JEB BUSH SCARES ME

Yesterday, Jeb Bush gave a speech before an anti-Castro group in Florida. If that speech did not scare you, it should have. It scared me. Clearly, he is running for president. He made it clear that he is a rubber stamp Republican, which means he is like his brother in most domestic issues but especially like him in foreign policy matters. The hallmark of Republican foreign policy is negotiation from a position of overwhelming strength. Never negotiate with a foreign power unless you know that your power guarantees the outcome. This has been the foreign policy of the Untied States since there has been a United States. Reagan honed the policy of favoring United States business interests to a fine edge under a façade of fairness. George W. Bush striped it of any pretense of fairness thus reduced it to the use of our military power, the killing of our sons an daughters, to secure business monopoly for of certain specific businesses; for example, in the case of Iraq it was oil company interests.

He proclaimed that under President Obama foreign powers do not respect us meaning they do not fear us. He neglected to say that they no longer fear us. As a Republican, he has no sense of what it means to respect us because of our fairness in dealing with them. In addition, we no longer go around the world supporting evil dictators who are willing to subvert their countries economic resources to our will; the concept of an “economic hit man”. When we ask such dictators, “our dictators” if they like us and of course they answer in the affirmative; thus, satisfying the Bush type Republicans that their foreign policy is the right policy. How many times have we heard the phrase, “He is a dictator but he is our dictator.  In fact, there was not a country in South or Central American that did not fit this scenario, except Belize, only because it was a British colony.

Obama learned for Vietnam disaster and has clearly defined the problem in the Middle East when in instituted his “no boots on the ground” policy. He has chosen to seek a long-term and more difficult solution rather then the Republican neo-con approach of a quick and dirt war to kill them all to show them who is boss; followed by plunder of their natural resources, environment, and cheap labor. They have to fight for their own rights. Jeb Bush would be a disaster as president just as his brother was. He didn’t say it but because he agreed to speak to an anti-Castro group in Florida he implied he is in support of killing Castro and installing a rightwing dictator; our dictator, which would be the same old failed policy of the past. I have news for him, that problem will solve its self if we give it time. Of course, he would like a Granada type bloody war to show them who is boss.     

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