In the waning moments before Super Tuesday, tomorrow November 5, 2024, big vote day in the US, where the 4 year term Presidency receives a lot of focus, of all the issues that might be scattered about on fringes of who should be the next President, like dusty moths trying to cling to the bulb of a halogen halo lamp, but can’t quite seem to get into the source filament, there's one standout issue, a matter that has historically been consistent as a matter of patriotic practice for at least the past 20 Presidencies, and that is: who will leverage the right elements to what results in successful US national security, and what amounts of leverage of what may, may not, or only tenuous affect, US national security, are in the reality of the rollout of what will occur.

Who will be our new friends or better friends, whose friendship and allegiances are going to wane, diminish, or be shown the door?...

President Taft and dollar diplomacy initiatives, affecting the Caribbean region, especially Nicaragua, and Far East, markedly China. Dollar diplomacy defined briefly is foreign policy where economic power is used to promote financial interests abroad. Dealing with the turbulence in Mexico, was a task for the next President.

Woodrow Wilson was faced with the Mexico situation and the beginnings of World War I.

The sequence continues and each President had to have a certain amount of know-how to embrace the next era.

Somewhat more recently was the Nixon to Gerald Ford transition. Generally, historically, there was a brouhaha over the sensitive subject of an allegation that Nixon had misled the people over policies concerning Laos, this in era where the Vietnam War was starting to wind down. Nixon stepped down before his referent term was over, with Ford in.

While President Ford was in, future President George Bush was selected to sit where Colby was. Mr Rumsfeld set at Secretary of Defense was at such hilt on 9-11.

Circling back to the culminating term of Ford, he ran against Naval Officer Jimmy Carter who won. The years of that administration was a pivotal, that saw a shift in public focus from the war in Vietnam to Middle East policy, notably the Iran hostage situation. 

Relatively recent memories still exist with many of us that are gratefully still alive today, of a moderately big to do of 'what if' Carter does not get by California Governor Jerry Brown? What were some of the concerns? Before getting into that, let it be stated it was in a past era, one before every grade schooler has a cell phone, before the Internet was popular, before the War or Wars in Iraq before and after 9-11. Jerry Brown had what may be called a huge career, holding several coveted positions of authority, nearly impossible in today's times to do the same.

During his father's tenure as Governor of California, referencing Pat Brown, a memorable event took place, in the Watts Riots of 1965. There was also the arrests of Mario Savio, incidents iconic of surrounding ripples in the Civil Rights era.

Perhaps some folks thought that Jerry Brown still rather new and young then, 1976 nearing age 40, to the higher strata political arena, was sort of in the footsteps of his father, and the 'theory' may have existed that if there was a similar policies carries continuum from Pat Brown days to a Presidential term from 1976 onward, it could be problematic to the tide of equal rights in the US- basically, equal rights may have not been as good or as far as it came to be in their respective time frames. (Again, it's a theory, and there's the might-have-been-a-possibility instead of state as fact, whether true or untrue, viable or not.)

Some conservative folks thought some of the scenes in some of the films being produced, briefly daubed, out of Hollywood, California, that went public and shown in public theaters, [and did not require going into a private sex themed booth to watch] got to be 'beyond' too liberal, such as in 1975. Question then asked in minds nearly 50 years ago, where is America heading?

In the 1970s, there may have been rumors that some people were afraid of a drastic spike in level of support that Israel could receive, and therefore Israel would be in a position that it would be able to do pretty much anything it wanted to do, nearly unchecked. Fears may have existed that, that scenario could occur if a nominee that was steeped in California politics, could act as the fulcrum then conduit for aspects of support, and ramifications down the line if too much power and abilities to affect health and welfare of numerous others were to fall into the hands of overly aggressive individuals, could be disastrous. At this day and age, it is left as theory of politics in the past.

What can be said, is the focuses of foreign policy having to do with the Presidency, in a system of ranking hottest issues at the top, were hottest issues at the top.

...Who will be our new friends or better friends, whose friendship and allegiances are going to wane, diminish, or be shown the door? The discussion continues to spiral into a series of correlations, one hinged to the next, such as, is the new set of friends and break from the old set of friends 'really' in the best interest of the US, or does it just appear that way to the extent of the sight of the a party nominee and team members?

Going over these concerns, today in the news, as a function of the results of search queries returning with results, appears is the External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar of India made a visit here to the US meeting with nominees and other officials within the past couple of days.

Right through here in 2024, US-India relations are probably the best they have been since India's independence from Britain.

Perhaps issues might be, from the start of 2025, in the dollar diplomacy and fulcrum conduit world, is what would the shape of politics be in the future of India-Jammu-Kashmir affairs? What would the affairs, state, or balance of tensions between (India and) Pakistan be going forward? The US has had good relations with Pakistan too, for a long time.

Brief background on some current to recent past ideology connections— E.A. Minister Jaishankar is member of the BJP; BJP s reported to have ties with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Today a lot of what goes on in group-ties in India is clumped together with phrases like Hindu Nationalists, which describes RSS. Unfortunately, in recent decades, some of the Hindu Nationalism which may about a 100 years ago been seen as a relief from British occupation/oppression, morphed into oppression of numerous Muslim population, to some degree persisting through now.

There are differing reports about the number of casualties of incidents like the Gujarat riots of 2002 which s reported to have claimed over 1000 lives, over 750 of them Muslim, at the lowest count.

Hindutva, that people started going into extremism, went the wrong way too far. BJP and Rajha Sabya are terms no stranger to readings on the unspeakable attacks during Gujarat riots.

Hey, I love India, we love India, they are reputed to be earth's oldest or one of the oldest nations. It is said the early man Adam first began his footsteps on earth in the southern part of the region. India has made tremendous progress economically and technologically over the past 15 years that may be literally mind blowing to many of us here on earth, wealthy and disadvantaged.

There is a political sphere. Things can get more and more complex and complicated as you delve higher and higher up into international relations involving India. Also in regard to international relations, there are religious spheres, spiritual spheres, military industrial complex spheres, intelligence spheres, and the bad part, terror cell spheres. Things can get more and more complex and complicated as you delve higher and higher up into these.

Looking back, some may wish that similar visits from India, in its own discussion about US-India relations, was made in preceding Presidential races. Maybe there were some visits, but it was not as public eye salient as ths week's was.

At the end of the day, as an open-ended theory, no matter what other nations outside the US are involved, the primary concern is that too many of the blueprints to our Nation could fall into the wrong (and possibly destructive) hands, especially such as through the friend to a friend to an associate to an accomplice to a blurred accomplice wishing ill, methodology.

Today in the US war on terror, current concerns include:

• affiliate al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)

• A group 'inspired' by Al Qaeda called 'Indian Mujahedeen (IM)'

• Tamil militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam