Posted on 08/12/2005 2:15:38 PM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast
The mounting toll of American troops in Iraq is gradually turning America into a France, a Germany, a Spain, a Russia. Can we who support a free Iraq, a free everywhere else, and a victory over terrorism and Islamo-fascism do anything more than sit here and hope any given day's or week's casualty figures don't trip the wire and send the throaty mobs into the streets demanding President Bush withdraw, resign or voluntarily agree to report on his own recognizance to The Hague Court to stand trial for war crimes?
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He got PAID to write that crap?
Exactly talk about a sucking his thumb in the fetal postion in the corner wuss.
I read that enlistments are meeting goals for last month and that retention is good too. I know the yearly recruitment will not meet goals. But I find it intersting that those already in are staying in. I also think that the re-election of Bush sent a powerful message to the terrorists. As well as Blair and Howard. Yes the liberal hate America first crowd is a serious problem. But America does have the will to win the war on terror. If you do polls on Gitmo or if we should pull out of Iraq you can see the resolve is there. Not as much as it should be, but it is there.
On this subject.....Did anyone notice on The History Channel last few days/week, the character in the Japanese Military Hierarchy who was shown as saying--"The Americans cannot stand casualties, and will quit"......??????
Terrorists seek victory in the same way the Viet Cong did...by getting American ninnies and/of the Left to get the government to give up and run away because war is so darn 'icky.' Farber seems pretty accurate to me.
I've said it once, I'll say it again: Our legislators, the administration and the rest of the government drones are more interested in playing politics than actually protecting our country. That has been true for a long, long time.
American lives, families, and jobs are worth less than the fickle games of national and international politics. If that were not true, Mogadishu would still be a burnt plain of scorched ash, Fallujah would have been "retaken" by bombs not Marines, and a giant wall wide enough to support a Bradley M3 Armored Vehicle would stretch the entire length of the US/Mexico border.
One need read no further than the "NewsMax" on the source line to know it's most likely crap.
Newsmax should change its name to SpamMax.
Soviet political dissident and prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote the three-volume Gulag Archipelago about Soviet tyranny and the prison system:
"In a state of psychological weakness, weapons become a burden for the capitulating side. To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material well-being. Nothing is left, then, but concessions, attempts to gain time and betrayal."
And, Jean-Francois Revel:
"Clearly, a civilisation that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself."
Another good read is Mugged by Reality? Here
Here are some excerpts:
"…Bomb us, and we agonise over the "root causes" (that is, what we did wrong). Decapitate us, and our politicians rush to the nearest mosque to declare that "Islam is a religion of peace". Issue bloodcurdling calls at Friday prayers to kill all the Jews and infidels, and we fret that it may cause a backlash against Muslims. Behead sodomites and mutilate female genitalia, and gay groups and feminist groups can't wait to march alongside you denouncing Bush, Blair and Howard. Murder a schoolful of children, and our scholars explain that to the "vast majority" of Muslims "jihad is a harmless concept meaning "decaf latte with skimmed milk and cinnamon sprinkles.
...National Review's John Derbyshire dusted off the old Cold War mantra "Better dead than red” and modified it to mock the squeamishness of politically-correct warfare: "Better dead than rude”...
...That's the great thing about multiculturalism…it just involves feeling warm and fluffy, making bliss out of ignorance...
...the lop-sided false macabre of our times: the more the Islamists step on our toes, the more we waltz them gaily round the room"...
The essay The Sacrifice and the Reckoning: Sleepwalking warns we are at risk Here
It is not a nice picture. We may witness to the first live coverage of an American city being nuked.
While it's certainly not the best prose, why is it crap?
If enlistment goals were being met or exceeded the left would be incessantly pointing to that fact as an indicator of the stagnant job market.
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