Comments on the Conventions, Climate Change and the Middle East

I watched as much as I could stand of the Democratic Convention. I watched every minute of the Republican Convention. It featured ordinary people whose occupations had been aided by Trump’s policies including a lobster fisherman from Maine, a mining worker from Minnesota, a dairy farmer from Wisconsin and other ordinary people. The theme was how all groups including blacks, Hispanics and women experienced job gains and increased income. Where Obama made the statement “Trump will need a magic wand to bring back manufacturing jobs”, Trump did start bringing them back by lowering the Corporate Income tax from 35% to 21% and eliminating regulations that were an impediment to business in general. The Democrats featured their “stars” Hillary and Bill, Obama, Michele, Cortez and Sanders. The whole theme for four days was a condemnation of Trump. Never a word about how they would bring back jobs or any other aspect of their programs. Not one word about the ongoing chaos being carried out on a daily basis somewhere in America. No condemnation or even recognition that there was a problem. Since then, as their lead in the polls was diminishing, Biden at least has mentioned it. He even said should he lose the chaos would continue. Isn’t that a great way to scare people into voting for him? As we get closer it seems on a daily basis the liberal press runs features of a woman who claimed to have been raped decades ago, the Colonel who thought Trump’s phone call was an impeachable offence, Bob Woodward’s latest attempt to bring down another President, repeats of the videos of police using force to subdue black men. The unproven allegation of Trump denigrating the service people buried in a cemetery in France. He has fully supported our military. It hurts to see letters to the editor by service men who believe this scurrilous comment from the Atlantic magazine. There was a time when I subscribed. It had been suggested as a good source of information. As soon as Trump came into the picture it started writing negative articles. I did not renew. They blame him for the hurricanes and wild fires. He does not hesitate to deny global warming but the truth is that due to fracking producing low cost gas America has lowered their emissions. Every State has active programs installing solar panels and wind mills. The real culprits are countries like China and India who under the Paris plan were allowed to keep increasing over decades while America would in effect shut down. Obama gave a speech at West Point on December 2, 2009 about the need to increase troop levels in Afghanistan from 71,000 to over 100,000. It was entitled “Our Security is at Stake”. At that time there were still 140,000 troops in Iraq. Shortly thereafter on December 10, 2009 he received the Nobel Peace Prize. How bizarre is that? Currently Trump has started the reduction in Iraq to 3,000 and under 5,000 in Afghanistan. Can’t anyone understand what an amazing accomplishment this is? Under Trump’s leadership the ISIS group was decimated and with the change from combat to training, the troop levels have been dropping quietly. The major holdup I have read is removing our heavy equipment. This should be front page news trumpeted from the highest towers but it won’t because of the liberal press’s onslaught of negative columns as they try desperately to defeat Trump in November. The Kosovo- Serbia agreement ends the conflict that was supposedly ended when Clinton was President. There were United Nations troops sent there to keep the peace. I can only assume this expense will no longer be necessary. Further Serbia will be moving their embassy to Jerusalem along with other countries one by one. The idea to move was approved by Congress when Clinton was there. Until Trump, no other president had the nerve to do it. Bit by bit the Middle East is settling down. Soon, hopefully the Palestinians will be left with support only from Iran, a country which is in dire financial stress because of Trump’s sanctions. They will be forced to accept Israel, when that happens Gaza can finally devote their efforts towards enhancing the lives of their people. Jack B. Walters September 18, 2020