Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

The Republicans had, in the view of most Americans at the time, refused to pass the legislation to provide money for the government to function unless President Obama would cancel the Health Care Reform that was his major legislative achievement of his first term, and passed over the objections of most Republicans who claimed it was unconstitutional. Then the Supreme Court upheld the Constitutionality of Obamacare, and the Tea Party Republicans pressured the regular republicans to shut down the entire government until the President relented and cancelled his own legislation. The American people resented this unprecedented of interfering with the Constitutional methods by which laws are passed, and after over a week of taxpayer additional costs for less service, the regular Republicans made a deal with the Democrats and produced a majority to reopen the Government.

Asked if he would relent in his attitude toward Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if the Iraqi leader would free American hostages and make concessions:

The President had cut some programs that were Congressional favorites:

Hamas, a terrorist group, however had taken over the Gaza Strip by force, ousting the Fatah Palestinian government. Hamas were then the de facto dictatorial rulers of almost 2 million Palestinians while the Fatah Government controls the West Bank with most of the Palestinians.

After 21 years of imprisonment, the South African government offered to set Mandela free if he would agree to desist from anti-government activities. Mandela refused to discuss a deal:

He finally had to. In the government of national reconciliation, the Fascists—called Conservatives after WWII—were led by Don Manuel and he took the second place while the Republicans with the majority had the Prime Ministership. The Communists were part of the Republican coalition as they had been in the Civil War.

She served as the head of the Task Foce that the President asked to come up with better poliocies and procedures for coping with situations were Americans were being held hostage for ransom. The poliocy had been that the United States would not pay meny for hostages and it was a crime for the families and friends to do so. After the report, the government still would not pay terrorists for hostages, but the new policy allowed family and friends to do so if they wanted. A number of Amricans have been murdered when hostage money was not paid. Some argue that the government should pay the ransom lest life and death depend on the wealth of the family of the victim. Most terrorism experts argue against paying at all. In addition to encouraging the terrorists to take more Amercian hostages, the hostage money goes to the terrorists who use it to endanger and kill other Americans. There is no good answer to this situation.

Lee was trying to negotiate a peace treaty as a part of his his potential surrender. However, Grant would not be drawn into that, Lee was NOT the government of the Confederacy, and Grant had served with him earlier in the Mexican War and knew he was not a fanatic on teh subject of slavery and race as most of the Southern leaders were. They werenthe ones who would have to be captured or driven to surrender. Grant could have gotten authoirioty as he was in almost real time contact with President Lincoln by telegraph. However, neither wanted to negotiate peace with Lee. Instead, Grant gave Lee and his men incredibly gracious termsof surrender which he and Lincoln hoped would casue the avarage Southern soldiers to feel better about surrender for although Lee's was the largest Confederate Army, there were still others out there that had to be dealt with,

Israel's Arab enemies do not simply want to control the territory and/or the economic resources. Their aim, overtly stated thousands of times since the formation of Israel, is to "drive the Jews into the sea", murder the population, obtain revenge for their percieved humiliation that "foreigners" to the region and their religion could build a society so far advanced compared to Arabs on the harsh land abd without any of the oil riches that some of the Arab states had. Israel has won all the wars that the Arabs have initiated, and never murdered the population, and provide the "occupied territiries" with better medicine and infrastructure than the Arabs achieve on their own.