Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Utter Failure Of Our Political Class To Respond To Mortal Danger [Great Read!]
American Thinker ^ | September 13, 2014 | James Lewis

Posted on 09/13/2014 4:08:25 PM PDT by Steelfish

September 13, 2014 The Utter Failure Of Our Political Class To Respond To Mortal Danger By James Lewis Nations are much like living organisms. One fundamental function of life is to tell the difference between friends and foes. When a nation fails to do that it will soon die.

For more than two centuries the United States has known how to tell friend from foe, because we’ve had a robust sense of identity -- we understood how “a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” would be tested over and over again, by enemies foreign and domestic, to see “whether any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.”

The West today is infected with a psychic parasite, the parasite of the radical Left that rose to power starting in the 1960s. Simultaneously, media ownership in the US has become concentrated in a handful of Big Corporations with no visible love or loyalty to the United States.

After politically primitive Persian Gulf nations became obscenely rich starting in the 1970s with the OPEC oil monopoly, the parasite of Islamic reactionary indoctrination combined with radical leftism into a new “Red Black” alliance, so that Europe imported what are now 44 million Muslims from backward political cultures to serve as welfare-dependency votes for the Left.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS:

1 posted on 09/13/2014 4:08:25 PM PDT by Steelfish
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

2 posted on 09/13/2014 4:23:01 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PatriotGirl827

bookmark


3 posted on 09/13/2014 4:23:39 PM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

This is very good. Thanks for posting.


4 posted on 09/13/2014 4:26:02 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Bookmark for later reading.


5 posted on 09/13/2014 4:32:45 PM PDT by Gigantor (The Fundamentally Transformed States of America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Jimmy Carter and his national security Machiavelli colluded in turning over a flourishing Iran over to a primitive suicide cult.

Uh, that would be YOU Zbigniew.

Ah the legacy of Carter, one can only wonder how long
the legacy of Obama will last, and how much sorrow
will be felt because of it.


6 posted on 09/13/2014 4:33:02 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tet68

Not Brzezinski. It was Vance.


7 posted on 09/13/2014 4:33:53 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish
James Lewis pulls it all together. He has flavors of Greenfield’s writing style, very analytical. Great article!
8 posted on 09/13/2014 4:36:37 PM PDT by iontheball
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Publius

but why


9 posted on 09/13/2014 4:45:19 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Publius

Yes, I stand corrected.


10 posted on 09/13/2014 4:50:24 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

Better beat hit than offend a Muslim!!!


11 posted on 09/13/2014 4:56:45 PM PDT by ontap
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ontap

beat hit =be hit


12 posted on 09/13/2014 4:57:51 PM PDT by ontap
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: yldstrk
Brzezinski believed that the Kissinger "regional superpower" doctrine was still critical and was willing to give the Shah the green light to let SAVAK loose on the crowds of demonstrators. The number of deaths that would have resulted would have been huge, perhaps in the hundreds of thousands, but Brzezinski believed that was a price worth paying for the sake of stability.

Cyrus Vance believed that the Shah's 26 years of slowly secularizing Iranian society had achieved enough for a democratic government to succeed him.

Carter was in the position of agreeing to mass killing or trying a gambit that might or might not work. In good conscience, he could not go with Brzezinski's plan. That's how we ended up in our present mess.

13 posted on 09/13/2014 5:01:36 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

James Lewis right on target as usual.


14 posted on 09/13/2014 5:11:49 PM PDT by Yardstick
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

bttt


15 posted on 09/13/2014 5:15:45 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PatriotGirl827

It only becomes a threat when it is directed at them.


16 posted on 09/13/2014 7:36:36 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

This article by James Lewis probably comes closer to the truth regarding the subjects covered than anything I have ever read or possibly that has EVER been written.

One thing that comes to my mind reading it is “do we have on the scene today, Republican, Democrat or Independent;OR, ANYONE with the stones and the guts and intellect to do what is ultimately going to be required. Brezinski, in his day, was right about “hundreds of thousands” needed to die”. He was referring to Iran and “muzzies” in Iran in the Shah era.

Clearly we are going to have to have a President to LEAD and that means KILLING MILLIONS of these bastards because they simply will not behave and quit killing us! There are 1.6 BILLION of them alive in the world today. Killing 5% of them would mean 80 million people! The answer to my question is NO! We don’t have anybody that will do that! The last time we did was Truman and he only killed a couple hundred thousand Japs. Patton was the last “American” produced in America that would do it but he is dead. And, arguably, lefties killed him.

Palin wouldn’t do it. Cruz wouldn’t do it! Who would?! In the face of some of us now getting our heads cut off just for being an American, we did nothing with Obama, Jarrett, Reid and Biden at the Helm. But, all known and possible replacements will just sort of tap dance around the edges and not take the historical and decisive action needed.

The 2nd Ammendment, in the light cast by James Lewis, is the most important fallback we have as one day we “boys” are going to have to saddle up and go after this tri-umvirate IN AMERICA consisting, as Lewis stated, of Liberals, Islamists and media giants who hate America. They’ve been coming after us for 60 years! We just have not recognized it and re-aimed our guns.

I fear for my kids and one grand-kid and regret, at 66, that I will not likely be around for the fight. I recall Thomas Paine at this moment........”if there is going to be trouble, let it be NOW, so that my children can live in peace”.


17 posted on 09/13/2014 7:42:34 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steelfish

pfl


18 posted on 09/13/2014 7:44:35 PM PDT by AbnSarge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson