A Nation Of Laws

 We thought this implied unshakable political support.
His attorneys say it was something entirely different.

Donald J. Trump’s lawyer, William Consovoy, argued that as president Donald J. Trump cannot be prosecuted for a crime.   Consovoy, has argued that it is illegal to even investigate the president.  The only reference to any such legal precedent is Richard Nixon; “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”       

 Help!!!  To date no such statute or law can be found that defines who in America is above the law and certainly nothing that refers specifically to the President of the United States.  

 On October 1^st an article entitled “Impeaching Donald J. Trump” was published in A Malat Musing.  It outlines opposition to a Trump impeachment.  It basically relies on two elements.  One that impeachment, by its very nature, is political, and secondly; that such an act would primarily serve in exacerbating polarization and hatreds that have reached epidemic levels in America.

What the article failed to recognize, and is now crystal clear with the latest pronouncements by Trump’s legal team, is that the temporary discomfort resulting from impeachment is far less of an impediment to America than having either an ignoramus or a scoundrel as our president.  Both the Nixon and Clinton embarrassments were quickly forgotten.  That was a blessing.  The curse is that that short memory has been instrumental to bestowing Donald J. Trump upon us.

It is one matter to have a president who is totally comfortable in ignoring establish procedures and customs; comfortable in retracting any law that suits his bigoted nature or political fancy; comfortable in being uncouth and abandoning civilized behavior; comfortable in inciting violence through racist and bigoted rhetoric while behaving as a self-serving narcissist of the highest order.  Those are all serious character flaws.  As embarrassing as they may be, it is something we must learn to live with until the mistake can be corrected at the ballot box.

 However, it is a completely different matter to have a president who is incapable of recognizing that America is a nation of laws.  A president who is void of any conscience and thus has no compunction in snubbing his nose at those laws. A president who, with his hand on the bible says; “…will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." - and then publicly declares; the hell with it. 

A Malat Musing must now retract its opposition to the impeachment of Donald J. Trump. 
The author now goes on record as being solidly in support of that initiative and is offering fervent prayers that it can be accomplish very quickly.

 Hatred is accurately viewed as evil.  All the justification needed for that certainty is, indeed, embodied in the presidency of one Donald J. Trump.

Insanity Around Sacrificing the Kurds

Outrage prevails over the continued attempt of the “Forever-War-Crowd” to justify their hatreds, death and destruction. 

It is an absolute and total perversion of the truth to suggest American is somehow responsible for the slaughter the Turks and Kurds perpetrate upon themselves.  This is not the first time America has been subjected to the irrational harshness of this perversion.

America’s withdrawing of our troops from Syria is exactly what we should do.  America deserves high praise, NOT condemnation, for an action that should have taken place many, many, many months ago.  

The use of the Kurds as an argument against our withdrawal from Syria begs for the employment of sane thought.  

1.   When is America’s obligation to an ally deemed sufficient??  Are we, in today’s world, expected to fight for an eternity to escape the distaste of an ungrateful ally? 

2.   ISIS was a huge threat to Kurd security in the Middle East.  The Kurds didn’t enter into that fight to aid America; America’s involvement hugely benefited the Kurds.  They were more than happy to fight alongside us.  The Kurds knew that just their efforts, along with the efforts of the Syrian rebels, would never be enough to defeat ISIS.  

3. The Kurds have captured and held a large portion of northeastern Syria since the defeat and expulsion of ISIS.  The only reason they insist on our continued military support is because they may not be able to permanently claim that hunk of geography without America sacrificing even more American lives and spending billions more in American dollars.  Is this really a legitimate and wise use of our military resources??? 

4.   The captured ISIS fighters and their families are not, and should not, be deemed an American responsibility.  President Trump is more than accurate when he states “…Europe and others, …must… watch over the captured ISIS fighters and families. The US has done far more than anyone could have ever expected…It is time now for others…” to step up and do their part. 

5.   Whatever differences exist between the Turks and Kurds has NOTHING to do with America. If these parties are too unreasonable to sit down and work out their disagreements than they, and they ALONE, should suffer the consequences. 

6.   President Trump floated this trial balloon of withdrawal from Syrian last December.  He made it clear it would be forthcoming.  The Kurds had almost a full year to get out of harm’s way but choose to hold their ground knowing they would eventually have to go it alone.  WHY?  The answer more than likely can be found in number 3 above. 

7.  Instead of the Kurds expressing their undying gratitude for American support and portraying themselves as a grateful people, they are demanding they be viewed as a victim. America should be viewed as the ungrateful nation?  How’s that for patently absurd???  

T   This is Vietnam Déjà vu.  America suffered the exact same criticism when we finally pulled out of Vietnam.  It was then, as it is now, charged that American turned its back on an ally even though we spent billions of dollars and sacrificed over 58,000 American lives.  What will be the response when we FINALY leave Afghanistan? There is NOOO doubt that America will be harshly criticized for a reemergence of the Taliban and the cruelty they will reinstate in their abusive human rights agenda.  We will undoubtedly hear that we have deserted the defenseless Afghans who had two decades to prepare themselves to stand on their own after being provided with the best training and weaponry in the world – after the loss of thousands of American lives and billions of American dollars.  This is insanity.  To buy into it is to further glorify hatred, death and destruction.

This Kurd absurdity, like the Vietnam idiocy of deserting the South Vietnamese, is nothing more than big money behind the “Forever-War-Crowd” flexing their muscle. 

All those who continue to incessantly whine over America ending its war involvements could be soundly silenced by this country reinstituting forced conscription – THE DRAFT.  We fought and won World War II in less than four-years.  The more Americans touched by our wars, the shorter they become. 

These naysayers would find it next to impossible to find a sympathetic ear for their greed and selfishness if more American families were invested in our wars.  The discomfort and pain associated with the possible loss of sons and daughters suffered by more American families would create an outrage absent in America today.  Rest assured, if such a climate existed, the more than 10,000 American lives now at risk in the Middle East would ALLLL be preparing to return home. 

And “THAT’S A FACT JACK” !!!!!!!

It precisely as Dr. King said; “Violence (War) is immoral…It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”