Posted on 08/08/2014 9:52:40 AM PDT by rktman
When I came home from Iraq in 2008, friends frequently asked me what I learned “most” from the experience. That’s a tough question to answer, and it depends greatly on context. I learned many things about my faith, my family, and my country, but if the question relates to the war itself, I’d tend to say something like this: “I learned the enemy is more evil than you can imagine, and I learned that a deployment is more difficult than you can imagine.” But while the deployment was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, the chance to play a very small part (surrounded by a band of brothers) to fight this extraordinary evil made it the most meaningful year of my life.
Since I’ve returned — and it’s been almost six years — I haven’t stopped talking about the nature of the jihadist enemy. I share the stories as much as I can (when the context is appropriate), yet I continue to be discouraged by how few Americans — and especially how few of my friends on the left — truly understand (or even try to understand) what the world faces. So they react in outrage when Israel strikes at Hamas, use the collapse in Iraq to once again score political points against President Bush, and use words like “irresponsible” to describe actions like launching rockets at civilians while hiding behind civilian human shields.
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Have you noticed in liberal's " we-all-get-along and everyone-is-happy' world they're standing with a bunch of third world types and a few Norwegian types but ZERO conservatives or Christians?
Their 'magical thinking' doesn't extend to their political opponents.
Only place you DON'T see black or brown people on liberal TV (it's all run by liberals) is in Home Security Ads where the burglar is always a white male.
Close. They believe humans are perfectable (and not flawed as the Judeo-Christian perspective). Those acting out obviously did not benefit from the right upbringing, the right society and schools to bring about the New Man.
If only they had all the power and everyone would stop obstructing them, they could bring about perfection on earth.
bttt
The Japanese never attacked the USSR. Stalin only attacked them at the end to grab territory in Asia.
As for the Democrat party, most were actual liberals in the JFK mold (or conservative Dixiecrats) until the late 60s and early 70s. Like JFK they were anti-communist. Then the New Left took over all the institutions of power on the left. Now they are just leftists.
FDR was their guy and he was very very leftist!
Fundamentally.... most liberals are not christian. Most are anti-christian and have an agenda they’ve developed from living in a “christian nation”. They support anything that is anti-christian. They are sympathizers with anything that is anti-christian.
Looks like most on this thread “get it”.
This is Christ vs anti-Christ at its root.
The far left weren’t fans of FDR at the time. They “blamed” him for saving capitalism from communist revolution. Of course FDR’s administration was full of communist agents, but that wasn’t widely known. A lot of it’s a matter of perspective. Leftists consider RINOs to be “right wing extremists”.
FDR and his policies were anti-free market
Perhaps part of the problem in getting folks to recognize the potential harm is by failing to explain it correctly. There is a vast difference between a jihadist enemy and every Muslim's Jihad.
Every Muslim must contend with his own Jihad. A Muslim’s Jihad is his daily struggle to stay true to his obedience to God. This struggle includes resisting the temptations the modern western world presents and remain obedient to God. It is not easy in Christianity where one can be born again so I can imagine how difficult it can be in the religion of Islam.
A radical Muslim is a Muslim influenced to inflict harm to the source of his temptation. There are Muslims who feel a duty to remove the temptation on behalf of all Muslims. This is not a lot different that Liberals in America who feel qualified to know what is best for other Americans and then act on it.
Embellished or inaccurately presented facts cause some people to discount the entire point. Accuracy is most important at this time because Muslims in Egypt and Saudi Arabia are beginning to express their discontent of Hamas. There are attempts to silence them but other Muslims need to hear their voices.
Some say it wasn't fear of the atom bomb that made Japan surrender to the U.S., but it was the fear of a Russian invasion.
Not just to speak up or hashtag, but to actually DO something and put yourself at risk.
http://www.safeshare.tv/w/cqjiYhtiXs
They are wrong. We know the events that led up to the surrender. Even after we dropped the bombs the cabinet was deadlocked. It took the Emperor’s intervention who told them that surrender was preferable to the destruction of the entire Japanese race by nukes.
Actually the Japs did attack the USSR. They got their asses beat so bad, they would never bleep with the Russians again. They would live up to their neutrality pact with the USSR to the end. Look up the battles of Khalkhyn Gol.
I stand corrected. I actually knew about that, but I was thinking it happened earlier.
No problem. I’m too anal sometimes, but I’m a history freak.
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