[bitt]

Bob Newman, a decorated, retired US Marine, is host of the “Gunny Bob Show” on Newsradio 850 KOA in Denver, and host of “Inhuman Newman’s Anger-Management Hour” on 630 KHOW, also in Denver. His “Global Positioning Statement,” a daily insider’s update on the war on terror, is carried by various Clear Channel radio stations from coast to coast. A ground-combat veteran, he is the director of international security & counterterrorism services for The GeoScope Group and is the military science & terrorism columnist for The Denver Daily News. He can be reached at bobnewman@clearchannel.com.

[purpleland]

No country lasts forever??? It's politicians, the betrayal of government, and I add, a perverse media, that bring about a nation's downfall.

Hail Britannia! So far...enduring.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The Taliban, Saddam, Nazis and many other governments fell because of war with other nations.

The taliban was not a government saddam was a tyranicle dictator not a government the nazi party was a half assed government bent on world domination by a madman if you want to recognize that as a true governmet i guess you could of sorts but i think the nazis were just world racists .

Running things like a government and actually being one is 2 different stories .

[upchuck]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416515/posts

[WestVirginiaRebel]

How long has America been around compared to most countries? We're toddlers compared to India, Egypt and China. We have our problems-serious ones, and we need to deal with them. But I'd say we have a few more centuries to go before we start planning our own funeral.

[JesseJane]

~ping~

Nevertheless, many if not most Americans, in their complacency and ignorance of history, believe we have no reason to worry; that America will always exist regardless of history and the threats currently facing our nation. How very, very wrong they are.

[conservativeimage]

Please pardon my bringing Christianity into the American equation, but Jesus said that the foundation of the church was the understanding that he is the Messiah. And the gates of hell will never be able to overwhelm a church that is based on that foundation. As long as the church is in America, America will always come out on top.

The wake up call is what we're getting now. Political apathy is inexcusable after 9/11. The reelection of George Bush is evidence that Christians are getting involved and returning to their foundation. Remember, freedom to worship Jesus Christ is an integral root of America's beginning. And America has been for it's history the biggest preacher of the gospel and sender of help to hurting nations. The more the devil shows his face through abortion and homosexuality, the more Christians will respond and take things back.

[conservativeimage]

[Dundee]

At what point then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abe got it right.

[TAdams8591]

"What makes many Americans think America is invulnerable to collapse or destruction? Such a belief is spectacularly arrogant."

Agreed. And the tendency to this kind of arrogance has grown incessantly in the past 20 years.

[Euro-American Scum]

Nevertheless, many if not most Americans, in their complacency and ignorance of history, believe we have no reason to worry; that America will always exist regardless of history and the threats currently facing our nation.

Seems to me this topic came up in a recent not-too-widely circulated editorial. Looks like such things are being considered in wider circles than was first supposed.

[denydenydeny]

One of the hallmarks of liberalism is a total inability to notice how fragile and endangered freedom is.

They will still be demanding improved school lunch programs even as the barbarians are sacking their city.

[nicollo]

This article could have been written at any point in American history. The country has been failing since day one.

The difference between the US and the rest is that we can correct ourselves, adapt, and adopt, fix and move on. It's our strength, which folks on this thread are convinced is weakness. Total silliness.

[Captainpaintball]

Bump for the inevitable, and unfortunately, very soon.

[AnimalLover]

BUMP

[Fenris6]

We will fall the same way Rome fell - to corruption and self-absorbtion. Another nation will take up the mantle of defending civilization from the facists, socialists, and barbarians. As it stands, the only hope I see is from India.

[hosepipe]

Bob overlooked on thing...
The 2nd amendment made revolution LEGAL...

No other country has that written into their founding documents..
America does need a restart
(as the founding fathers themselves suggested would be needed).

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I posted this theory of mine a number of times:

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I'm a believer of Christians standing united, it's not only religion that is at stake, but Western Civilization itself, Roman civilization was based on paganism, and so when it was replaced with Christianity, the empire crumbled because although Christianity is far superior of a religion, it still meant that Rome lost the social fabric that held it together.

WRT to modern times, Christianity is being replaced by secularism within, and Islam without, and once the West loses it's central tenet, along with other factors of course, it will collapse, and Western Europe and North America, and indeed the entire World will experience another dark age.

The most telling thing that what I predict will happen, is not so much the internal strife of our civilization, but the rise in international terrorism. Terrorists are the new barbarians, Osama is to the West what Attila was to Rome.

Barbarians, like terrorists, are opportunists, and all opportunists prey on the weak, to some degree. Barbarians saw a weakening empire, and plundered it, and likewise today, terrorists see a weakening West and attack it. Of course they also are attacking us because open societies are sitting ducks in the eyes of criminals of all persuasions, but a century ago we also had open societies, but little terrorism, because we were still strong.

To conclude international terrorism is the symptom, rather than the disease, and so therefore The War on Terror is the painkiller rather than the treatment, the man in the cave in the Afghan-Pakistani border would have to kill us all before he'd win, Westerners are the biggest threat to the West, as we alone will bring the greatest civilization in history to it's knees, so we must stay strong and we must stay united- Viva La Counter-Revolution.

[Nowhere Man]

My father has been telling me that since 1973 about "America not existing" in it's present form by the time I get older. I think he was a generation off, but I think he is correct.

[Bear_Slayer]

WHEN in the Course of human Events,

it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World . . .

They have taxed us far more than the colonialist were taxed. Sure we have representatation. But so many nincompoop socialist keep voting the same losers in and they keep enacting more, and worse tax laws.

They have . . . .for further discussion

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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While the U.S. Congress was preparing to impeach him President CLINTON went abroad to declare that all the countries of the world should be all playing on the same level playing field, that there shouldn't be one SuperPower more powerful then the rest = US.

Ex-President CLINTON publically declared that there might not even be an America around in 300 years.

The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.

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