Dakota Beacon

Much is being said or suggested as to what America should do about the most recent and horrific Hamas attack on Israel.  It is ironic, indeed, inasmuch as America could be said to have largely funded this attack.  While you are clutching your pearls, think about this:  we have sent untraceable cash by the billions of dollars during Obama’s administration, to Iran, which is supporting and helping to organize Hamas to do just what they have done.  Iran is the world’s greatest exporter of terror.  Then we “unfroze” Iranian assets - another $6B.  To add to this, our feckless leaders - and we must include highly vocal Republicans in this - have been on the team bus for Ukraine in a war instigated by the U.S.   We have supplied deadly ammunition and weaponry to Ukraine without any accounting for it.  Now we find it in the hands of Hamas.  The picture is very clear.  We are funding Hamas.  And by the way, we are also letting Hamas into our own country.  This will not end well.

We have entered the third week of the attack on Israel.  We are finding conflict here at home over this.  Somehow we have people here who have no criticism of terrorists who attacked peaceful civilians at a concert, who attacked families, killing men, women, children of all ages.  We have reports of infants’ remains - charred, beheaded, some reportedly burned alive.   

While we may have criticism for Israel’s policies toward their own people, Israeli citizens, in that they were basically forced into being used as human guinea pigs through a deal hatched between the Israeli government and Pfizer, and perhaps other stupid policies, we should support the people of Israel in this attack.  

But what should our role be?  First we must condemn terrorists everywhere.  RIght now they are in Israel but there are sleeper cells in American cities which could become active at any time, so we must be vigilant and we must, however belatedly, enforce our own borders.  Here are a few other points:

1.  End ALL “foreign aid”.  Our meddling and funding and “do-gooder” machinations over the years has created the climate and the ability for the worst of the worst.  Our money - remember the “pallets of cash” Obama shipped to Iran? - is funding terrorism.  We are a BIG part of the problem.    Our “assistance” to Ukraine, following on the heels of our affirmative pushing for Ukrainian NATO membership, turns out to be another source for terrorists around the world.  We sent Ukraine weapons.  The weapons are now showing up in the hands of Iranian-trained Hamas.  “Someone” in charge in Ukraine apparently sold them to Hamas.  Or Iran.  WE do this.  Then we unfreeze Iranian assets here in the U.S., reinforcing terrorism.  Obviously we have not been a force or influence for good, or peace or order.

2. We should not put our boots on the ground anywhere except to defend our own country.  And not by proxy wars.  We need to keep our own military out of Ukraine and out of Gaza.  

3. We need to focus our military on our border and on direct enemy activity.  Close the border and make it crystal clear that we will not be extending any services or benefits to illegal immigrants.   It is no use saying we are enforcing our borders with the caveat that “if you make it past our border we will make you voting citizens and endow you with all the benefits of that status, you will have schools for your kids, welfare, medical assistance, the right to vote and to invoke the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens.”  That is just stupid.  We need to stop the cartels that threaten our own people.  And, in case anyone out there hasn’t heard, we are letting Hamas into our own country right along with the Mexican drug cartels.  What should we expect?

4. Our support for Israel should be to stop funding their enemies.  We should stand down and get out of the way of the Israeli response to this attack.   Then, once they have obliterated Hamas - as they should - we should ask some questions of both sides.  Whether we get answers is perhaps less important than publicly asking.  Here are a couple:  1.  How, exactly, did Hamas breach Israeli security?  This is serious.   There is no way that Israeli intelligence could have not been aware of the preparation necessary for this coordinated and well-supplied attack.  Did Israel decide to sacrifice their own people to smoke out Hamas?  Did someone want to humiliate Netanyahu?  Or just what happened there?  2.  Why should Hamas get away with using their own people as shields?  Hamas, like other terrorists, put military supplies and weapons, and personnel in schools and hospitals in order to protect them from enemy attack.  When they are hit by an enemy they scream “war crime!”.  The fact is that it is a war crime to house military personnel and equipment in civilian shelters.  Israel has warned people to get out of such targeted sites but either because they want to be there or because Hamas is holding them hostage there it is to no avail.  If Israel were to not attack these targets it would give Hamas free reign.   It is regrettable, but necessary for Israel to hit these targets once people have been warned.

5. Finally, our own military bases in Iraq have been attacked.   When our bases are attacked or our embassies have been attacked, it is necessary to strike back in some way.  This is not to say Lindsay Graham is right (about anything) but there should be a stinger to any such attack.  It might be a really good reason not to maintain bases there.  Why are we in Iraq?  Are we deterring anything there?  It would appear not.  

We are in a serious situation in America right now. Our leaders, both Democrat and Republican alike, have been driving us to bankruptcy.  It is now beginning to take the unavoidable toll on us at the grassroots level, where we are seeing inflation as well as shocking loss of freedom we have always taken for granted.  Since the end of World War II we have seen increasing spending on public programs here and on repeatedly failing military entanglement abroad.  And it’s all on our dime.  Warmongering is big business, just like the pharmaceutical industry.  It makes a lot of money for specific beneficiaries but it all comes at a terrible cost financially as well as in loss of freedom in America.  And perhaps worst of all it is corrupting this nation’s morals as well as those we suppose we are helping.  (Perhaps we’ve all heard by now the disgusting argument Mitch McConnell made for continuing the slaughter in Ukraine:  it’s making a lot of money for our weapons manufacturers.   Never mind that it is also funding a thoroughly corrupt government - albeit a puppet of our own - which indulges in “disappearing” the weapons we send them, in protecting criminal traffickers of drugs and of human beings, including children, a government which has silenced all journalists who dare to question it, which has closed churches and banned worship, which has jailed all opposition to the strutting little twit we put in power.  Never mind that as of last April, half a million people had died in this conflict; by now there will be many thousands more.  Never mind that 6 million Ukrainians have fled their own homeland and another 8 million have been displaced within their nation, resulting in what must be seen as the destruction of a whole generation of Ukrainians and perhaps the end of that nation’s people and culture.  One thing we can say is our weapons dealers are happy with it.)  We saw fit to debase our country in blowing up a civilian infrastructure, throwing central Europe into precipitous economic decline.  So much for our allies.  America has become a monster led by the likes of McConnell - and every member of the U.S. Senate who sides with him on this.  Lindsay Graham has disgraced himself with his rabid hatred and his call for the massive death of Russian people.  How is he better than those supporting the Hamas attack?  Republicans have to own this - they nominate and elect these people.

The very best thing America can do for world peace, for humanity, is to be unassailably strong at home.  Clean up our own act,  Punish criminals instead of American citizens exercising their own constitutional rights and balance our own national budget.  We have no business dictating to any other nation what it should be doing when we are under a government that is spending us into oblivion, a nation of homeless shoplifters and rioters, run by lunatics with a president whose mental incapacity is beyond question    We must tell Lindsay Graham and Nikki Haley and the rest of the war-loving idiots to stuff themselves.  We cannot run wars around the world.  What a load of nonsense!  And what hubris!  Who in hell do they think we are?  Who died and made America the only legitimate authority?  We are only as good as our own country’s condition.   Right now the case can’t be made that we have any authority anywhere.  

So far we have heard good common sense from only one presidential candidate.  Ron DeSantis has a clear view of what we must do at home as well as internationally.  We cannot be a strong world leader and a beneficent influence on any other country or region unless we are strong  - and free - at home.

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