And while it seems painfully obvious, we have recklessly abandoned our duty to teach our young. Public school education is worthless. Bottom line is if you can't afford a private school that actually educates (as opposed to indoctrinates), you must home school.
Why Study
War? Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics.com It's no surprise that
civilian Americans tend to lack a basic understanding of military matters. Even
when I was a graduate student, 30-some years ago, military history--understood
broadly as the investigation of why one side wins and another loses a war, and
encompassing reflections on magisterial or foolish generalship, technological
stagnation or breakthrough, and the roles of discipline, bravery, national will,
and culture in determining a conflict's outcome and its consequences--had
already become unfashionable on campus. Today, universities are even less
receptive to the subject.
Bruce Bawer, City Journal, Summer 2007 "If you
want peace, prepare for war." Thus counseled Roman general Flavius Vegetius
Renatus over 1,600 years ago. Nine centuries before that, Sun Tzu offered
essentially the same advice, and it's to him that Vegetius's line is attributed
at the beginning of a film that I saw recently at Oslo's Nobel Peace Center. Yet
the film cites this ancient wisdom only to reject it. After serving up a
perverse potted history of the cold war, the thrust of which is that the peace
movement brought down the Berlin Wall, the movie ends with words that turn
Vegetius's insight on its head: "If you want peace, prepare for peace."
This purports to be wise counsel, a motto for the millennium. In reality,
it's wishful thinking that doesn't follow logically from the history of the cold
war, or of any war. For the cold war's real lesson is the same one that Sun Tzu
and Vegetius taught: conflict happens; power matters. . .There's nothing
mysterious about this truth. Yet it's denied not only by the Peace Center film
but also by the fast-growing, troubling movement that the center symbolizes and
promotes.
Call it the Peace Racket. . .
Read that too.
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I remember getting fed the "if everyone's nice to each other, we won't have war" and "violence doesn't solve anything" stuff in high school in the 1970s. I am ashamed to say that I bought into it. Later, as I got older, wiser, worked in the "real world" I discovered all that BS was wrong.
The WORST THING one can do is sit on his or her hands and hope:
1. "it" will never happen
2. "they" will be there to save your ass
3. "they" will know in advance so it won't happen.
This is what the Left has been feeding the populace of the United States since the early 1960s through the media and education and many government "agents" want more power so "they" can lull the people to sleep.
Another outdated dogma is the Geneva Conventions, adopted to date by 194 countries, however totally outdated. When the enemy uses car bombs and suicide bombers aka splodydopes, but never in uniform except when they steal the opposition's uniforms and pose as them, all GC should be moot. The enemy also uses mosques as HQ and operation bases and ordinance storage. It is stupid to fight with rules the enemy does not follow. It is further stupid to arrest and prosecute one's soldiers for violations of rules of engagement. Doing such things helps the enemy to achieve protection and support among the populations of the occupied countries. Were we to react to car bombs with swift area bombing, soon, such areas would not protect the enemy, but fight them to keep from being flattened. Sure, a few would join them, but the limitations of IQ limit the number of such potential splodydopes.
We should kick as much ass as we need to feel good, and only then stop and access the situation. After all, they started it.
wxjames, I agree. If the other guys don't follow Geneva Conventions, kick the shit out of them.
Our military is way too controlled by State Dept, and it has institutionally forgotten how to really fight a war.
My uncle was parlyzed in the Battle of the Bulge by a German sniper using the steeple of a church on a mountain, which was a violation of the Geneva Convention. I really don't think the Nazis gave a shit about the GC.
"Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head
and pulled the trigger" - George Killen ~ State Police Detective-Lieutenant
Senator Robert Byrd
This ex-Klansman wasn't just a passive member of the nation's most notorious hate group.
He wrote: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the Union."
The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act - He also opposed the nominations of the Supreme Court's two black justices, liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. In fact, the ex-Klansman had the gall to accuse Justice Thomas of "injecting racism" into the Senate hearings.
The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
Senator John Kerry
The North Vietnamese general in charge of the military campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South Vietnam credited a group led by John Kerry with helping him achieve victory.
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S.
Bill Clinton
Pardoning terrorists, discussing troop movements while being pleasured by an intern, running an obstruction-of-justice operation out of the Oval Office and suborning and committing perjury.........
In acts of official perfidy that may be unparalleled in our nation’s history, Clinton accepted bribes from Red China in the form of illegal political contributions, and in exchange made policy decisions that undermined our national security.
• The Red Chinese military (the so-called People’s Liberation Army, or PLA) is now able to deploy much more accurate nuclear-armed missiles pointed at the United States, in large measure because of policy decisions by President Clinton
• President Clinton signed national security waivers to allow four U.S. commercial satellites to be launched in China, despite evidence that China was exporting nuclear and missile technology to Pakistan and Iran.
"How did it come about that highly sensitive technical information was given to the Chinese? Why did the president ignore the national security experts who counseled against this deal? What damage has been done to our national security?" Goss asked.
Clinton's terror failures are too numerous and damaging to recount here but Bill Clinton was the quintessential dhimmi. He allowed AL QAEDA CELLS - INCLUDING THE 9/11 CELL to OPERATE IN THE USA ignored the World Trade Center bombings of '93, ignored the Cole, the embassy bombings and handed Israel over to the most barbaric terrorist of the late twentieth century, Yassar Arafat.
and that's just for starters...........Clinton-era policies ignored Able Danger (Mohammed Atta et al)
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This influence is Ginormous. It's the media elites, the alphabets, the LLL, Hollywood, to quote Ike - instead of the the "Military Industrial Complex", the real enemy is "the Media/Entertainment Industrial Complex".
Plagiarist. He plagiarized somebody else's life story, claiming it as his own. He plagiarized a speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. A barrage of revelations by the press contributed to Biden's withdrawal from a presidential race: a serious plagiarism incident involving Biden during his law school years; the senator's boastful exaggerations of his academic record at a New Hampshire campaign event; and the discovery of other quotations in Biden's speeches pilfered from past Democratic politicians.
The Carter White House during the disasters of the Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua, the energy crisis and stagflation, the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis, and the invasion of Afghanistan. Not backing the Shah of Iran in 1979, our close ally in the Middle East, resulted in the take over by Radical Islamic Fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini which brings us to where we are today with Iran.
Time magazine columnist wrote that some of Carter's "Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason"
Carter befriended North Korea during the Clinton administration, appeasing the communist regime and giving it cover for its nuclear weapons program
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, two leftwing cub/pitbull reporters at the Wahington Post, intent on bringing down President Nixon.
And they did. After being exposed for covering for his people (not guilty of the break in mind you), Nixon resigned. Imagine if Nixon had been a democrat. Would that ever have happened? The shenanigans of Democrat Presidents going back to JFK's stolen election are wildly known (don't even get me started on Bill).
What made this left wing assault on America so damaging is the subsequent road America went down. Had it not been for Watergate, America- leery and distrusting of the GOP after Nixon's resignation - would never have elected a Democrat, an unknown peanut farmer to the office of the President. A man so out of his league, a man so incapable of the office of the President, that we are still suffering from his ineptitude.
Imagine if Reagan had been President when the leader of one of our greatest allies in the Middle East, Iran, called upon the President for help. Imagine the course of history, if you will, if we had backed the Shah of Iran.
Imagine what a different world this would be.
According to many Iranians, Carter practically pushed out the Shah and gave Iran to the Ayatollah Khomeini (much the way he relinguished control of the Panama Canal).
In a treatise titled, "Some People Push Back," written after the attacks, Churchill asserted the 3,000 people killed at the World Trade Center worked for "the mighty engine of profit" but chose to ignore their role.
"True enough, they were civilians of a sort," he wrote. "But innocent? Gimme a break."
Churchill went on to describe the World Trade Center victims as "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolph Eichmann, who carried out Hitler's plan to exterminate Europe's Jews during World War II.
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all provide a refreshing alternative to the moral relativism
and politically correct anti-Israel blather of the media. Michael
Freund, Jerusalem Post
"The best there is," Beryl Wajsman, President Institute of Public Affairs
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb. Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. Edna
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good
advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most
valuable mistakes.
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
What the customer demands is last year's model,
cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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I remember getting fed the "if everyone's nice to each other, we won't have war" and "violence doesn't solve anything" stuff in high school in the 1970s. I am ashamed to say that I bought into it. Later, as I got older, wiser, worked in the "real world" I discovered all that BS was wrong.
The WORST THING one can do is sit on his or her hands and hope:
1. "it" will never happen
2. "they" will be there to save your ass
3. "they" will know in advance so it won't happen.
This is what the Left has been feeding the populace of the United States since the early 1960s through the media and education and many government "agents" want more power so "they" can lull the people to sleep.
Posted by: Thomas Carney | Monday, August 20, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Another outdated dogma is the Geneva Conventions, adopted to date by 194 countries, however totally outdated. When the enemy uses car bombs and suicide bombers aka splodydopes, but never in uniform except when they steal the opposition's uniforms and pose as them, all GC should be moot. The enemy also uses mosques as HQ and operation bases and ordinance storage. It is stupid to fight with rules the enemy does not follow. It is further stupid to arrest and prosecute one's soldiers for violations of rules of engagement. Doing such things helps the enemy to achieve protection and support among the populations of the occupied countries. Were we to react to car bombs with swift area bombing, soon, such areas would not protect the enemy, but fight them to keep from being flattened. Sure, a few would join them, but the limitations of IQ limit the number of such potential splodydopes.
We should kick as much ass as we need to feel good, and only then stop and access the situation. After all, they started it.
Posted by: wxjames | Monday, August 20, 2007 at 01:11 PM
wxjames, I agree. If the other guys don't follow Geneva Conventions, kick the shit out of them.
Our military is way too controlled by State Dept, and it has institutionally forgotten how to really fight a war.
My uncle was parlyzed in the Battle of the Bulge by a German sniper using the steeple of a church on a mountain, which was a violation of the Geneva Convention. I really don't think the Nazis gave a shit about the GC.
Posted by: Thomas Carney | Monday, August 20, 2007 at 03:16 PM