Posted on 09/28/2014 6:48:14 PM PDT by lbryce
The Nazis tried and failed, in Operation Pastorius; the Japanese were able to kill six people with "balloon bombs." cf. here
I recall that the Nazis failed, and I wasn’t sure the Japanese ‘balloon bombs’ had killed anyone.
Two possible ones come to mind.
First, wars always lead to greater government control, as a necessity for national security, and to better organize the war effort. Wilson was able to cement the income tax and the Federal Reserve as a result of WWI, and FDR was able to cement the payroll tax deduction and control of industrial production as a result of WWII. In both cases, leftist power entered government, never to leave.
Second, Americans like to rally around a victor, and the Dems know this. This is why they can't allow a Republican administration to win a war, because that would lead to at least temporary Republican hegemony (cf. Reagan winning the Cold War). Even now, I suspect the Dems think that if Obama can be seen to be leading American forces to victory, that this will somehow turn around his in-the-toilet approval numbers. What they don't understand, of course, is that both Wilson and FDR were willing to actually do whatever it took to win their wars, while Obama long ago demonstrated an unwillingness to do whatever it took to win the present war.
If, and that is a big "if," this is the end times, and Revelation is about to occur, the description of the "horses" with the 200,000,000 in Rev. 9 sounds like a tank force, which would require a major national army, and as of right now, the only possible such army could come from China. OTOH, if the end times wait a few decades or longer, anything is possible.
(He makes Obama sound like ...well, a community organizer form the inner city)
I have a hunch that we have some plenty of sophisticated high tech stuff that will be kept under wraps until these stinking liberals are voted out of office and head home to Chicago.
pfl
Those same evil things were done to the ancestors of today’s muslims. The muslim countries were converted by terror and violence.
In the Middle East we do not have the luxury of chosing between the good guys and the bad guys, it seems that often the choice is between the bad guys and the worse guys.
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