Theodore's World

Excellent writing Rhod. You are up there with Russ Vaughn.

Someone else, also very articulate and realistic, wrote a fine piece about The Sheep, The Wolves and the Sheepdogs. America is overwhelmed right now by the Sheep(pacifists, anti-war protesters). They are very vocal and active. They are supported by the MSM, the usual Liberal entities( including academia) and too many politicians. Many of them actually want us to lose this war. They think the consequences will be peace, love and brotherhood. They speak out against the luxuries, greatness and morals of America, yet they bask in the freedoms they are destined to lose if the war is lost.

These Sheep and their supporters gave our victory away in Vietnam. They are hellbent, literally, now to repeat that disasterous outcome. They exist only because a small number of men and women(The Sheepdogs) pay the price for those same freedoms and luxuries The Sheep abuse

Rhod - I hope your son got through SERE in good shape and is doing well in Special Forces training. He may have been interrogated by my best SF buddy who just retired after 36 years with SF. The last 15 years as a civilian contractor at Camp MaKall. If your son makes it all the way, he will enjoy a career with "The Quiet Professionals". Please keep me posted.

De Oppresso Liber!

AIRBORNE!

Excellant, as usual Rhod.

Officially, Tom, I deny everything I know about SERE, but theoretically speaking, the interrogations are indescribable. Your friend was probably there, that is, if I know anything about SERE..which I don't. You know what I mean.

The Left has taken sides, for certain, with a view to a peace that will not last, and for which they'll take responsibility until something awful happens again. Then they'll blame someone else, because they're always elsewhere when the shooting starts. You don't make peace, you achieve it.

Augustine put it about as clearly as possible when he wrote that men don't fight wars for the sake of war, but to fashion a peace "nearer to the heart's desire". The peace the left wants is just to be relieved of the discomfort, expense and boredom of bad things happening. That's their peace, which is a menace, a fantasy, and they're waging a war against their own country to establish it.

That freaking, iniquitious bugwit Nancy Pelosi went public recently with some drool about the surge being a failure but the troops being a success. Political speech on the left has become so Kafkaesque and demented, that this passes for rational comment. Orwellian. A political class sunk so low as to tolerate this bullshit without objection needs to be replaced entirely.

You and me and Mark know that, and all the other people here who choke on what we hear, and who paid our dues in order to comment with authority on it.

Semper Fi and Airborne All The Way!...although I was Army leg.

Absolutely excellent Rhod, it had to be said.

The nation who forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten."
-- Calvin Coolidge, speech in New York, 1920

It sure looks like we are headed for oblivion, it took 70 years for that yoke to be broken in Eastern Europe and not by the Europeans themselves, many Americans fought and died to achieve an opportunity for them and the rest of the world to be free, now we are about to be enslaved, by those we've protected and liberated.

"Mon Dieu, ils sont tous des grenouilles!"

Thank you, Jack. And you're right. The left will quickly deny this, but even some of their vanished gods...FDR, Truman and JFK took this country to the edge in defense of our way of life, and would have themselves died for it.

Globalism now brings the worst of it abroad and portrays us as degenerates and weaklings. But what they see is not you and me and the folks here, but far too others, who propser off the capital of freedom that was saved for them by others.

Not everyone is cut out for the hard struggle, and they have their role to play, too. I don't comdemn the timid, but peace is always improbable, and not the normal state for any civilization. If you can't fight, just get out of the way and let someone else protect you.

Good points about Ghandi, he was also lucky to have a civilized "enemy" in the British.

The Germans would not, I feel, have been so lenient towards him.

To David, so far unapproved comment, but good.

Ghandi succeeded against the British because the Brits, at that time, were already squeamish about their involvement in India. Any action against him would have resulted in violence, and Ghandi knew it. He was clever and sometimes dishonest, and not apolitical, but he was pretty brave.

Passive resistance practiced by Ghandi can be effective against domestic regimes; not so much against any foreign aggressor, or even against any of the European fascist establishments of the last century.

Ghandi made a notorious remark about the Jews during the war, saying that they should have committed suicide rather than violently resist the Final Solution.

After the war, when asked if he regretted it, he said that, had the Jews committed mass suicide, the outcome would have been the same, but the moral conditions of their deaths would have been different, they would have died for something. A demonstration of conviction would have been made, where their death by state policy was simply tragic and pointless.

Whatever you think about Ghandi's comment, he believed that violence corrupts everyone who practices it, and he was firm in that belief. I don't think it's possible to serve God and mankind in this way, but I can't condemn Ghandi either, because he adhered to a principle....unlike secular leftist pacifism, which is always on the side of someone besides the United States.

Ghandi had no country or axe to grind, only a principle to follow.

Rhod --Thanks for sharing your thoughts on a neglected issues topic. There are very evil people in the world who will take advantage of those who don't have real core values and principles that they are willing to fight and die for. Unfortunately, liberals think that the Constitution is a living document to be tinkered with until it is no longer recognizable. They also disdain being patriotic favoring some global world order instead.

I was disturbed by an article in the news today.

Whites To Become Minority by 2050, Study Predicts
http://www.nysun.com/article/71104

My concern is neither racial nor ethnic. It is that the nature of immigrants has changed to the detriment of what this country is and is willing to defend.

Immigrants used to come to this country to be part of the American dream including belief in the Constitution and the core values of the country. They became part of a melting pot that strengthened our nation.

Now, we have a wave of illegal and legal hyphenated Americans forming many different diversity boiling pots not associated with the common core beliefs of our founders and citizens and immigrants of the past. So, when it comes to taking sides, just what side do the many diverse political, ethnic, racial, gender, and other groupings take in a house divided against itself?

Rhod thank you so much for writing this, it is so good.

It is so upsetting that after everyone here has served our country that the fight goes on for this Nation against the same element that just will never get it. It truly is those that serve know the cost of freedom more then anyone, the taste and smell of it too.

Les, the idiocy of official and unofficial multiculturalism is twofold.

Those who promote it, mostly liberals, wouldn't live under the conditions of the cultures they claim to be "equal", or at least equivalent, to Western culture, so hypocrisy and illogic is at work.

And two, multiculturalism can have no other effect than to diminish beneficial nationalism. Without an accepted common culture, there is only Balkanization. This is the European disease, where immigrants won't, and can't, assimilate because the EU has done its best to suppress national identities. They have nothing to assmiliate TO, and who can blame them? Can one pledge allegiance to a welfare state, or universal health care? No. They're in strange lands and encouraged to remain strangers.

Studying the faces of the Obama supporters, I wondered myself what the objectives of these newcomers and racial identifiers would be in a national crisis. Certainly not patriotism. And that's the problem I have with one strain of conservatism, which contends that the pursuit of economic self-interest is the first principle of freedom. Markets don't create patriots, they create transactions, and if people emigrate to The West merely for a better life, then America is nothing but an employer.

Conservatives have bigger problems ahead than just the McCain issue. Conservativism is more about metaphysics and the purpose of life under liberty than it is about the pursuit of excellence. Private property and self-defense are primary issues, but they devolve from ideas about what it means to be free and human, not prosperous.

Sorry, I'm preaching. I'm just pissed off at the present.

Rhod, don't stop telling the truth or preaching when necessary. We all have to speak up on what's happening to this country. Like you, I'm pissed off. Actually, it's worse than that. I feel that with what's happening that I'm being pissed on too.

You are, Les. We've been identified as irrelevant by those in power, both parties. Even more, an inconvenient nuisance.