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Posted on 09/02/2013 8:56:37 AM PDT by darkwing104
There is outrage among the chattering class over Assad’s use of toxic chemicals, and a supine public is sullenly acquiescing. The United States is about to start its 3rd war in the area. One cannot easily discern coherence as to our interests/policy in Syria from the “wizards” currently pretending to be in charge in DC, a familiar state of affairs, unfortunately.
Syria is a mess and one imagines history will show that this administration contributed to it through vacillation and late starting “covert” weapons supply. The Assad father/son tag team is truly evil and guilty of most of the allegations lodged against it. The United States is about to start another war, ostensibly due to the deaths of one to two thousand from a toxic gas. We would do well to remember that the first hundred thousand, to whom we were indifferent, remain dead.
There is lamentable historical precedent for this ginned up, selective outrage:
The most well-known is the furor still simmering over the use of atomic weapons in FDR’s war. Fortunately for the purveyors of this, most Americans were “educated” in dumbed down government schools.
A few examples: Deaths from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima are generally believed to be fewer than 70,000 and in Nagasaki fewer than 40,000. For perspective, more than 50,000,000 died worldwide as a direct result of that war.
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
"We bombed Japan? Why would we do that? They're our friends!"
Bear in mind that this woman had successfully graduated from college...
Forget it, she's rolling.
Psst! “http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3061602/posts"; (Just FYI, mate).
Why would we bomb Japan anyways. Everybody has heard the great speech from the historian John ‘Bluto’ Blutarsky that it was the Germans that bombed Pearl Harbor.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/06/19/dont_know_much_about_history/
The test for fourth-graders asked why Abraham Lincoln was an important figure in US history, and a majority of the students didn’t know. Among eighth-graders, not even one-third could correctly identify an advantage that American patriots had over the British during the Revolutionary War. And when asked which of four countries — the Soviet Union, Japan, China, and Vietnam — was North Korea’s ally in fighting US troops during the Korean War, nearly 80 percent of 12th-graders selected the wrong answer.
Historically illiterate American kids typically grow up to be historically illiterate American adults. And Americans’ ignorance of history is a familiar tale.
When it administered the official US citizenship test to 1,000 Americans earlier this year, Newsweek discovered that 33 percent of respondents didn’t know when the Declaration of Independence was adopted, 65 percent couldn’t say what happened at the Constitutional Convention, and 80 percent had no idea who was president during World War I. In a survey of 14,000 college students in 2006, more than half couldn’t identify the century when the first American colony was founded at Jamestown, the reason NATO was organized, or which document says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’’ Numerous other surveys and studies confirm the gloomy truth: Americans don’t know much about history.
Yeh, no big. As I said, just FYI. :)
Years ago during the first King Obama run I was fully convinced that 2/3 of Americans were dumb as a box of rocks when it came to America and World problems. Most still are. Educated fools are so totally ignorant that makes me believe that America is finished. The MSM and the educational institutions from the bottom to the highest are communist inspired.
Over the weekend I heard a young feller holding forth about Syria and I asked him where Syria was. And he didn’t know.
I would speculate that at least 80% of Americans couldn't find Syria on a map to save their lives.
We are going to take you back, first to the year 1939... when Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime...enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world.
Does anyone know what day this is ? Besides Labor Day ?
Why is that ? And you have the answer to the question of The Ignornance of American Opinion.
Whatever happened to the UAR ?
We got this guy in the White House who likes to shoot his mouth off and because of it people die. He picks on some poor security guard just doing his job. Shoots his mouth off because he sees an advantage to push two of the items on his socialist agenda. To which his supporters like good socialists they are spin tales of lies and falsehoods that wind up causing a race war in this country.
He draws some line in the sand on some civil war thats going on in a region who’s outcome really doesn’t threaten US even though a former enemy which is going through its own stuggles has a naval base there. And now we’re supposed to support a military action which could cost American lives in the end....All because our fearless leader spoke ?
The only reliable intell comes from the Israelis and there are times they don’t know. We marched into Iraq the 2nd time thinking we’d be welcome with open arms because of it.Instead the aftermath turns out to be Christians out and Sunni’s in with the Kurds gaining some measure of independence.
But after the 1st dust up when we kicked Iraq out of Kuwait because of oil when the Kurds acted up and Hussain gassed them we did nothing. Now we get this high blown “democracy” b/s about an incident where very likely both sides are reverting to its use. As Syria itself is fragmenting into different identities. Kurdish, Alewite and Suni.
Who really doesn’t want that ? Turks for sure,the Saudis and the Shite principalities. Russia would be OK with it because of their naval base is in the Alewite area. If that happens also Iran gets cut down in influence.
BTW: What were the two items the Demo-Coms accomplised by painting a target on that securitys guards back ???...
Ans...
Gin up the black base to stop any criticism and promote collective resettlement ....Both given a pass by the so called GOPES (gop-elite snobs) leadership. They can’t even use the word “socialist” to describe the new democrat party let alone communist . Both reach into the “demographics” they’re looking for.
As our glorious US Senator Ron Johnson (R WI) Who believes in the “bi-partisanship” b/s sez we can’t shut down the givernment or will support Syria involvement
Nuts !
I had a young 20-something co-worker swear to me that Alaska is south of California. Why? "Duh! Like, I saw it on the map of the U.S., in my classroom!"
you said it!
So true and it is getting worse. We are going Left at such a breakneck pace that it is a freight train out of control. And isolated political victories are utterly meaningless as it is our Society that is racing Left.
Whatever happened to the UAR?
The United Arab Republic--Egypt and Syria--broke up when Syria seceded in 1961. For the next ten years, Egypt continued to call itself the UAR until President Sadat changed the name to the Arab Republic of Egypt.
What an odd error to make...I can understand some map misunderstandings. I once spoke to someone who was firmly convinced that Greenland was as large as Africa. Seems he didn't comprehend the distortions inherent in Mercator projection-style maps. I finally had to show him a globe of the Earth, and even then he didn't get it.
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