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Defeat and Dishonesty

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Posted By: Judy W., 9/5/2021 6:26:56 PM

Denyse O'Leary, whom I always read with great interest in our Comments section, chides me for diagnosing our present woes but not proposing solutions. That ought to be easy. In Afghanistan what needed to be done is almost as old as man. As Victor David Hanson pointed out to Tucker, "This is the greatest loss of military equipment in the history of warfare by one power." He's right. Because US government is so drunkenly profligate, the numbers sound blah-blah to jaded American ears. But $85-90 billion is larger than the annual military budget for every nation around the world except the US and China.

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More necessary but depressing realism from the great Mark Steyn.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Skinnydip 9/5/2021 6:38:31 PM (No. 905338)
As I read this I had Fox News playing in the background. On were several Republican lawmakers spouting off the same tired cliches. I still have some hope, but more and more I'm afraid America is doomed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Miss Ann Thrope 9/5/2021 7:02:23 PM (No. 905350)
I was in the third grade in 1941, so during the next four years I grew up being so proud of the USA and what it was doing during WWII. Then came the atom bomb -- two of them -- and we have been apologizing for them ever since. As a consequence, we have grown weaker and weaker, especially in Korea and Viet Nam, culminating in Afghanistan. How many in positions of responsibility and policy in our military were educated in our public school system for the past fifty years? I fear for the future of our Republic. Stalin would be so pleased.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Blackbird 9/5/2021 7:05:04 PM (No. 905352)
Never before in my life have I seen this country ruled by such an incompetent bunch of morons across the board. Thanks to a fraudulent stolen election. The current Republicans with exception of a well known handful are next to worthless.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: itsonlyme 9/5/2021 7:20:00 PM (No. 905359)
Chuck "Slime" Schumer tells Mitch "MultiUseless" McConnell how high to jump and Mitch does it. Mitch will write a "disappointment" letter about the administration, give a blah blah blah monotone speech and then call Chuck to see if he has dinner plans. The other RINO'S are ribbon-cutting somewhere.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Italiano 9/5/2021 7:25:20 PM (No. 905363)
Republicans and elections are not going to solve anything now. It's too late. DC has to disappear, and that is not going to happen. America's enemies need it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Birddog 9/5/2021 8:16:52 PM (No. 905394)
If you do not do what it takes to win, you will lose. If you tell your opponents what you will NOT do to win, they will force you to do THAT or quit, when you quit you lose. When you feel "bad" about winning and allow all of the stories of your victory be about 2 Nuked cities, Napalmed enemy, The Highway of Death, waterboarding caught terrorists...dead babies at a Terrorist headquarters? EVERY enemy henceforth with provide exactly those types of stories from Day One of any conflict and....You will lose. Mattis "got it" before he became a Politician, after HE lost "It" we lost....https://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/james-mattis-quotes-232097.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 9/5/2021 9:33:02 PM (No. 905435)
This is the woke key: “What has happened is so at odds with rational behavior that it has to have been, in some sense, planned. ”
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Timber Queen 9/6/2021 12:21:42 AM (No. 905520)
I also turned off the radio when one of Rush's successors spouted that nonsense about how wonderful America is because Afghan women were throwing their babies at our soldiers to save. Yes, the Mayor of Realville would have never entertained such nonsense. I feel like our country is in one of those dreams where every step is a herculean effort and all the forces of nature are against your advancement. Are we reaping the rewards of a century of Marxist mismanagement, or has humanity fallen wholly into the machinations of Satan? Steyn identifies WWI has the beginning of the end for "Westphalia". In 1917 Our Blessed Mother appeared to three peasant children outside the Portuguese town of Fatima. She warned of the threat of world-wide communism at the moment of its birth in Moscow. She advised the world to pray the Rosary and frequently receive the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. Less than a half century prior, Pope Leo XIII received a vision of a conversation between God and Satan. Lucifer was bragging that given 100 years he could destroy the Catholic Church. God laughed and let him pick his century. The Devil chose the 20th, and certainly we can all attest to the evil that has been unleashed in the last centennial. We are all in the Great Battle between Good and Evil being fought openly in the physical realm. The Enemy has sown the field with weeds, but now it the time for harvest. Our Lord is calling for workers in the field to separate out the weeds, bundle them and throw them into the fire. God the Father Almighty made each and every one of us specifically for this time to give witness to Truth. We must prepare and put on the Armor of God. Be not afraid! This physical life is our apprenticeship for Heaven, eternal life awaits those who know, love and serve Our Lord. Be wise as serpents and gentle as lambs as you proclaim Christ Crucified for the Salvation of Mankind. AMDG
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Reply 9 - Posted by: MDConservative 9/6/2021 9:36:04 AM (No. 905748)
"...perhaps the first solution is to demand a new and less pitifully deluded right." That's not just the politicians.
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