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You Haven't Earned The Right To Be 'War-Weary '

In its ongoing effort to demoralize you and tell you how you should feel, so that we can have defeat and a proper humiliation of America, the Washington Post informs us that Americans are 'war-weary'.

Well that is impossible. Sorry, seeing the same images of stuff blowing up in Iraq does not give you the right to claim you are 'war-weary.'

You aren't there, you aren't fighting. The guys in Iraq and Afghanistan are the ones who can claim to be war-weary, not you.

You are not making sacrifices for this war, you are not doing without. There are no scrap metal drives, there is no rationing, there are no shortages, there are no war bonds.

War effort? What war effort?

Unless you are in the military or are related to someone who is, there is no war. Other than those hurt or killed and their loved ones, America is not paying a price.

There's a great saying posted at a US Marine site in Iraq that says:
"America is not at was, the Marine Corps is at war: America is at the mall ".

Stop your whining.
#6 Habu on 2007-09-08 14:47 (Reply)
Habu 2 days ago

I would highly recommend everyone take a look at the picture on the opening page of the site,

Lucianne.com

If you have any questions after that just write them down in the thread provided here for 9-11.

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night

W.H. Auden wrote those words over sixty years before, mourning the lost opportunities of the 30s, regretting the role he himself had played. A few days before, Ribbentrop and Molotov had signed the "Nonaggression Pact" in Moscow, establishing permanent friendship between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and though a series of secret ancillary clauses, clearing the way for Hitler's conquest of the "lost German territories" to the east. Only that morning Hitler's Panzers had crossed the frontier into Poland. Within two weeks they would be joined by Red Army troops. World War II had begun in earnest.

The Am. Thinker 9-11-07

People of any noteworthiness do not spend their lives coloring inside the lines

Habu

9-11-07

September 11 , 2007
Osama Bin Marx and the Real Jihad
letter to the editor
Dear American Thinker,


*September 11*, a date memorialized in American history. An important date, a critical date. And we dare not misunderstand its lesson. It is more than a sound bite, and more than the media dare discuss.

It wasn't just Islam taken to its logical conclusion that struck you and me. It was another terrible head of the hydra known collectively as the Left. Radicalized, fundamentalist Islam has been as thoroughly penetrated with humanist, socialist Marxism as the Democratic Party, our media, and even the first estate


Walid Phares excellent summation in the Sept. 10 edition of American Thinker correctly directed our attention to the Marxist slant in this newest Bin Laden tape, if Bin Laden it is. The first time I read of the penetration and suborning of Islam by agents of the Iron Curtain was in James Clavell's Whirlwind. Clavell was a master at using fiction in order to tell the truth. Clavell devoted great swaths of Whirlwind to the success of Communist agents teaching, propagandizing and twisting their dialectic in order to get Revolutionary Islam to fall in line with Communist long range goals . They're not called Revolutionary Guards by happy accident in Iran. Their penetration was nothing less than amazing, given that Communism is the zenith of scientific atheism. But communism tilled a fertile field in Islam to build up a terrifying cult to wage war upon us, their ultimate enemy.

Which is what is at war with America. It is all-encompassing and it will never stop. Islam is the current hammer. Ferocious, deadly, and as driven as the tides. It is the ultimate of weapons from the supernatural. But Islam is not the final enemy behind all enemies.


Early Communists correctly analyzed that they would never be able to produce victory over the West through force of arms. They deduced that in order to destroy us, they would have to attack like shadows. They would have to devise Other Means, Other War Fronts, Asymetric Struggles, Other Strategies and Other Tactics. In other words, redefine the field of battle. And that their war would be longer than mere generations because their war, the real war would be aimed at fundamentally turning us upside down inside and backwards until we turned on each other.


The November 2001 issue of the Weekly Standard carried as important an essay as I have found. Authored by Waller Newell, professor of political science and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, it is a devastating illumination that today's radical Islamist is little more than the Left's next great act in their Death Cult. Even as they shout the name of their god, they are fodder for the Revolutionary Ethos begun by Communists nearly a century ago.

But rather than my words, please read the wisdom and crushing facts of Waller Newell's brilliant essay Post Modern Jihad.

And when you're done, I ask you to clearly recognize what is all around you. The shadow war is seeping into everything you hold dear. As Victor David Hanson said in Mexifornia:

" .. we have not yet experienced all the consequences of the big bang of multiculturalism, authoritarianism, Utopianism, and cultural relativism - isms that tell young people that facts, dates, people and hard data are either irrelevant, biased or simply not facts at all and that to question such dogma could be "racist" ... " [1]
And in Mexifornia the estimable Mr. Hanson points to but one of the thousands of heads on the hydra. Progressives, for instance. Anytime you read progressive know that you are dealing with the shadow war of revolutionary marxism. Even the Church is subsumed into this religion of revolutionary Marx through Liberation Theology.

This war is everywhere and in everything, like toxic clouds from Chernobyl. And you can see the fetid seeds of communism in every utterance of jihadists after you know his leaders were educated at the Sorbonne. Then we accurately analyze where the Left in this country gets its heat and light and support. From a multi-generational worldwide jihad that left its searing mark this day on our Nation. The real jihadist is not limited in scope to Islam. The real jihadist is the infectious disease carrier of shadows who may not even know whom he serves as he tears at our national foundations, mocks our brilliant military, sneers at the fundamentals of our nation and feasts on the idea of our defeat .
And Waller Newell skewers them all.
Michael Geer

*There is an old book by a GRU defector who wrote under the pen name Viktor Suvorov. The book's title is Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces. Chapter 15 in this book is about Spetsnaz's role at the outset of World War III. It makes very interesting reading. Russian Spetsnaz commandos are trained as paratroopers, explosives experts, terrorists and assassins. According to Suvorov, World War III will not begin with conventional military operations, or even with massed nuclear missile strikes. On page 196 he describes "a series of large and small [terrorist] operations the purpose of which is, before actual military operations begin, to weaken the enemy's morale, create an atmosphere of suspicion, fear and uncertainty, and divert attention of the enemy's armies and police forces to a huge number of different targets...." According to Suvorov: "The principle method employed at this stage is ‘ grey terror .'" This is a kind of terror that is carried out "in the name of already existing extremist groups not connected in any way with the Soviet Union, or in the name of fictitious organizations* ." JR Nyquist, 05/13/2004 FSO: Global Analysis with J. R. Nyquist "Grey Terror" for 05/13/2004



[2] Victor David Hanson Mexifornia Encounter Books (September 25, 2004) ISBN 1594030561. pg. 103

I was directed last evening to Protean Wisdom for my contribution by one of our contributors since I don't seem to "color inside the lines"

I have decided to ignore that kind offer and continue contribution here. My only concern is I hope i am not having a dampening effect on others who might contribute. I would rather cease altogether than to cause that.

I think a nice Misc./Trash bin would do nicely...I can color outside the lines while sitting over in the corner facing the wall....some will approach knowing the miscreants are in that area. Others will follow the current lead of the proscribed theme, remaining comfortably inside the lines.

I mentioned to my USMC by-the-book father once that I had noticed that the captains of industry, politics, and even the military did not follow the rules, they made them for others to follow...he was not pleased with that observation, but I believe it to be true.

BD
I think I really matured into a full time ( fill in appropriate word) when I retired.

Not to be boorish or pompous but when you have over a million in cash and gold, two homes, Florida and Montana, NO debt at all and have earned it all yourself, along with a loving wife, (by age 60), then you are no longer tethered to convention. I really wasn't when I was working either. In the CIA it was a plus and a must. Improvise, adapt, overcome. In the work-a-day world not so much, but by then it was Alia iacta est .

I fondly recall being hauled into the bosses office at Merrill Lynch for some remark I'd made. I patiently listened to his comments and warnings and then asked, " Can I get this erased if I write a term paper?" That's just me. ( He really couldn't touch me as I had in the last quarter just brought in house and invested 20 million new dollars...more than quadruple the next broker.

So now with no living parents to embarrass, no children, I can, within the law, or really outside the law ( you can do anything ONCE) be and say what I want.

I tremendously appreciate your attitude and kind forbearance and hope to continue to add some knowledge, some wit and humor, and the occasional dog-stew recipe (ugh,imagine).

I do not believe you are extending to me any realm of exception. Others I am sure can imaginatively be,do, and create their own motif. There are the threads, and 99% should be acknowleged, with a "we'll have no zeros" policy.

On some threads I don't have the knowledge to do more than offer a recipe or parody and once again , thank you for the latitude.
Habu

Luther,

You are correct. I misinterpreted your post and the misspoke this morning earlier. You were being constructive. I too defensive.

Now, let me ask you. Why are you primarily just a reader? Your comments are great and it's nice to get the participation and varying points of view.

And none of it has to be done in triplicate.

Semper Fi

Buddy,
Run for office? And all this time I thought you liked me.
And live in the DC area ...been there, done that.
Spent overall in my life about four years in DC..even spent 1st and 2nd grade at "The Congressional School" tah, tah
The adult year was my first year with the CIA.

Nope, go'in out to Montana and finish my book/screenplay, do some rid'n and fish'n and skeet shoot'n....maybe shoot a few deer. If I'm real lucky I'll get a good shot at an AQ infiltrator from Canada, but I understand they're all coming thru your territory. One thing I've always wanted was a grand player piano so I'm gonna get one. The Montana house will have an enormous room with huge windows look'n at the Big Belts, Missouri River , and Canyon Ferry Lake all in view.
I'll just dial up some Beethoven or Bach or whoever and enjoy. Yeah.

The town doesn't even have a stop light. Cool.

Now I know you must hate me. Were I to be placed in the same room with Dennis Kucinich it would #1 be Jean Paul Sarte's "No Exit" #2 I'd have an assault and battery charge against me ..ok maybe just assault..ok neither 'cause the guys not worth a rap sheet, but I'd probably needsome quaaludes, which are out of production or something close to it to manage ...and how would I do in a debate whacked out on 'ludes?

What a little twerp is he.

OK, OK I've reconsidered, but I'll need campaign money...20's, 50's and 100's in a duffle bag under the railroad bridge just outside of town...I'll probable need at least 100 million to be competitive...Buddy , we'll need a cut out and I'm afraid all the good ones are working for Hillary.

I'll also need to be out of town when all this is going down so while you round up the money, go ahead and advance about 10k for a look see of the new relationship we have with Sarkozy ... better make that advance 50k Paris is not Montana.
Oh yeah, did I mention you're my new campaign manager/spokesman ... I'll be at WallyWorld.

"I used her, she used me
But neither one cared
We were gettin' our share
Workin' on our night moves"


Sounds good. I can do the Jewish thing since I've been clipped.
Somehow we have to fit in Rabbi Meir David Kahane. and his assassin El Sayyid Nosair.


But first things first...I get 50% of the gross on the book and we'll talk about the screenplay. 10% of my 50% will be donated to "MRE's for America"

I'll need a secretary 34DD, blonde, perhaps a former Miss Teen South Carolina clone. She doesn't have to be a great typist, hunt'n pecker is fine with me.

I think we need the solitude of perhaps Tuscany to really get this down right...what's say?
You'll need a masseuse to dissipate tension..do you have a favorite style?

All sounds very doable to me.