In the waning moments before Super Tuesday, tomorrow November 5, 2024, big
vote day in the US, where the 4 year term Presidency receives a lot of focus,
of all the issues that might be scattered about on fringes of who should be the
next President, like dusty moths trying to cling to the bulb of a halogen halo
lamp, but can’t quite seem to get into the source filament, there's one
standout issue, a matter that has historically been consistent as a matter of
patriotic practice for at least the past 20 Presidencies, and that is: who will
leverage the right elements to what results in successful US national security,
and what amounts of leverage of what may, may not, or only tenuous affect, US
national security, are in the reality of the rollout of what will occur.
Who will be our new friends or better friends, whose friendship and
allegiances are going to wane, diminish, or be shown the door?...
President Taft and dollar diplomacy initiatives, affecting the Caribbean
region, especially Nicaragua, and Far East, markedly China. Dollar diplomacy
defined briefly is foreign policy where economic power is used to promote
financial interests abroad. Dealing with the turbulence in Mexico, was a task
for the next President.
Woodrow Wilson was faced with the Mexico situation and the beginnings of
World War I.
The sequence continues and each President had to have a certain amount of
know-how to embrace the next era.
Somewhat more recently was the Nixon to Gerald Ford transition. Generally,
historically, there was a brouhaha over the sensitive subject of an allegation
that Nixon had misled the people over policies concerning Laos, this in era
where the Vietnam War was starting to wind down. Nixon stepped down before his referent
term was over, with Ford in.
While President Ford was in, future President George Bush was selected to
sit where Colby was. Mr Rumsfeld set at Secretary of Defense was at such hilt
on 9-11.
Circling back to the culminating term of Ford, he ran against Naval Officer
Jimmy Carter who won. The years of that administration was a pivotal, that saw
a shift in public focus from the war in Vietnam to Middle East policy, notably
the Iran hostage situation.
Relatively recent memories still exist with many of us that are gratefully
still alive today, of a moderately big to do of 'what if' Carter does not get
by California Governor Jerry Brown? What were some of the concerns? Before
getting into that, let it be stated it was in a past era, one before every
grade schooler has a cell phone, before the Internet was popular, before the
War or Wars in Iraq before and after 9-11. Jerry Brown had what may be called a
huge career, holding several coveted positions of authority, nearly impossible
in today's times to do the same.
During his father's tenure as Governor of California, referencing Pat
Brown, a memorable event took place, in the Watts Riots of 1965. There was also
the arrests of Mario Savio, incidents iconic of surrounding ripples in the
Civil Rights era.
Perhaps some folks thought that Jerry Brown still rather new and young
then, 1976 nearing age 40, to the higher strata political arena, was sort of in
the footsteps of his father, and the 'theory' may have existed that if there
was a similar policies carries continuum from Pat Brown days to a Presidential
term from 1976 onward, it could be problematic to the tide of equal rights in
the US- basically, equal rights may have not been as good or as far as it came
to be in their respective time frames. (Again, it's a theory, and there's the
might-have-been-a-possibility instead of state as fact, whether true or untrue,
viable or not.)
Some conservative folks thought some of the scenes in some of the films being
produced, briefly daubed, out of Hollywood, California, that went public and
shown in public theaters, [and did not require going into a private sex themed
booth to watch] got to be 'beyond' too liberal, such as in 1975. Question then
asked in minds nearly 50 years ago, where is America heading?
In the 1970s, there may have been rumors that some people were afraid of a
drastic spike in level of support that Israel could receive, and therefore
Israel would be in a position that it would be able to do pretty much anything
it wanted to do, nearly unchecked. Fears may have existed that, that scenario
could occur if a nominee that was steeped in California politics, could act as
the fulcrum then conduit for aspects of support, and ramifications down the line
if too much power and abilities to affect health and welfare of numerous others
were to fall into the hands of overly aggressive individuals, could be disastrous.
At this day and age, it is left as theory of politics in the past.
What can be said, is the focuses of foreign policy having to do with the
Presidency, in a system of ranking hottest issues at the top, were hottest
issues at the top.
...Who will be our new friends or better friends, whose friendship and
allegiances are going to wane, diminish, or be shown the door? The discussion
continues to spiral into a series of correlations, one hinged to the next, such
as, is the new set of friends and break from the old set of friends 'really' in
the best interest of the US, or does it just appear that way to the extent of
the sight of the a party nominee and team members?
Going over these concerns, today in the news, as a function of the results
of search queries returning with results, appears is the External Affairs
Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar of India made a visit here to the US meeting with
nominees and other officials within the past couple of days.
Right through here in 2024, US-India relations are probably the best they
have been since India's independence from Britain.
Perhaps issues might be, from the start of 2025, in the dollar diplomacy
and fulcrum conduit world, is what would the shape of politics be in the future
of India-Jammu-Kashmir affairs? What would the affairs, state, or balance of
tensions between (India and) Pakistan be going forward? The US has had good
relations with Pakistan too, for a long time.
Brief background on some current to recent past ideology connections— E.A.
Minister Jaishankar is member of the BJP; BJP s reported to have ties with Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Today a lot of what goes on in group-ties in India is
clumped together with phrases like Hindu Nationalists, which describes RSS. Unfortunately,
in recent decades, some of the Hindu Nationalism which may about a 100 years
ago been seen as a relief from British occupation/oppression, morphed into
oppression of numerous Muslim population, to some degree persisting through
now.
There are differing reports about the number of casualties of incidents like
the Gujarat riots of 2002 which s reported to have claimed over 1000 lives,
over 750 of them Muslim, at the lowest count.
Hindutva, that people started going into extremism, went the wrong way too
far. BJP and Rajha Sabya are terms no stranger to readings on the unspeakable
attacks during Gujarat riots.
Hey, I love India, we love India, they are reputed to be earth's oldest or
one of the oldest nations. It is said the early man Adam first began his
footsteps on earth in the southern part of the region. India has made
tremendous progress economically and technologically over the past 15 years
that may be literally mind blowing to many of us here on earth, wealthy and disadvantaged.
There is a political sphere. Things can get more and more complex and
complicated as you delve higher and higher up into international relations
involving India. Also in regard to international relations, there are religious
spheres, spiritual spheres, military industrial complex spheres, intelligence
spheres, and the bad part, terror cell spheres. Things can get more and more
complex and complicated as you delve higher and higher up into these.
Looking back, some may wish that similar visits from India, in its own
discussion about US-India relations, was made in preceding Presidential races.
Maybe there were some visits, but it was not as public eye salient as ths week's
was.
At the end of the day, as an open-ended theory, no matter what other
nations outside the US are involved, the primary concern is that too many of
the blueprints to our Nation could fall into the wrong (and possibly
destructive) hands, especially such as through the friend to a friend to an associate to an
accomplice to a blurred accomplice wishing ill, methodology.
Today in the US war on terror, current concerns include:
- affiliate al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
- A group 'inspired' by Al Qaeda called 'Indian Mujahedeen (IM)'
- Tamil militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
