The End of the Wolf Story
Later, [the shepherd] saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, "Wolf! Wolf!"
But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn't come.
At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn't returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping.
"There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, "Wolf!" Why
didn't you come?"
An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village. "We'll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning," he said, putting his arm around the youth[.]
"Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!"
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Value of Diplomacy and Allies --
How France Helped Win the American Revolution
When 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin boarded the Continental
sloop-of-war Reprisal in Philadelphia on October 26, 1776, for a month-long voyage to France, Gen. George Washington’s Continental Army was losing the American Revolutionary War. He would use his intellect, charm, wit, and experience to convince France to join the war on the side of the fledgling United States of America. Franklin’s popularity, persuasive powers, and a key American battlefield victory were crucial factors that led France to join the war in 1778.
France provided the money, troops, armament, military leadership, and naval support that tipped the balance of military power in favor of the United States and paved the way for the Continental Army’s ultimate victory, which was sealed at Yorktown, VA… www.battlefields.org/...
UK and Allies in WWI & WWII
The US & UK needed each other dearly to win in both WWI & WWII. The US manpower and equipment were of vital importance in turning the tides of both wars, but a strong alliance among friendly nations made it all possible.
Canada supports the uS—
Iran Hostage crisis
The Canadian Caper-- "For three months, Canada's ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, and other Canadian embassy employees, hid those six Americans in their own quarters and at great personal risk. They also collected intelligence and helped the CIA concoct a plan to bring their American guests out safely, even as it meant closing the Canadian embassy." www.npr.org/...
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Canada supports the us— 911
Sept 11, 2001
The first plane hit at 8:38 AM. After both the twin towers collapsed, all US commercial flights ended.
12:28 p.m. – OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON BEGINS
[Canadian Transport Minister] Collenette formally orders the closure of Canadian airspace to commercial traffic. Only military, police, search-and-rescue, and humanitarian flights are permitted. Across Canada, Red Cross officials are assembling teams to send to airports to help incoming passengers.
About 200 flights from Europe to the United States are redirected to eastern Canadian airports during the day. The same process is underway on the Pacific coast with flights from Asia.
With fears of more potential attacks, air traffic controllers are told to avoid landing the planes in large population centres such as Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa...
All told, 239 planes, with more than 30,000 people on board, land in Canada by 6 p.m. www.cpac.ca/...
Trump the Bully only believes in “I Win- You Lose” scenarios.
Trump the Liar doesn’t understand Win-Win, Alliances, Basic Friendship, or Normal Human Kindness or Relations
What Makes Successful Diplomacy By Geoffrey Miller
As to carrying out state-to-state relations well, I think the first thing is a thorough knowledge of your own country’s interests, priorities and policies—what it, through you, is trying to achieve in a particular country or situation...
The second is sound knowledge of the country in which you are posted, to be gained initially by reading and study (probably books rather than briefs or articles) and later from experience and observation…
My third prerequisite is empathy; understanding what makes another country tick is not the only task of a diplomat or diplomacy, but it’s a very important part of it. You need to be able to see why a government is doing what it is, taking the stances it is, and thinks as it does…
Lack of value/credibility from Man-Baby Trump
Instead of building international relationships, Trump has spent the last 2 years blowing up treaties, walking away from international agreements, and trying to destroy NATO.
10,000 lies later, no one except his blind core followers believe him.
About anything.
About anyone.
About any policy.
About any situation.
About any potential crisis.
Some U.S. Allies Balk at Blaming Iran for Tanker Attack
Some U.S. allies may not “want to be seen as bandwagoning with a U.S. administration that may be seen as a loose cannon on this,” said Michael Eisenstadt, an expert on the region at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank. “They’re going to want to wait until their intelligence agencies get from the American intelligence community our assessments and forensics,” he said. “They’ll want to have their own intelligence people look at the ships before they arrive at their own judgment.” foreignpolicy.com/...
I don’t think that the Iranian attacks on the tankers will make or break our remaining international relations.
But I hope we make it through another 2 years without being seriously tested.
Because if a real crisis occurs where the credibility of the US President is important, then guys, we are in real trouble.
I will not bury myself in cynicism
The Truth will out.
I will help make this so by organizing now, so my vote counts later.