The Writer's Life 11/16 - Baffling

I don't get it. Authorities agree it's likely terrorists will sneak into America among Syrian refugees -- and we're still going to welcome them! Why not create, as some have suggested, a safe haven for them on foreign soil and use G.I.s to guard it? I know this would not solve the problem entirely. There are other ways the evil slime can slip into target countries, but why make it easier for them? As far as ISIS is concerned, I know our nation is too weary from the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to muster the will for ground operations, but air strikes alone, however intense, are not likely to damage the enemy severely enough. On his radio show this morning, Mark Simone remarked that we should level the oil fields ISIS has seized in Iraq in order to cut off their funding. It makes perfect sense. Instead we are bombing the delivery trucks coming out of the area. I have not heard anyone propose this, so I suppose it is not feasible, but I'm going to say it anyway. Would it be possible to put out a worldwide call and hire a mercenary force to do the dirty work the free world is obviously reluctant to do -- no Muslims allowed, of course? Every wealthy nation would chip in money and weaponry. Let the force be organized by experienced military leaders, mostly from the U.S.. The President is staying with a strategy of containment that feels like a passing of the problem to the next person in charge. He seems to be trying to run out the clock, hoping the homeland will not suffer a major attack while he's in office. How I hope I'm just too dumb to see the wisdom of his methods.

There were two huge trucks parked in front of the Chase bank at Bay Parkway and 85th and a crew at work when I pulled up just shy of eleven this morning. I wasn't surprised, as renovations have been underway for about two weeks. I took the show to 23rd Avenue just below 86th St., just outside the side entrance of the HSBC where I do my banking. It proved fortuitous, as the ever gregarious Carmine showed. Having recently undergone a major procedure, he picked out No More Heart Problems by Dr. Louis Ignarro and the Jonathan Kellerman thriller Therapy. He then noticed Rising Star, which I said he probably wouldn't like, since it contains all the modern elements people his age would never have dreamed would become common in artistic fare. He insisted, however. A half hour later he returned with a four-book donation which included Bill O'Reilly's best seller, Killing Jesus. He is a prince. Thank you, sir. Without his patronage, there would have been no sales today.
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