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To: bentway who wrote (860101)	5/26/2015 5:40:00 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1576602

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To: bentway who wrote (860101)	5/26/2015 5:40:47 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 1576602

You represent one of several here too stupid to realize you support people who would drag us in this direction: Venezuelan Bolivar Now Worth More as Toilet Paper Than as Money DAVID HOLTBack in February, when the Venezuelan government introduced its official and complicated three-tier exchange rate, 190 bolivars bought you one U.S. dollar on the black market—which is where real people without government connections shop for hard currency in Caracas. Now, just a few months later, the bolivar is worth about half that much. This is a brilliant testimony to the innovative power of the government's socialist policies: faced with a crushing shortage of toilet paper, the Bolivarian regime has converted its own currency into butt-wipe. Bloomberg notes: The stunning collapse of Venezuela's bolivar in black market trading this month -- it fell to as low as 423 bolivars per dollar from 279 at the start of the month -- has left Venezuelans scratching their heads, with many wondering why it has sunk below the value of gold and hard currency the central bank has to back it. Dolartoday.com I may just be speculating here, but the Venezuelan government's bold effort to totally divorce the country's economy from supply, demand, and market mechanisms of any sort may be rendering the bolivar a tad flabby. Having subsidized the price of gasoline—unintentionally for neighboring Colombia— imposed rationing to purchase even basic commodities, and driven doctors to flee from what has become a barter economy, socialist policies just may have dinged the value of Venezuelan currency. Actual buying and selling of goods and services in Venezuela now requires dollars.

To: bentway who wrote (860101)	5/26/2015 6:01:15 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1576602

..... September 11 had badly panicked Democrats who suddenly saw themselves losing the post-Cold War narrative of soft power and multilateral diplomacy. Their feigned patriotism only lasted long enough for them to spot a weakness by seizing on Al Qaeda’s campaign of terror in Iraq to turn the narrative around. The last thing Obama wanted to do was risk undermining the anti-war victory of the left in Iraq. The left needed a defeat and so it created one in Iraq. The Islamists needed a victory so they derived it from Iraq. Osama bin Laden and the Democrats were both reading texts on Vietnam and drawing the same conclusions. But the Democrats did not understand the implications of those conclusions. By positioning Iraq as a war that America had lost, they also made it a war that Al Qaeda had won. Al Qaeda had thrived in Afghanistan because it could claim to have beaten the USSR. Now it was thriving in Iraq because it could claim to have beaten America. The transformation of Al Qaeda in Iraq into the Islamic State would become a self-fulfilling prophecy powered by propaganda and American apathy. .......... Televised genocide and mass rape forced Obama back into Iraq, but with the same lack of commitment. Just as before his final withdrawal, his priority is not to win the war but to avoid the appearance of blame. Once again he is trying to fight a war without fighting it by doing as little as he can get away with. Obama does not fear an ISIS victory. He fears Bush’s Iraq War becoming his Iraq War. He worries about having his soft power foreign policy mired in the mud of Iraq. He is afraid of losing his Nobel Prize in Baghdad. He ignored ISIS for as long as possible. Even now he does not envision defeating it, only “degrading” it until he can go back to safely ignoring it again. The rise of ISIS has not changed his Iraq policy. It is still the same disastrous and irresponsible policy that led to the rise of the world’s first Al Qaeda nation. The plan is to reboot New Dawn, wait a while and then forget about Iraq all over again. But ISIS isn’t making it easy. The roots of ISIS lie in the unwillingness of many Democrats to confront what Al Qaeda actually was and their expediency in seizing on its attacks in Iraq for political gain. Obama and his party have reaped the political benefits of Al Qaeda terror only to discover that the terror won’t go away just because Bush did. Obama may refuse to call the war by its name, but the Iraq War has not ended and it’s his war now. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/obamas-iraq-war/ Jason P wildjew • 7 hours ago It's hard to believe all these acts in support of the fundamentalist/militant end of the Islamic spectrum could be an accident. There is a pattern. It could be conscious. But it also could be instinctual. Obama sees America as the problem in the world and that instinctually aligns him with others of a similar ilk. Jihadists are just indigenous people in Obama's narrative. Or he really hates America and is doing as much as he can without making to noticeable to the brain-dead public. He was forced to act after the mass rapes and slaughters. But he did the minimum.