President Community Organizer said there's no way the Islamists can defeat us. That the most they can do is annoy us or frighten us. Stuck thinking 1st or 2nd generation warfare, when what's happening is way beyond him.
If John Robb is right in these two posts, we're in for a period that will end in either the financial collapse of the entire west or an almost-complete elimination of any freedoms. Or both. The only thing arguing against his point in the first link is that the Islamists don't seem to do that sort of thing. They seem to only want to kill, not do the things that might get the reaction he talks about.
I wouldn't dismiss John's ideas, though. Both of those pieces are worth reading, and are fairly short.
I'll die fighting before I convert!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll take a whole bunch of those SOBs with me....
Then so be it!
DeleteAs Tam has said: "Euros have a proven zero-to-jackboots time lower than just about anybody on the planet."
ReplyDeleteExcept, perhaps, enraged Soccer Moms in Des Moines. When America reaches Critical Mass on the issue the result will be breathtaking, and about which many future histories will be written.
Which assumes there are enough "Americans" left to produce said critical mass. I suspect there are, at least for the moment.
Our leaders will continue to fiddle while the Western world burns until that day when the terrorists acquire a WMD. The most logical and sought after weapon is of course a nuke. With dedicated suicide bombers delivering a nuke without the exceedingly complex delivery systems would be a piece of cake. It will happen, we will wake up one morning, just as we did on 9/11, and the news will show the aftermath of a nuclear bomb having been detonated in a major Western city. It could be Paris, London, Tel Aviv or NY City. We know this is going to happen. All of the politicians and bureaucrats who tell us on TV to not judge and we can't discriminate and everything will be OK, also know this. Everyone from the CIA chief to the mother of two kids in grade school KNOWS this will happen one day. It could be prevented! But it won't be. It won't be prevented because no one wants to absorb the verbal whupping we see Trump getting for suggesting common sense efforts to prevent it. The left (mostly) will label you racist, stupid, dishonest and worse for even suggesting that these attackers are all Muslims. So we sit and wait until that inevitable day when it happens and we will feign surprise but we all know that it will happen and in an instant a million or so people will be vaporized while we did little to nothing.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP Elite will be glad to so label you as well. After all, it was Shrub II who gave us the "Religion of Peace" bullshiite.
DeleteMrs. Graybeard says that the way that these leaders behave makes you think they really do know a Screaming Meteor of Death is coming and is going to wipe out Earth in a few years, and they're just saying, "eff it - I'll steal as much money as I can and have fun before it's all over".
ReplyDeleteI don't really believe that, but I also don't see what they'd be doing differently if it was true. To stretch that saying, "never credit to malice that which can be explained by stupidity", I'll say never ascribe to a SMOD that which can be explained by pure evilness.
Nosmo - I almost concluded this piece with "it's getting to be time to play cowboys and Muslims" - in reference to that old joke. Which I assume you know. I hope there are enough cowboys and soccer moms.
The Elite in the West want them some One World Government, and they understand the best way to get there is to destroy the nation state. The easiest way to do that is to encourage invasion by foreigners, and make sure to not encourage them to assimilate into the national culture. The Elite expect to be able to stop the Muslims once the entire world is under their control.
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