Nah - I wouldn't worry so much. After a nuclear weapon goes off in Washington DC, what's left of American resolve will get let loose.
Unfortunately, it seems that that is what it is going to take.
I wouldn't give a plug nickel for the near-term survival chances of any large population urban city in this country. Once the vehicle-delivered nuclear blasts have been executed in our cities, the 'major' population of this country will be concentrated in areas far-outside the confines of the former dense population areas. In those areas, means of self-protection will be critical just to survive.
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End of the west? Just crying over spilt milk. Time to pick ourselves up and get on with it. Everyone was sensing what was going to happen we just couldn,t believe the leadership was going to drive over the cliff. Better it happens now than in 08. Our first mistake was to lose respect for our adversaries because we disagree with them. Time for repubs in the house and senate to take stock and start planning. I think Mitch Mc. can do it. Don't look for help from the White House though; they've fell into making up the facts to go along wtih their agenda.
Very good point. That pretty much sums up the operating principle for all of human history.
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Nonsense. This is part of the cycle of life. We have been fighting the lowlives since the dawn of time.
And we can't, ultimately, blame the Left and its chief weapon, the Media.
I agree. But a generation ago is a different story.
Americans were caught flatfooted. Newspapers were quickly giving way to TV network news. TV network news rapidly replaced newspapers as the primary source and it was staffed by men who made their mark in W.W.II. We had every reason to trust them.
From the author's article published a couple of years ago:
[The events in Viet Nam] was now a war for the heart and mind of Walter Cronkite. And there, an American defeat was forged out of an American victory.
The hearts and minds of MSM employees today yielded before our forces entered Iraq. To wit, Ellen Ratner hoped that "Bush would mess up;" ABCNNBCBS employees proclaimed that they were journalists, impartial and were not going to wear no stinkin' American Flags on air -- and scoffed at the few who did show the Flag.
"Bring it all down, man" was the 1960s pledge of allegiance. Well. they're still trying.
Nice article. I agree wholeheartedly with your analysis of the left in the cold war, and their reasons for allowing the terrorists to win. I think the war for civilization is not over, but the cost has just gone up a great deal, as when Europe failed to stop Hitler in 1938, leading to millions more deaths. In that war, the outcome could have gone either way, and with Democrats in charge of a nuclear terror war, the outcome is not certain. The good guys don't always win--ask the Romans, or better, ask the Byzantines. Their empire was overrun by barbaric Muslims, too, their cathedrals turned into mosques, their men killed, their women made concubines. The people who did that are still there, and they still want to do that.
Good first draft. Now read Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" carefully and give it another shot.
The supporters of the war in Iraq should have known the problems going in. It is, among many other things, a war of political correctness: we must pretend that Iraq is ripe for democracy and liberal society because to suggest anything else would be racist, wouldn't it? Family values, after all, don't stop at the border. GWB was compelled by his PC values to attempt nation building, it was built into the plan from the start and was not a result of pressure.
in three years of freep, this might be the single greatest post
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Excellent post. Thanks!
Nice take on the current times.
In this regard, Iraq is quite similar to Viet Nam.
"Bush’s original strategy was preemption: to attack and destroy the terrorist in their homes before they could muster an attack. To eliminate the festering failed States that sustained them. It morphed under pressure to nation-building. We will soon adopt a third way: we will “redeploy” out of Iraq – tail between our legs. And the terrorist will follow us home. The nuclear attacks will be random, unstoppable and devastating."
Again just as in Viet Nam. The only difference was that Communism wasn't about destroying the Western ideology to death, which is the goal of Islam. It is mind blowing to believe the leftist's in this country, can't or won't understand and accept that fact.
I am sure that I am not the only one who knew exactly what needed to be done on 9/12/01. But I also knew we wouldn't have the fortitude to do it. There is still time. I am not quite as fatalistic as this excellent writer, but close. As, that said, the Rubicon is about to be crossed.
Personally, I agree with this author, but disagree about what the use of nukes in our cities would do. Face it, the nukes would kill mostly Democrats...
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Well, with respect and not to seem overly mordant, this is not shown. If the will to reply is not there, it isn't going to happen. And what might possibly motivate leadership not to reply to a nuclear terrorist attack?
That's very simple. A leadership with motivations other and superior to the defense of its citizens, such as the promotion of world government, might find not replying in its overall interest. One faced with massive retaliation from other governments who back the terrorists for their own interests might not reply. One weakened and enervated by faction might find it convenient not to reply if its ideological foes are the only ones attacked.
It's perfectly imaginable. I think that in the current radical wing of the Democratic party we see figures who are more than capable of allowing this sort of outrage in pursuit of some "higher" goal.
Do not give up your guns, because the police who will be told to protect you might just as easily be told not to. The same goes for national defense.
