a check on global tyrants and planet-threatening scoundrels over the years, and its hour of calling is once more, but this time, financed by others, dependent on contractors, hooked on outsource, strained by refinancing. And who is acting as a check-balance to America?
Will we all slip into the Dark Interregnum of Hegemons or just an Intersession of New World Order?
We will find out.
In the mean time, watch for sign posts ... military pay rate goes up, military draft instituted, USD breaks to either side of is, ...
Once again, the Value of the Dollar is the thermometer on global perception of how events are progressing.
Chugs, Jay |
