Posted on 03/19/2022 5:43:19 AM PDT by TigerLikesRoosterNew
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
Love him or hate him, John Kennedy was born for such a time as the Cuban Missile Crisis. I can feel the anguish of those who are patriotic Americans. We have been saddled with the shame and sorrow of a "weak tyrant."
I turned 12 on October 26,1962. This country had one voice, one belief in Judeo Christian ideals and we could trust in a president who worked to fulfill the mandate to defend and preserve this land. I'm so glad I was blessed to have known such a time.
The only right position here is that this ain’t our war and woe be the the fellow on either side hw tries to make it ours.
In 1962, every living American had either been to war, and likely saw combat, or had a close family member who did.
It's not like this today. War, for most living Americans, is something they've never had to experience. A miniscule percentage of the population, mostly volunteers for the past 50 years, has gone off to some faraway country to do the fighting while the rest of America stayed comfortable at home, fat and happy.
This one might be different. There's a very real potential that Americans might not escape unscathed. There's a very real potential that we could see U.S. cities obliterated.
I don't think a lot of people are really thinking about this.
I am. That's why I kinda get pissed when some Twitter bluecheck starts harping about "Why can't we enforce no-fly zones?" We're used to treating our enemies as someone who couldn't possibly touch us. We're treating Putin on the same level as Saddam, Gaddafi or Bashar al-Assad, some 3rd rate ruler with a 3rd rate military who we can wage war against while the rest of the country watches football and goes shopping with not a worry in the world that violence will reach our shores.
A good quote I found on Twitter that really hit home with me:
"There is a grotesqueness about so many soft-handed grown men, who've never been punched in the face, have no decent scars, and haven't done a day of hard labor in their lives, Twitter-howling for blood in Ukraine like the most effete Roman spectators at a gladiator match."
Yahoo news and jill biden
Speak TRUTH and many will mock you!
Most particularly where, as in this case, it is a lawyer that insults us by pretending he is eligible. IMO, such an attempt even disqualifies Crus from serving on the USSC.
Agree, it’s stunning how many people here don’t care about upholding the Constitution.
Bingo!
Perhaps what is just as bad as Biden's juvenile stories is that the Team he inherited from Obama is clearly limited to an on-going anti-America First agenda.
When Biden leaves, much of his WH Team with its crew of key federal employees remains in play and should be Target 1 for the next R president.
The taxpayers could save a lot of money during the four years simply by putting them in a room with no cell phones or internet.
Trump has learned that the hard way.
I’ll be they both refuse to apologize for the Hunter Biden laptop Ruskie misinfo crap too.
“But it will also make us stronger.”
Because of a great culling.
True dat.
OK! Well you got Joe Biden. He’s eligible, unlike, say, John McCain.
We got joe Biden because certain Republicans decided to collude with Democrats to cheat him in.
Tim Gunsderson would take out Thor Gunderson at 3000 yards.
Biden and obama are doing their best to have Iran get nuclear weapons. The Israeli’s will attack to protect themselves and they will have the help of the Saudi’s and other mideast countries.
Those fools who are for this know they and their families are protected
Well said.
Thank you.
There’s nothing wrong with loving Ted Cruz, but I must agree that he couldn’t have beaten Herself in 2016. “But they said the same thing about Reagan!” Sorry, but 2016 America wasn’t even the same country as its 1980 namesake. Imagine *any* Republican carrying California in the mid 2010s(!). I also don’t see how Cruz could have won in MI, PA, or WI, or picked up any states Trump didn’t.
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