5 posts tagged “war”

People are going insane.  Most of them are socialist liberals without a doggon clue about the world.  The veritable arm-chair "thinkers" that don't have any idea what the real world is like.

[This Article has been re-written, and dedicated to "Inside_passage"]

You see, I had written this very long, yet far too truncated, history of modern day Israel and Palestine.  Yes, it was missing some history prior to the history I wrote about.  Thanks to a brilliant comment by one "Inside_Passage", I have found that history completely unnecessary.  My mistake was to use history to explain a completely insane and stupid situation in the middle east.  A situation that is so childish yet has caused problems with the world for centuries.

Various "experts" from both sides try to say it's the UK's fault for the situation.  Some say they caused their own problem and are reaping the consequences for their stupid pride.  Some say it's their religion that has prolonged the situation and aggravated it.

Regardless, of the cause, regardless of the situation, the facts today are that there is a nation called Israel, and a bunch of Palestinians that just love to lob bombs into Israel, and Israel retaliates and bombs them back.  A sad vengeful circle has been running for a long time.  Problem is, one side, Israel has tried to make peace, and has given land and resources asked for by the other to form their own nation.  What happens?  The other side doesn't want peace at all.  Their reason for lobbing bombs and sending in their innocent young as walking bombs is to eradicate Israel from existence along with the people in it.  Demonstrating a most evil side of pride the world has ever seen.  Palestine has shown time and time again their "cease fires" cannot be trusted, and have demonstrated they just use them to find more strategic locations to bomb Israel.

Regardless of the weirdness of the past, and previous generations, one must understand that such vengeful circular and destructive behavior only results in the destruction of the nation or people participating in it.  When the enemy (Israel) has done everything asked of them more than once to get peace of their enemy (Palestine), and then just get bombed again a month later by Palestine, you tend to realize that Palestine doesn't want peace, they want you dead, and a vivid reality begins to overcome you.

How do you define "innocent" when a child is indoctrinated to hate Jews and the find every opportunity to kill them from the time they speak, how do you say they are innocent?  Especially when the militant adults, in a cowardly way, surround themselves with the "innocent" to make retaliation by Israel look bad.

A nation, whether you "recognize" them or not, has a right to defend its borders and citizens from outside attacks.  If you stockpile rocket launchers in the basement of a school, then it's your fault your children died from a military strike to destroy it, not those that destroyed it.

While I don't doubt there are people in Palestine that would rather just live a peaceful life.  However, when the well funded Hamas gives you free medical care and schools your kids, it's hard to tell them to get lost.  The Israeli's, on the other hand, would just rather the bombing on both sides stop.  What the Palestinians don't admit, is the reason why they are living in a bombed out house with a child missing a leg, is the very people that gave them the wooden leg  and is schooling their children.  Unfortunately, as long as Hamas and other such organizations exist, true peace in the middle east just won't happen.  It's this whole sick idea that they are entitled to the land.

Hamas, PLO, etc has always been offensive toward Israel, and Israel has always responded defensively offensive (a valid war term).  They bomb Palestine because Palestine has been relentlessly bombing them.  Israel has stopped many times, and it has always been Palestinians that broke the truce.

The UN has never been kind to Israel.  Of course, the UN has always been a bloated and inept bureaucracy friendly only to themselves and their own power.

I still say Israel has every right to defend themselves.  One of the first rules of war is to absolutely and totally demoralize and obliterate the enemy until THEY sue for peace, not when some arbitrary arm-chair bureaucracy says stop.  Israel has the right, after all these years of this insane crap they put up with from people that openly cry time and time again, not for peace, but Israel's ultimate destruction by, and I quote, "bathing the sand in their blood".  Claiming to want the genocide of a people is no way to illicit sympathy or sue for peace.  Yet it's what liberals love to do, is sympathize with these blood thirsty murderers.

Hamas deserves no negotiations.  Want the retaliations to stop?  Get rid of Hamas and stop sending rockets into Israel.  When a group of people have become so bloodthirsty that all they want is the death and utter destruction of another group of people, then what's really going to happen is their own utter destruction, because the world, as a whole, does not accept such behavior out of any nation or people.  It's a simple solution for such a "complicated" problem.  As long as you are genocidal, you will be destroyed.

Here's how I see it:

• Israel wants to exist in peace.  Would rather do business and commerce with their neighbors without fear of attack.  However, will retaliate against aggression to their soverignty and people.
• "Palestine" (as a group) wants Israel off the map, and then have peace.  Will do anything, sick and bloody to do it, even send their own children with bombs strapped to them to do it.  Will only make treaties if it's militarily convenient at the time to better position themselves without fear of discovery.  As Islam teaches that morality and social rules of behavior only apply to other Muslims.  It's OK to lie to infidels, even in contracts and treaties, as long as it benefits you or "Allah".  I can see why they always think they have never done anything wrong, as according to their own religion, murdering, raping, and stealing from infidels is allowed especially if you are in Jihad.  Even more so if those infidels are Jews.
  

I have learned early on in my life, that those of the past, and many of those that have lived longer than me can teach important lessons in life.  Experience and history is the worlds best teacher of what works and what does not.  Unfortunately, most of society, in its self-centered arrogance, tends to ignore history thinking they know better.  The fact that history has shown this to be a mistake over and over has no effect, because the arrogance of the current society makes them think they are special.  Call it culture, call it technology, call it so-called "enlightenment" it almost always ends up backfiring with their society just another part of history that hopefully the next will finally learn from.

I have assembled together a series of good and poignant quotations of those of the present and the past to best illustrate what everyone could use to better warn them, better live their life, better govern, and even enjoy a good laugh.

You may have noticed it has been a long time since I wrote an article here.  It's simply because I have been working long and hard on this one.  This one may not be Pulitzer material (thank God!), but it's something I feel good about writing, and I hope at least someone reading it can find help, advice, assistance, solace, comfort, or just simple knowledgeable enlightenment about the world around them.

All of those I quote here have some form of wisdom we can learn from.  Not all of them are benevolent, not all of them are someone I'd trust to be alone with my children (if I had any), and some may make my blood boil, however, they are experts in their field, some terrifyingly so.  Most, however, are people I would invite to dinner and would be quite comfortable to have around children.  These quotes fall into three categories, the wise, the ridiculous, and the ironic.  You'll soon see what I mean.

Also remember, wisdom can come from quotes of those far from being wise, and hence the quote becomes ironic or even ridiculous to give us wisdom.

I will go topic by topic, in what I think are important issues of current times, and what we can learn from these wise, and not so wise, people about them.

Let's get started.

Government Bailouts and New American Socialism

• "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." -- Thomas Jefferson (one of the founders of the Democrat Party and our Nation)
• "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." -- John Adams (One of the founders of our Nation and second President)
• "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams
• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (First Supreme Allied Commander Europe WWII and 34th President, Republican)
• "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- John F. Kennedy (35th President, Democrat)
• "That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." -- Abraham Lincoln (16th President, Republican)
  
• "The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one." -- Adolf Hitler (Charismatic and articulate political orator, German Chancellor, called by those that heard him speak "the Saviour of Germany", and responsible for the murder of millions in WWII)
• "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." -- George Orwell (Author)
• "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." -- Ronald Reagan (Actor and 40th President)
• "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." -- Ronald Reagan
• "The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan
  
• "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -- Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemins, Author)
• "Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself." -- Thomas Jefferson
  
• "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis (Author)
• "Never spend your money before you have it." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "My Uncle was an American; but he was one of the lucky ones.  He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter Presidency." -- Hillary Flammond ("Top Secret" movie)
• "Already there are insidious influences working termite-like to destroy this basic principle of true democracy." -- David O. McKay
  

• "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
• "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." -- Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister during WWII)
• "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King Jr. (Civil Rights Leader)
• "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
  
• "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison (American Founding Father and 4th President, Democrat)
  
• "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." -- Vladimir Lenin (First Soviet Premiere, and communist revolutionary)
• "To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office." -- Quintas Fabius Maximus (Roman General)
• "What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler
• "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." -- John Adams
• "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy
• "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves." -- Ronald Reagan
• "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain
  

Media and the So-called "Fairness Doctrine"

• "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- Harry S. Truman (33rd President, Democrat)
• "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- Thomas Jefferson
  

Religion, Atheism, and Government

• "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." -- C.S. Lewis (Author)
• "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." -- John Adams
• "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality." -- Carl Sagan
  
• "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." -- Ronald Reagan
• "A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." -- Carl Sagan
• "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.  He hath loosed the fatefull lightnight of his terrible, swift sword; His ruth is marching on.  He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgement seat.  Oh be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant my feet!  Our God is marching on.  In the beauty of the lillies, Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigured you and me.  As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free, while God is marching on.  Glory, glory, hallelujah!  Glory, glory hallelujah!  Glory, glory, hallelujah!  His truth is marching on." -- Julia Ward Howe

Education and Intellectuals

• "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." -- John Adams
• "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." -- C.S. Lewis
• "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." -- John F. Kennedy
• "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
• "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." -- George Washington (Revolutionary War General, First President)
• "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." -- Nikola Tesla
• "Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." -- John F. Kennedy
• "Congratulations, there is now a level zero." -- Master Shifu (Kung Fu Panda)
• On European Socialism... "I'm not European.  I don't plan on being European.  So who gives a crap if they're socialists?  They could be fascist anarchists, and it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car." -- Ferris Beuller
  

• "The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes." -- Harold B. Lee
• "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -- Gilda Radner
• "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." -- King Edward VIII
• "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby
• "If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'" -- Jeff Foxworthy
• "I asked for a car, I got a computer.  How's that for being born under a bad sign?" -- Ferris Beuller
  

• "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." -- John Wayne
• "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." -- Patrick Henry
• "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." -- Alexander Hamilton
• "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "Americans never quit" -- Douglas MacArthur
• "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." -- George Orwell
  
• "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -- Ronald Reagan
• "Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you." -- Harry S. Truman
• "In war there is no substitute for victory. " -- Douglas MacArthur
• "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible." -- Ted Nugent
• "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell
• "Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!  America!  America!  God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.  Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern, impassioned stress a throughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness!  America!  America!  God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law.  Oh, beautiful for heros proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!  America!  America!  May God thy gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine.  Oh, beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears!  America!  America!  God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotrherhood from sea to shining sea." -- Katherine Lee Bates
• "Everyone has this most precious of all life's endowments-the gift of free agency -- man's inherited and inalienable right." -- David O. McKay
• "We have peace in our time" -- Neville Chamberlain (shortly before World War II broke out).  Ask him how well appeasement foreign policy went.
  

Environmentalism and So-called "Global Warming"

• "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -- Mark Twain
• "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense." -- Carl Sagan
• "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." -- Nikola Tesla
• "The evidence in support of these predictions [of global cooling] has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." -- Newsweek 1975
• "The debate is over" -- Albert Gore Jr. (There never was a debate, just a consensus of 2500 scientists in need of government funding, when 37500 other scientists with contrary opinions and findings offered to debate, the 2500 refused.)
• "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." -- Master Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)
• "The greatest loser in any argument is the one who's argument is so weak, that their only response is to attempt silence the opposition." -- SuperSparky

Believe it or not, I had to really shorten this list.  With wisdom, comes volumes of understanding and in just a few words.  Wisdom cuts to the bone.  It says it like it is and is not politically correct.  I found the wisdom of some, who'd you never expect, be the most profound.

We cannot forget the past if we hope to survive the future.  Remember, "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." -- John Wayne

I recently read an article by the lovely and very eloquent Ann Coulter.  She was praising President George W. Bush for keeping us safe for the past seven years, and I join her in that praise.  However, I have some complaints as to how President Bush has fought the war on terror the past seven years.

Anyone that grew up in the Vietnam war era (and is a conservative) would tell you we could have won that war and won it quickly, if our armed forces were allowed to fight it like we have fought wars in the past.  In Vietnam, it was too poilitically correct.  Too many rules to follow and too much "respect" for those shooting at us.  This fear of the press and obedience to ridiculous UN imposed "rules of engagement" caused that war to be a failure, a bloody failure.  The armed forces of the United States are not Constitutionally intended to be international police nor "peace keeping" forces.

After September 11, 2001 President Bush declared that "if you're not with us, then you're against us" and sounded all big and bad about avenging the dead.  Well, unfortunately, President Bush should have taken some lessons from General Patton and Douglas MacArthur of World War II.  The way you win wars is to completely obliterate and demoralize the enemy until they surrender.  You certainly do not refuse to bomb a mosque the bad guys use as a headquarters because you "respect their religion"!  You destroy the mosque and kill those inside it so they think twice about doing it again.  You do it so the people that love their mosque in the next town will help you next time so their mosque doesn't get destroyed.  Once the enemy knows your weakness, they exploit it.

The so-called innocents are not innocent if they aid the enemy or refuse to point them out.  People will think twice about putting their children up as shields if the enemy is what they are shielding.  The key here is, that if the children are killed in the process of killing the enemy, then using children as shields won't be tried again.  People do not realize how many innocent lives could be saved in the long run if the war was fought as a war.  I seriously doubt that this wouldn't be going on for seven years if our military would just have been allowed to kick ass until an unconditional surrender or the people bring the bodies of the terrorists themselves to stop the war.

The other problem was inviting reporters in with the fight.  Kick these liberal jackasses out.  The Constitution only applies in the USA with freedom of the press.  The press was tightly controlled in World War II, and for good reason.

So yes, President Bush has protected us the past seven years.  I don't think people give him credit for that. It's just I think seven years is a bit unnecessary if this "taking it to the enemy" war would be fought like wars have always been fought.

Stop picking on grannies and stop banning two year old's from flying just because they have a similar name to a known terrorist.  While I do know that some two year old's can be a terror and some can de-calcify one's spinal column at the mere sound of them screeching, I have never known of a two year old capable of hijacking a jet liner.  The TSA is Bush's seven year failure.  If all hijackers and terrorists to date have been of Middle Eastern descent and of the Muslim faith, then it's not racial profiling to be concerned over those matching that description.  It's called being intelligent not racist.  Ignoring the obvious is stupid and a waste of time.

Air-infidel

When World War II was over, we did something we have never done before (except after the civil war).  We helped our once enemy rebuild all of those buildings we bombed.  We helped the economies and infrastructures of both Japan and Germany grow healthy again, but this time under a free and people chosen government; of course, under our careful watch.  Look at what Japan and Germany have turned into.  They are free countries with free markets free of dictators and fascism.  Their people now choose their own destiny.  Churches, schools and temples are restored.  Life eventually continues on with the new.

This brings me back to our modern war.  Instead of not bombing mosques and such with terrorists holed up in them.  Just use them for bombing targets until they realize all they are accomplishing is getting their mosques destroyed.  When the war is over, help to rebuild those mosques.  Being afraid to bomb certain buildings gives the enemy a weapon they otherwise wouldn't have.  Buildings can be replaced, no matter what they are.  The key is to let the enemy understand they are vulnerable no matter where they are holed up, be it church, hospital, mosque, or school.

As to Pakistan, they have to be made to understand that either they throw out Al Quida and get their border under control or we will.  As long as the Pakistani tribes on the border of Afghanistan know we won't bomb or invade that part of Pakistan, they will always harbor Al Quida and the Taliban.  If they realize it is not in their best interests to do so (ie: they get killed or bombed because Al Quida or Taliban is in their village), then Al Quida and the Taliban will no longer be welcome.  Yes, I think fair warning to them is justified, but also the acknowledgment they were warned, but ignored it, if villagers die in an effort to kill the enemy.

Pakistan has no legitimate leg to stand on by saying they are neutral or sovereign.  If people are coming from their country and killing our soldiers and are being protected and harbored by their citizens, then they need to understand we have a right to fight back even within their borders to stop it.

Yes, President Bush has kept us safe for seven years.  I just wonder could it have been less than seven years to have really won this war?  I believe so, and to hell with the inept, liberal, and pompously pontificating UN should they complain.  Personally, I feel anyone that does complain should have all aid and/or military support (and we protect 70% of the world ourselves) removed immediately.  A vulnerable country is a cooperative country.

Frankly, as useless as the UN is, we should evict them and make Switzerland deal with those jackasses.  Most of the money that funds the UN comes from the USA.  Why we still allow that corrupt and inept organization dictate to the world how to behave when they line their pockets with shady deals and child sex and rape scandals is beyond me.

The League of Nations was inept, the UN is inept.  Why oh why do we still put up with them?

Sorry Ann, but Bush could have done better.  The surge was a much needed improvement, but totally unnecessary had it just been fought like a war in the first place.

For the past 1000+ years, the average time span between major war involving governmental or boundary changes in Europe and even Asia, has been 68 years.  Most have involved some power-hungry megalomaniac desiring land and power.  This same region claims to be the intellectual powerhouse of the world, they claim to be progressive, and full of wise philosophers and great thinkers.  History has shown that the only times such a war was not successful was in the early twentieth century with World Wars One and Two.  All have been in Europe and both were the only ones involving the rescue and assistance of “the barbaric, backward thinking, stupid, imperialistic, conservative, and power hungry” armed forces of the United States of America.

The same country that is full of “stupid rednecks”, “gun toting nutjobs”, “simple-minded twits”, “religious fanatics”, and “greedy imperialists,” yearly, gives protection and comfort to many of those European nations, including former enemies, by contributing billions of dollars from its “greedy” citizens, the same country that in addition to the “official” assistance and military protection they offer (with their own money), also has the highest charitable donation percentage of its populace than any country in the world.  This same “rogue” nation that could have built a veritable empire, in both Europe and Asia, after World War Two, chose instead to help the Europeans and Japanese rebuild their broken countries, and made sure governments were set up to give them freedoms they never had before in the history of the world.

So next time some high-thinking, yet ignorant professor, reporter, or politician tries to convince you that Europeans are far more advanced than the “primitive” Americans, may I suggest you study a little history.  The world would not have the freedoms, inventions, and technologies it now enjoys without them.  Your right to hate and bash Americans, and their President, was given to you by Americans that gave their lives for you to have that privilege.

Maybe, just maybe, we should pay more attention to those backward Americans than listen to those pompous intellectual jackasses that “think themselves” into stupidity.  What lessons do Americans try to teach the un-listening “rest of the world?”  No philosophy, social, environmental, and economic can succeed without the freedom of the individual, and that history is to be learned from, not ignored.  There are those that would try to change the United States of America into something more along the lines of the European methods of socialism, communism, or fascism, all philosophies demonstrated to be failures time and time again by European society itself.  When the USA changes, is the day the world is no longer safe.

You may think placating evil is the way to avoid war.  You may think deny the existence of evil is the way to avoid provoking those that cause war.  You may think that giving evil what it wants to prove somehow you respect them is a way to avoid violence.  All you do is give up your freedoms and way of life until you are no longer free, and live in fear.  Is that freedom?  Is that peace?  Is peace only the absence of war, or is true peace the absence of worry for your families?

So next time a group of people demand you grant them the ability to kill their disobedient wives and murder their daughters, and demand special treatment for their own versions of law, us American’s suggest you tell them to return where they came from and never give up your freedoms just to placate unjust or “cultural” demands.  How long before their culture and unjust laws replace yours?  How long before your daughter is killed because she wears a skirt and doesn’t cover her face?

Does this seem like “peace” to you?

American’s even though many are hated, will fight to the death to retain their freedoms to live, breath, and worship the way they see fit, and not have their actions dictated by the crowd.

These are the opinions of one American.  Want to know an American?  Talk to them, and stop listening to the propaganda of your news media.  The days of honest journalism went bye-bye in the 1960’s.

Is America perfect?  Of course not.  The very forces and philosophies that end up in the ruin of other nations are becoming mainstream today under the guise of being "progressive" or "enlightened".  What ruins a nation is loss of identity, loss of morality, and loss of culture.  Abraham Lincoln demonstrated what was necessary to have a healthy nation, and that living by ALL of the God-given laws of freedom (for all races) was what makes a society and country great.  Winston Churchill demonstrated that evil must be stopped and never placated at all costs, else society falls.  Ronald Reagan demonstrated that people and freedom are what makes a country great, and not its government.  George Washington demonstrated that the peace true freedom brings was more important than the illusion of peace under tyranny.  A humble Jew once demonstrated that there is no greater love, than the love of one that is willing to give their life for their friend's freedom.

Say what you want about any war on this earth.  It is a just war if tyranny is toppled and freedom is allowed to grow.  There are those that would say stirring up a hornet's nest is suicide, and then there are those that would say the absence of the nest is better than tip-toeing around the hornets in the first place.  Eventually you will get stung as the hornets multiply.  On the other hand, being free to play, swim, dance and run is much better than trying not to stir up hornets.