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Joseph Bentivegna, M.D.October 23, 2019

If Our Ruling Class Wants to Stay in the Middle East, Bring Back the Draft

President Trump is being savaged by all sides for his decision to remove our troops from Syria. This allowed Turkey to invade areas occupied by the Kurds, our allies in the fight against ISIS. The House of Representatives voted 354-60 to decry the policy. Newspaper editorials and armchair pundits on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC have berated the President. ABC News even fabricated a fake video of a Turkish attack on the Kurds (it was actually from a shooting range in Kentucky). One pundit in the Wall Street Journal described the President’s policy as “Speak Loudly but Carry a Toothpick.” But do any of these armchair warriors have any skin in the game? Do President George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton and President Obama, architects of this policy that the President inherited; have to worry about Chelsea, Sasha, Malia, Barbara or Jenna being killed in the mid-East. No, they do not. Why? Because there is no draft. In the 1960s, while there was still a draft (it applied only to men), the Vietnam War became … [Read more...]

The Democrats Roll the Dice on Impeachment

Liberal Democratic congressman Al Green hit the nail on the head: “I'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get re-elected.” Exactly. What has to be understood is that the polls the media routinely feed to the public are biased towards the Democrats with the exception of the Rasmussen poll, which is the only major poll that predicted President Trump’s victory. Presently, Rasmussen has President Trump’s support in the 50% range. Given the inherent Republican advantage with the Electoral College, Congressman Green’s opinion is well-founded. Our political class has access to much more sophisticated polls that are not disclosed to the public. For example, the weekend before the 2016 presidential election, President Obama went to Detroit, Michigan even though the polls fed to the voters had Hillary Clinton ahead by five to six points. President Obama knew that Michigan was a coin toss and thus he tried to rally his base. It was to no avail. The President won Michigan by a razor-thin … [Read more...]

President Trump Should Not Bomb Iran

A drone attack on Saudi Arabia has destroyed 50% of their oil-production capacity. The consensus is that Iran was involved. President Trump has stated that America is “locked and loaded” and ready to respond. This would be a mistake. Thanks to the President’s policies, we are now energy independent. We do not need the Middle East’s oil and there is no reason to become involved in a conflict we cannot win. Iran and Saudi Arabia are fighting a proxy war in neighboring Yemen. The history of this region is more complex than a Rubik’s Cube, but basically, it has consisted of nomadic tribes that have been at each other’s throats for millennia. England colonized southern Yemen after World War I, calling its port city Aden. As the British Empire unraveled after World War II, Yemen gradually united, becoming a country in 1990. Unfortunately, it remained one of the planet’s most impoverished areas and self-government has been problematic. In 2015, a group called the Houthi, with … [Read more...]