What In The World Is Going On? A Global Intelligence Briefing

Though dated, it has a lot of good information in it. Question is, why doesn't teh US have a first rate intelligence service? I think a lot of tha thas to do with Jimmy Carter thinking all intelligence could be done VIA satellite.
 
The fourth major transformation involves a fundamental restructuring of American business. Today’s business environment is very complex and competitive. To succeed, you have to be the best, which means having the highest quality and lowest cost. Whatever your price point, you must have the best quality and lowest price. To be the best, you have to concentrate on one thing. You can’t be all things to all people and be the best.
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That Paragraph hit home.
 
Four Major Transformations

Currently, there are four major transformations that are shaping political, economic and world events. These transformations have profound implications for American business owners, our culture and our way of life.

1. The War in Iraq

There are three major monotheistic religions in the world: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In the 16th century, Judaism and Christianity reconciled with the modern world. The rabbis, priests and scholars found a way to settle up and pave the way forward. Religion remained at the center of life, church and state became separate. Rule of law, idea of economic liberty, individual rights, human rights - all these are defining points of modern Western civilization. These concepts started with the Greeks but didn’t take off until the 15th and 16th century when Judaism and Christianity found a way to reconcile with the modern world. When that happened, it unleashed the scientific revolution and the greatest outpouring of art, literature and music the world has ever known.

Islam, which developed in the 7th century, counts millions of Moslems around the world who are normal people. However, there is a radical streak within Islam. When the radicals are in charge, Islam attacks Western civilization. Islam first attacked Western civilization in the 7th century, and later in the 16th and 17th centuries. By 1683, the Moslems (Turks from the Ottoman Empire) were literally at the gates of Vienna. It was in Vienna that the climatic battle between Islam and Western civilization took place. The West won and went forward. Islam lost and went backward. Interestingly, the date of that battle was September 11. Since then, Islam has not found a way to reconcile with the modern world.

Today, terrorism is the third attack on Western civilization by radical Islam. To deal with terrorism, the U.S. is doing two things. First, units of our armed forces are in 30 countries around the world hunting down terrorist groups and dealing with them. This gets very little publicity. Second we are taking military action in Afghanistan and Iraq. These are covered relentlessly by the media. People can argue about whether the war in Iraq is right or wrong. However, the underlying strategy behind the war is to use our military to remove the radicals from power and give the moderates a chance. Our hope is that, over time, the moderates will find a way to bring Islam forward into the 21st century. That’s what our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is all about.

The lesson of 9/11 is that we live in a world where a small number of people can kill a large number of people very quickly. They can use airplanes, bombs, anthrax, chemical weapons or dirty bombs. Even with a first-rate intelligence service (which the U.S. does not have), you can’t stop every attack. That means our tolerance for political horseplay has dropped to zero. No longer will we play games with terrorists or weapons of mass destructions.

Most of the instability and horseplay is coming from the Middle East. That’s why we have thought that if we could knock out the radicals and give the moderates a chance to hold power, they might find a way to reconcile Islam with the modern world. So when looking at Afghanistan or Iraq, it’s important to look for any signs that they are modernizing. For example, women being brought into the workforce and colleges in Afghanistan is good. The Iraqis stumbling toward a constitution is good. People can argue about what the U.S. is doing and how we’re doing it, but anything that suggests Islam is finding its way forward is good.

2. The Emergence of China

In the last 20 years, China has moved 250 million people from the farms and villages into the cities. Their plan is to move another 300 million in the next 20 years. When you put that many people into the cities, you have to find work for them. That’s why China is addicted to manufacturing; they have to put all the relocated people to work. When we decide to manufacture something in the U.S., it’s based on market needs and the opportunity to make a profit. In China, they make the decision because they want the jobs, which is a very different calculation.

While China is addicted to manufacturing, Americans are addicted to low prices. As a result, a unique kind of economic codependency has developed between the two countries. If we ever stop buying from China, they will explode politically. If China stops selling to us, our economy will take a huge hit because prices will jump. We are subsidizing their economic development, they are subsidizing our economic growth.

Because of their huge growth in manufacturing, China is hungry for raw materials, which drives prices up worldwide. China is also thirsty for oil, which is one reason oil is now at $60 a barrel. By 2020, China will produce more cars than the U.S. China is also buying its way into the oil infrastructure around the world. They are doing it in the open market and paying fair market prices, but millions of barrels of oil that would have gone to the U.S. are now going to China. China’s quest to assure it has the oil it needs to fuel its economy is a major factor in world politics and economics. We have our Navy fleets protecting the sea lines, specifically the ability to get the tankers through. It won’t be long before the Chinese have an aircraft carrier sitting in the Persian Gulf as well. The question is, will their aircraft carrier be pointing in the same direction as ours or against us?
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Interesting – Our Carrier Task Groups keep the Gulf open for all and we are engaged for the Chinese Mainland. The Chinese historically are not expansionist and tend to stay at home. Even in the Viet Nam conflict the Chinese had little to do with that conflict, with most of the NVA Aid from the USSR.

After the US involvement the armies of China and Viet Nam became involved in a land battle on the Viet Nam border. The out come was unfortunately a draw. I was hoping for a China victory-just a side note. The point being Tricoms keep within their historical border with most of it’s main armies in harden choke points on the Russian border.
 
That has been around for 50 years - & and it is a myth at best. Money off Poland in WW 1 - Oh-please-lets blame everything on Bush-if he says yes it's should have been no-he can't win regardless.
 
David Saulque said:
That has been around for 50 years - & and it is a myth at best. Money off Poland in WW 1 - Oh-please-lets blame everything on Bush-if he says yes it's should have been no-he can't win regardless.
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Yes, Bush said one.

David, I wasnt with or against.

You being much older and supposidly wiser? I thought maybe you could tell me who said either of those sayings.

Who said it? curious who used them during wwwII

I'm sure your right and possibly someone may say it again when i'm dead.

To answer the question in my lifetime these guys.

Ronald Reagan said the first one.

Bush said the second one.


I would love to hear some more famous words that possibly did not get recorded in the books but are remembered.

By the way, Bush has been running the country since I was born. So who else is to blame, if i was blaming. Wait we had Jimmy Carter for a brief period. Clinton was the best democrat repubilican president of all time.
 
Don Phelps said:
.....must be the Illuminati!

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/
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The idea of a covert plan to create a New World Order (Novus Ordo Mundi) refers to what several scholars consider to be one of the most widespread conspiracy theories. The allegations, which cut across political and social boundaries, describe a powerful and secretive group alleged to be plotting to eventually rule the world via an autonomous world government, which would replace sovereign states and other checks and balances in world power struggles. In this conspiracy theory, many significant occurrences are said to be caused by a powerful secret group or groups. Historical and current events are seen as steps in an on-going plot to rule the world primarily through a combination of political finance, social engineering, mind control, and fear-based propaganda
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Thats interesting, since I didnt realize that existed.

Now I truly wonder how many leaders have used that, I also wonder how sortly empires came apart after leaders started using?

I truly waiting for names of individuals David???? I very curious now.

Its funny I have heard to presidents say it, Funny i didnt know Bush senoir said it. Until Today...
 
You forgot LBJ and JFK("not going to send American boys 9000 miles to do what Asian boy should do")LBJ - not sure how Bush has run this land for 45 years-sorry. As per the quotes-its to early and on my first cup of coffiee-sorry. I am far from being a Bush fan, but even less a Clinton or Oboma fan.
 
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