Posted on 01/12/2015 2:01:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
-- Napoleon.
Me too!
A month after our last troop leaves, Afghanistan will revert to islamic barbarousness, while the idiot-in-the-White-House continues to boast of victory.
Napoleon lost to an army. Not a newspaper
In the words of General Patton, “ You get the poor :):&;$;? To die for their country ( or their religion)!”
The world is being rocked by a rash of "workplace violence," though what the Administration believes the Koran has against workplaces remains unclear. Those who eschew the willful blindness of the cowardly and foolish see clearly that the Islamofascist freaks are running up the body count across the globe. The question is what, if anything, are we going to do about it?
Why? The Taliban are still alive and well. Omar never got killed or captured, and actually retired. Whomever believes the POTUS if he claims victory is a gullible fool. Which sadly is probably a big bite out of our country.
The world is being rocked by a rash of "workplace violence," though what the Administration believes the Koran has against workplaces remains unclear. Those who eschew the willful blindness of the cowardly and foolish see clearly that the Islamofascist freaks are running up the body count across the globe. The question is what, if anything, are we going to do about it?
But Napoleon is talking about how powerful the press can be at breaking the will I war. The French had a culture of surrender after World War I, guess why most of them didn’t raise much when the Nazis marched in. Them there’s Vietnam, where the press was successful in getting our guys, even eventually our government, to give up on the war.
General international law got rid of privateering in 1856.
However, the US never signed that treaty, though it has not issued any letters of marque, I believe, since the War of 1812.
There is no legal reason we can’t authorize privateering, though our privateers would have problems since no other nations would recognize the legitimacy of their authorization to wage war.
It was proposed during both of the great wars, if my memory serves.
But not implemented.
Irrelevant in the European theater, and really, really dangerous in the Pacific theater.
Those were not the only theatres in World War II. Not by a longshot.
The desire to see all men prosperous is deadly so long as some men are Moslem. When Moslems have surplus resources- more than sufficient to allow the masses to barely subsist and the tiny ruling class to live in splendour- Jihad happens.
This is how it has been for 1300+ years. This is how it will be until all men are Moslem or none are.
France lost 1.7 million soldiers in WWI (more than the US has lost in all of its wars combined); when WWII came around and the people were forced to choose between Hitler & Stalin, they simply selected “None of the above”. Afterwards they threw away their lives in the Indochina War they didn’t want to fight (but we insisted was necessary to contain communism), then threw away more lives in the Algeria War.
WWII was an anomaly in which the main combatants (as far as Europe was concerned) were both evil (Stalin & Hitler); other countries that could remained neutral.
“There is no legal reason we can’t authorize privateering,”
This has my vote as one of the most thought provoking posts of the year.
The U.S. is becoming more and more like France every day. We no longer have a taste for war of any kind and when/if we enter into “conflicts”, we do so with lack of fortitude to actually WIN. Instead, we tell our warriors that they cannot shoot until fired upon (stupid idea). With the influx of muslims, France has been taken over without someone firing a shot. I anticipate the same will be done here as we spend more time on downsizing our military, trying to take guns away and “playing golf”.
I too am tired of the vigils and the memorials. Kill them all and we can go on with our lives.
You might have noticed that I don’t often mark something “editorial,” “frontpage news,” or even “extended” very much, even though I post a lot of threads, but I thought this one deserved it. Also see this, from the National Post:
Conrad Black: Defending the Christian West
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3245891/posts
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