Posted on 03/08/2016 6:53:51 AM PST by Kaslin
I cannot imagine any thinking person who does not believe the world is getting worse.
The number of slaughtered and the number of refugees from slaughter is immense and growing.
Islamic State now controls territories from Afghanistan to West Africa. Libya is in the process of being added to that list. And other sadistic Islamist movements hold additional territory.
According to Pew Research, approximately 10 percent of world Muslims have a favorable opinion of the Islamic State and terror against civilians. That's more than 100 million people.
The Iranian regime has just increased the reward it will give to anyone who murders Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, is increasing its repression at home, now has more than a hundred billion additional dollars to spend on terror and regularly calls for the annihilation of Israel.
Iran just received from Russia the most powerful anti-aircraft weapons that exist outside the United States, making a successful air attack on Iran almost impossible.
Europe is allowing in another million migrants from the Middle East, few of whom share Europe's primary moral values. One consequence is that European women are being sexually attacked in increasing numbers. Another is that European countries are making criticism of Muslims or Islam -- no matter how rational the critique -- a crime punishable by jail time and/or fines.
The only thing stopping regular mass murder of Europeans and Americans is increased European and American police work. And no one believes that this will suffice to prevent future attacks.
Russia is led by a KGB man who seeks to replace American influence with Russian influence wherever possible. And he is allowed to do so by the American president and the Democratic Party.
While Russia continues to attempt, in Charles Krauthammer's words, "to fracture and subordinate" Ukraine, the United States under Obama refuses to send Ukraine weapons.
The United States is led by a president whose primary foe seems to be the prime minister of Israel, even though the prime minister's country happens to be the freest, most moral and most pro-American country in the Middle East.
The commander of the U.S. Pacific Command recently told Congress "that China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea," in order to gain "hegemony in East Asia."
Cuba now has American recognition, and as a direct result has felt free to increase its subjugation of the Cuban people. In January, the Cuban regime arrested 1,414 political dissidents, the second-most ever recorded. It will be rewarded by a visit from President Obama.
In the United States, most universities are being taken over by a fascistic expression of leftism. Student thugs take over administration offices with impunity, shout down speakers with whom they differ, and many faculty members support them. In the name of "diversity" and "tolerance," American universities, once a jewel of free thought and intellectual inquiry, have become places Americans who cherish liberty and cherish America increasingly fear to send their children.
Contempt for America and its founding ideals are indoctrinated into America's youth from high school on. If shown any of the iconic paintings of the Founders -- such as signing the Declaration of Independence or deliberating at the Constitutional Convention -- rather than seeing great people creating a great nation, most young Americans now only see racist, sexist, rich, slave-owning white males.
As its universities make clear, the West is committing suicide. At UCLA one doesn't have to read a single play by Shakespeare in order to receive a degree in English. But one is fully indoctrinated regarding "White Privilege," "systemic racism," "income inequality," "homophobia," "hate speech," "climate change" and whatever radicals care about.
A Republican presidential debate opens with a comment by the leading Republican candidate about the size of his penis. And the audience cheers.
The American president, a black man elected in the hope that he would unify the races, has overseen the greatest rift between the races since the 1960s. His repeated references to "Ferguson," reinforcing the lie that a white policeman killed an innocent black teenager for no reason other than the young man's race, is only one such example. One result is a rhetorical (and increasingly lethal) war on police that has led many officers to minimize proactively policing largely black areas.
The Democratic presidential race is between a socialist who has contempt for capitalism, the only economic system that has ever lifted large swaths of humanity out of poverty, and a woman who is so corrupt that she should be serving time in prison, not campaigning for president.
Meanwhile, the Republican race is led by a man who has mocks a POW as a loser; who repeats the libel that George W. Bush knew there were no WMD in Iraq; who calls for the killing of terrorists' families; and, who, as noted, proudly talks to America about the size of his sexual organ.
Many generations have believed that the world was getting worse. But since 1776, there was a great nation that one could still rely on to stem the decay. Now that great nation, under the influence of its own elites, men and women of the left, is itself in decay.
So, who can save the world now?
I agree. But many of those Muslims will also die if we have nuclear strikes.
The only candidate who you express disdain for in this article, doucebag.
Then perhaps she can save the rest of the world.
She did it before.
But if we acknowledge the Kingdom of Christ is at hand, then Israel must take center stage again. And we must diminish as a nation.
That is collateral damage and allah will sort them out.
Voters didn't get tired of the Iraq War, they got tired of the fictional version portrayed on leftist controlled TV, just as they did of the Vietnam War portrayed on television.
One of Bush's stupidest mistakes was allowing the press free rein after 9/11. They should have been corralled like his father corralled them during the Gulf War.
No one likes us-I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money-but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us-so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them
Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us
We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too
Boom goes London and boom Paree
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono
And there'll be Italian shoes for me
They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now
Randy Newman - Political Science
Twin towers, Boston Marathon, Major Hassan, Farouk. I'd say the "will be" is already here. It's the scale of the battle size that will be the only thing increasing.
It will do no good to pray to God. We have prayed to Him about elections when we should have been praying to Him to ask for wisdom.
When Jesus told the Pharisees to render unto Caesar, He was reminding them that it was because they hadn't rendered to God in the first place that was the reason they were now in bondage to Rome.
God is doing nothing more or less with America than letting us have what we have been creating on our own for a very long time.
Yep, with the tips dunked in pigs blood and at 200 yards.
In what version of the war was it worth one trillion dollars of American money to liberate the Iraqis from Baathist tyranny?
I don't know about you, but I'm just not that globally altruistic. I can think of thousands of ways to spend that money in the United States. Or not tax or borrow it in the first place.
Second, you're right: "liberating Iraqis" should never have been the primary goal-- the primary goal should have been and remains US security, which is why we should not have left.
Bush's emphasis on "nation building" was disaster in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Although any mistakes on Bush's part pale in comparison to the deliberate betrayal of the US and its interests by the traitor Obama.
Bush's failure to negotiate (or force) a status of forces agreement with Iraq because he wanted to play nice with the next President was a critical stupidity, which (like many others on his part) shows how he failed to understand that defeating our domestic enemies was as important as defeating the foreign ones.
I was thinking more large scale world wide conflagratin.
You mean the one who said "Let the Russians take care of it"?
That’s not what he said, but you know that, right?
That is what he said before he didn't say that. But you knew that. September 29. "And I’m saying, ‘Why are we knocking ISIS and yet at the same time we’re against Assad?’ Let them fight, take over the remnants. But more importantly, let Russia fight ISIS, if they want to fight ‘em … in Syria,” Mr. Trump said.
The statement that he would let Russia fight Isis in Syria is something that I think all Americans except some diaper wearing establishment types would agree on. We have worked with the Russians on many things since the end of the Cold War. It has been more difficult to work with Putin than before, but on Isis, I think we can agree with the Russians to kill as many of them as possible and destroy their fledgling state.
What your first quote implies, falsely, is that Trump said let the Russians take care of America's problems for us, as though he would shrink from leading a fight against Islamic terror when it is in fact a huge part of his policy. He has talked about what he would do to ISIS on many occasions, and it isn't to treat them with kid gloves.
So, you are just making crap up to favor some establishment candidate that you support.
Or we could just undo the seatbelt laws.
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