Irreconcilable Differences in Policy

NewsNM note- (Spence) Reconciling President Obama's policies on energy/military/jobs is impossible. In one breath Obama says we have to have a jobs bill now. In the next breath he says he will glady risk tax payer dollars and our young people's lives who are serving on ships lives in the Strait of Hormuz to keep the oil supplies flowing. Then in the final breath, he tells us we cannot add another pipleline, in the U.S. in an area covered in piplelines, to get safe energy from Canada and add a hundred thousand high paying jobs, without a dime of public money. These conflicts reflect incoherence.
Real Clear Politics - Half a century ago, the eyes of the world were on Cuba and the water surrounding it; there was the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, followed by the tension of the Missile Crisis that saw Washington threaten Moscow over what it was sending to its ally on the island. Today, there are different players, but an eerily similar situation of international tension centered on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

While nuclear politics is a part of the equation, today’s crisis isn’t an exact fit with the Cuba model. But the similarities are worrying enough.
Each side is talking tough. Each is pledging that it will not back down from a challenge presented by the other side. Tehran is advising the United States Navy to avoid returning to the Gulf, and has just staged military exercises in the body of water that is drawing the world’s attention.
The Iranians are pledging to not back down militarily, although it remains unclear how they have any chance of standing up to the United States. The U.S. is also talking tough, but it remains unclear how it can actually use its military power to settle the issue without causing an even bigger catastrophe. And unlike the Cuba situation 50 years ago, there are nearby arenas where the U.S.-Iran struggle could play itself out, violently.
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Irreconcilable Differences in Policy