Watching the Joseph Kennedy biography on American Experience program leads me to the conclusion that JFK is not much different from W Bush in term of it foreign policy disaster at the beginning of their time in office. The analysis in the program reflected in the narrative in a very subtle way indicates that JKF is an incompetent leader who reacts more on emotion than on rational.
The play boy nature of his character is a prominent one. This is the missing link that leads to the harebrain reaction of approving the invasion of Bay of Pig. This parallels with the same act that W Bush made on invading of Iraq. The words used in the document are that he is letting the victory in the presidential race getting over his head.
Bay of Pig is a disaster that reflecting this reality. I was not in a moment before connecting these two dots. Then there is another with elephant in room: The Vietnam escalation by Kennedy. I was not connecting the dots when it comes to JFK at all. It simply clicks now with the help of the narratives of this documentary. The North Korea and Afghanistan situation I am witnessing now is also very precarious and could turn into another trap for these kinds of emotional reaction to events around the world by Barack Obama.
A common threat of all these geopolitical events is the imperialism hubris that a world policeman should maintain order of the world. This is a most convenient and appropriate way to grapple with the issue notwithstanding all the smokes and mirrors put up by the spin machine. Alexander Cockburn writing this week on Counterpunch clearly points out this kind of thinking.
Bullying small countries sounds easy said than done. North Korea had learned a lesson and gave up it plan A to renormalize relation with US. It seeks the nuke insurance as a way to protect the regime survival. There was USSR before to ensure the survival of Cuba, and there is no such player to back North Korea regime any more. Logically thinking, it is a rational move. Kim Myong Choi had raised this point in Asia Times online this week.
The promising of not toppling the regime of Havana is the final draw demanded by Kuchev to settle the Cuban crisis. What would be the crucial element that is going to have the tension between Iran, North Korea resolved? History would offer many clues on this matter.
There are many signs B. Obama is falling into the same trap that W. Bush, JKF, B. Clinton, J. Carter had experienced before as emotion takes over their decision processing.
Sometime I was wondering if the dissolving of the USSR by Gorbychoff is the result of the detent policy of Reagan administration instead of its military buildup as proposed by many spin doctors.
Interesting viewing of cosmology last night at Nat Geo channel on Neutron star, super nova, black hole, etc. leads to a few thought on this subject matter. There are still so many unsolved mysteries on the universe. Black matter and jet stream shooting out of black hole are among them.
Having explanation is not as simple as I thought. There is a contradiction of the concept of black hole sucking everything into the hole and all information about the spacetime will be lost forever and the concept of black hole has hair (radiation out of the black hole as posited by Richard Hawkins). Now there is another phenomenon that is violating the conventional concept of black hole that would not let anything escape from its center. This is the phenomenon observed by Hubble telescope. M87 galaxy is the name of this phenomenon takes place.
The explanation in the NatGeo program is that there are so many materials to be sucked into the black hole and it causes a traffic jam at the path some materials escape from the supper gravity of the black hole and forming a long line in the spacetime. However, no one can prove this is the case yet. This is a speculation that is not been covered in all the pop science on cosmology books that I happen to come across. This is a very interesting research subject.
Shoemaker-levy comet strikes Jupiter is another interest observation of the life time and in the history of astronomy. This is an effort by Heidi Hammel also a researcher of astronomy. She proposed that Hubble scope should be allowed to train on this comet and observes the collision in real time. The result is a real time event observed in the Space telescope institute in Baltimore MD.
Then the Eta Carina super nova in the Eta Carina nebula is also very interesting. I see this amazing image of two super heated gases shooting out from the core of these two stars the first time in my live. This is a phenomenon occur before a star blows itself out of existence. All the materials the form the stars would be scatter in space and become the substance that form live in the universe. They are calcium, iron, etc,
What is reported in this week on the Bill Moyer program makes me clinch. This is a same old business as usual mentality of US congress and White house. The kow-tow of US congress (Baucus of Wyoming) and White House (Obama) to the insurance industry is so heartbroken for the general public that want to health care reform the single payer style.
The reality is that billion dollars from the insurance industry can be let destroyed by any health care reform.
The solution to get thing done with the government is so obvious by now. Simply showing the US congressmen and women with money is the way to go. Why can the public do the same thing as the insurance industry? This is what reality different from morality.
No one can get rid of the health care industry. This is not true in Canada. There is a lack of will and back bone in the US political sys
tem. The spin that patients can not choose their doctors is a lie. With the current amount of health care spending, patients can choose more doctors than they wish. The rising cost of the health care is partially caused by the administrative cost of hospital and doctor offices spend in fighting with insurance companies to get a request treatment approved.
Private practice will still thrive in the medical field. The only thing different is less administrative task, of red tape as commonly known. Obama���s smoke screen of the current system would be disrupted by the new system. The reality is the under insured and uninsured people had been disrupted for so long and no one care about their plight. What is going to be disrupted is the business of the insurance companies not the practice of the doctors and nurses.
People in medical field such doctors and nurses want to practice medicine not pushing paper works. The money in the healthcare industry is one sixth of the GPD. This is as huge as the auto industry before. The people think that they can get into the healthcare industry and not to worrying about the jobs will be outsourced away is making a big mistake.
Anything is frivolous would eventually do away in the future. The current system is heavily subsidizing the insurance companies on the tax payer cost. A free market not supposes to work in this manner. Canada and Taiwan have the single payer model. They are the examples of the guest on the program namely David Himmelstein and Sidney Wolfe.
Who would put pressure on White House to respond to the need of the public? This is how to shore up the competitiveness of the industry. Ha ha.
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