It is indeed very late in the day.If we are honest we must face a very dark and sobering fact: The outcome of this war is far from certain. We are proud of being a nation of can-do optimists, but we are also a nation in denial about a culture in a tailspin.
- The real enemy is not “over there” in Syria and Iraq, or in Paris or London. The enemy is already here in our homeland, and I am not speaking of terrorist cells, Syrian refugees, or radical imams. I am speaking of the accelerating rot in our own culture.
Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade.
- “Where were you, Daddy, when we were waging the war on terror?” Oh, well, I was watching reality TV. On TV, the good guys always defeat the bad guys. And I can always change the channel.
In this besotted condition, we are ill equipped to fight an enemy full of passion, idealism and self-confidence. Islamist suicide bombers believe they are dying for a higher purpose, the greater glory of Allah. What, exactly, are our ideals? The freedom to enjoy pornography and polygamy and 24-hour pizza delivery?
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Why the odds of Western civilization surviving are not good
Tom Tancredo at Breitbart encapsulates in a few paragraphs the sum total of this blog's raison d'être.
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Read you some Robert Kagan. He was in the Reagan admin. so he carries the creds for credibility for you, if not for me. He refers to the myth of declinism and says it as old as America itself. Patrick Henry rued for the early days when the American spirit was in its youth.
ReplyDelete"Anyone who HONESTLY recalls the 70s with Watergate, Viet Nam, stagflation,the energy crisis, cannot really believe the present crisis is unrivaled."
Read more at https://newrepublic.com/article/99521/america-world-power-declinism
You just want a fight. And go for the guns, not the butter. It appears the war on terrorism is going fine. Russia and France are gung ho now. Imagine that? France? If you recall, we were urged to boycott french fries when they weren't with Rummie & Cheney. Whoo, that was a close call. It could have been Italy and then we would have had a clarion call to ban pizza.
ReplyDeleteWe have met the enemies, and they too are vulnerable. Their primary vulnerability is the violent bravado. It is always said the West has become weak incapable of the demands of a violent world. The west is civilized, it does not seek violence but pursues peace among nations. Freedom comes with this cost, meet violence ten fold with equal measure. We live in a developing war, and only aggression can stop aggression. Our Western allies need to ante up to the world at play. If attacked, return the attack ten fold. If an Isis creates terror on the streets create terror ten times more on their streets. If they destroy families destroy their families ten fold. Our enemy knows we would prefer to turn the other cheek by our faith. This is not possible until evil and murder are eliminated at what ever cost it may take. A terrorist should know by their actions their whole family shall pay in forceful judgment. The news media should never mention by name a known terrorist, they are to be erased from the earth completely. They are an abomination to man. The event of terror should come at a price to the media to prolong after the initial event reporting. Lets end this now.
ReplyDeleteGreat post there anon!
ReplyDeleteKagan's article was written in January 2012,. Much has transpired since then: Benghazi, the election of a socialist mayor of NYC and a socialist city council member in Seattle, IRS harassment of conservative groups, the utter failure of Freedom-Hater-care (collapse of exchanges and coops, premium hikes, narrow networks), China's aggression in South China Sea, Russian missile tests and buzzing of US aircraft and naval vessels, Ferguson, Baltimore, the firestorm that the cultural jackboots ignited over Indiana's RFRA, the three horrible SCOTUS decisions this past June (Her-Care, homosexual "marriage," disparate impact), the victories of the campus jackboots at Yale, U of Missouri, Princeton and elsewhere, the EPA's Clean Power Plan, the rise of ISIS, including the beheadings of 3 Americans, the attacks in Mali, Lebanon and Paris, the continued rot of the culture as evidenced by the lack of anything approaching quality at awards shows for television, theater, cinema or music, the Iran "deal."
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese hacking of the OPM database.
ReplyDeleteNow, regardless of when it was written, here's why Kagan is full of shit:
ReplyDeleteHe mentions nothing about the cultural rot that is a main focus of Tancredo's piece.
He makes no mention of the record-low labor force participation, or the stagnation of wages in post-America.
His spin that "American bullying and boorishness" were significant characteristics of the American character in the 1950s.
His predetermined disdain for American influence by trying to put the overthrows of Mossadegh (who ruled like a dictator, dissolving the Senate, shutting down the Majlis, suspending a general election and imposing a prolonged curfew and was dismissed by the shah) and Arbenz (a Soviet-aligned Marxist) in a bad light.
It becomes clear that not only is Kagan full of shit, but it's coming out his eye sockets and ears when he says, post-America's "efforts to root out and destroy al-Qaeda." Al-Qaeda is still very much with us, and now we have ISIS as well.
Sorry, Bob, but we didn't have transgendered bathrooms or the deliberate strangulation of the coal industry in 1968 or 1979.
Anon says, "Our enemy knows we would prefer to turn the other cheek by our faith. This is not possible until evil and murder are eliminated at what ever cost it may take." True enough, but there is no will do assume "what ever cost it may take."
The assertion, "You just want a war" is a crystal-clear indication that you engage in a polemical exchange about American decline / greatness through a filter of willful ignorance, choosing to not acknowledge the ample evidence this blog provides daily of the post-American regime's agenda of planned decline on the security, economics, and culture fronts. What those of us who are alarmed at the death-rattle of this great civilization want is its preservation.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen you happier than when it's bombs away. Go ahead and call me willfully ignorant. The post-American regime is almost at an end, unless, of course, your candidate loses. Donald Trump is the apotheosis of your tea party thinking. Well, it appears he is their hero more than anyone. I am so happy that Russia and France are on board now, who knew? Cheney and Rummie simply declared to the world after losing much of its sympathy that if they were not with us they were against us. I think that's very true of your ilk in general. We all want more of the same things than we don't. Beginning with simple peace of mind. Free from worry about what your ilk wants now because if they don't get it, cover your nuts and/or head for the hills. If I was a father or grandfather of children maimed or worse by bombs from above it is not at all likely that I will wave the white flag and follow your ilk. The history of these sort of reactions since WWII is not good. It does not win wars for us to kill, maim and destroy other life forms on this planet like we did in Nam. Agent Orange has sent many American veterans to an early grave. I know because a dozen of them were in my high school class. Many of us will never forget. As one of your likely enemies once said:
ReplyDelete"How many men who listen to me tonight have served their Nation in other wars? How very many are not here to listen? The war in Vietnam is not like these other wars. Yet, finally, war is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in this world. (State of the Union Address, 1966)
Now bring on more of that "things are different today," which we heard every mother say back in da day.
ReplyDeleteRe: All want the same things: horse shit. Russia has very different aims and interests than - well, the United States of America would have had. Of course, since this has been post-America, the Most Equal Comrade has been puking all over himself to be Putin's bitch - further substantiation of planned decline.
ReplyDeleteThe "hear every mother say back in da day" remark further proves the willful ignorance. I cite not one, not two, not five, but many more examples of the accelerated rot of the country. Every mother back In da day would have found a nuclear deal with Iran, homosexual "marriage," subsidized windmills and health "insurance" co-ops downright bizarre
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ReplyDeleteSorry. You are incorret in your assessment.
ReplyDeleteAt this writing your man might be in position to grab the Trump vote, because it is clear his mouth will continue to run him out of the race. Your man Cruz has already said he is for more tolerance for civilian casualties in bombing "the enemy." Il Papa disagrees. Of course you disagree with Il Papa, but just go back down the line to all previous popes, none of whom would be in favor of this. What does your denomination say?
ReplyDeleteThe current Il Papa also has been brainwashed into believing that the global climate is in some kind of trouble.
ReplyDeleteSo they'd be in favor of Western civilization being conquered and killed off by radical Islam?
Wrong! Il Papa at the time approved bombing Afghanistan after 9/11 but never lent approval via the just war theory for the invasion of Iraq. We all want the terrorists gone. Our aims might be different but we want the same result. The question is who do we bomb and kill and maim? And what does your fearless spiritual leader, if any, have to say?
ReplyDeleteThe current Il Papa does not do brainwashing. It is called discernment and it is far from a one shot process. A good read is Gary Wills' The Future of the Catholic Church & Pope Francis. I'm sure you will want to run right out and get a copy at your local socialist public library.
And did I say every mother back in da day would NOT say things are different today? Change is the only constant, but it is also true that what goes around comes around. We must remember the past, especially the recent past, of our military actions. But we must argue about even that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, man, it's all just "change." All just relative. Nothing is good, nothing is bad. Nothing is precious and worthy of preserving, right?
ReplyDeleteThe current Il Papa most certainly does do brainwashing.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.climatedepot.com/2015/09/24/special-report-unholy-alliance-exposing-the-radicals-advising-pope-francis-on-climate/
In the preparation and promotion of its widely touted encyclical, Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, the Vatican relied on advisors who can only be described as the most extreme elements in the global warming debate. These climate advisors are so far out of the mainstream they even make some of their fellow climate activists cringe. Many of these advisors oppose individual freedom and market economics and stand against traditional family values.
The Vatican and Pope Francis did not allow dissent or alternative perspectives to be heard during the creation and promotion of the encyclical. The Vatican only listened to activist voices within the climate movement.
Even more startling, many of the Vatican’s key climate advisors have promoted policies directly at odds with Catholic doctrine and beliefs. The proceedings of the Vatican climate workshop included activists like Naomi Oreskes, Peter Wadhams, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, and UN advisor Jeffrey Sachs.
Pope Francis’ advisors, and the UN climate agenda he is aligning himself with, are strong supporters of development restrictions, contraceptives, population control, and abortion. Despite these strange bedfellows, the encyclical is clear in condemning abortion, contraception, and population control.