Living By The Sword

Good if it were true; that ‘those who live by the sword, die by the sword‘. POTUS’ reaction to the Iranian protesters (if any) should be indicative. Obama also faces revolt - both from the right and from the left. There is no middle. His budget is widely seen as a joke. Money for increasingly heavy-handed IRS enforcement can only serve to annoy. It reflects the mindset of one who continues to believe that taxpayers are not paying enough; that wealth re-distribution, as he envisions it, has not yet reached its full potential.

For the first time, I concede, that this whole revolution thing could be tracking the other way. People appear to have figured out that tactics usually attributed to the Left could also work for the Right. Will the opposition in our Congress be enough to stop Obama’s and the Leftist’s merry-making? Will our state-run media finally come to recognize the damage that is being done to our nation?

When the media flips, the Obama regime is done. The roll-backs can begin unimpeded. …and the prosecutions.

Historians will note that the American Left actually had a chance during the first two years of the Obama administration; that what they failed to do was criminalize Bush policy. It might have worked: send Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al for trial in The Hague and, afterwards, sequester the lot in Guantanamo. Now, that the tide appears to be turning, the Right must not shrink from doing exactly this. There is now more than enough evidence that Obama and Democrats’ handling of affairs went far beyond incompetence. If the Right is to succeed, the Left must be held criminally liable. It would amount to ‘the shot heard ‘round the world’ and the revolution against real oppression could finally begin.

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Stop War

We all know where Obama stands on all this START business. He doesn’t like our military and wishes it would go away. He campaigned against nukes - against war. There were enough who voted in support of this premise even being possible.

The nuclear deterrent worked for a good many years, so they say. It is only now beginning to break down because it has become clear that America won’t fight seriously under any pretext. China has already run this experiment several times and the results are in. It is building its military - not to fight America, but - to cement its position within it’s own East Asian theater.

While it is true that a modern military fosters the illusion of invincibility and therefore acts as a deterrent, it does not guarantee victory. Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars threat may itself have been an illusion. It worked - not in the way anyone expected it might, but - rather in the way a head-fake does, causing the Russians to over-reach and over-spend and, in the process, become disheartened. They’re still not over it and Putin is trying hard to make amends.

Someone once famously remarked, “…you go to war with the army you have.” If it’s not enough, you resort to asymmetric warfare. Look what the stone-throwing Palestinians have been able to accomplish! Look at Iran and North Korea!

No, boomers are not the only answer. We could kill our enemies with stones if we had to. Our problem is, we no longer know how to define ‘winning’ or ‘victory’. As long as we view ourselves as the source of all that‘s wrong with the world; as long as we run around apologizing to everyone in sight; as long as we’re so divided within ourselves as not to not recognize an outside threat as it develops, we may as well start painting targets on ourselves and get used to the likelihood that we will soon be led by something quite alien to us; something which will take some getting used to.

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