Kim Jong Un is the Adolf Hitler that China can not work with and must take out

Reading Thomas Rick's Churchill & Orwell as refreshers for William Manchester's The Last Lion and George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Both recognized the truth despite vehement resistance. Churchill's early recognition of Hitler as someone to be resisted at all costs is what made him the hero of the previous century and Neville Chamberlain the great appeaser with his misguided statement that "Hitler is a man we can work with." Today in South Korea we see its new President Moon Jae-in try to better relations with Kim Jong-Un by whatever means possible. From afar it looks like he hopes that the bully playing with nuclear matchsticks will respond favorably to peaceful overtures.  Worse yet China, the Super Power of the region, doesn't see the kid for the menace that he is for disturbing the harmonious inter-working of the region's economies to China's detriment and chastises South Korea, and important part of the region's successful economy, for having taken U.S. defensive missiles. President Xi Jinping needs to come to Churchill's determination that Kim Jong-Un  is the Adolf Hitler that no nation can work with and take him out.

6 Jul 2017 fixed name to Kim Jong-Un rather then to his grandfather, Kim Il-Sung        

Steve Bannon Phantom of the destruction of the Administrative State

Just saw The Capital Steps 'Orange Is The New Barack' at the Symphony on West 95th and Broadway. The most perceptive skit? Steve Bannon as the Phantom of the Opera.

Trump's disdain & ignorance of law makes certain Mueller finds impeachable offenses

As one who has blogged that there too many laws and that during the normal course of business one breaks several laws everyday without knowing what they are because how can one possibly know all of them, especially ones that deviate radically from one's sense of fair play.  Now imagine Donald J Trump business career, where he used law as a weapon against others despite his ignorance and disdain for them in general, and the numbers of laws he has broken. It is a certainty that Special Prosecutor Mueller and his team after thoroughly investigating Trump's  campaign possible collusion with Russia's hacking efforts of our electoral process will divert onto some other highway of malfeasance  and come up with impeachable offenses much like Starr came up with Monica Lewinsky after not finding much in Whitewater.

'Flimflammery'USS of American health care doubly expensive with worst result

Al Franken in Giant of the Senate finds that the American Dental Association doesn't want competition. In his case it was from Alaska natives trained as dental therapist so that they could serve rural outposts where full fledged dentist would never practice.  While he wins the argument his law ran up against State licensing requirements which nullified it. Rather than identify the barriers to entry in American health where we spend twice the percent of GDP of a Germany, as an example of a well developed large economy, with poorer outcomes. In the case of mothers giving birth, grossly poorer. The headline U.S. Has Highest Maternal Deaths Among Developed Countries shows the "flim flammery"uss of the claim that we have the best health care in the world.

Allies of convenience destined for power struggles of treachery

After Raqqa & Mosul, Fates of ISIS and Syria & Iraq Rest on a Bigger Battle is a report fraught with unresolved conflict between allies of convenience dedicated to win a battle which when accomplished dissolves into power struggles of treachery. Unfortunately the treachery will be American by trying to ally irreconcilable tribal sects.  We will thank our Kurdish fighters win in Raqqa by handing them over for summary execution by a hostile Sunni Arab sect backed by Turkey. In Iraq after the conquest of Mosul Sunni Arabs will be hunted down and persecuted by Shiite Baghdad and their Iranian sponsors.

The moment is a “major crossroads” in the conflict, said Kamel Wazne, who studies Hezbollah, the United States and the Middle East and teaches at the American University of Beirut.

The Americans want to prevent the establishment of a “Shiite crescent” of influence from Iran to Lebanon, Mr. Wazne said, and to maintain “a piece of what is taking place in Syria.”

“They will not allow the Iranians and those they support to have a victory at the expense of the Americans in the whole region,” he added.   

Does the U.S. State Department  really think that Iran will give up the Shiite crescent they already have?