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Posted on 07/14/2025 4:48:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
As the prospect of a broader NATO-Russia war grows, remember what we’ve already lost.
As Peter Schweizer noted in a short report for the Hoover Institution on Christmas Day 2000, twenty-five years ago the United States was “spending less on defense as a percentage of GNP than anytime since the Great Depression.” That all changed nine months later when the so-called “peace dividend” from the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War was reinvested in a “Global War on Terrorism.”
Eight trillion dollars later, and what do Americans have to show for their sacrifices in blood and treasure? The Taliban is in control of Afghanistan, al-Qaeda is in control of Syria, an apologist for Islamic jihad is about to become mayor of New York City, and a pro-Hamas contingent of lawmakers wields too much power in Congress.
In an article that resembles an obituary for U.S. foreign policy during the twenty-first century, writer Daniel McAdams dryly observes in the headline, “‘Global War on Terror’ Is Over. Terror Won.” That’s quite the gut punch for everyone who lived through 9/11 and its aftermath. Yet it’s hardly inaccurate.
A quarter-century after Islamic terrorists murdered three thousand Americans, politicians are more concerned about “Islamophobia” in the United States than providing adequate care for veterans who confronted Islamic barbarity head-on. The hurt feelings of those who risked nothing to defend the homeland matter more than the damaged bodies and minds of those who risked everything.
The significance of 9/11 has been so watered-down that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar remembers it only as a day when “some people did something.” For the victims we lost, their families, members of the military who fought and died on the global battlefield, and the families of those servicemembers who never saw
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The middle east wars were similar to Vietnam. We were not fighting to crush the enemy. We were trying to nation build instead of eliminating the threat.
You can’t defeat an enemy if you’re unable to name it. “Islam”.
And when Israel goes about defeating the aggressors, they are universally and roundly reviled.
Muslims murdering everyone everywhere in the world daily? Nary a peep.
Jews defending themselves against genocide? Guilty, guilty, guilty!
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There are only two ways to win a war: annihilation, and unconditional surrender. It usually takes the first to obtain the second.
Thanks for posting.
War is evil. In my view, the only time to go to war is a defensive war, and in that case, it’s full on.
I have to laugh when I think how much America has lost in two ongoing wars right now:
The War on Drugs and War on Terrorism.
The American people are getting slaughtered financially and the personal effects of these wars on them are devastating.
Yet they move forward electing the very same Representatives and Senators who simply hold their hands out for the payouts.
Follow the money!!
Should be required reading for our FR Zeepers.
How about the “war on poverty”? Same outcome.
Pathetic.
There are only two ways to win a war: annihilation, and unconditional surrender. It usually takes the first to obtain the second.
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….and the winners take all the loser’s woman…..that is how wars were won for centuries.
Should be required reading for our FR Zeepers.
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Most here never read the posted articles.
Poverty, Drugs, Terrorism, same outcome. Disaster for the American people, $$$ for connected insiders.
“The War on Drugs and War on Terrorism.”
the costs of those are peanuts compared to “The War on Poverty”.
Don’t forget the war on poverty...
I should have read to the bottom of the list.
Same here, post 11 had it first. But to elaborate, it’s not just the financial cost of the War on Poverty, but the damage to our people. Destruction of our work ethic, our can-do spirit, self-reliance and personal responsibility did more to us.
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