[harpu]

VERY LONG BUT VERY INTERESTING!!

[Defiant]

As far as I can tell, in terms of threats to American citizens, the axis of evil is Obama, Harry Reid, Valerie Jarrett, Venezuela, Mexico, Qatar, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Nobody else threatens us directly.

[Salvey]

The Pentagon and the military know that the Commander-in-Chief is sabotaging them. Oh, yes they do. There is severe conflict in the military ranks and it will get worse and may come to the breaking point.

Will the military do what they know they must do, to save the Republic, or have all of the warriors been purged from their ranks?

[ClearCase_guy]

I maintain that in the modern world, holding together a large Nation State is extremely difficult. Unconventional warfare can disrupt social control, energy, food supply, etc. If Russian divisions marched on Europe, they could be met on the field of battle and quite possibly defeated. But if war is fought in a more subtle way, governments can probably be collapsed more easily than many suspect.

On a different topic, if anonymity can be achieved on the net, and if digital money is improved (ex. Bitcoin), then tax collection becomes impossible. Does the government know who you are? Where you work? How much money you have? Imagine a breakthrough where the fruits of your labor are known only to you. That would also collapse a modern nation state.

I think there is a good chance that the world will progress toward a vast number of City States. Small, manageable, resilient. People belong because they want to belong, and labor and pay taxes to the extent that they want to in order to build a functioning society -- and the benefits and flaws are visible right before their eyes, so saying "it's not my fault/not my problem" becomes much less satisfying.

I think the time of Nation States with 300 million residents, and thousand mile imaginary borders may be passing.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Obola is going to kill us all long before Vlad and Ching Chang get around to us.

[ought-six]

I don’t think many Americans fully realize just how much damage King Putt has done to the United States. He has weakened us economically and militarily to such an extent that we would be very hard-pressed to survive an all-out fight with the Axis, let alone win one.

We all know some of those who live among us who have made this possible by their support of King Putt. Just remember that when things get “dicey.”

[CharlesOConnell]

WARINESS BEGINS AT HOME.

President B. Hussein O. is commander in chief of a military still larger than the next 10 largest, with a Navy larger than the next 13.

[mac_truck]

Conservatives need to articulate a foreign policy that reflects the same values and principles they espouse domestically, and stop supporting secular European style socialism and Keynesian style global finance.