Posted on 12/28/2015 1:08:19 PM PST by jazusamo
How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it?
It is always hard to know when a turning point has been reached, and usually it is long afterwards before we recognize it. However, if 2015 has been a turning point, it may well have marked a turn in a downward direction for America and Western civilization.
This was the year when we essentially let the world know that we were giving up any effort to try to stop Iran -- the world's leading sponsor of international terrorism -- from getting a nuclear bomb. Surely it does not take much imagination to foresee what lies at the end of that road.
It will not matter if we have more nuclear bombs than they have, if they are willing to die and we are not. That can determine who surrenders. And ISIS and other terrorists have given us grisly demonstrations of what surrender would mean.
Putting aside, for the moment, the fateful question whether 2015 is a turning point, what do we see when we look back instead of looking forward? What characterizes the year that is now ending?
More than anything else, 2015 has been the year of the big lie. There have been lies in other years, and some of them pretty big, but even so 2015 has set new highs or new lows.
This is the year when we learned, from Hillary Clinton's own e-mails, after three long years of stalling, stone-walling and evasions, that Secretary of State Clinton lied, and so did President Barack Obama and others under him, when they all told us in 2012 that the terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed the American ambassador and three other Americans was not a terrorist attack, but a protest demonstration that got out of hand.
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I will remember it as the seventh year of our eight years of trial and tribulation. But our long winter of discontent shall soon be made glorious spring.
“Reality does not disappear because we don’t see it.”
“As for 2015, good riddance.”
Not sure 2016 or even 2017...18...19....20 is going to undo the mess we’re in!
But, I like the IDEA of a clean, fresh slate to start the year. This is the year when I spend LESS time on the Media and MORE time enjoying hunkering down and becoming much more self-sufficient.
So, SO tired of DC and ALL of the TRAITORS we currently have in office. Primary them ALL!
I hear you. 0bama has cast a very dark cloud over our nation and the glorious spring will only be the first step in our recovery.
I couldn’t agree more, my FRiend!
We have to endure the America hating turkey in the WH one more year but there’s a distant light of hope for us now.
Wishing you and yours a most Happy New Year!
It's actually worse than that-Obama's agreement actually HELPS Iran!
Happy New Year to You and Yours, too!
If you need me, I’ll be in my bunker, cleaning weaponry and re-packing shotgun shells. ;)
All Freepers welcome in The Bunker!
2015 is several steps into the downgrade of America. It started a long time ago.
A bump for the great Dr. Thomas Sowell !Thanks for posting.
There’s no more gold in Fort Knox than there is in Dr. Thomas Sowell.
Thomas Sowell = Genius
“If you took all the lies out of politics, how much would be left?”
So right on. Thanks for the ping jaz.
Most welcome, my FRiend and a Happy New Year to you and yours!
A very Happy New Year to you, and yours as well my FRiend. All the best.
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