Both POTUS Obama and Bush have disappeared at the American Taxpayer Expense Into “The Heart Of Darkness”—Africa. 

Let them remain there for their respective restitution and irrelevancy to their own homeland!

Although both Joseph Conrad and I are of Polish extraction,  I have no pretense nor audacity to claim his acute observations as a riverboat pilot of the Congo River,  nor his literary talents as one of the English Literature grand masters [although he spoke ‘pidgin english’ according to the American Poet William Carlos Williams].

But I will,   through literary courtesy,  attribute the atrocities inflicted upon the 10million denizens of the “Heart Of Darkness” by Belgium King Leopold II to Bush Jr’s similar egregious atrocities committed against the citizens of our fair country.   I am speaking of the thousands of innocent victims he had slaughtered on behalf of his self-delusional grandiosity called, “The New American Era”. 

For those who may doubt my analogy,   I offer an open invitation to those to review my medical observations of any VA Hospital such as Walter Reed Medical  Center or Bethesda Naval Hospital.

There you will witness the similar atrocities that King Leopold of Belgium II committed against the Congolese—creating humans without legs,  hands or any other assortment of minor body parts---like genitals.

 

But these crimes which Bush jr committed in the name of “Democracy” were spread throughout the “Heart Of Darkness” in Iraq, Yemen,  Pakistan,  Somalia,  Afghanistan,  all the interest of ‘free commerce’,   just like King Ludwig II.

For his miscreant deeds,  Bush jr inveighed himself against the sins of mankind and found his own restitution by returning to Africa to ‘treat and cure’ unknown peoples for whom he ‘seemed to care more’ and ‘prevent the spread of HIV.’ 

  How noble can a man be who can love the world so much that he cannot love his own countrymen,  I ask?

 

But let  Bush Jr’s poor soul lay in restitution,  as his benevolent,  omniscient mother, Barbara Bush,  pronounces the end  of the ‘Bush Dynasty’.

As for our present POTUS Obama,  he too seeks restitution in the same land as Bush jr  but for other reasons.

  His journey to the “Heart Of Darkness” is not one of ancestry or congeniality,  but one of perdition. 

For at last,  after continuing Mad Ludwig’s II “Killing Spree”,  all over the Middle East,  Obama has found a place where he can seek solace in contemplating his complete IRRELEVANCY to the AMERICAN EXPERIMENT CALLED “DEMOCRACY”. 

No President in modern times has achieved such heights of power in such little time with so little skill,  merit or capacity as Obama.   He is the ‘nowhere man’ incarnate.

  Nothing is known about him.   He has achieved nothing of merit in the past.   He continues to abhor the democratic process of ‘give and take’ as if he were ‘borne to the manor’.

And so for me,  the participant observer,   I witness a decisive moment of truth in the sudden disappearance of Obama into the Heart of Darkness as a relief in knowing that Obama, in particular,  is not needed in any way fashion or form [least of all his tireless ‘teleprompter’ stale palavers].

  In fact,  I have realized from the very beginning of his administration,  that Obama was really irrelevant to the pursuit of our democracy or,  more importantly,  to the running of the nation state.

  In fact,  he has been an impairment,  as had been Bush jr and many recent other presidents to the development of a country endowed with an ethos of risk,  hard work and individualism. 

Obama and this present congress demonstrate what Ross Douthat calls correctly ‘The Great Disconnect’ the Obama administration and the American citizenry.

  If you can’t be part of the solution of building this great country of ours,  then you are part of the problem.

  And that has been the prevailing problem inherent in an overbleached,  underdeveloped  ruling class,  both civilian and military,  bereft of experience, wisdom and integrity of any sort.

 

Sociopathy has become the keystone of political transactions.  Words substitute for deeds and deeds have long been forgotten and misplaced into the acrid solvent of political dissonance.

So this experiment called ‘democracy’ must continue for the 21^st century,  without rancor, without remorse and without fear.

  It’s now time,  for the citizens of this great nation,  to allow ourselves a respite of temperance and tolerance in order to allow us to enter the most challenging experience of all—A New American Democracy bereft of Hypertrophied Executive Power,  Legislative turpitude and Crony Capitalism. 

  In order to achieve this New American Democracy,  we,  citizens,  have to be willing to enter the “Heart of Darkness”,  not into Africa,  nor any other continent,  other than the one bestowed upon us by the blessings of nature, God, and our Founding Fathers.

It is into ourselves,  in concert with our fellow citizens,  that we must reformulate the New American Democracy.

 

Be certain that war must be declared a waste!   We have failed in over fifty years of wars!   Leave wars to our Corporate Hessians to rape and pillage for riches that we do not need nor want.   Let their dollars bleed through the twisted bodies and souls of innocent men,  women and children.

 “American expansionism” found the limits of it’s Manifest Destiny.

We must covet no foreign lands.   Nor allow any foreign land ever coveted us.   And so it must continue for us to progress as an enlightened citizenry. 

The days of bogeyman,  phony terrorists,  makeshift enemies and ‘fairy-tale military expeditions overseas’ are over.

 We have met the enemy and he is us.  So says Pogo. 

A superpower that cannot feed nor educate it’s citizenry is but a mockery of judeo-christian values.

And a nation that cannot nor will not endeavor to help itself grow constructively without harm to persons,  freedom or inherent basic rights has no place to go but backward into the darker sides of the “Heart Of Darkness.”

  It’s with full faith in our citizenry and full mistrust of ossified,  irrelevant,  outmoded political system,  that I call for a Convention to begin from the bottom up and consider how we, americans,  should approach the 21st century. 

  We must become RELEVANT TO OURSELVES and OUR INHERENT VALUES OF FREEDOM,  DEMOCRACY, and the right to differ from those within our own government without repression or persecution.

Nor should we sacrifice the collective good for those few who indulge their insatiable greed with instruments of  mercantile subversion and chicanery…i.e. the Corzines of the nation are a good example.

  Penalties must be accorded for such miscreant deeds.

  They cannot and will not go unpunished. 

This is the American Way that I had fought for!!!!

  I cannot and will not accept the purview that the most enlightened of all “ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHERS”,  Voltaire expressed:
  “The best government is a BENEVOLENT TYRANNY  TEMPERED by an occasional assassination.”

  In the tradition of my favorite write Joseph Conrad,  a Polish Compatriot,  I will sign off on this blog as “Alexander Court”, my other alias.

Who knows,  he may be “The Secret Agent”?  

         

Here is an interesting 6 min video posted by a reader, so now we know what Gov Malloy needed ($$$) for his project on mental health, Newtown should be nominated for an academy award.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwHJFVbZT0
Best documentary/reality/not episode to squeeze money out of duped citizens category, Conn needs help.  sad.  try working for a real dollar and taking care of your own people.

compliments of Patriarch,  Louis Prima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CodmlmxpZeQ

Secretary of State John Kerry:  Please Try To Recall the Implicit Wisdom Of 1950’s Rock ‘n Roll Hit:  ”Step By Step We Fell In Love…..”

In Sunday’s NY Times article entitled “Following A Star, Kerry Applies Personal Touch” by Michael Gordon,  the journalist captures the frenetic,  disheveled approach of the new Sec State.

  In essence, Kerry will attempt to solve three major foreign policy crises in one single frenetic stroke based principally on his ‘personal touch’,  whatever that means?

 

As if the Palestinian-Israeli issue were not enough,  Kerry also decided to break the “Gordonian Knot” on the Syrian Crises while at the same time  ‘laying to rest’ the problems of Afghanistan and the Taliban.

  Whew!!
I was exhausted after reading that article.   I was truly in awe of ex-Sen John Kerry whose bloated sense of self has never impeded his lack of accomplishments.

 

But this threesome of Syria, Israel-Palestine and Afghanistan  makes me wonder if wishful thinking hasn’t become pandemic in the Obama administration.

 I think the most sagacious,  prescient words were spoken by a statesman,  Strobe Talbott,  whom I have long admired and thought that he should have been the SecState several administrations ago.

  Here is what Strobe,  the head of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Board and President of the Brookings Institution said about this administrations confusing foreign policy:
“If you are really going to pivot to Asia,  you cannot leave the Middle East in flames.  With regard to Egypt,  the Arab-Israel Peace process, Syria, Iraq and Iran---all that has to be manageable”.

 

Who's is going to tell Kerry it ‘ain’t so’?

Kerry believes that his “personal charm” or “charisma” or “aura”—call it whatever you may want!   For “self-delusion” is the privilege of the “privileged class” of which Kerry wants everyone to understand---‘he was born and bred to become SecState.’

As someone who happened to fall upon the good fortune to have served four Sec States,  I can say from having been intimately involved in the Camp  David Peace Accords and Paris Peace Conference on Cambodia,  humility,  strategy and strong leadership are all the prerequisites to a successful treaty.

  BTW,  at best one can only really hope to obtain one treaty at a time in one administration at a time.

  The Camp David Peace Accords can be attributed to the quiet,  forceful,  perseverance of a President Jimmy Carter and his Sec State Cyrus Vance.

There was no grandstanding allowed!

 

Very talented FSOs like Frank Wisner,  Chas Freeman, and many other career national security professionals from the CIA to the military were all involved in one concerted major effort to insure that Menachem Begin could trust Anwar Sadat to relinquish the Sinai in return for an ethereal peace.

  Carter did it.   How?  To this day,  it’s still a mystery to me and I think the foreign policy community as well. 

  Carter had none of the charisma,  charm or ‘aura’ that Kerry attributes to himself.   But Carter was modest,  sincere, persevering and quiet.

There was no braggadocio about him or his professional team.

  Also Carter never left the WH,  and assigned the work to Cyrus Vance,  discreet, modest, stately, and effective.

Jump decades later to an initiative that was started by Dr Richard Solomon as Assistant Sec State for East Asia and the Pacific,  to bring peace to the war-torn South East Asia area--- and if possible bring some form of ‘democracy’  into Cambodia.

Solomon was supported again by a very discreet,  incredibly modest but very forceful SecState James Baker.

  For the most part,  Sec State like Kissinger could run the entire State Dept with only three people.  But he allowed the FSO’s to participate in some of his foreign policy endeavors.

  But again,  Sec State Kerry,  everything that was done in Cambodia was done ‘step by step’.   First an idea,  next planning.  Then strategies and tactics were developed with back-up plans.  But throughout the entire three year process,  not one word of ‘wishful thinking’ or ‘self-delusion’ was even tolerated. 

  Ergo, the Cambodian Peace Treaty was the only treaty that Sec State James Baker has presided over in his tenure.

So what’s the moral?

Shut your mouth!!
  If you think that you can charm Putin,  then I will be the first one to buy you a Tsarist War Bond.

 

I may not know Putin personally but I do know his genetic code—Stassi, KGB, FSB, and LEADER OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

  Please, Sec State Kerry,  I want to see this ‘slight of hand’!

  As for your ability to charm, the opthamologist  Alawite leader, Bashar Assad,  I really want to see that! 

Bashar’s genetic code has been tried and tested in the infernos of Hafez Assad, as ruthless and cunning a warlord as I have ever had the pleasure not to meet. 

  But I have met the Assad regime interrogation units, and they are very, very effective in what they have to do.   I did not discover anyone who had a scintillating personality or could be convinced of reason. 

 

They pretty much held to the Maoist philosophy that “all power comes from the guns”.

Hey,  if you can stop their bullets with your smile,  logic and gift of persuasion---go for it,  Superman!!!!

  I have also fought against the Salafists, and if you can charm those rascals,  good luck!

  As for me, I am regressing back to the wisdom of the inane words of that one hit wonder—“Step By Step, we feel in love…”

After thirty years in national security,  I found that dealing with one problem at a time was more than enough.
But claiming that you can deal with all the problems at the same time seems to me a ‘bit grandiose’ and ‘defensive’. 

In other words, if you don’t accomplish one successfully,  then all bets are off. 

It’s called ‘a rationalization’  for FAILURE.

 

Good luck JK!  I am sure that your ex-FSO father would be proud of you. 

If your father can’t love you as much you do yourself,  than who can?

My last Churchill quote for a while (promise) but it was Winston Churchill who said:

 “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” 

  

   

  

"Step by Step" by the Crests, ancient oldie but goodie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhevKN-p9k

John Kerry is just too much for even himself, here is some homework, I will be posting later.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/world/following-a-star-kerry-applies-personal-touch.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Arrogant,  Self-Destructive Billionaire NYC Mayor: Michael Bloomberg!   On the Warpath to Attack Sen. Max Baucus  [D-Montana],   A Pro-Gun Advocate!  btw,  Bloomberg is on the Way to Destroy the Democratic Party. 

Bloomberg’s “Custer’s Last Stand”!!!! 

The Final Death Throes of a financial and political titan,  Michael Bloomberg is to rail about a passage of Gun Legislation that did not pass:  Background Checks of potential gun buyers.

Bloomberg’s behemoth possibly ‘ill-gained’ wealth estimated at 27 Billion Dollars is being splattered about the media supporting advertising attacking one of my personal favorite Senators,  “From My Former Home State” of Montana,  Sen. Max Baucus.

Sidebar:  Please read the excellent NY Times,  June 14, 2013 article “Bloomberg Reporters Tactics Become Crucial Issue For Company” by Amy Chozick.   My impression: Bloomberg devised computer terminals which stole and reformatted market news.    He was the first financial electronic surveillance and manipulator of the markets.   Information is king and the king manipulated the information accordingly—to garner personal wealth and fortune.

Alas! Background checks have a nasty way of coming back to haunt those who demand them!

  “Qui s’excuse; s’accuse!
  He excuses himself;  accuses himself! 

But now back to the ersatz psychoanalysis of Mayor Bloomberg and his final days--- 

Why is Bloomberg on personal vendetta attacking Max Baucus and other fellow Democrats Senators for their pro-gun votes—Sen Mark Begich of Alaska;  Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota?

Is it because, Bloomberg is so adamant about gun control?
  Me thinks that "The Mayor Doeth Protest Too Much",  not to make this ersatz issue of pro-gun legislation the raison d’etre of his self-anointed,  Templar Crusade to Jerusalem. 

Sidebar: Please remember the tragic ending of Shakespeare, “Macbeth”.

I think that Bloomberg has entered the twilight of his career--- or better stated—his “narcissism is out of control”.

Bloomberg has finally come to the sad realization that he will no longer be “The Mayor Of  The Most Important City” in the world—New York.

And who is going to write about him?
  Call him for emergencies?

  Greet him with homilies when he rides on the Express Subway Train like all the normal commuters.

  How can he even try to play the game of being just another New Yorker when he was The MOST IMPORTANT NEW YORKER?

Even the game of “false humility” is not his anymore.

  He has to become transparent and real in his everyday transactions and not assume anymore the posture of ‘being ordinary’ when in fact he knew all too well,  he was never really,  ‘ordinary’. 

So maybe,  27 Billion dollars in the safes and vaults of the Caymen Islands or JP Morgan Chase derivatives is not really all that satisfying when… HE HAS FAILED TO REACH HIS OWN IMMORTALITY.

  What do I mean?

I have treated many rich and richest business men [believe me there is no appropriate adjective to describe these guys—“superlatives squared” is not sufficient for their egos] and they all come in the same shape and sizes despite their interminable need to appear singular and unique.

The problem lies not in the wealth they had accumulated because they know all too well,  you can’t take it with you into the worm-infested soil of soil,  irrespective of your preferred ritual of death.  

For most of these guys,  the fact that the game of acquiring  money by whatever means is gone plays a far more salient feature to their sense of self-worth and identity than any accumulation of wealth.

 

Bloomberg’s houses in NYC,  London, Vail, or wherever are simply replicates of  limestone tombs harking all the way back to times of Pharaohs,  embalmed with their house hold possessions and even their pets.

  But for Bloomberg there is no such immortality.

  No one but his family,  or nearest friends, if any are left,  will visit his grave site and say the mandatory prayer that we, Jews,  are called forth to utter—“THE KADDISH”.

 

More importantly,  the political games of deception,  manipulation,  confrontation, and self-aggrandizement are fleeting,  if not completely, vaporized. 

What field of endeavor can be left for a voracious,  ambitious man of true accomplishments?

Question:  So what is left for a poor Jewish,  Brookline, Mass. “boyshik”,  who successfully overcame anti-semitism to become --against all odds-- a  banker; electrical engineer; business man; politician, and philanthropist?
Answer:  Self-Destruction!!!

The Ultimate Game to which this incredibly talented Individual can perform EXQUISITELY…. AND WITHOUT ANY ONE ELSE'S ASSISTANCE!!!

  Bloomberg is the only one who can  self-immolate his own personae,  contrived or real. 

It is only he,  Bloomberg,  who can write the final ending to his life.  But unlike his autobiography Bloomberg by Bloomberg— his hagiography of real or imagined accomplishments,  there is no Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis  who can write the Titan or  There Will Be Blood .

Advice:  it’s time for, you,  Mayor Michael Bloomberg to lay off of Max Baucus!

  Max has served his state well and judiciously.

  He is a modest,  accomplished legislator who had chosen the public service arena for his own mark for immortality.

It’s quite simple,  contrary to your insulting,  prurient anti-Max Baucus ads,  the state of Montana loves Max and Max loves Montana.

Now it’s time for you,  Mayor Bloomberg,  to come to terms with your own immortality.

  Do you want to be remembered for your expansive accomplishments, whatever they may be?
  Or do you want to be honored for the Senators and political party that you purposefully destroyed,  intentionally or unintentionally?

  The choice is yours.

Rein in that nasty narcissism!

Become a ‘mensch’ again. 

Find something worthy to do besides,  rail like a dying elephant.

These final throes of death are deafening. 

The silence of achievement is mute… but noble.

  As we say in the casinos of life:
“ Les Jeux Sont Faits!”

You can’t place your bets anymore. 

The game of life is over!!!