YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART(short joke)...SCROLL DOWN FOR NEWS BELOW
A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour through the window hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the young woman would make the same
comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this!"
The husband replied: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life.
What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
Easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us.
Yet we tend to forget- our window isn't that clean after all.
Clean up your window with the WORD! (THE TRUTH.)
LORD, please give us the strength, humility and courage that we may work on our faults first rather than seeing the faults in Others and castigating them.
Have a beautiful Week !
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Niall Ferguson, Wall Street Journal: The Real Obama Doctrine
Henry Kissinger long ago recognized the problem: a talented vote-getter, surrounded by lawyers, who is overly risk-averse.
Even before becoming Richard Nixon's national security adviser, Henry Kissinger understood how hard it was to make foreign policy in Washington. There "is no such thing as an American foreign policy," Mr. Kissinger wrote in 1968. There is only "a series of moves that have produced a certain result" that they "may not have been planned to produce." It is "research and intelligence organizations," he added, that "attempt to give a rationality and consistency" which "it simply does not have."
Two distinctively American pathologies explained the fundamental absence of coherent strategic thinking. First, the person at the top was selected for other skills. "The typical political leader of the contemporary managerial society," noted Mr. Kissinger, "is a man with a strong will, a high capacity to get himself elected, but no very great conception of what he is going to do when he gets into office."
WNU Editor: Niall Ferguson is one of those few analysts/commentators that I will concede is smarter than I am (so is Henry Kissinger) .... but in this commentary I am in disagreement with him. From my vantage point President Obama's global doctrine has been very simple to understand .... avoid the major wars that are now engulfing a good part of the world .... and if one does become involved .... keep the U.S. footprint at a minimum. This may be a frustrating policy to follow and/or implement in certain conflicts .... Syria and Iraq are two text book examples of that .... and especially in a global environment where the overall bloodshed and carnage is increasing ersulting in a mass migration crisis .... but the American people have made it very clear that they are not interested in fighting these major conflicts .... especially in wars that show no resolution unless a massive intervention is involved with a long term occupation strategy. Hence .... we have what we have today. A minimal bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria, a minimal force in Afghanistan, and special forces involved involved in almost every other trouble spot. This mindset is not only on the Democrat side .... Donald Trump has also articulated somewhat the same policy .... "better let the Russians bomb the various terror groups in Syria than the U.S." .... but unlike President Obama .... he has not suffered the same political consequences from such a position. In the end .... I know that the U.S. will have to reassert itself back on the international scene .... and that a long term strategy will need to be articulated. But President Obama is now a lame duck, and he has doubled down on his efforts to keep the U.S. out of a major war .... regardless of the consequences and what the next U.S. President will be faced with.
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