War In Middle East Will Present Difficult Choices. New President Needed

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During wars between civilized nations (assuming wars fought with mutually agreed upon rules are civilly acceptable), there are times when combatants on one side or the other realize that further fighting is futile and surrender. Usually they are interned and after the end of hostilities, repatriated.
However, even among the civilized, surrender has not always been the choix du jour. Spartans were taught to fear slavery more than death, and in our time, the Japanese believed surrender would disgrace the family and dying for the Emperor was life's greatest honor.
As to the future, although it make take awhile, ISIS or ISL or Daesh, however yclept by our administration, will be defeated and we will be faced with a difficult decision. What do we do with thousands of men who have chosen not to participate in Mohammad's promised heavenly reward for dying in jihad and have to be dealt with?
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What psychiatric or psychological protocol exists to rehabilitate the minds of these men so they could take a place in civilized society? Is there an uninhabited place in to world where they all could be located, isolated, and left to their own devices? Should mass execution be their condign punishment?
Victory in this war may end the Weltanschauung jihad has brought about, but it will also bring about a moral dilemma.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/a_looming_moral_dilemma.html

April 7, 2016
A Looming Moral Dilemma
By William R. Casey

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) Warns of Loss of Trust After Passage of Secret Trade Agreement

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“Americans increasingly believe that their country isn’t serving its own citizens. They need look no further than a bipartisan vote of Congress that will transfer congressional power to the Executive Branch and, in turn, to a transnational Pacific Union and the global interests who will help write its rules.
"The same routine plays out over and again. We are told a massive bill must be passed, all the business lobbyists and leaders tell how grand it will be, but that it must be rushed through before the voters spoil the plan. As with Obamacare and the Gang of Eight, the politicians meet with the consultants to craft the talking points—not based on what the bill actually does, but what they hope people will believe it does. And when ordinary Americans who never asked for the plan, who don’t want the plan, who want no part of the plan, resist, they are scorned, mocked, and heaped with condescension.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/sessions-they-won-vote-lost-trust-american-people_976870.html

Sessions: They Won the Vote, But Lost the 'Trust of the American People'
'Washington broke arms and heads to get that 60th vote'
2:27 PM, JUN 23, 2015

BY DANIEL HALPER

Cambridge City Council Wants More Decision-making Power Over Development

Concerned Cambridge Citizens 

One missing element of this discussion is a struggle for power. The Cambridge City Council is mostly a cosmetic organization. They have the statutory power under the Plan E system of local government to hire a city manager and to approve curb cuts. But they seem to want some other decison-making power in order to improve their self esteem. The Planning Board says this plan would only inject more politics into the approval process. The Planning Board does little planning. It is more of an approval board.


Cambridge City Hall

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"The political theater is no place to have a thoughtful, careful discussion about whether something is within the boundaries of the law," said Planning Board member Steven Winter.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140806/NEWS/140808217

Cambridge Planning Board: Granting council final say on special permits would politicize process
By Sara Feijo
Posted Aug. 6, 2014 @ 10:18 am
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Sleep Deprivation Affects Decision Making

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110427-sleep-deprived-brains-nature-science-health-rat-asleep-awake/

Is Your Brain Sleeping While You're Awake?
Key parts of sleep-deprived brains may go offline, hindering decision-making.
Christine Dell'Amore
National Geographic News
Published April 27, 2011

Obama Wants to Vote Present


"Obama's seeking the least politically damaging choice, rather than the most effective military approach. He's less concerned with winning than with avoiding blame."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_real_afghanistan_options_DwRq7G4pBIS1akiPj3CqMJ

Obama's real Afghanistan options
Ralph Peters
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:16 AM, October 9, 2009
Posted: 1:18 AM, October 9, 2009