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A Hard Rain is Going to Fall
Townhall.com ^ | September 22, 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/22/2016 5:13:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

This summer, President Obama was often golfing. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were promising to let the world be. The end of summer seemed sleepy, the world relatively calm.

The summer of 1914 in Europe also seemed quiet. But on July 28, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip with help from his accomplices, fellow Serbian separatists. That isolated act sparked World War I.

In the summer of 1939, most observers thought Adolf Hitler was finally through with his serial bullying. Appeasement supposedly had satiated his once enormous territorial appetites. But on Sept. 1, Nazi Germany unexpectedly invaded Poland and touched off World War II, which consumed some 60 million lives.

Wars often seem to come out of nowhere, as unlikely events ignite long-simmering disputes into global conflagrations.

The instigators often are weaker attackers who foolishly assume that more powerful nations wish peace at any cost, and so will not react to opportunistic aggression.

Unfortunately, our late-summer calm of 2016 has masked a lot of festering tensions that are now coming to a head -- largely due to disengagement by a supposedly tired United States.

In contrast, war, unlike individual states, does not sleep.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; billquote; constantconflict; hillaryquote; vdh; victordavishanson; war; wwiii
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1 posted on 09/22/2016 5:13:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: bestintxas; COBOL2Java; DuncanWaring; EXCH54FE; ExTexasRedhead; FreedomPoster; Gondring; Kennard; ..

Victor Davis Hanson Column


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2 posted on 09/22/2016 5:14:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Hard reigns are going to fall this fall. No more Bushes, no more Clintons.

HOORAY Trump

Deplorables at the gate. November 8.


3 posted on 09/22/2016 5:16:22 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

It does feel ominous out there, more than ever before. Time to alter my tagline.


4 posted on 09/22/2016 5:17:24 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Missing you /johnny (JRandomFreeper). Time to Pray, Prepare, and Participate.)
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To: Kaslin

Agreed, we’ll worth the read.


5 posted on 09/22/2016 5:20:31 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: MomwithHope

“It does feel ominous out there, more than ever before.”

I had the opportunity to speak with a 91 y/o WWII veteran yesterday. Amazing man, amazing stories. Too many have forgotten just what the cost of freedom is, and how precious it is. I have children. I am worried.


6 posted on 09/22/2016 5:25:37 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Kaslin

Related is a vanity I posted in June of 2014 pointing to this very time period. And yes, I think we PROBABLY will find ourselves in a hot war before January 20th. I think the whole world is crumbling before our eyes but few see it. (the “money quote” part is the last couple of paragraphs...)

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3170217/posts

BTW, I wrote that two weeks after we first started hearing about an organization called ISIS.


7 posted on 09/22/2016 5:25:42 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: MomwithHope

We are, in fact, in a 100 yrs war against Islam.


8 posted on 09/22/2016 5:25:47 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Kaslin

Before the deluge...


9 posted on 09/22/2016 5:27:20 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: MomwithHope
There is a line in Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie where a character describes bored young men hanging around dance halls night after night, endlessly marking time, as "A world waiting for bombardment". I have felt that too for some time now, we are a world waiting for bombardment.
10 posted on 09/22/2016 5:45:23 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: MomwithHope
Ominous indeed.

In quick succession,
India and Pakistan could engage in a nuclear exchange,
Russia could sweep into Eastern Europe - with a nuclear response from France or Britain,
North Korea could nuke Seattle and/or San Fransico,
Iran could launch against Israel, with a massive Israeli nuclear response.

About as far-fetched as jumbo jets taking out the World Trade Towers....

11 posted on 09/22/2016 5:45:53 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Mr. Douglas
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3170217/posts

Good piece. This sentence jumped out at me:

Islam is the perfect religion of “the irresponsible”.

12 posted on 09/22/2016 5:48:21 AM PDT by stayathomemom ( Read Shadow Men, The Progressive Virus, and The Marxist Playbook by Dr. Anthony Napoleon)
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To: Kaslin

Sounds like the neo-cons are getting restless for another nation-building project overseas.


13 posted on 09/22/2016 5:49:31 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Mr. Douglas
“Constant conflict is actually often good politics, because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at Election Day”

Clinton said on Monday, according to CNN.

14 posted on 09/22/2016 5:56:17 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: Kaslin

What the brilliant Hanson is missing, is that all these “wars” and “Hitler” and the “incidences” where the wars are triggered-—were all planned by a few psychopathic elites who used their millions to fund and arm the aggressors, create the assassinations or bombing of ships with civilians. The Bankers funded Lenin and put him into place where he could usurp power over Russia and destroy all the churches/priests and destroy private property, or whatever.

It is all orchestrated with millions of people ALWAYS being killed. “They” (as JFK referred to the “Shadow government/Secret Societies), are Malthusians and psychopaths.

As Machiavelli noted, usually really evil people will be the ones who rise to power. Just because they are in secret societies doesn’t make them imaginary or non-existent. So many politicians pretend they work for the USA under the Constitution, when the CIA and every influential institution, works for the elite psychopaths and for their globalist agenda to destroy the Constitution and remove all private property rights and corral us into little 10 by 5 hovels and off of all federalized lands which will be ALL land eventually. Ah, the Leviathan.

Like today. The BLM is created and funded by the psychopath Soros and his puppet-master, and the “hate” is manufactured by the Marxist takeover of “education”—intentional programming of little children to destroy virtue formation and fill them full of hate and lies.

Removing young children from the Natural Family—creating “Just Laws” that destroyed the marriage contract, just like Lenin did—to create emotionally disturbed and drugged children so they are easily controlled and manipulated and incapable of Agency. It is all PLANNED.

Nothing is an accident-—as FDR stated long ago.


15 posted on 09/22/2016 5:58:48 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Kaslin
The assassination in Sarajevo took place on June 28, not July 28.

June 28 was the anniversary of the famous battle of Kosovo in 1389.

16 posted on 09/22/2016 6:05:14 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: LucyT; Mr. Douglas; HollyB

Bill Clinton said that in 2013, h/t Holly b

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3472108/posts?page=8#8


17 posted on 09/22/2016 6:06:30 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: savagesusie; All

Well said.
Check out this piece detailing what Obola is putting our US Special Ops through, forced to train Syrian rebel ISIS:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3471902/posts

The world has been set on fire deliberately, again.


18 posted on 09/22/2016 6:28:52 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: savagesusie

Just in time, relating to coming Marxism in America:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3472204/posts

“remove all private property rights and corral us into little 10 by 5 hovels”


19 posted on 09/22/2016 6:46:43 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Kaslin
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were promising to let the world be
HUH? There's no point in reading anymore of this uninformed mindless tripe.
20 posted on 09/22/2016 7:06:46 AM PDT by lewislynn (Ryan is the other half of the reason Romney got creamed by a negro with a Nobel)
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