Regarding Taiwan, Krishnamoorthi has an inflated view of congressional influence

Illinois 8th District Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congresspersons, has a strange way of practicing foreign policy.

He’s defending his recent visit to Taiwan with Pelosi as sending a strong signal to China not to expand its recent threats to Taiwan, including nearby military exercises and economic sanctions.

The strong signal that Krishnamoorthi claims will intimidate China to ignore Taiwan had the opposite effect: greatly expanding Chinese military maneuvers and economic sanctions against Taiwan. It further degraded US China diplomatic relations needed to resolve many issues, the most critical being how to combat climate destruction. Keeping Taiwan from being reunited with the Mainland won’t have much value if the world burns up.

These totally unneeded visits, the newest part of US ‘pivot to Asia’ begun by President Obama in 2011, only further gut US policy of ‘strategic ambiguity’ which worked well for 4 decades after Nixon’s rapprochement with China in 1972 and US establishment of a One China Policy.

Krishnamoorthi ended his bizarre defense of his Taiwan visit with this incredulous declaration: “our congressional delegation’s visit should serve as an unequivocal statement that the United States will stand firm against the ambitions of military autocracies, and behind Taiwan, our partner in democracy.”

Provocative US actions threaten to ignite war 8,000 miles from the US that can only be won with nuclear weapons. Please, someone, have Congressman Krishnamoorthi and his congressional colleagues take remedial courses in sensible political science. The fate of the world is at risk with their foolish political grandstanding.

Trump bags another victim in Lost Cause

Former President Trump’s January 6, 2021 attempted coup is the insurrection that keeps on killing.

Five died that sorrowful day, all rioters spurred on by Trump’s delusional and treasonous claims of a stolen election.

Next day, Officer Brian Sicknick, chemically sprayed by rioters, died after suffering 2 strokes.

One hundred thirty-eight police were injured saving the lives of congresspersons and, more ominously, America's democracy.

Four additional riot police committed suicide within 7 months of Trump’s insurrection.

Last Thursday, Ricky Shiffer, a 42 year old apparent Trump extremist, was shot to death following his attempt to kill FBI agents at the Cincinnati FBI office.

Just of day after the August 8 FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home, Mr. Shiffer’s name appeared on an account on Trump’s Truth Social platform urging “patriots” to kill federal agents. If those 2 Ricky Shiffers were the same, than the dead Shiffer took his own advise.

Trump faces at minimum four potential indictable crimes: federal insurrection, federal espionage related to classified documents, Georgia state election law crimes and New York state financial crimes.

The wheels of American justice investigating Donald Trump are turning at a glacial pace. Alas, with Trump’s crimes, additional Trump dead enders and their intended victims, will be found under those wheels.

 Chicago Tribune applauds further US destruction of Afghan people

The Trib, in its editorial ‘After a year under Taliban rule, Afghans feel the price of peace’ argues it’s OK for President Biden to withhold $7 billion in Afghan treasure from Afghanistan because the Taliban aren’t the legitimate Afghan government.

But President Biden, and his cheerleading Chicago Tribune, are in denial the Taliban whupped America fair and square. Outside of the corrupt US puppet government in Kabul, the Taliban had the support of the Afghan masses, tired of 20 years of US murder and mayhem that killed over 200,000 Afghans, destroyed their economy, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises on earth.

The Trib supported all 20 years of America’s senseless war in Afghanistan that did nothing but turn Afghanistan into a failed state.

But once the US quit the war won by the Taliban last year, it had a chance to make amends for that 2 decade destruction of Afghanistan by supporting worldwide humanitarian efforts to assist Afghanistan’s resurrection.

Tragically for the Afghan people, a year on the Trib now fully supports President Biden’s theft of $7 billion due the Afghan Central Bank but frozen in the US. That $7 billion is needed to alleviate the 95% of Afghanistan’s 34 million people suffering food insufficiency. Fully a third, over 10 million, face acute food shortage.

In addition, a myriad of US sanctions worsens acute food, medicine and life sustaining staples as international banks and businesses fear doing any business there to avoid incurring Uncle Sam’s wrath. They even hampered relief efforts after an earthquake killed a thousand in June.

The Taliban may well rule Afghanistan for the next millennium. Time for President Biden and the Chicago Tribune to ‘get over it’ and begin alleviating the grotesque humanitarian crisis the US caused.