What's Better Or Worse With Tunnels Into China, Afghani Police, And Emergency Room Visits.

    Chinese police have discovered a 130 foot long tunnel with a railroad track between Hong Kong and Communist China. Baby formula to iphones crossed the border through the tunnel, thus giving the Chinese free, albeit illegal, trade.
    Obama claimed that putting people on Medicaid would save mucho dinero because these previously uninsured people would have a doctor and stop using the extremely expensive emergency rooms. Wrong again, dear leader. A study of 10,000 low income Oregon residents showed that those with Medicaid cards used emergency rooms 40 percent more than those people who had no insurance. Like much of what Obama claims, we see that that evidence doesn't support it.
    Cross your fingers, but the Afghan army as well as the local police are holding their own in Helmand province, a province rich in poppies and poppy processing centers, against the Taliban which wants to get in on the money flow. Helmand has always been difficult, and America has lost a total of 374 troops there but now has only a few soldiers in the current fight. The Taliban had massed to take over the Sangin district, but the government forces repulsed them during 2013. Some of the fighting was done solely by local police. It remains to see how 2014 will go, but it is far easier to hold a position than it is to take it. A tragic lesson learned in Vietnam as we lost and injured not only U.S. and allied soldiers and villagers but lost the support of the people themselves as we were here one day and gone the next. As soon as we left, the communist troops came in and tortured and killed any villagers suspected of cooperating with the U.S. and its allies.
    These commentaries are based upon news in the Wall Street Journal, America's most trustworthy national newspaper.
    Peter Nickerson. Neither a Republican nor a Democrat but an Evidentist. We didn't serve in Vietnam so this is our fight for America.