There is a deep rift in the Brooklyn Republican Party, in case you haven't noticed from my previous posts. Back in September 2009, I was elected County Committeeman in my district under high political pressure. After my primary (in which I won by plurality of the vote), the party crack deepened and worsened. The County Convention was essentially between an old neonconservative who hoarded money (the incumbent), and a reformer who wanted to change the way the party runs.

Needless to say, my proxy went to the reformer, but the Brooklyn GOP establishment decided to run hate blogs against the more liberatian-minded people in the party. And so, the Brooklyn GOP split between libertarian minded youth (Brooklyn Young Republicans), and the GOP establishment. Day-in and day-out, I have been working vehemently with many of the little rebels in the party system to help bring real change to conservatism in New York. Below is a video encapuslating the movement here in Brooklyn.

In lieu of the latest news coming from Israel, Foreign Policy Magazine's Daniel Drezner used colloquial profanity to describe Israel's behavior on board a vessel just outside the Gaza Strip. Mr. Drezner wrote, 

Sure, you can argue that the people on the ships weren't exactly Christ-like in their embrace of nonviolence.  That said, it should be possible to gain control of an unruly ship without, you know, killing more than ten people...

However, what Drezner and many other pundits failed to recognize this following clip:

If anyone has ever seen South Park they would know that the half-hour cartoon on Comedy Central exhibits some of the most politically controversial issues of today compiled in one little show of extreme greatness. I recently stumbled upon one particular episode (or series of episodes) called “Imaginationland.”

This particular show was about Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman’s magical adventure into, literally, human imagination (Imaginationland). Terrorists blow up Imaginationland and let all terrible human thoughts run wild. The Department of Defense gets word of this news and immediately wants to send a nuclear missile into the imaginary portal to rid, once and for all, Imaginationland due to the terror rampage that has set human imagination ablaze.

After laughing hysterically I realized that the episode(s) were directly proportional to present-day American foreign policy; somehow I’m able to connect everything to present-day American foreign policy, but run with me on this one.

The New York Times recently reported that Iran proposed a new deal with Brazil and Turkey in which the rogue state would “ship half of its nuclear fuel to Turkey.”

What’s the United States’s response? More sanctions. The Times continues to report that “rejecting the new deal, however, could make President Obama appear to be blocking a potential compromise.” And blocking a potential compromise he is indeed. The United States has been prodding a stick at an angry pit bull for half a century and seems to believe that doing so will make the pit bull (Iran) calm down and accept U.S. terms. What President Obama, his predecessors, and current State Department staff refuse to do, however, is put themselves in Iranian shoes.

When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly states that he is willing to negotiate and talk with the United States, perhaps the United States should be willing to negotiate and talk with the same country it has harassed for fifty years all because of an oil dispute in the 1950s. It’s as if the U.S. is doing whatever it can to prolong conflict and delay peace.