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Nice shootin’, Thomas.
I tried to get interested in Mark Steyn’s book, *America Alone*, but I couldn’t buy the premise that we might stand firm when the rest of the West folds. European nations with muslim minorities at or above 10% of their poulations are in for hellacious civil wars or Sharia law. With our mid-east imports plus our home grown black muslims, we’re not in much better shape.
I encounter frequent “rumors” of Obama working to import jihadists intentionally. I’ve seen no credible documentation, and I can’t believe *anyone* would be crazy enough to bring in psychopathic killers, but I’ll listen to any rumors, however nutty.
Brilliant article, Sowell nails it. ‘Barefaced barbarity’ of the enemy to the concessions and moral preening’ of the PC crowd. We’re living in a Monty Python movie, and it’s horrible.
But old lord McCain sure has plenty to say about our own (CIA&military) protecting this nation.
Self-indulgence is exactly what it is. To satisfy some inner need of the liberal, we are all put at risk. It's time to boot the liberals out of D.C. I hope the voters will do so next year.
How is it that one person like Thomas Sowell can see this so clearly and correctly, and another person like Barack Obama sees it so differently.
I can only think that Barack Obama understands the implications of what he is doing completely, and the fault is with a large number of Americans who don’t understand HIS motivations and actions.
I posted this a month or two ago in response to whether I though Barack Obama was deliberately trying to destroy the USA.
I agreed that I was of that opinion, and here is one of the reasons why:
Joseph McCarthy gave a speech on the Senate floor in 1951, and later wrote a book that expounded on and backed up his points that he made on the floor, called “America’s Retreat from Victory”.
Like many people, I was unwilling to attach any negative aspirations or actions to someone like George Catlett Marshall who was hailed as a war hero and one of the greatest men of the 20th century.
McCarthy was not so shy, and was willing not only to say what he thought publicly, but to back it up with documentation, which he did in his book mentioned above (A copy of which I purchased a couple of years ago)
It is a stunning book, but how it relates to this subject here is this: In his analysis, Joseph McCarthy made the point that if some of the things that were done by Marshall that helped the communists were simply the result of a poor analysis or choice on his part, someone with his intellect would be likely to choose correctly at least SOME of the time, as a matter of averages. And that rarely happened. Without fail, nearly every choice and action in which Marshall was part of, they all were to the advantage of both the Soviets and the Chicoms.
The same can be said of Obama, in my estimation. If the appalling cumulative negative bulk of his actions were due to his stupidity or inexperience, at least some of his actions would be helpful to our country, simply as a result of the laws of averages.
None are.
And that tells me something.
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An incredible education can be obtained by reading his books by publication date. I have done it and it has provided me with a worldview like no other...
Sowell BTT. A lot of the liberal commentators on the topic have called for the end of the war on terrorism approach and a return to the law enforcement approach. The difficulty with that is that once they’ve found and imprisoned a terrorist they let him go. That’s essentially no approach at all.
“If you don’t meet the terms of the Geneva Convention, then the Geneva Convention DOESN’T protect you. If you are NOT an American citizen, then the rights guaranteed to American citizens do NOT apply to YOU. “
Emphasis, mine.
I adore you, Dr. Sowell.