ISIS, Terrorism, and Murder

Hi Humans,
Did you see the Republican debate on television last night. The theme was that the American people (humans) are frightened because of the threat of terrorism from ISIS and that the President has not been doing anything to protect the American people and they would. However their definition of terrorism, threats to the American people, and how to protect the American people seemed more to serve their political goals rather than addressing any real threats to America. So what are the real threats? There are actually two threats. One is to the personal safety of individual American humans. The other is a threat to the interests of the USA and its allies.
Let's first look at the threat to individual American humans. There have been 3 attacks by radical Muslims on American soil in the last 14 years. The largest by far was the first, namely the hijacking or American airliners and flying them into the twin towers, killing about 2,000 Americans. Since then airport security in the USA has been beefed up, and any further attempts at destruction of US airliners have been foiled or prevented. When the shoe bomber tried to blow up an airliner in flight, other passengers jumped on him and stopped him. Other than that there have been 2 terrorist incidents over the last 14 years by radical Muslims, the Boston Marathon bombing and the recent gun murders in San Bernardino. Of course the Republican candidates in their debate said nothing about the other terrorist incidents that have caused many more deaths, for example the mass gun murders at Planned Parenthood clinics. Like the radical Muslim killers, they killed for a cause and thought they were doing a good deed. Then there are the screwballs who have committed the majority of mass murders in the US because of paranoia or some other mental illness. The factors common to all of these murders have been weak minded human killers and access to weapons. Gun control should be the first step in denying any of these maniacs, radical Muslim terrorists, radical terrorists, or any other terrorist group access to weapons. We also need to do our best to identify the terrorists and win the war of ideas.
As for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, although the terror they have committed on US soil so far has been only a small part of the terror America has experienced by the various terrorist individuals and groups, we can not just ignore what they are doing elsewhere in the world. We need to support our allies as we have been doing. But it should be in a way that will win, not with the clash of civilizations that is in their play book and mirrored by some fringe groups on our side.
America is strong. The terrorists can temporarily make life unpleasant, but they are actually weak. Ultimately sanity will prevail and civility will win.
Chloe

Hatred

Hi Humans,
Some of you humans hate other humans with great venom for foolish reasons or for no reason at all. Some dogs are taught by humans to hate, but we do not hate naturally the way humans do. An example of human hatred is the way some humans hate President Obama. They try to justify it by saying he did this or that, but they are ashamed to give the real reasons. Apparently they hate him because he is black, intelligent, has a funny name, and he is a Democrat. They hate anything associated with him just because it is associated with him. They hate Obamacare even though many of them actually benefit from it. They deny climate change and say it is "pseudo-science" even though most of the real scientists know it exists. They claim he is a socialist even though he saved capitalism after the Republican administration preceding his brought the economy to the brink of collapse. They consider him radical although he is actually the real conservative. If Obama says
1 + 1 equals 2, they say no, it equals 3.
Unfortunately Republican congressmen are pulled into following the haters in validating their hatred because the haters are an important part of their constituents. However in spite of whatever they say, Obamacare will persist because it is correct and part of the natural progression of things although a future Republican administration might change the name and call it something else (Republicancare?). Climate change will happen because it is really happening. And President Obama will go down in history as one of the greatest US presidents because that is the truth.
Chloe

Guns in Chicago

Hi Humans,
Have you heard the news from Chicago? I am especially interested because although I was born in California, my human family is from Chicago and we spend part of each year there. Last year a Black human was shot and killed by a White policeman. It would appear that the policeman in this particular case used at least poor judgment which resulted in a death that should not have happened. Also the local government was accused of a cover up in protecting the policeman. As a result, the police chief resigned, and the Black Lives Matter people are demanding that the mayor also resign. I agree that Black lives really do matter just as much as any lives. The question is how to best serve the goal of protecting lives. The Black Lives matter people have every right to protest in a free country. But would removing Mayor Rahm Emanuel really serve the goal of protecting innocent lives? What are the factors that need to be addressed? I agree that racial prejudice really does exist (all over the USA, in fact all over the world), and there are probably some racist policemen as there are racists among humans in other occupations as well. Certainly racist policemen need to correct there attitude or find another occupation. But there is more to it than that. The police protect the citizens from crime, and they put their lives on the line every day when they go to work in a country where guns of all kinds are much too available to the public. The decisions of when to shoot are often split second, and the decision can result in the police killing a citizen wrongly or being themselves killed because of hesitation. The most important factor is to get guns off the street to reduce the number of times the police are faced with that decision. To do that strict gun control is needed, but instead the Republican Congress has chosen to support the NRA against the people and the police by creating a gun anarchy. Mayor Emanuel has been a staunch supporter of strict gun control in Chicago and in that way has done more than anyone to protect the lives of the citizens of all races but gun control is needed throughout the USA. Otherwise the criminals and sociopaths can go outside the city and come back with whatever guns they want.
Chloe

Terrorism or Something Else

Hi Humans,
I imagine you have heard about the horrific mass gun murders committed in San Bernardino today. In the news there has been a discussion as to whether the crime was terrorism or not. But is there really a difference? The result is the same. Innocent humans are dead. Either way, the crime is committed by small minded sociopathic murderers who feel the need to kill to inflate their egos and have access to weapons. They kill for the sake of killing and justify it as a perverse expression of their religion or as an answer to some personal feeling of persecution. But really whether you call it terrorism or something else, it is murder. We dogs do not kill for religion because we do not think so sophistically, and we are not gun anarchists because we don't have access to guns.
Chloe