The GOP Finally Has a Fighting General

American Spectator ^ | David Catron

[Elsie]

I foresee this being a LOOooong thread; with Trump’s name appearing less and less. ;^)

[Elsie]

 This should get us started...

 

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[Elsie]

 

 

Lincoln can rightly be credited with some of the most inspiring words ever spoken...

 

 

Four score and seven years ago... 

 

 

 

[x]

Much better. Grant was a general, though. He did what he could to win the wars he was ordered to fight in. I don’t see much indicating that he got us into foreign wars when he was president.

[Elsie]

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem - Ecclesiastes 1:9

[RinaseaofDs]

Another way to write that headline:

“After years of purposefully cuckholding their constituents, the GOP has been hijacked by someone with a conscience.”

[Elsie]

..a war of attrition...

Hope that USA never gets into a fight with India; or... CHINA!

[enumerated]

“Then we also have the problem of mini tyrannies within the general overall tyranny...California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, etc.”

True....

[nathanbedford]

I agree a land war in Asia would be as disastrous as one can imagine but with every passing day and every exponential advance in digital technology, such a war contemplating masses of troops is increasingly unlikely.

I think a future war with a putative superpower foe like China will be conducted in space and in cyberspace rather than on geographical turf. The casualties on the homefront could be as bad as are to be expected in nuclear war, which is not to be excluded, but the days of confronting armies in battles are drawing to a close when it involves major powers with highly sophisticated technology. Imagine the devastation if our electric infrastructure is destroyed at the stroke of a keyboard!

As we move into this brave new digital world we must ask ourselves, are we preparing for this upcoming new style of conflict more akin to Star Wars than to blitzkrieg?

If we spend billions on an aircraft carrier and billions more on support ships and yet billions more on personnel, their health care and retirement, do we make ourselves safer or more vulnerable? If we conduct brushfire wars which drain our resources and sap our morale because they profit us nothing, are we safer or weaker? If we hollow out the middle of America, if we passively accept the destruction of the middle class, if we trade away our manufacturing base, will we be able to successfully wage any sort of war? If we do not get our deficits under control and become economically unsound, can we compete in the technological age? If we lose our identity, if we lose the vision of ourselves as that City on the Hill, do we leave ourselves naked and vulnerable to terrorism and intimidation and, ultimately, disintegration?

These are the considerations that we ought to be debating and the idea that Ulysses S Grant provides a historical insight into the answers is somehow just plain silly.

[Elsie]

If we spend billions on an aircraft carrier and billions more on support ships and yet billions more on personnel, their health care and retirement, do we make ourselves safer or more vulnerable?

If we conduct brushfire wars which drain our resources and sap our morale because they profit us nothing, are we safer or weaker?

If we hollow out the middle of America, if we passively accept the destruction of the middle class, if we trade away our manufacturing base, will we be able to successfully wage any sort of war?

If we do not get our deficits under control and become economically unsound, can we compete in the technological age?

If we lose our identity, if we lose the vision of ourselves as that City on the Hill, do we leave ourselves naked and vulnerable to terrorism and intimidation and, ultimately, disintegration?

 

 

If we fail to repent and return our Creator; will any of these IFs matter?

[Elsie]

One century, four score and seventeen years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in another civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.