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How Republics Perish
Townhall.com ^ | February 12, 2016 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 02/12/2016 10:45:07 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: mlo

You forgot that we still have troops in Germany, Italy and Japan. World War ll ended in 1945 which was five years before the Korean War started


21 posted on 02/12/2016 11:30:52 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin

Should have never gone in there. Bouncing the rubble with B-52’s was all we should have done.


22 posted on 02/12/2016 11:33:23 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 20yearsofinternet
Why aren't you over there?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3396238/posts


23 posted on 02/12/2016 11:36:57 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Boogieman

World war2 was the last war that had been decared


24 posted on 02/12/2016 11:39:24 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Gotta be quick.


25 posted on 02/12/2016 11:39:46 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kaslin

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That’s the only way to be sure.

Not one American life should be sacrificed for that hellhole.


26 posted on 02/12/2016 11:43:39 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Olog-hai
Now do many of those things sound like tactics our enemies have been using?

Yes, they do.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to clandestinely install as their leader your own.

27 posted on 02/12/2016 11:44:37 AM PST by C210N (Supporting the Constitutional Conservative in the race. Constitutional Conservative Cruz.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Nevermind, I noticed you found it.


28 posted on 02/12/2016 11:49:28 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: C210N

Your paraphrase echoes a lot of principles in the last chapter of that book, which deals with espionage.


29 posted on 02/12/2016 11:56:14 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Of course, this whole “war” was and is designed to destroy the USA-—as all Wars are funded by the super elites-—both sides since before WWI to increase their vast wealth which will insure their ownership of all institutions and “textbook” companies and a money-laundering system and enough to own judges (the “legal” system).

Western Civilization—particularly Christianity—has been a sword in the super elites and they devised a methodology (”education”) to destroy the ability of people to “think” like the Minds which created the Age of Reason and Modern Science and the USA (individuality/Unique identity) for a “collective” (group (non) think) Mind.

The Cultural Marxists in 1930 knew that to destroy Virtue formation (only possible with a Classical Christian worldview) they had to completely mock and demean our heros and saints to deconstruct culture—tear it down, since Christianity is the only rational “just” “individual” (Free Will) ideology/Theology in HISTORY.

Can’t have “Free Will” (choice) in children—they have to be so DUMB and TRIBAL that they will be incapable of Reason and Logic—only taught with Classical Socratic and Aristotelian methodology which has been erased for 60 years at least in most “schools”. The only faith banned by “Just Law” is Christianity—since it is the only rational faith—and in its place they force satanism, paganism (sodomy, baby-sacrifice) and hinduism (yoga/reincarnation) and other irrational, contradictory, stupid faiths.


30 posted on 02/12/2016 11:56:40 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: stocksthatgoup
Under an agreement the Taliban and child rapists are our friends according to Obama.

Well, since Obama "kowtowed" (bowed to him as an inferior to a superior) to the Japanese, I would ASSUME that he would continue with "stupid."

31 posted on 02/12/2016 12:15:19 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Olog-hai
Liberals running military policy worked in WWII. Since then, not so much, except when Dubya was doing it. As soon as he started listening to the nation-builders (this is card-carrying liberalism), he was screwed.

Of course, the Chinese helped in Iraq. They sent PLA officers to sell Saddam the idea that he could get away with a "rope-a-dope" strategy against the U.S. He was going to bug out and take his people with him -- that's what all those $4.3 million boxes of fresh cash were about. That was the go-bag. Instead, the ChiComs persuaded them to stay.

We owe the ChiComs big. We also owe the Iranians big.

32 posted on 02/12/2016 12:16:52 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: savagesusie
The only faith banned by "Just Law" is Christianity -- since it is the only rational faith ...

"Rational faith" is an oxymoron. A better description of Christianity's call to its faithful would be found in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I haven't read G.K. Chesterton, but I've read about his Christian worldview.

But all faith is faith, not reason, so at some level the believer is called to believe -- that's why they are "believers" not "reasoners".

Science is in the picture as a Christian inquiry into natural law and natural sciences, a discovery of the divine plan, and it should be understood as that, not as a pitch for materialism, epiphenomenalism, animism or deism.

Side note: As a side note, lots of cosmologists are theists. Smoke that, Wilson.

33 posted on 02/12/2016 12:29:35 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: lentulusgracchus

The twisted thing about WWII is that it was most likely about the common enemy with the USSR, even more than having Germany declare war on us. Before that, the liberal’s policy of isolationism was almost fatal.


34 posted on 02/12/2016 12:32:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
I take your point, but FDR was making preparations to enter WW II a year and a half before Pearl Harbor. He moved the Fleet, for instance, from its San Diego home port to Hawaii,a considerable move unfriendly to Japan. He also prepared the oil embargo and started Lend-Lease assistance to the British, to help with the U-Boat war in the Atlantic.

Finally, he prepared the ground for a universal draft, an essential measure for fighting a really big war overseas.

35 posted on 02/12/2016 12:36:37 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Kaslin

I understand the avoidance of foreign entanglements. I suppose we can wait for our elitist traitors to invite the mooslems into our country, and then we can post bounties and hunt them from our back porch.


36 posted on 02/12/2016 2:29:25 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: Pollster1; sickoflibs

I would have wiped out the scum before the Calendar hit 2002, then left. If you gotta come back later, so be it.

Instead it’s 2016, we never left and yet the Taliban still GD exists? What the hell have we been doing over there besides wasting money and American lives?


37 posted on 02/12/2016 3:49:12 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Kaslin

I tend to believe that we wouldn’t be having these problems as much as we do, if democrat politicians had no say-so at all in war-fighting strategy, tactics, ROE, etc.

I’m not saying we should be brutal to non-combatants.

I am saying there should be almost *no* ROE in regards to combatants, their support system and sympathizers - other than, “do whatever it takes to kill or capture them before they kill or capture us”. ROE to me is target location identification, proper weapons control, sight alignment, trigger control and center-mass hits.

As for collateral damage, I’m not saying we *want* collateral damage and we should avoid it in general and within reason, but it does help to stay out of our way. For example, if you live next to a jihadi, or like to hang out near jihadis; or jihadis enter your school, mosque, hospital, business; or just find a jihadi(s) standing within 50 meters of you — you, Mr. non-combatant, have more control over becoming collateral damage than we do (ie - you should quickly find a reason to be far enough away to avoid shrapnel). And they know full well who the bad guys are because they make themselves known as soon as they come around. And if you just can’t manage to get out of the way and become unintentional collateral damage? We apologize sincerely, but we will not punish our warfighters for the “war fighting” we sent them to do. If you don’t like it, join your national force and help us rid your country of enemy combatants. The quicker we get this done, the better it will be for all involved.

I believe all of that is just common sense and I believe democrat politicians intentionally inject failure into the warfighting process. If we are going to send our sons and daughters into the combat arena, can we agree to let them operate under those conditions at the very least?


38 posted on 02/13/2016 6:06:42 AM PST by jaydee770
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To: Kaslin; 20yearsofinternet

That poster is part of a bunch I’ve noticed that recently signed up to pimp TrumpleThinSkin, and boy do they have thin skin. As soon as I notice them initiating invective and insults in a thread, I add them to the list.

Beware of these mud-slingers. They may well be paid posters for all I know:

20yearsofinternet
andy1954
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Lurkinanloomin
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39 posted on 02/13/2016 6:13:48 AM PST by jaydee770
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To: henkster
We were right to go into Afghanistan.

Besides we like their dope supply.

40 posted on 02/13/2016 9:39:51 AM PST by itsahoot (1st impression. Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. VoteTrump)
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