Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran

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25. American Presidents are weak by design.

Only when they use the "bully pulpit" and obtain the full support of the electorate are they able to do battle successfully with Congress and the plutocracy and institute sweeping changes. I am amazed at how many americans do not understand this simple fact. The reason our Presidents are so fond of "foreign adventures" is because they have so little autonomous power here at home. And the Congress goes along because the distraction allows them to continue with their graft and corruption here at home, and provides the pretext for the waste that underlies all that graft.

The reason they do not like well-run public programs like Social Security or Medicare is that such provide no place for them to dip their buckets into the river of public money passing by.