1941 Again
The nation is facing the most simultaneous threat since World War II. Unfortunately, the nation seems to be as unprepared for those threats as it was in 1941.
Externally, China is the most serious long term threat. Today, Beijing is the Tokyo of a century ago.
In the 1930s, the Japanese Emperor’s council believed they were destined to rule the world. They had invaded, ravaged, raped and occupied major parts of China. It was also taking control of countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and others. Then, on December 7, 1941, they went after Hawaii, catching us pathetically unprepared.
Today, China is ignoring its treaty with England concerning the status of Hong Kong and assuming more political control over that province. It is constantly challenging our protective alliance with Taiwan and is keeping North Korea on a string, building and arming islands in the China Sea, and rapidly expanding its military services and arming them with sophisticated weapons.
In its march to become the most powerful economic force in the world, it is tightening its hold on the manufacture of medicine, electronic components, and an unimaginable number of other consumer items.
What is President Biden’s response to that threat? He objected to labelling the current pandemic the China Virus and refuses to increase the defense budget, as he sees no need to improve and expand our military forces.
A less serious long term threat is Iran’s production of nuclear weapons. This country is the major supplier of terrorist activity throughout the world and is hell bent on developing nuclear weapons to be used by terrorists to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the laughable international treaty that was supposed to slow down Iran’s march toward nuclear state and imposed a number of sanctions on the country to slow its terrorist activities.
And what is the Biden response? He is begging to rejoin the treaty. There is, however, a catch. Iran will agree to negotiate our rejoining the treaty only if we lift the sanctions.
Is there really any question about our answer?
Internally, one of the most pressing threats is the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic was already under attack when Biden took the oath of office. A vaccine against the virus had already been developed and approved in warp speed under President Trump’s guidance.
Distributing the vaccine was all Biden had to do in confronting the threat. He is doing that with some efficiency, but not without complaint. Instead of thanking Trump for developing a solution so quickly, he is criticizing the former president for not having advised an efficient distribution plan along his lines.
Then there is climate change, which some consider a threat.
Threat, however, is a misnomer. The climate has been changing since the day the earth was created. The climate changed without regard to whether the earth was barren, covered with vegetation, or populated with animals and/or humans. Heat records set in the United States in the 1920s and 30s are still unbroken.
Climate change (global warming) advocates may want to stop gnashing their teeth over the preceding paragraph long enough to read a few pages of history.
Read, for example, about all the times “experts” have been wrong on some theory. An old example are the “flat landers” who preached that the earth was flat until Columbus was one of the first to prove them wrong. A more recent example is just 21 years ago when the “experts” were telling us that planes would fall from the air and elevators would stop at mid floor a second after the dawning of the new century because computers could not handle that change in time.
Then consider the cause of the three recorded ice ages and the warming that banished the ice.
Look also into some astronomy books and consider what is known about the billions of bodies in the universe that can be observed from earth. Learn about the constantly changing atmospheres (climates) on those bodies.
Some of those celestial bodies are much larger than earth, some are smaller. Some are older and some are younger. Some may be occupied by some type of living organisms.
Whatever their size, age, or condition, their climates are constantly changing. The cycles may be measured in hundreds or thousands of years, but change they do.
The earth is no different, but President Biden is committing billions of dollars to an agency to confront a threat that is not man made and that cannot be conquered by man
So here’s the perspective.
President Biden’s grade for confronting the threats facing this nation is a “C” at best.
Climate change, the one threat he is fighting most aggressively, cannot be defeated. We just need to adapt the changing climate as humans have done from the beginning.
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