Posted on 04/08/2014 2:14:31 PM PDT by RicocheT
Harold Rood, a professor of international relations at Claremont McKenna College who died in 2011, was not as well known as he was influential. A soldier in Pattons army in World War II, he taught his students that war is permanent to the human condition, and that in war it is better to win, for no one ever had to accommodate a loser. America will always have enemies, he told them, and those enemies will forever be planning and expending resources to place themselves in a position to defeat us. It would be nice if it was otherwise, he was fond of saying, but it is not otherwise. It is the way the world works.
As a nation of freemen today, we are courting suicide by ignoring clear and present dangers. Our elected representatives have eyes but do not see, and they have ears but do not hear. We must awaken ourselves, and then awaken them, before it is too late.
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This afternoon, a gaggle of NAG senator-babes lectured our republic on the horror of income inequality.
Ha ha. Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
This is neocon porn.
bkmk
Even Republicans brag about how “great” Sequestration is, which punishes the military with “paying for” 50% of all budget cuts despite being 17% of the budget. War is coming, and we are destroying our military.
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