Guns, like firecrackers, are meant to be fired

 The catastrophic gun violence plaguing our urban wastelands should surprise nobody.

A society allowing many millions of guns to reach the young, poverty stricken masses is practically demanding that they turn their neighborhoods into shooting galleries.

Giving guns to the vulnerable young is no different than giving them firecrackers. They’re only fun when they shoot them off.

The diabolic intersection of gluttonous capitalism and institutional racism is responsible for America’s killing zones. The gun/ammo makers gleefully exploit the cultist reverence for the 2nd Amendment to ward off virtually any regulation whatsoever. The guntoters outside of those killing zones are either oblivious to the daily street slaughter there or even cheering it on as a means of culling out minority population.

In addition, our society does virtually nothing to alleviate the joblessness, despair and rootlessness which, combined with unlimited gun availability, guarantees unending bloodshed.

All other solutions are simply happy talk. Until we reduce the avalanche of guns and lift our urban pockets of despair into the mainstream economy, nothing will change.

Afghan withdrawal rationale even more pertinent in Iraq

"For those who have argued that we should stay just six more months or just one more year, I ask them to consider the lessons of recent history… Nearly 20 years of experience has shown us, and the current security situation only confirms, that ‘just one more year’ of fighting in Afghanistan is not a solution but a recipe for being there indefinitely. It’s the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country." – President Biden’s reason for ending Afghan war

This rationale applies even more to America’s criminal Iraq war. That war was considerably less credible than our senseless Afghan invasion of October 7, 2001. It’s caused considerably more foreign and U.S. deaths and nationwide destruction than its 17 month longer Afghan brother.

It’s also more dangerous to the 2,500 or so U.S. troops sitting with targets on their backs due to U.S. intransigence about leaving.

That is because, unlike in Afghanistan, the Iraqi government wants America out…yesterday. In January, 2020, Trump launched a dastardly drone attack at the Baghdad Airport, killing not only top Iranian General Soleimani, but Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, leader of Iraq’s national security forces, which number 40 militias with over 130,000 fighters.

The Iraqi National Parliament voted for America to leave forthwith. Eighteen months later America is still negotiating the terms of our withdrawal. During that time Biden has twice bombed those security forces claiming they are too aligned with Iran and are endangering our remaining troops.

Incredibly, it’s our bombings and delaying tactics generating nearly daily attacks on U.S. positions. While mostly harmless, it’s inevitable U.S. casualties will occur, unless we do take the lawful, sensible and peaceful action….leave Iraq even faster than we’re leaving Afghanistan.

America’s 62 years of cruelty to Cuba and the Big Lie

“We are always considering options available to us that would allow us to support the Cuban people, to support their humanitarian needs, which are indeed profound. And they are profound because of not anything the United States has done, but from the actions and inactions, mismanagement, corruption of the Cuban regime.” - U.S. State Dept. spokesman Ned Price

This statement is a despicable lie. The U.S. has been embargoing life nourishing supplies to Cuba for 62 years now. Countries and financial institutions often comply with the U.S. embargo to avoid running afoul of Uncle Sam’s financial terrorism. Even 16 months of pandemic has not softened American’s cruel, senseless denial of basic resources needed even in the best of times.

President Biden joined in with this dishonorable disclaimer: “We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime”

If Cubans would overthrow their communist government, or like Saudi Arabia, buy billions of America’s weapons of mass civilian destruction, Uncle would roll out the red carpet of American capitalistic greed in a heartbeat.

Our government lying shamelessly, continuing 7 decades of inhumane treatment of Cuba, simply reveals our moral depravity. America's foreign policy under Biden is not ‘back’. It remains an outlier as a heartless bully to the less advantaged nations incurring its wrath.

Republican voters helping out poorer countries control pandemic

We should credit Republican voters for their heroic efforts to vaccinate the world's poorer countries. They’re doing this at great risk to themselves...by donating their vaccine dose for export abroad to those in dire need.

Studies show over half of GOP voters will skip their shot so those in vaccine scarce counties get theirs. Meanwhile, selfish Democratic voters are near universally rolling up their sleeve...the rest of the world be damned.

Republican voters are taking their cue from their still imagined president who got his shot in secret, then pretended it never happened. His efforts were so effective over half of GOP voters think he’s setting the example they’re following.

An unintended consequence of their vaccination abstinence is that they’re thinning their ranks for the 2022 election and beyond. Reason? 99.5% of new covid deaths claim the unvaccinated. That might explain why GOP state legislators are feverishly enacting laws to suppress the likely Democratic vote.

Hey, their new Jim Crow laws are simply designed to level the voting field tilted leftward by their humanitarian efforts to help the less fortunate worldwide.

On Afghanistan, U.S. twice as dumb as Russia

It took the old Soviet Union just 10 years ('79 - '89) to figure out that a superpower couldn't conquer Afghanistan.

U.S. laughed at Russia's folly which it had a hand in by supporting Osama bin Laden and his boys.

But karma sure can be mean. Osama took that U.S. support and turned it on its benefactor, knocking down and bombing U.S. buildings in retaliation for meddling in the Middle East.

That goaded the U.S. to attempt what Russia couldn't. Another invader, another failure. But for America it took 20 years, trillions of dollars and lots of dead people to figure out what Russia did in half the time.

When it comes to Afghanistan, Russia and the U.S. are dumb and dumber.