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)

[Illbay]

I think the decline began with the failure of the "buggy whip" industry.

[CARepubGal]

And we haven't begun to play "Cowboys and Muslims."

[Illbay]

Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight - wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and never will lose a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

[Quix]

TOO ACCURATE.

TOOOO POSSIBLE.

TOOOOOOO HORRID TO IGNORE.

I HOPE HIGH LEVEL OFFICIALS AND MILITARY TYPES ARE READING IT. . . PERHAPS MONTHLY IF NOT WEEKLY.

[nanny]

The Romans did.

Cute - your point? We were talking about America - no the Roman empire.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[American in Israel]

Our strategy was to make warfare so psychologically costly that the Americans would lose their "will to win." To do so we freed ourselves from the decadent West's notions of legal and moral restraint.

The peoples will to fight is based on their morality, not their decadence. Our lack of legal and moral restraint is the cause of the problem. Americas strength is not based on the silicon chip but on the reliance on God the Creator. The first step to defeat an Army, a People, a Nation is to demoralize them. This is what Clintoon and party politics is for. Homosexuality, Adultery, greed, these are nuclear bombs on the morality of a People, on their willingness to fight. Diversity training, hyphenated Americans, Freedom from religion instead of the government mandated description of religion are all important milestones in the new war.

The Barbarians can only storm the city after Rome had decayed from within. You want to win this war, you must reverse the decay of Morality, repent and turn once again to God. Any other course is to let the barbarians inside the gate.

[dennisw]

ping

[muawiyah]

Yes you did miss something! Just among the European tribes the Spanish, Portuguese and French beat all those others here. It is arguable that they had attained a higher degree of civilization at that time.

[dennisw]

http://weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/001/569nzbrd.asp

[muawiyah]

People who live in Vancouver can NEVER become Americans!

[muawiyah]

Noting the Romans, let's add the Greeks! Actually, we can add the Bulgarian Celtic people to the list as well.

[muawiyah]

Thank you Ilbay. George knew what he was talking about. BTW, someday we have to return to that situation in Indo-China - maybe turn the Northern portion into a parking lot or something. Remember, we did not lose a war there - the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and other leading luminaries ordered a withdrawal and Nixon complied.

We will probably need to straighten out the home-team first this time, but in the end we will be seen to have not lost that particular war.

[muawiyah]

Most of the really heavy duty canning in the United States occurs in territories formerly part of French North America.

I'd say that you'd best take your complaint to your Canadian Human Rights organization because it is clear that your province, as well as the federales in Ottowa, are once again abusing French interests!

BTW, the francophones who lived in those parts stayed right where they were. Most learned English (because it is so common thereabouts), although many had to learn German!

Can you imagine how abusive that was?!?!?!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[The_Media_never_lie]

My wife and I are having trouble conceiving.

Wish you two good luck in the coming year.

Our two girls are teenagers and their dad sometimes is pulling out his remaining hair dealing with them, but they are definately worth it. Wouldn't trade 'em.

[cake_crumb]

"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."

If conservatives allow the left to get back into power, this WILL be a soon-to-be-fulfilled prophecy.

[cake_crumb]

"The barbarians are in the beginnings of a population boom."

Luckily for us, they have a form of population control: they send their their kids out to go boom while willingly allowing their dictators to starve them to death.

[angkor]

Col. Dunlap must be one of the few people in America who has seen - and actually understood - the movie Apocalypse Now.

"Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends.... You have to have men who are moral...and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordal instincts to kill without feeling...without passion... without judgement." --- Col. Walter Kurtz

[cake_crumb]

There was no "Muslim empire" from 661 to 680. Islam was just being born then.

[jocon307]

"I have vowed not to have the marxist and multiculturalists ruin their minds."

Good luck to you and your wife. As for keeping one's childrens' minds uncorrputed, I always remember what my mother told me about her father. She said they'd come home from school and tell him what the teacher had said that day, anything that struck him as nonsensical he would yell and carry on about, and bang on the table, until, as my mother said "you forgot whatever it was the teacher had said." I too have used this method, and since my daughter is further to the right than I am, it seems to have worked! : )