How We Lost the High-Tech War of 2007 (re-post from 1996 - scenario is rapidly coming true)

The Weekly Standard ^ | January 29, 1996 | Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. (Col. USAF)

[Edward Watson]

This piece gives me chills whenever I read it. I fear our emasculated leftist culture won't be able to sustain the will to fight evil which will make this a soon-to-be-fulfilled prophecy.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What are you worried about? We have more people who like to kill for fun than any country in the world. All we have to do is give themn a gun and point them in the right direction.

[muawiyah]

The barbarians are easily seduced into becoming good Americans. We've been working at it for over 3 centuries and at the moment are in the lead.

[BCrago66]

Excellant article. Do you happen to have the original link?

[nanny]

The barbarians are easily seduced into becoming good Americans. We've been working at it for over 3 centuries and at the moment are in the lead.

Come again?

[muawiyah]

You are really off target. Muawiyah was the very first of the early Arab conquerors to be sourced to anything other than the Koran.

In short, folks knew who he was, he was real (unlike the possibly mythical Mohmmad), and he successfully divided governance from church.

He probably did a better job of it than did Jefferson!

[muawiyah]

Well, starting with the English and Scottish immigrants, running right through them to the Germans, then the other Europeans, I'd say we've done a pretty good job.

[RnMomof7]

YOU KNOW THE REST, my friends. Though we rarely defeated the Americans on the battlefield, we were able to inflict such punishment that they were soon pleading for peace at any price. With their economy in ruins, their borders compromised, their people demoralized, and civil unrest everywhere, they could not continue. We had broken their will! They had no choice but to leave us with the lands we conquered and the valuable resources they contain.



Prophecy

[muawiyah]

You really don't know anything about Muawiyah beyond what you found in those brief references. Doesn't matter what kind of school you went to, public or private, they didn't teach you anything - not even manners!

[jocon307]

"We better start having kids"

You said it,kiddo. The one regret I have is that I had only one kid. She's a star, she's great. She's big, and strong, smart, athletic, and "only" a girl. I should have had 10 kids! OK, let's be realistic, I should have had 2 at least to replace me & hubby. WE NEED TO REPRODUCE!!!!! this is the key to the entire problem. As Michael Savage said (I paraphrase), let's send the busy bodies who have told Europeans and Americans that having children is a bad thing for 30 years into the "Refugee" camps of Palestine.

[RnMomof7]

Sorry I should have marked them they are a quote from the article

[SauronOfMordor]

ping.

This article lists some real vulnerabilities of the US, from the viewpoint of how our enemies may use our culture and technological sophistication against us. The downside for our enemies, though, is that if they overdo it, and keep producing terrorist casualties on US soil, that they will harden enough US hearts to the point where we may start considering the Carthage option.

[muawiyah]

You started tossing around insults before you had the facts - go back to your own Jefferson/Muawiyah dichotomy. Remember, this was the Dark Ages and you have the leading ruler of what was left of the West actually taking action to differentiate between civil rule and religious rule.

Jefferson lived at a time of enlightenment! His task was much easier, and he didn't carry it out that well - kind of left state and religion kind of schmoozed together. We need not get into the details, but those who have studied the issue know them all.

Muawiyah did more with less, and in a day and age when to do so got him real enemies who wished to kill him.

I'm surprised you don't know about this man. It's not really possible to study the concept of freedom without studying the man who disposed of Ali!