I begin to wonder if we have any MEN left in this nation. If this whining lot is all we have left then the US will never again win anything... no courage in the face of evil.
I've been going over this thread. I think that we are at a critical cross roads as a people. In spite of a bloody beginning with an amazing blood bath not even 100 years after that, we have become addicted to technology and to an approach that is the way of the bureaucrat, the shop keeper or the academic. The warrior is, overall, marginalized and does a dirty business which we really don't want to have anything to do with. A liberal, secular humanist wave of pacifistic mentality has swept over us including many here on the supposed Right. What is needed is a drastic rethinking regarding how we defend ourselves as individuals, families, communities, as a nation and as a civilization. We need to ask ourselves the question - technology is fine, but where shall we develop a sintered, hardened, will? There are things we can tap into - our own early history, the ways of the Plains and other Indian tribes of the US West, even the ways of the samurai. This thinking is foreign to most latter day, soft, shells of men, including even many here at FR. Skills in true martial excellence, using things like naked kill and sword fighting with grace and power, are a given, if we are to present a new face to the forces who seek to destroy the US and the West. For us to succeed, a very illiberal mentality will be needed. That does not mean, as seemingly implied by some seemingly very emotional and ultimately, liberal, posters here, that we shall become Nazis. When a people whose basis for society is something as morally well founded as Western Civilization based on Judeo-Christianity and English Common Law, I should think we'd be willing to go to some selected extremes in order to protect ourselves and overcome the forces who seek our demise. The brave knights carrying the cross of St. George on their shields were not Nazis! To those who coucil a limp wristed protracted negotiation and restraint, get a grip! Do you even understand the concept of just war? It seems you don't!