Historic Moments
Jim's Response:
Here's where I have to comment because I completely disagree on what is the big problem. I think we are at or near one of those historical moments that occurs periodically in history. The ascendancy of the Mongols. The fall of the Greeks. The fall of Rome. The rise of Fascism. The rise of Communism. Like that.
I believe that due to the West's success it is quite likely that it has become soft, fat, and lazy, and forgotten what made it strong. I think our very ascendancy is giving rise to our fall. Europe is exhausted. Demographically it, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Japan are in unprecedented decline. Meanwhile the unassimilated Islamics in their countries are prolific. This is a simple numbers game which simple math can solve.
The US is in disarray. Half of the country is fighting any attempt to right things. It's like watching a quarterback try to throw a touchdown while a couple of his lineman are falling on him. The press, the bar, the ngos are like a leach on the people who are trying to actually do anything.
As for the people who are trying to do things there is the usual mix. Some are incompetent. Some make mistakes. Some are fakes. But at least here most are trying to do the right thing, and they could use more teammates and less sports announcers. Between Mr Bush and Kerry/Gore I'd take the former any time. If a Patton or MacArthur stood up I might have a different notion.
I believe that the decline of the West is occurring at the same time that oil and powerful weapons make people who otherwise be camel jockeys into dangerous enemies. Meanwhile the Left finds them an ally of convenience in the same way as the Nazis did the Communists, likely with a similar outcome. It wouldn't take much imagination to consider what the Islamists in their ascendancy would do with feminists, gays, and pornographers since we can see how they treat them in their own countries.
Here's a scenario I could easily see. Five, ten, fifteen years from now after a tired US tries to withdraw from the Arabian scene some group of Islamists succeeds in what they attempted on 9/11 (huge hits on US political, military, and business strongholds). They level DC and parts of NYC and LA with tactical nukes. The government hierarchy is killed, the communication infrastructure is broken, and trade stops. At this point Americans are willing to sign up with the strongest conceivable military leader and our 200+ year experiment with democracy is over. In fact I could see the country breaking into parts for self-defense purposes. The South for example may lose interest in defending CA and NY, and the latter two are incapable of defending themselves. Our military of course is rather too strong to be defeated in military terms because there would always be submarines and silos untouched. Araby would be glass at that point, but too late to keep America as it was.
They don't call it "Islam's Bloody Borders" for nothing.
What you speak of below is tactics, all of which could be done better. The Left not only doesn't have better suggestions, they mean just the opposite to reach power just like their Communist and Socialist forebears. The Left has never been skittish about their enemy's blood.
Here's where I have to comment because I completely disagree on what is the big problem. I think we are at or near one of those historical moments that occurs periodically in history. The ascendancy of the Mongols. The fall of the Greeks. The fall of Rome. The rise of Fascism. The rise of Communism. Like that.
I believe that due to the West's success it is quite likely that it has become soft, fat, and lazy, and forgotten what made it strong. I think our very ascendancy is giving rise to our fall. Europe is exhausted. Demographically it, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Japan are in unprecedented decline. Meanwhile the unassimilated Islamics in their countries are prolific. This is a simple numbers game which simple math can solve.
The US is in disarray. Half of the country is fighting any attempt to right things. It's like watching a quarterback try to throw a touchdown while a couple of his lineman are falling on him. The press, the bar, the ngos are like a leach on the people who are trying to actually do anything.
As for the people who are trying to do things there is the usual mix. Some are incompetent. Some make mistakes. Some are fakes. But at least here most are trying to do the right thing, and they could use more teammates and less sports announcers. Between Mr Bush and Kerry/Gore I'd take the former any time. If a Patton or MacArthur stood up I might have a different notion.
I believe that the decline of the West is occurring at the same time that oil and powerful weapons make people who otherwise be camel jockeys into dangerous enemies. Meanwhile the Left finds them an ally of convenience in the same way as the Nazis did the Communists, likely with a similar outcome. It wouldn't take much imagination to consider what the Islamists in their ascendancy would do with feminists, gays, and pornographers since we can see how they treat them in their own countries.
Here's a scenario I could easily see. Five, ten, fifteen years from now after a tired US tries to withdraw from the Arabian scene some group of Islamists succeeds in what they attempted on 9/11 (huge hits on US political, military, and business strongholds). They level DC and parts of NYC and LA with tactical nukes. The government hierarchy is killed, the communication infrastructure is broken, and trade stops. At this point Americans are willing to sign up with the strongest conceivable military leader and our 200+ year experiment with democracy is over. In fact I could see the country breaking into parts for self-defense purposes. The South for example may lose interest in defending CA and NY, and the latter two are incapable of defending themselves. Our military of course is rather too strong to be defeated in military terms because there would always be submarines and silos untouched. Araby would be glass at that point, but too late to keep America as it was.
They don't call it "Islam's Bloody Borders" for nothing.
What you speak of below is tactics, all of which could be done better. The Left not only doesn't have better suggestions, they mean just the opposite to reach power just like their Communist and Socialist forebears. The Left has never been skittish about their enemy's blood.
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