Who Cares What Bolivia Does? They Need Us More Than We Need Them

Regarding the Bolivian expulsion of our ambassador: WHO CARES?

They need us more than we need them. Let them throw our entire embassy out while their country goes to pieces, as it's currently doing.

The State Department can cut their budget accordingly and save the money that would be wasted on Bolivia's current government. They won't even be there in a couple of months! Their own people seem to be showing them the door.

Good riddance!

We Should Break Diplomatic Relations With Pakistan; Musharraf is No Friend of Democracy

It's time for the U.S. to break diplomatic relations with Pakistan until President/dictator Pervez Musharraf leaves office entirely.

His emergency rule decree is getting far worse: not only has he suspended Pakistan's constitution, and jailed lawyers and judges who oppose his unconstitutional moves, but now he's arrested former Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and about 5,000 of her supporters to prevent a massive march scheduled for today.

President Bush needs to stop defending Musharraf; this guy is running the risk of turning Pakistan into another Iran, which we don't need. Today's situation inside Pakistan looks a lot like Iran in 1979, just before the Shah was thrown out. We have an unpopular dictator who is supported by the United States, and our President is supporting this dictator because he does what we want him to do.

It's going to backfire on us, big time, if we don't support the quest of Pakistan's people to restore democratic rule to the country.

Obama-Clinton War of Words: Much as I Hate to Say It, Clinton's Right

During the recent CNN/Youtube-sponsored Democratic Presidential debate, one of the questions asked was whether the candidates would meet with certain nations within one year of being elected. Here are the questions and how Clinton and Obama answered the question:



I loathe to admit it, but on this question, Clinton is absolutely correct. Obama screwed up and is now making more mistakes to cover his original mistake. His statement was hopelessly naive; one could almost hear his advisers groaning from backstage and his spin doctors going into damage control mode.

Clinton's statement was that she didn't want a visit to be used as a propaganda tool by those nations mentioned, who are notorious for doing precisely that kind of thing. She was correct that the groundwork needs to be done first before a Presidential visit could occur.

Diplomacy SHOULD resume with those nations, with a goal of eventual high-level talks and visits. But Obama's approach came across as having an American President crawling on hands and knees to that commie runt in North Korea, or the Mouth of the South, or Iran's hostage-taking president to ask them to please talk to us.

We ought to kick a few of them IN the mouth before we talk to them, just so they're paying attention.

Obama ought to admit the error, then move on.