After the Fall: What Do You Do When You Conclude America Is (Temporarily or Permanently) Kaput?
And this brings us to the Middle East, where we know such crises will take place. I don’t want to repeat what I’ve written many times, but to put the whole thing into three sentences:
Israel, relatively moderate Arab regimes (including, yes, Saudi Arabia), and real moderate opposition movements know they cannot depend on the United States for the next four years and perhaps for much longer. To make things worse, the U.S. government is aiding their enemies. Consequently, they must act on their own to protect themselves.
For the Saudis, this can mean supporting establishment (Bahrain’s government, Lebanese Sunni Muslims) or even Salafist forces (as in the Syrian opposition) that they feel can be turned into clients. We all have good reasons for not liking the current Saudi regime but imagine the country being run and the oil money being in the hands of someone like Usama bin Ladin or the Muslim Brotherhood, dedicated to overthrowing all the other regimes in the region and forcing out U.S. influence.
For Israel, lacking a chance to build real alliances with Arab states or oppositions, it requires unilateral action.
Everyone else — including Christian minorities and women who want equality — is pretty much up the creek without a paddle. The democratic oppositions (and that includes Egypt, Tunisia, and Lebanon as well as Turkey and Iran) will have their hearts broken as they see their own countries lost to a long reign of even worse tyranny and their hopes for better days dashed. Countries as diverse as Algeria, Morocco, and Jordan will have to maneuver and use force to keep Islamists from taking over. In other words, you may be very courageous, but you will give some serious thought to running away as far as possible, to Europe, North America, or Australia.
It is very scary and even tragic for a lot of people.
Here, however, is the main point I wish to communicate: Americans can debate whether this shorter-term vacuum of responsibility and longer-term decline is happening, but much of the world already takes this outcome for granted.
Saudi Arabia has been subverting the United States and democracy world wide for the last hundred years. We are supposed to feel sympathy towards a Nation that funds Sharia schools, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, terrorist attacks in India, Terrorist training schools and cells in Pakistan..?? No thanks.
The MSM and PJM may look the other way when Saudi’s fund terrorism but not everyone needs to follow over a cliff.
Blaming President Obama for geopolitical errors the USA and England have been making since WW1 is a bit disingenuous. The Middle East is going to unravel not because of what is happening today but what has been happening the last 90 years.
There is very little anything a US president does will stop the ME falling apart and frankly the USA should stop trying. If the ME decides to fall back to tribal and religious warfare then let them, the USA should be developing its energy and economic infrastructure.
This is what China is doing and its working out pretty well for them.
I agree. However, if things get really bad in the ME and Africa, you can expect a new horde of refugees to head straight for America. You think we have Islam problems now?
“However, if things get really bad in the ME and Africa, you can expect a new horde of refugees to head straight for America.”
No to sound too flippant, but that’s a mighty long swim from ME/Africa to America.
True dat! But it’s a pretty short swim to Europe. They are already arriving in droves.
Funny, tens of thousands of Somalis, Iraqis and Pakistanis somehow managed to “swim” here. Perhaps the fact that the US to a significant extent defers to UN agencies, themselves under the sway of Islamic nations, explains why these specifically were taken in as refugees.
“If the ME decides to fall back to tribal and religious warfare then let them, the USA should be developing its energy and economic infrastructure.”
Obama’s not going to do that either, though. In fact, his administration is all-in on preventing new energy sources from being developed, ranging from blanket rejections of drilling and pipeline permits, to diverting billions of research dollars to non-productive solar and wind energy scams.
Once liberals are sure of their absolute control over this entire country they will strip mine into dust. Liberals don’t care about the enviroment or people. They care about control.
Egyptian lawyers claim the Muslim Brotherhood received $1.5 billion from the American govt.:
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/01/04/258553.html
I do not expect any military intervention from Russia at her neighbor’s territories. First, Russia still has not battle-ready army and will not have it for several years at least. Second, Putin is sick, politically enfeebled domestically and too overburdened by serious internal problems. His days at power are numbered.
Putin’s hand picked successor will probably continue his policies in the near abroad. Furthermore, no matter how enfeebled one may think the Russian army is, it can still take over the Ukraine, Baltics and Aremina without breaking a sweat. especially if invited in to “protect” ethnic Russians from the “oppression” of the local majorities and the indifference of NATO.
I submit that Poland and the Czech Republic are in no danger from Russia whatsoever, and that Belarus and Ukraine are not worth losing sleep over.
Russia has no interest in causing any problems for Poland or the Czech Republic.
I would suggest that both would enjoy far greater prosperity, and more freedom as well, if they broke free of the EU and NATO, and allied themselves with Russia. But I don’t expect that will happen, simply because Poland and the Czech Republic are Roman Catholic countries. Somehow Russia is their permanent bogeyman, yet they don’t consider it a problem to be in an alliance with their old enemy, Germany. I can’t understand that, but then, I’m a Serb.
I am dismayed by the constant Russia-bashing and Slav-bashing that takes place on PJM. Especially after the USA has embraced Soviet Communism, while Russia has repudiated it.
Ever since Reagan left office, the US has used its military to support the Muslim agenda at every possible turn. For that reason alone, the US is absolutely the worst possible candidate for leader of the “free world” (to which it clearly no longer belongs).
Could you give an example of the Slav-bashing that, as you say, constantly takes place on PJM? Being part-Slav myself, I shall undoubtedly be outraged.
I have . . . .
@1389AD, who wrote “Somehow Russia is their permanent bogeyman”
“Somehow”? Are you freaking serious?
I often hear our Bulkan cousins complain about how the rest of the world does not understand the peculiarities of their history, and I am willing to accept that as a valid criticism of Western ignorance and simplemindedness when it comes to European affairs, generally. However, when I hear this kind of befuddlement about Russian/Central European animosity from people who are literally a stone’s throw away, it takes my breath away.
I note the Serbs are Orthodox. Perhaps this desensitized them from understanding the animosity caused by the cultural imposition of an imperialist Orthodox power over a neighbor, who has literally for centuries struggled against foreign oppression and invasion.
Look at Russia. It is the world’s largest territorial state. It extends into Central Europe and all the way across Northern and Eastern Asia. Russophiles and others who can’t see anything wrong in Moscow’s politics want us to think that all this land was just given to the Czar/Stalin etc. What complete idiots.
The Moscovite state is inherently hostile and expansionist. It always has been, and it always will be. It seems to be the permanent psychological state of the Russian. Russia has never understood that its neighbours want to be, and have a right to be, sovereign states. Poles “somehow” haven’t forgotten about the Partitions, their the 1920s war against Bolshevism, the Soviet invasion in 1939 and their continued occupation and pillaging for the half century that followed. The Hungarians “somehow” haven’t forgotten 1956. The Czechs “somehow” haven’t forgotten 1968. I am sure others can add to these dates.
“Somehow” the only way these countries can guarantee their sovereignty is by relying on a counterbalancing power. Hence the pro-Americanism of Poland etc. All things being equal, these countries wouldn’t want the Yankees on their land any much more than having unwashed Moscovites in wooly hats patrolling their streets or German businessmen owning their industry. Since such things don’t seem to be variable, opting to side with Washington is “somehow” no more a choice than capitulation to, yes, the enemy.
Mike, if Putin grabs Armenia he has to take Kim Kardashian, and it just ain’t worth it!
So, Russia’s neighbors have large well equipped armies to repel Russia’s numbers?
*facepalm*
People really need to study geography.
Russia is sparsely populated.
It also has no interest in invading any part of Europe, and has made no threats in that regard.
I’m not sure where you get information about Russia, but it doesn’t reflect the current sentiment of credible Russia watchers. Despite protests from punk rockers and pro-democracy groups, Putin remains incredibly popular in Russia with average citizens. In addition, Georgia (particularly the Ossetians) and other former Soviet republics would find your statement about the Russian army laughable unless you can point to significant military deterioration since 2008.
Good article but I don’t think it’s finished. You left out the demise of the American people. The level of ignorance, especially with younger people, is very sad. Example: the Mexican school system is rated much higher than the US school system and instead of focusing on the problem, politicians in both parties seem to desire an ignorant people.
How does a nation with such an appalling level of ignorance lead again? IMO, it doesn’t.
I partly disagree with your example. The Mexican middle & upper classes are well-educated probably because they generally send their children to private schools or the public schools that cater to them are very good. You would never know this because they do not immigrate.
On the other hand, it is the uneducated poor, who leave their native countries for job opportunities. Mexicans are no different. I have had conversations with illegal adult Mexican immigrants. Their light bulbs are dimly lit which doesn’t say much about the education sytem in Mexico.(The Mexican government encourages their poor to leave.)
The American education system seems to be horrible & in many cases it is because it is educating the children of Mexican immigrants, a major student representation.
As of now the American system can not be compared with any other education system because it lacks homogeneity on every level.
Hi Jeanine, you sound more familiar with the Mexican education system than I am but still, we have plenty of school kids from rich and middle class homes who are as ignorant as our kids from poor homes.
One thing I really do like that Mexico’s Catholic schools, private schools and public schools do is they don’t allow their kids to bring in calculators to do math and math tests. It’s no wonder they scored so high in math tests.
Jeannine,
The problem with American schools today, is that they are focused on indoctrination rather then education. A large portion of teachers in today’s schools are ignorant themselves and promote political party line(mostly labor union re-education/brainwashing) instead of teaching students the disciplines. On the other hand, what can they teach if they lack eduction, abilities and desire to be educators.
We hear repeatedly that teachers are drawn from the bottom ten per cent of college graduates and that on average they remain in the classroom somewhere around three years. The introduction of Standards of Learning teaching to the test is a source of much anguish to many teachers. The hierarchy of control expected at each level from Superintendent’s office to the classroom is in most cases anti-educational. What would terrify me were I still living in the States is contemplating unfunded or threatened teacher pensions. I have directed an alternative high school with generally great success, taught teachers and the teachers of teachers. In my dotage, I can dream of a total overhaul of what we call education in the US and yes, elsewhere as well. Good luck!
Funny you should mention that.
The average American (if there is such a thing) is largely amoral and economically illiterate. For these reasons America is kaput at least until the baby boomers have died out and their foul legacy can be somewhat erased. That may not happen in my lifetime.
While I enjoy Baby Boomer bashing as much as the next Gen X fella, let’s not forget their parents who stood by and allowed FDR to put us on the road to destruction with his myriad government intrusions and flat-out Constitutional violations. Even their parents are to blame, who voted in a socialist president by the name of Woodrow Wilson, who signed over our currency to a private banking cartel and involved us in a war we had no business in.
And I don’t hold out much hope for my generation or my kids’ generation. At this point we are third and fourth generation indoctrinated into Marxism and statism. The blind leading the blind leading the blind. Even people my age, marching towards their 40s, have been suckered in by the idea that government should be the provider of all possible needs and the protector of the world.
I would welcome the U.S. removing itself from the world stage as long as we first provided for our own defense and secured our own energy resources. I don’t see either happening.
Thus says the Lord, “For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation.” Thus must sin run its course. Repentance can ransom our souls individually, but the collective effects of generational sin must run their course, for the children have followed after the error of their parents.
One correction – the word in context is probably better translated as zealous rather than jealous.
No, I think the term jealous is quite appropriate. One who is jealous desires to keep what is his and not share it with others (compared to envy – where one wants what belongs to someone else). In this context, God is quite correct to be jealous of worship – worship properly belongs to God, and it should not be shared with others, i.e., other beings should not be worshipped.
The word is jealous, look it up in Hebrew
It is way too late to save the entire US. That ship sank a very long time ago.
But still…
Rampant C, you have my vote the next time you run for whatever!
Listen punk, we baby boomers may have been the source of a lot of problems but we are also the ones who brought the modern conservative movement to life. While you early Gen Xers are still moderately well educated, the rest of you are as illiterate and innumerate as the Millennials. We boomers are the last fully literate generation. Our biggest failure was producing the likes of you.
You are absolutely right. It was us boomers who stood against Obama while the kiddies got all hot and lathered about the whack job from Chicago.
While the TEA Party is comprised mostly of boomers, the Tea Party is in no way a majority of the Boomers! Likewise, the the left wing A$$es in academia are, you guessed it, BOOMERS! Boomers provided the platform from which their low information whelps put Obama over the top. If you are a Boomer and conservative, recognize that you are in the minority in that generation. Speak for yourself, your generation has forged its reputation and must now live with it.
While I agree with your comment, the larger reality is that this sh*t has been snowballing for some time now. To me it seems like each new generation is worse than it’s parent.
Obama won due to the combined votes of: minorities, the young, and females.
Solution: Exclude the above groups from the franchise and rebirth the republic.
Do I get to be put on the last boxcar cause I voted for Ross Perot and Ron Paul?
Don’t worry, if you voted for those guys then you’re no threat to the future totalitarians, in fact you’re sort of an ally.
Boomer hatred is a left-wing meme.
You hate the left-wingers and the MSM, correct?
Why are you spreading their memes for them?
Well, moron, you’re going to be working for companies we started or run for another couple of decades, using stuff we invented for the rest of your worthless life, and trying to figure out how when you were given everything, you turned into such a bunch of fu*kups.
Those resources are already used up. Here’s who they’ll be working for.
Problem is, we overprotected them and gave them too much.
Just as the “greatest generation” tried to do with some of our generation.
Children past infancy should never be coddled. It leaves them incapable of coping with adult responsibilities.
It’s over. It is Kaput! 50% of the population thinks it doesn’t have to work hard and that we live in a “post-man” world. Look at Europe as the example. England in slowly dying, as is all of Europe. It’s never going back to 1985 in America. Never. It is over. More Americans like Socialists like Obama than they do conservative Republicans like Reagan. That’s it. Woman will now ALWAYS vote a majority for Dems as long as ANY Repubs remain pro-life. Gay will always vote Dem. Hispanics will ALWAYS turn out heavy for Dems (for every conservative Hispanic, 2 are “socially minded”, it’s in their brown-skinned DNA). Blacks will ALWAYS vote Dem in HUGE numbers. Repubs haven’t lost the people….the people have changed, for good. It IS OVER!!
I see you are sad, my friend. What you posted isn’t your usual wit and irony – you’ve merely spoken the truth.
Sadly, for us, conservatives very well may outnumber the takers. The problem, though, really IS the republican party. They are no better than the demi-crat-gods who think to rule us. They don’t care if they are in the minority – as long as they are seated at the table. And the people KNOW this and have chosen to stay home – as they have the last two elections.
The thing I keep hearing over and over again is they/we are always given the choice of the lesser of two evils and they are tired of voting for evil – be it the lesser of the two or not. So they’ve disengaged. I’m afraid I agree with them.
This is in God’s hands and we, as a people, have turned our face from Him. Individually we’ll probably do fine. As a people? Not so much…..
@lolly,
Ugly Dirt has come back to gloat.
She isn’t sad, and she’s a friend of the Devil and no friend of yours.
Problem is, she hasn’t figured out what happens after the parasite kills its host.
I’ve lived long enough to see the collective moral character of this country go from an almost Victorian attitude to that of a dog in heat. Legalized pot use – gay marriage – DADT – the list is long. Along with all that has been the successful dumbing down of our children’s education by politicians teachers and downright piss-poor parenting skills. Fewer high school graduates can find Europe on a map these days much less find a country like Germany or France. ‘Complicated’ math like addition and subtraction are done on an iPhone! Hand some kid at a drive-in window a $2 bill and they think you’re conning them. This is the base of the low information mass voter that put Feckless Won in power – what do you expect him to do? Go against the grain of his base? He IS the base – himself being a low information president. Why else would he think we have 57 states? Or can’t think to pronounce Navy Corpsman properly? Another lengthy list – that one!
The America that I grew up knowing – defending – and love – is passing. The low information voter is here to stay – and there are plenty more where they come from who are now in elementary schools. Few of them will be the next leaders – those are in schools today – going to schools like Friends of Sidwell and others like them. This is the New World Order and we are witnessing its birth.
The old adage ‘you can’t fight city hall’ is as apt today as it was during the Tammany Hall days. It won’t prevent me from trying to buck the system but I’m probably a dying breed who loves this country as it was and hate with all my being the changes being wrought by this administration. Travelers being bullied by TSA agents – laws that make it ‘ok’ to hold a citizen for as long as the government wishes to determine if they are ‘an enemy of the state’. Who defines the term ‘enemy of the state’? We are being ‘frog-boiled’. The ‘heat’ is being continually turned up in a concerted and controlled fashion – few seem to notice – fewer yet seem to care. We are nearly at the boil – will the frog notice? Probably not sad to say.
They are all too damned busy with their iphone/ipad/ipod to know or care.
It is hard in our old age to watch this happen isn’t it. They hate us because they accuse us of taking all the Social Security money they deserve, even if we have worked fifty years to get some retirement back. We don’t understand their morals or should I say lack of morals in their stupid feel good world. Will they ever wake up and see what is happening or will they slide away quietly because they are so doped up they won’t even notice. What a very sad way to go into our end years and watch our once great country being butchered by the devil.
Don’t take this personally but you deposited enough in Social Security to have a payback that will last for only a few yrs & it was setup that way. Unfortunately many people are living beyond the few yrs.
I was born at the tail end of the baby boom (1959) and I’m stuck i nthe middle. I had to pay into social security at the higher rate from the start, and if it does not come through, I will starve to death.
I’m the same age as you – and I don’t consider myself a baby-boomer no matter how many times they try to “grandfather” us into that generation.
And yes – we’ve had to pay into this thing all our lives and will very likely be the first generation that is told – sorry! all gone! I wouldn’t even begrudge them this if they would just FIX the damned thing!
To my way of thinking we are truly slaves. The government and the IRS considers 100% of our labor, property and the fruits of our labor THEIRS to confiscate at their will. Next they will raid our 401k’s (how DARE you try to save for your retirement!) because they consider it THEIR money.
They literally want us working until we drop dead in the salt mines. If we become infirm and no longer able to contribute to their machine they will pull the plug. The future seems very bleak to me.
It’s time to emigrate.
Just sayin’.
The devil is YOUR generation, you were handed paradise by your progenitors, and you’ve done a great deal to turn it into a fetid swamp.
You think you’ve paid into Soc Sec, and that money’s been invested, so its proper that you draw it out now, right? It was a “promise” and an “investment”, right?
Well, here’s some facts for you to ponder. You paid in alright, but the politicians you collectively voted for immediately spent the money. Now, there’s a bunch of intra-governmental obligations and no value with which to pay it, other than distributing my generation’s contributions currently.
That means, rather than reform the system so that it becomes solvent, my contributions will never be returned to me (not principal, and certainly not interest). We’ll get pennies on the dollar (our kids will get even less). Your gang, because you vote and are parasitical, simply demand that SSI / Medicare etc keep the money flowing, notwithstanding that you collectively voted for politicians who spent your contributions immediately, which it can only do by immediately redistributing our contributions.
So your generation, who spent not only your parent’s money (which they left you, along with the best country in the world), but your children’s (and, in all likelihood, their children’s too), now moans and whines that your progeny thinks this is a rotten deal?
Your generation was bequeathed an economy that was the envy of the world and collectively ruined it, all in the name of self actualization. Your boomer generation, collectively, will be known as the worst this country has ever produced, even if you were, individually, standing athwart history yelling stop. So spare us the attitude; Nancy Pelosi is the perfect representative of your generation.
I am a boomer, and have long believed that my generation was and is the worst ever, much worse even than the younger gens that did not have our advantages, yet it has always been a divided generation, AND IT STILL IS. We weren’t all hippies, yippies, druggies etc; at least half of us detested that way of thought and action. Half of boomers loved Reagan, half hated him, just for one example… Our parent’s generation (ww2 generation) should have stood up to their children – I think they did not know what to do. But here we are now, and whether we are dissenting boomers or dissenting younger generation people, or dissenting old folks, most people HERE ARE dissenting from the liberal establishment…why divide over this? Whites as a whole are not responsible for slavery or Jim Crow, because they were born white, and boomers are not commie/socialists because they were born at a certain time, and not all the younger generation are idiots that voted for Obama…
I am not acquainted with people that voted to put the spenders in office. Just like today, the politicians do what they damn well please even as we scream and try to vote them out. We hate what they are doing to our children and grandchildrens’ future and how they have destroyed the country. Don’t you tell me I have done it because I have done everything in my power to keep the bad ones out. We also planned for our retirement so stop bitching we are stealing your money. It is the old hippies from the 60s and 70s that have turned this country into a socialist or Marxist country or worse. Now the country is a cesspool of leaches. Nancy Pelosi is nothing like the people I know that love our country instead of bring it down. Maybe you live on the east or west coast that have done this with their liberal agenda, in flyover country we actually care about the people and country and not by paying them off for votes.
I should also add that when we went to the Social Security office to apply we were the only ones that spoke English. The office was full of foreigners that could not speak English and had interpreters with them. How are people just coming into the United States just marching in and getting money from Social Security? They haven’t been living in the country let alone working for years to put into the “pot”
I’ve been vaguely familiar with what the Israelis call a kibbutz and visited one sixty years ago. I was not impressed at the time, but I read a recent book review about how the kibbutz has been evolving and it strikes me that we could redesign something like it to suit our culture and our needs. It would provide at the very least a caring neighborhood in which youngsters might flourish, lliving costs could be reduced and people could share however they were inclined.The kibbutz they speak of now in Israel is one in which some folks have jobs in town while others partner in design, manufacture and marketing of specialized products. What I like is the possibility of an extended family with shared values. It may have much in common with our Amish or Mennonite communities. We need to do some fresh, appropriate thinking.
The Constitutional Republic of old no longer exists. The “election” and “re-election” of the monster Hussein was its death knell. The American “Sack of Rome” moment has already happened. There is no way the USA survives in its present configuration. There will be a dismemberment of this country into separate nation-states just like the Roman Empire devolved into when it collapsed and the European nation-states were formed. This must happen because the differences between the “red” and “blue” states is just too great a chasm to bridge any longer. Multiculturalism, rampant illegal immigration, and blatant disregard for adherence to the Constitution and the Rule of Law has destroyed any common culture and sense of national patriotism. The only thing left is to begin the process of nullification and secession in the “red” states to rebuild what was stolen from us all by the “blue” state Marxocrats in the last illegitimate electoral farce.
I live in the Red, Southwest. What are your favorite other Red destinations and why?
Idaho; because it has about a million and a half population which is about 90% white so it isn’t full of shiftless bums and commies, it has a black population of less than 1% so it doesn’t have the minority crime and social pathologies, it is largely undeveloped due to its low population count, it has a seasonal climate and water sources that supports agriculture, it is far removed from any large urban area that will protect it from the thugs and gorillas who will flee the cities when the inevitable economic collapse happens, and it has little geopolitical strategic value so it won’t be on the radar screen when the sure-to-happen SHTF nuclear exchange occurs.
I too am looking at Idaho. I have a good friend that moved there about 25 years ago and he LOVES it. We will be checking things out this summer.
I moved to the Philippines over 20 years ago with a military pension….not to some poor barrio in the sticks or to the mega-toilet Manila….but to the former U.S. Air Force Clark Field. It has all the amenities of the USA minus the prices, crime, cold weather, traffic, and entitlement queens. There are several thousands of us here peacefully along side 1000s of Aussies and Koreans, as well. Just started collecting SS and, despite a sinking dollar, still live a happy life in a place that respects their elders. Sure, the 20yo girl marrying the 60-70yo expat is in it for the money, but she earns it by caring for him untilo his time is up and then rightfully gets survivor benefits….how is that any different than back home? Everyone is welcome…its a growing city…come on over and check it out. Google Balibago.
Mike…Was stationed in the P.I. is 67-68….US Navy at Sangley Point, Cavite City, but saw most of Luzon due to maintaining the military microwave system at all the US military sites (Even Camp JOhn Hay in Baguio) Spent a lot of time in Angeles City…Pretty rough then with Huk radicals blowing up bars. I’d like more info regarding immigration…The Bilibago Google didn’t help a lot…
Live in one of the Reddest (if not THE reddest) states. I wouldn’t change a thing. Live in a rural setting on a horse farm surrounded by gun totin/usin, self-sufficient neighbors. Yeah, live near some larger populations but figure most of them will die-off from starvation, disease, or the ensuing social melt-down before they can get to where I live…we’ll take care of the rest if they’re a problem when they arrive.
This is exactly the way I see it has to happen and will happen. I no longer want any part of this immoral, vacuous, decrepit country, so I personally will be happy to secede.
“I can pray, I can wait and I can fast”
Try to build something positive and network, and wait to see the lights of Manhattan go out – oh they already did that just a month ago, never mind.
You put it right, Paleo-Conservative, and it is sad…
Strangely, I consider myself a neo-conservative, and I agree with him.
Hey world: you got what you wanted. Hope you enjoy it.
“The world” is usually just code for the Eurabian-Third-world-Communist axis.
Yeah – but they still expect us to come running if they need help. Just wait (and we very well may see it) until we collapse into nation-states and no longer have the resources or the will to help with the next earthquack or tsunami.
Will they miss us? Probably not. They’ll probably blame us for our selfishness!
I don’t even know what I think of this country anymore.
Twelve years ago, I was the most jingoistic man on the planet – now there is at least half of this country I hold in contempt – that goes for about 75% of our youth, immersed in the superficiality of Facebook and Iphones. I wouldn’t walk across the street to save them. Yeah, I do indeed mean that.
This last election convinced me that only one of two things will save us from our excesses: (1) Divine intervention; (2) National calamity forcing us to pick up the pieces and start over. And there are no guarantees with choice #2.
Any nation that would elect an immoral and stupid man like Barack Obama for President not once but twice, deserves to have its collective face rubbed into dust. And rest assured, the rest of the feckless world will follow, even if they are too ignorant to understand that.
Global tyranny is at our door…while we grab the remote believing we can simply change the channel.
I couldn’t agree more Tex. And it breaks my heart to see what’s happened to our country.
All of that–just because the GOP lost one Presidential election???
One election? Have you had your eyes closed to the civilization around you? Frog boiling in the pot is right. You epitomize the ignorance and amorality – the same ignorance that glorified a serial rapist as President fifteen years ago as he perjured himself in front of a grand jury – it was only about sex. I knew then it was too late.
You and millions like you are the problem, completely blind to the society decaying around you. You are part of the problem through your omission, Sinz. Pick up your chains and follow your master Obama. You two deserve each other.
One last thing. Give me liberty or give death – either way, I’m free from useful idiots like you.
You need to learn more real American history–not the sanitized stuff from grammar school.
Americans were never saintly or pure as the driven snow. Benjamin Franklin fathered an illegitimate child. Thomas Jefferson had an affair with a female slave.
When Grover Cleveland was campaigning for the Presidency, his opponents found out that he had fathered an illegitimate child. They tried to turn it into a scandal. But Cleveland said he was paying child support. The voters said “That’s OK then”–and elected him President.
In the second half of the 19th century, the newly formed New York City Board of Health was surprised to find that nearly *half* of men in New York City were infected with an STD.
Throughout American history, we have had famous men with bastard children, rampant STDs, political corruption, lying, cheating, double-dealing, and dirty politics. History is made by human beings–sinners, not angels.
If anything, American politics today is cleaner than it was in the days of the Tweed and Prendergast machines.
That’s why I don’t understand all this moaning and hand-wringing. I sure didn’t see ANY of it when Bush was in office–yet that was just 5 years.
Did America turn completely around 180 degrees in just 5 years?
No.
We’re still the same country we were in 2007–yet the moaning and the hand-wringing from such as you didn’t start until Obama won the Presidency. As if that changed everything about America. No it didn’t.
Presidential history has nothing to do with it, rube. I said THE NATION. That’s more than one man. Get it? Try to get this straight – it’s unsanitized variety you claim to understand. I don’t care about Barack Obama, nor am I particularly concerned about him as President. We deserve him as President.
It’s the 60MM dolts like you that elect men like Barack Obama that are the problem.
Your flippant and arrogant attitude, your ignorance of your surroundings and its decadence, your inability to measure and discern right from wrong and good from evil, are a far greater threat to my family’s well being than some sudden jihadi type. Our nation is failing not because of the sorriest excuse for U.S. President in history, but because of the masses of dumbasses that make up the general populace with hands out and votes for sale, completely ignorant of antiquity and its parallels.
But you keep on telling yourself how great things are, and this time I’ll capitalize financially on your abject stupidity as we circle the toilet.
“I sure didn’t see ANY of it when Bush was in office–yet that was just 5 years.”
You’re either a liar or you have short-term memory lose.
DHS, TSA, Patriot Act, etc. – NOBODY was for the adoption of these agencies or laws because we SAW where it would lead.
I could add more! Shamnesty – TWICE, spending like a drunken sailor (except Obama showed us what a crack-head can do with spending), nation building when we should have just bombed them back to the paleolithic age!
Gee, a few years ago I could’ve given you a HUGE laundry list of grips against Bush (Mr. Compassionate Conservative (gag!) One-Worlder) except that now that we have Obama those years now seem like the good old days.
Egad! How far we’ve fallen in just a few short years!
Thomas Jefferson did not have an affair with a slave (Sally Hemings).
There is Jefferson DNA in the Hemings family, but in all likelihood it was contributed by Randolph Jefferson, who enjoyed socializing with the plantation slaves.
It was probably Randolph Jefferson who had the affair with Sally Hemmings. There is no way to actually prove anything, but the left promotes stories like this in order to drag the Founders through the mud.
Seriously? You can’t see what filth this country has become? Just on a personal level I got rid of cable because I literally can’t stand the smut anymore. Alley cats have better morals than we do.
And we are represented by a filth just as rotten as any six week old steak left in the sun to decay and fester. Both parties are rotten to the core and there is no redemption for either.
If you want a perfect metiphore for our country just look at some before and after pictures of Detroit. THAT is America in a nutshell!
…er…no. It’s about collapse. Systemic collapse, to be more precise.
http://news.kontentkonsult.com/2009/02/readers-resources-on-systemic-collapse.html
It’s also about living in a police state, no matter which of the two major parties is in power. It’s about the government, the DoD, wargaming a new US civil war….and openly discussing how best to kill American citizens.
It’s about Obamacare, which institutes a tyranny, in all but name.
It’s about eh DHS, the TSa, The Patriot Act, which the right gave us, instituting a police state in all but name.
…and it’s about Obama’s signature on the NDAA.
It’s about Fusion Centers and militarized civilian LEO’s.
It’s about drones in our skies and cameras on evert corner.
It’s about the government compiling info on everyone, about everything they do, email, tweet or say and what they spend and where they spend it.
It’s about Executive Orders from both parties which have taken ever more of our freedoms from us, w/o our consent.
It’s about corruption in our politics, from the local town council to D.C. and back again.
It’s about all of this and much, much more.
The decline in every aspect of once a strong, moral, and a beacon of hope to overseas citizens we now have leadership that is corrupt- and a who cares mentality in Washington! When elected Representatives who do not have to worry about their salaries going down, when they are excluded from ObomaCare, and have a lifetime pension that is golden, then these people could care less about the state of our Nation. We now have a body of Kings and Queens holding court. A pathic
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” H.L. Mencken
The progressives who voted for Obama are about to find out what they wanted and get it good and hard. The tragedy is that the rest of us will, too.
Dr. R, this summary of yours might be further concentrated in Reader’s Digest to: “The Obama foreign policy will continue to be masturbation for distance and anyone with any sense will try and save himself.” For even more compression, I suggest: “Look out below.” Or, perhaps, just: “WTF?”
Wow. Rude, but pithy and on-target. Well put.
Thanks to Barry Rubin for his global scope on foreign policy hazards and quirks.
Reading his essay reminded me of the thrill I felt when reading Dick Nixon’s books – in particular ‘The Real War’(Warner Books, 1980).
The 37th President is gone – but his global insights still serve some of you Americans as icebreakers for New Insight and Vision – pro tempore pronounced dead under the crooked and incompetent regime of Marxist Obama..
P.S. Why is nothing happening on the Benghazi File? Plenty of bad vibes are there to follow if any ‘newspapermen’ still know what journalists are paid to do – INVESTIGATE, RESEARCH AND PUBLISH!!!
The only “up-side” to the current administration (in terms of foreign policy) is that (domestically) the United States is bankrupt. Hopefully American insolvency will limit (perhaps curtail) the “vision” of the walking diaster occupying the White House. (I just hope America can survive the next 4 years given the sheer outrageous, anti-American, pro terrorists “politicians” Americans have, unfortunately elected.)
Mr. Obama, as a radical Libertarian, should not have taken the role of President. He has said as clearly as possible to world leaders, “Me, and not you!” He has said to the taxpaying public, “Me, and not you!” He has said to downtrodden, persecuted individuals and minorities across America and across the world who expected at least a public word of support from America, “Me, and not you!” Frankly, he has said to anyone who disagrees with him, “Me, and not you!” He promises both bread and cake, but dispenses only crumbs. How sad!
your spell check played a nasty trick on you Obama is a liberal not a libertarian of any sort.
“Libertarian” will do very nicely as an appellation for Mr. Obama. A little thought can justify the term’s use in his case. But “Liberal” will do as well as “Alinskyite”, “Communist”, and “Socialist.”
However, categories matter so little! The truth is that Obama reaches out, manipulates, and then lies about everything without conscience. We suffer under under his personal and ideological psychopathy. It is his self-proclaimed job to create or take advantage of problems, not solve them. Solutions are too difficult and too costly to conceive and implement. Books will be written about this aberrational phenomenon, but not until Mr. Obama is out of office. He has frightened a lot of people and smirks about it in public at very rare moments of honesty.
Yes, that smirking. Psychopaths get a kick, a thril, from destroying others. (And, when they confide in you and their mask slips, you’ll hear them laughing at the cruel misery,the destruction of others, that they themselves have caused. It amuses them.)
Libertarian doesn’t work at all, considering what he tries to compel. I think your definition of Libertarian is unconventional.
Neither Libertarian nor Liberal. More like “Libertine.”
“What Do You Do When You Conclude America Is (Temporarily or Permanently) Kaput?”
You do what Americans have always done, you start preparing.
To return to the author’s original question of what other nations will do now that the American people have chosen four more years of feckless foreign policy and abdication of military responsibility, they will try to protect themselves if they can and seek the protection of local powers if they cannot.
One of the obvious ways of trying to protect themselves is to acquire nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. I can’t imagine how anything could go wrong with massive nuclear weapons proliferation.
It’s not just us Americans that will suffer from this decline. Just wait for the next tsunami or earthquake to strike somewhere and we can all sit back and wait for the carrier battle groups from Belgium or Greece or some other socialist paradise to come rushing up to give aid.
Yeah. Wait for that.
Repeating this here because it’s a nice sentence and worth thinking about.
“Just wait for the next tsunami or earthquake to strike somewhere and we can all sit back and wait for the carrier battle groups from Belgium or Greece or some other socialist paradise to come rushing up to give aid.”
This is a rant. I’ll admit it.
I’ve written so many Obama-inspired ones that sometimes I feel Obama couldn’t possibly do anything new to make my blood boil.
You might say I’m just getting off my chest my upset that the direction of these U.S.S. United States whose values and ideals many of us once cherished and treasured is about to, to use a metaphor, start listing badly to port; is in danger of capsizing. Or as Hitler liked to say about England. (What Obama likes to think about Israel)Is kaput.
The rant gets underway.
Many many people believe that Obama has successfully undertaken this nation’s transformation, very Kafkaesque you might say. Sorta like I wake up one morning having turned into Eleanor Roosevelt.
Thankfully, this morning I was still me. Me with a question.
I ask: Are we (the United States of America) still a viable bastion of freedom?
I have my doubts. I think too many people in this nation are in dire need of a liberty transfusion. As Obama bleeds our nation dry financially; our desire for freedom and liberty, for American ideals and values seems to also be bleeding away, drip by drip.
We no longer live, in Rachel’s opinion, in a place that, if a Dec. 7, 1941, attack was visited upon us, there would the next day be lines and lines of angry, patriotic Americans signing up to fight the menace a team of horses couldn’t hold back.
But are we still a team that’s ready to fight for freedom?
In my view, this nation possesses not enough believers in the Constitution and the freedoms we’ve held dear for more than 200 years. Of late, I can’t walk past 1600 Pennsylvania or read the New York Times or watch Saturday Night Live without holding my nose. Like a balloon ready to burst, they’re filled with hot air, every H2O molecule hates the great grand U.S.A that saved the world from totalitarianism more than once, but is now under attack both from without and within.
Can the Obama train be derailed? I’m not holding my breath.
One example that shivers my timbers, one seemingly innocuous source of skunk smell that gets my last nerve is named, Sotomayor.
To my way of thinking, one of the most egregious elephants in the room; taking up space in the Supreme Court is she.
Approving her nomination, to me, was like electing John Wayne Gacy to the school board.
Sotomayor believes not a whit in our Constitution or in American ideals and values. She’s a racist communist who’s corrupt to the marrow. Feelings I use to have for child molesters I now reserve for her. Yet, some Republican Senators approved her nomination.
I would start to rant about John Roberts, too, but I don’t know him at all. I don’t know what to say about him other than he’s gone pod person on us.
Sad but not far from untrue.
This nation could presently be led by Lenin or Stalin, or Hitler or Mussolini or Obama. Not a dimes worth of difference.
Consequently, today I resigned from the Republican Party. And don’t want to be a Conservative or a Libertarian or Independent. I want to be free of the Obamination called the Obama years.
Like in the Kevin McCarthy movie, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, I sense that the good people of America have had their minds warped and their bodies snatched. Like, for instance, John Boehner. He’s changed. I sense he’s not the John Boehner of a year ago.
Is it still he or has Rachel done crackers? I know people change, but we aren’t caterpillars.
Congress, the whole port side of it, it seems, couldn’t care less that our national debt is about to kiss 17 trillion dollars; (a bankrupt nation is a dead nation) or that we incur some 4 billion more in national debt every day. Our tax dollars are streaming directly into neo-coms’(new brand communists) pockets like nobody’s business.
I think I represent the mainstream red, white and blue American who puts their hand on their heart and swells with pride when the national anthem is played. Unfortunately, there’s fewer than 100 million of us left. Where has the rest of America gone?
Taking back this nation I don’t see happening without an Alan West/ George Washington type leading the fight, crossing the equivalent of the Delaware on Christmas Day, somehow sparking a freedom fire that sweeps from sea to shining sea.
To say the least, it won’t be easy.
We have a press that’s consciously aiding and abetting Herr Obama as he loots our treasury, tries to poison our minds, take away our guns and hopes one day enslave our bodies.
Too few in our mainstream media are willing to paddle against the current stream of pukes that believe in hating America first. Hating the religious. The gun owners. The suburbs. You name it; if it’s good and honorable and decent, they hate it. Hannity, Steyn, Hewitt, Coulter, Limbaugh are voices, but, to me, they’re voices in the Alamo defending the U.S. and Constitution against overwhelming odds.
Overwhelming odds that hate anybody who doesn’t worship the anointed one and does worship in church.
Getting back our nation?
Unfortunately, unless I’m blind to Jack Bauer plans, I don’t see it happening. But I think it’s time to at least give it a shot; at the least, die trying.
Though depressing, it was an enjoyable rant. Bleak and funny.
Re Allen West, I’m not American, am a centrist on many issues, and certainly not a social conservative, yet West managed to draw applauds from me on issues where I disagree with him, and sweep me off on issues I don’t even know (not being American), nevermind the issues on which I do agree with him. The man is charismatic. First time I heard him was even before he was elected to congress, but I could clearly see the word ‘President’ flashing across his forehead. There’s no way that man is not going to be the president of the USA one day, I thought. He’s also very bright, knowledgeable, and can discuss the fine details of every subject he talks about. He also seems to have a strong character, though you can never know. And he even has a sense of humor. I think you’ve already tried all the wishy-washies and Dem lites who are supposed to appeal to the center and you’ve failed. So maybe it’s time to try the real deal for a change. Someone who can talk enthusiastically and unapologetically about conservative principles and express a clear vision for the USA may have more chance to win more hearts and minds. Or maybe not, but what do you have to lose by trying? It’s not like the lukewarm types have been such a sweeping electoral success, or that even if elected are going to meaningfully change the direction of the country rather than just slow down the socialist evolution.
Besides, in the more twisted part of my mind (warning: this part is irrational), since I was convinced from the first moment West will be the president some day, but at the same time realized the American people are not yet ripe for what he thinks and will view him as an extremist, I understood he could only be elected at a time of a crisis resulting from leftist mistakes that will shutter a few mainstream conventions. And the only way to get there was for Obama to be reelected. So, since I was sure West will be elected some day I predicted as far back as 2010 or 2009 that Obama will be reelected. Hey, I’ve warned you this part was irrational. You should call it a hunch, it was like a sense of fate. So nothing about Obama and his extremism surprised me or is likely to surprise me, the Middle East Islamic Revival didn’t surprise me because big bad events like this are “destined” to happen on Obama’s watch and Islam has to show its real face for the people to believe what West is saying about it, and Obama’s reelection didn’t surprise me either – it was “bound” to happen since it’s “written in the stars” and there was nothing you could do about it. I have to say, though, I never rely on my hunches because I did get a few things wrong…
Like the Vietnamese trying to get out after the Americans left, the Afghanis will be slaughtered. Their crime is cooperating with the Americans and for the women, to get educated. The Egyptian Christians will be slaughered and O’Dismal won’t bat an eyelash. After all, he helped orchestrate Morsi’s rise to power. Killing the Christians is probaly a plus in his book. Their only hope is to get out NOW.
Christians in the Africa and Asia on are the chopping block as the Islamists blow them up while attending church or just for being there.
Then there is the fact that we have all these Muslim’s running around our country and spreading their “message” via CAIR, ISNA and the Saudi madrassas.
In short, the blood will flow all throughout the world. A new reign of terror will befall the world and the slaughter will intensify.
Does Canada, one of the U.S.’s closest, if not major, trading partners and allies, count?
Canada is a sitting duck. Once the blood starts to flow in our streets millions will try to stream north. At that point I do believe our government will finally find the will to seal our borders.
People keep saying how difficult it is to seal the border. I’ve been around the world and have seen sealed borders. Having a few signs here and there saying “Perigo Minas!” helps. Concertina wire helps. A pillbox or two helps. 20 foot tall fences help. I’ve seen borders that had all this and more.
People did manage to cross the Berlin Wall. A few.
Robert Frost had it right.
ever notice how some fences are good and others are bad.
India/Pakistan -good
Saudia Arabia/yemen -good
Eygpt/gaza- good
US/Mexico-bad
Israel/gaza-bad
Israel/egypt-bad ( why are you preventing African economic migrants into your country? How dare you call them infiltrators)
So, Mike of Mass, what do you make of the U.S./Canada fence?
Well, at least we in Canada have Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government — the Conservative Party of Canada — has a majority in our Parliament, running the show up here.
Our government has been diversifying Canada’s trading portfolio because PM Harper has read the writing on the wall concerning the fickleness and fecklessness of the U.S. under Obama’s presidency.
I can’t tell you how saddened I am watching what once was our best trading partner and closest ally going down the drain. I used to think that Canada was much worse off than the United States, which valued individual enterprise, faith in God, and can-do. Now, I’m just shaking my head at how a once-great country could possibly have voted an obvious shyster and utterly inexperienced hack back into office for a second term. I realize there was a lot of voter fraud, but the fact that voter fraud on such a grand scale was able to happen is cause for dismay and discouragement.
All I can say is, God bless the United States of America. It’s a very steep and craggy hill you have to climb now. And as things get worse under Obama, things will get worse everywhere. Canada will certainly not be unaffected by the decline of our neighbour to the South.
Dear kjh,
Us/Canada fence -good
Kudos for Harper reversing 5 decades of progressive wussification of canada.good luck to him
Mr Rubin is joined by many in his concern for the “decline” of America. The key word in the discussion is “decline”, and it has many, many gradations and variations.
Look at it this way…..what exactly has our humungous amounts of dollars fire-hosed just about everywhere actually gained for America, to our advantage? What has been our literal….gain?
Rubin’s excellent points are all gloomy/negative in the accustomed manner. But,let’s instead turn the argument around 180 degrees and, again, ask what benefits have accrued to America other than a generalized disdain, and worldwide anti-American attitude, except for our Dollars?
Taken together, each of these Dollar recipients’ concern is not to be too disdainful lest we cut off our accustomed Dollar Hydrant. Forget our “leadership” in the World. Our “leadership” has ….lets face it….assumed a dollar value only. No African nation , nor Asian….taking in all of Asia from Constantinople to the Kurile Islands N.E. and the vast Indonesian archipelago S.E.have the slightest interest in our “leadership” other than what can America provide to each of them on an annual basis so that they don’t have to spend their own resources. Airplanes, rockets, electronic gear…that’s all they want. All the world wants from America is materiel-goods and a stable United States dollar.
Same goes for the area south of the Rio Grande River.
Socialistic Europe might like to trade with us, they certainly don’t want the least bit of our “leadership”. [As an aside I like to mention at every opportunity the chutzpah of the British Foreign Secy asking for American "leadership", his word,..in the Middle East after the maturing developments since 1916 of that Sykes-Picot Agreement. And, where are the coy French?] Anyone remember deGaulle wanting all Americans out of France?…and Dean Rusk asking wryly, “..also out of the American cemeteries in France?”
We’ve been maintaining the defense of South Korea, Japan and Taiwan since about 1945….to a lesser degree annually as they got somewhat back on their feet after all of that wartime devastation. Then, Japan launched a massive attack against our Auto and electronics industries during the 1980′s…anyone remember? Their industries enabled by our supplying their defense need.
So……ask yourselves what exactly has American “leadership” gained for us Americans? “The World’s idea of American “Leadership” is for them to evade responsibilities which they should bear.
Lastly, ask, what has our disdained “leadership” cost us in regard to our young blood sacrificed?
Recent News Item:
Karzai en route to the United States with his list of complaints.
“Then, Japan launched a massive attack against our Auto and electronics industries during the 1980′s…anyone remember?”
Yes – I do. And they bought up US property all over the country – and then the property bubble burst and RUINED them. They have been bankrupt ever since.
Were you aware that China has just bought the AMC Movie Chain? Does anyone actually still go to the movies? Anyone?
Re your:
“Yes – I do. And they bought up US property all over the country – and then the property bubble burst and RUINED them. They have been bankrupt ever since.”
…….there’s nice poetry there.
[disclosure…I was an “export coordinator” in the eighties and our Japanese Distributors had their own definition of “co-operation” and “co-operate” which was, “…you’ll do this our way, won’t you?”
Dealing with those guys was unforgettable.
And thanks to Japan our cars and electronics became better than ever. Somehow I don’t see that as decline.
Moral fortitude of the individual is what led to the creation of wealth and the establishment of prosperity in this unique nation. So why would not cynicism and immorality lead to the destruction of wealth, the refusal to attend to prosperity, and ultimately a new reign of self-inflicted misery while claiming to accomplish heavens on earth by the abrogation of personal responsibility?
Greatness is not the most probable outcome of a nation. It’s not even its more natural destiny. If the citizens lose their aspirations, the nation loses its energy, which might explain why so many people today seem to expect the state to magically make up for compensate for their weaknesses and vulnerabilities. When John Kennedy admonished “ask what you can do for your country…” he was merely acknowledging the obvious. No individual aspirations, no national accomplishment!
If America stands up again, it will be because Americans woke up and resolved to stand up again, not the other way around. In the meantime, is there anything better to do than preparing ourselves for the restoration of our own personal dignity, courage and the pursuit of happiness, after having lost hope and pride somewhere along the way, to the point of expecting miracles from the government!
This nation was built on the divine powers of the freed individual. If its citizens fail, that extraordinary nation is doomed. I like to think it does not need to happen. Yes, we can get lost, no we don’t have top stay lost. A bad outcome for us, a bad outcome for everyone else on the planet.
For the author’s info, we now have military forces scattered all over Africa, thanks to Obama’s politices. We’ve always thrown good money after bad, there. I assume that the money tree (US foreign aid) for African dictators hasn’t died, yet?
China already owns East Asia and Southeast Asia in all but name. Mebbe not Japan or The Phillipines and other US possessions and protectorates or allies. Our influence has been waning for decades, even within those conclaves. The US lost that diplomatic and economic ‘war’ a long time ago.
Plus, christians are even now getting slaughtered in Egypt and other locations in N. Africa and the Middle East. Hasn’t ever stopped, really. It’s just gotten worse. You’re a bit behind on those two issues.
The author apparently doesn’t realize the Russian citizens now have many more freedoms than we do in America. Most of Putin’s incursions into Georgia and other CIS nations has more to do with keeping the Muslims from taking over and causing Russia more problems than ever before. Fighting Islamics can’t be a good thing when we do it and an evil thing when Russia does it. That position is irrational, at best.
Plus, with a bit of research, you’ll notice that the entire world is in pretty much the same boat we are wrt diplomacy, economics and internal problems. When the SHTF, no one will be unscathed and everyone will -eventually- become too busy dealing with other …priorities. In the end, the US will be the last one standing, and we’ll be reeling like a drunk after a saturday night brawl.
Bemoan the fall on an empire? Bemoan the fall of a global civilization and the end of the power and control paradigm? Hmpf. We’re witness to the end of one age and the dawn of another.
“the fall on an empire” The people will have nobody to blame but themselves! The peoples let their special interest groups, intellectual think tanks and the likes of the imperialist nation building CFR take control of their political parties and thus, their government. They partied and slept through it all and now want the consequence be blamed on anybody but themselves and they perpetuate class division/warfare as found on so many internet sites and all forms of media.
As I said way down the line on here, a divided nation of people will not stand.
So the question for you, and perhaps Eon, is: how do we best survive this? Everybody keeps saying how bad it is and is going to be; how do we plan for the next Dark Ages?
Move inland – away from the mega-cities. Because when it hits the fan those places will be death traps and they will scatter like rats fleeing a sinking ship to pillage the very next settlement (city/town) they come across.
If you live in Virginia (per your moniker) then you and I have a problem and we will need to blow up the Memorial, 14th Street and Wilson Bridges to keep the “problem” on its side of the Potomac.
I see this in an entirely different light. I agree with the article, but I don’t see any reason to throw in the towel, not yet.
What is communism’s biggest tool/weapon?…the big lie. The make believe media pushes the big lie at every opportunity. 24/7, right to your smart phone or Ipad if you wish. They are pushing really hard right now on all fronts, because I think that they think they’re close to completing the mission. And, with every “grand” mission, the greatest time for failure is just before it’s accomplished. The risk to them, and us, is great because now it’s all or nothing. There will be no losers and they’re looking for the full Monty, right now.
What’s the big lie? Oh won the election fairly, conservatism is old fashioned and anti-social, the Constitution is “bizarre”, morals are an impediment to the “new” man, we are all apathetic, we are losers, blah…they reinforce that mindset every chance they get, and we’re falling for it. The biggest whopper is that they’re…finally…on the right side of history. lol
We are locked in a struggle with people who don’t play by the rules, at a time when we still hold to those same rules. (If for no other reason than to give some sense where everything stands). They have the advantage because nothing is beneath them as long as it gets them more power and shuts people like me, up. They rely on confusion, separation, malice. They change the very meaning of words to suit their arguments, and then change them again when the definition no longer works.
These are not nice people and we need to call them on their dishonesty. (Not happening in DC, you can see the fear in people’s eyes…they’re buying the big lie too.)
I don’t believe the big lie. A lot of it HAS come true, but only because …if you repeat it often enough…is a self fulfilling prophecy.
We are still Americans. We are still here. The water is boiling, but honestly, I think it’s just making a lot of people very very mad. This ain’t over yet and I’m not alone.
it looks to me like we are just one crisis away from something, but what exactly? the diff between us and hitlr’s germany or stalin or the moose in italy, is that we still have the capability, if pushed too far too fast, of defending ourselves and maybe breaking off a very large part of this country for our children/’s children. these sociocommiefacsists have been preparing for these times since way before the kenyan took over our government; and, they have no intention short of force of giving any part of it back, ever.
stalin sure knew what he was talking about with the ‘useful idiot’ phrase, and how. who knew dumbing down the schools meant being able to get them to believe these driveling miscreants? being played by some very rich people while spending every penny 99% of what they and their children (to the nth generation) will ever have, on nothing. a third world future for sure by vote of the cool guys, of the moment.
so, what to do? i say get ready to take our country back when this ‘duke ferdinand’ moment comes uncloaked. our 3rd president was very right about sometimes having to sacrifice and repay the price for freedom here at home. our would-be masters have been preparing for decades. we just need to use this time to catch up. there is another election in just 2 short years, hopefully. fix that crooked voting crap and we could do very well.
it really looks bad for the whole world. i’m trying to stay optimistic. quitting is what they want from us and exactly what we must not do. that ole fat lady ain’t sung chit yet. however, i’m pretty sure that’s her we all hear warming up backstage.
What’s happened is that we are nearing what we were prior to WWII. Our military was too small to be a threat to anyone, except the Navy. The US had lost most of the post-WWI good will it had built up, which wasn’t much. The economy was in shambles and getting worse thanks to FDR’s malfeasance.
That certainly contributed to the uptick in hostility around the world that finally led to war. We’re headed in that direction now. Indeed the incidence of war in the Third World, particularly Africa and the Middle East, is increasing. Knowing that the US is a spent force, divided and weak at home and with a President giving a wink to Muslim aggression, why wouldn’t dictators get adventurous?
Given also that US heavy industry is a shadow of what it should be and most of our stores are reliant on products made in China and because of the war on farmers even food supplies are being imported (remember the problem of tainted Chinese wheat a few years ago and the troubles with the fires in Russia?), that puts us in an even weaker position. The debt? Well, that’s heavier but it wasn’t light under FDR either, though he did prefer the inflation route, something that is also headed our way.
So world war? Quite possible, though it will start as regional wars. Oh, that’s already happening. And don’t think Obama doesn’t see that as desirable. Woodrow Wilson knew that to seize power he would need a foreign war. That’s why he pushed so hard to get us directly involved in WWI. FDR knew that, too, which is why he egged the Japanese on into attacking us and then failed to war the Pacific Fleet it was coming. Obama is every bit the power hungry tyrant those two were.
Reading the comments here is a painful –even masochistic– exercise. However, so many of the posters share my family’s concerns/views. What continues to amaze/baffle is how so many well educated citizens think this regime’s policies are only “fair.” So many preconceived notions are now in the dustbin of history. Should have seen it coming. No excuse for those of us who have lived through increasing tyranny elsewhere. To take these formerly “United States” for granted –one of the last true beacons of liberty that somehow was impenetrable to various forms of ideologically derivative viruses that corrode this proud nation from within– is frankly inexcusable. The recent election brought home the direness of the predicament. Optimism, and with it “hope,” went out the window. It will be Hobbesian I’m afraid now…location, location, location will determine much. Best be prepared. Never thought, just over two decades ago, that a) the Soviet Union would collapse so precipitously, but b) the toxic ideology of the Soviets would continue to spread and conquer without a real hot war. Worse, when I read in Pravda (Pravda!!!!) circa Dec 2012 that we –the US—should not give up our right to bear arms, things have moved beyond surreal….Alice in Wonderland but a hellish variant. The French actor takes Russian citizenship where there is a flat tax of 13% and on and on. It’s enough to go insane. Or….become a hermit until the knock on the door.
This is difficult to write, but I think correct:
Former President Bush must share here: TSA, DHS, NCLB, easing income requirements for Food Stamps, enabling low income voters to pay no income tax whatsoever, not dealing with Fannie & Freddie (although he tried), poor strategy on Iraq and to a lesser extent Afghanistan (nation building).
But the Bush economy and deficit metrics were pretty good compared to the Muslim Dictator. Obama is attacking the very bedrock of Capitalism: incentives, work ethic, individualism, business people, finance networks, hyper-regulatory EPA, NLRB, HHS, Obamacare??, racial preferences, slice and dice the electorate in 2012 while emphasizing character assassination of a good & decent man Romney.
Have you ever watched the way this moron runs down the steps of AF1? One of these days he may slip….
Two books by an American Armenian written under the name of John Roy Carlson are pertinent since one needs to examine things within the larger historical context to prepare for the uncertain future. The first “Under Cover” (which went through 16 printings in 1943 alone!) was about the author’s penetration of “self styled patriot groups” like the German-American Bund, American Nationalist Socialist Party etc etc. Frightening stuff.
In the other “Cairo to Damascus” this fellow embeds on all sides and gives a first hand account of the degree of Anti-Semitism that is characteristic of Islam as Israel fights to survive its fragile independence. Published in 1951. One, however, gets the feeling that this is part descriptive and part fictional but the insights are invaluable.
73, no grandkids, don’t care. Have a nice day.
You are indeed blessed…
Agreed. I’m a lot younger but no kids either. I do feel sorry for my friends who have kids and those with new grandkids.
because you have no children or grandchildren your cultural/moral inheritance is lost. Groups that breed succeed. All others end up like the DODOs.
You make it sound as though childless people are childless through choice. Some are – most are not (including myself). It is us you are jabbing with your nubby little paw.
There will come a time when the childless will be blessed because we won’t have to watch our children and grandchildren enslaved or killed.
I consider the inability to have kids an unmitigated tragedy. From the first part of your post ,I suspect you do too.thus, when people boast of their childlessness as a badge of honor, I can only assume that they are childless by choice. If so, they should not be surprised that the parasites outnumber the productive hosts.
—– What Do You Do When You Conclude America Is (Temporarily or Permanently) Kaput?
You check your stocks and you keep your ammo dry.
Personally, I’d reverse that order. Within a few years, I suspect Ammo will be worth it’s weight in Gold, whereas Stocks will be one hell of a lot of worthless paper.
I think that’s stocks of food and other supplies, not corporate shares.
That too.
I keep asking myself the most obvious questions: what’s going to happen during the next 4- years; Am I prepared?; What can I do within my capabilities, if (fill in disaster here) happens…?
Between you and me, I live on the outskirts of a major urban center, and I’m searching for my exit-strategy to better, saner climes.
Vote with my feet.
Barry, you are wrong about Morocco: Islamists won a leading plurality in free elections after the Arab Spring and they head the government there – they are the Moroccan branch of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
Islamists rule or will rule Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and possibly Syria in the near future. The Hashemite monarchy in Jordan is teetering, endangered by the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which goes by another name in Israel: Hamas. And Israel also has its own Islamist movement. The only oddity in this Sunni Islamic arc is Shiite Islamist Hezbollah, which now runs Lebanon. In the outer ring, we have Sunni Islamist Turkey and then we have its historic arch-rival to the east, Shiite Islamist Iran.
Things will get a lot worse in the Middle East before they ever get better.
As for the possibility of American “recovery” on the world stage? We went into both World Wars woefully unprepared. Whether or not we could pull it off a third time? I think so — at least in terms of a wake-up call — because Obama won his second term by way of a thin majority and a divided opposition. Our greatest problem is that the liberals have been in full control of K-thru-Post-Doc education for the past two generations. American government is not taught. American history is not taught. Anything that is the least bit appreciative of American culture is not taught. But even so, when America is smashed in the mouth, yet again, in our time, I believe that the people will rise, if only at an instinctual or atavistic level, to meet the challenge. As for the outcome of WWIII? It all depends on where the nukes go off, and in what order.
President Kennedy posed the question: “What is the great occasion for which the Nation will use the Democratic Party in 1962? Why should they choose us and not the Republicans?”
What is the great occasion for which the nation now needs a political party, Democrat or Republican or any such Party, to rule with such over-reaching, unconstitutional mandates?
There is no expansion to the west. No Panama Canal being built. No Hoover Dam being built. No TVA, no interstate highway system being built. No Apollo Project being undertaken. In fact, these great occasions were accomplished without the need for tyrannical government.
In the past, government existed as a necessary evil, occasionally being called upon by the nation, the people, to coalesce the nation’s peoples and resources into a great occasion. The roles have switched. Now, the people are mandated by this necessary evil to undertake not great tasks, but to follow an ideology based on lies, half-truths all geared towards subjugating a once free people, tied down like Gulliver by small politicians and bureaucrats. Man made global warming, cap and trade are perfect examples. There are so many more. Gun control, regulation of the internet. Everything being driven by a ‘crisis’ of political and special group imaginations.
What is the great occasion the people use a national party for now? Their own subjugation. Willing at first, unwillingly later. But by ‘later’ will we be able to reclaim our freedoms, again harness the politicians? At the moment, I am not sure of the answer. Not only have the future generations been saddled with with debt, but with the duty and cost of reclaiming our heritage. Who will pay the price for freedom? What will be the cost?
We could revive our space program in a serious way. We could build a base on the moon and build new deep space probes with the plasma drives that have been languishing in storage for many years now (very real devices that produce more thrust that the ion engine the French used some years back. One of those with enough fuel could triple or better the speed of the Voyager probes.)
We can’t build another Hoover Dam, but we could replace existing nuclear plants with modern ones while at the same time replace old coal and oil burning plants with nuclear plants as well.
We could use build plants using existing technology to turn carbon based garbage into oil. We could even begin growing hemp to run through the process and abandon the current ethanol fiasco. These would go a long way toward cutting our dependence on foreign oil.
There are plenty of things we could do that would help tremendously in the long run. They won’t happen though because Obama only cares about gathering as much power to himself as he can and all of these plans would give people hope and better lives and thus less need for him.
Who is “WE”? Whose paying for these great ideas?
“We can’t build another Hoover Dam, but we could replace existing nuclear plants with modern ones while at the same time replace old coal and oil burning plants with nuclear plants as well.”
“We could use build plants using existing technology to turn carbon based garbage into oil. We could even begin growing hemp to run through the process and abandon the current ethanol fiasco. These would go a long way toward cutting our dependence on foreign oil.”
Seems to me, 45 years of the big American People Party in a drunken stooper has left the piggy bank dry. Now they run around like desparate crack addicts who can’t score another hit.
Private business could do most of these things if government would get out of the way. The problem is all the regulation and costs they put onto the projects they don’t like. For example: several wood pellet burning power plants were either built or in the planning stages here in the US. These would have taken an abundant resources, trees, made wood pellets and burned them very cleanly to make electricity. Green groups and even government thought this was a very good idea. However, as the plants were becoming a reality, government kept changing the rules making them have to be “cleaner,” meaning producing less than the already low emissions they produced. They kept adding regs until the projects closed down because they were no longer profitable. Tens of thousands of megawatts were lost and the timber industry lost what would have been a major boost.
Where government could be useful is in the field of straight research. Government has the resources to quickly build and run test and commercial scale experiments with the new styles of nuclear reactors. Instead of supporting Solyndra, they should have spent money on researching better solar panels and such. Or for such things as panels and garbage to oil, they could have done like the British used to and post bounties for whoever develops the best solution or solutions, in other words a kind of Ansari X prize.
So while private industry should run the power plants, government can play a role in research and development and getting out of the way. Although if it began a propaganda campaign FOR energy as efficient as the one it has been running AGAINST energy, then that would be a very big help.
Thane has it right. Just because it has “space” in it doesn’t mean that the government has to fund it. Look at the surge in private space enterprise now, especially WRT SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. The only thing that the government needs to do is to get out of the way.
I think your own comment defeats your intended thought. You used the worst possible example. But for decades of massive government funded areospace and related R&D to feed on, the current ‘private sector’ limited space projects wouldn’t have any starting place — would it? But for the scientists of Germany who were brought over to the U.S. post WWII we would have had a very late start for rockets, rocket fuels, material, guidance, etc., for our space program.
The cold hard fact today is that private sector enterprise is NOT going to invest in national infrastructure or any other dicipline projects unless it is profitable for them — and especially R&D is a big loser for most industries.
Even the idea that Bill Gates had a dream and woke up one monrining to invent personal use computers is a farce. I don’t know, how many decades was there of R&D by the Germans and other European nations for computers — all government funded. Gates would have had no starting place.
The very same for Henry Ford and his cumbustion engine powered automobile — another German government funded R&D.
Between our government funded national labs and the decades of the huge government funded complex around NASA, it would take you considerable time to list all the products and advancement of products and systems that came from there, that you take for granted today, even within your own home.
But for government funded R&D in agri production we would not have the disease and pest free foodstuffs we have today to increase farm and ranch production to help maintain a core national economic base. And guess what! Yep, most of it started with government funding in Europe.
The major problem is the ignorance (in a literal way) and the arrogance of Americans today who have this grand delusion that if only the government would get out of the way, the intellectual new generations would be self motivated to invest their own funds (if even available) to invent some all new products to rise up America from the economic ashes it finds itself in currently. Ain’t happening! At best some could ‘improve’ on whats already out there and most likely was government funded at some early or current level.
This is also a reply to Zeke’s comment.
My point about government getting out of the way has to do with regulations and taxes and overzealous bureaucracies. This is made worse as politicians use these means to achieve some political end, or they are trying to make themselves rich by favoring industries they or family members are invested in like the green industries today.
If government just set a level and fixed playing field regarding taxes and regulation and left it all alone for at least 10 years, a lot of things would get done. But with the president and congress picking winners and losers and the bureaucrats trying to destroy all they can in order to get promotions, that just won’t happen.
Zeke is right that companies don’t spend much on hard science, space exploration and such. Government can still go these things and, if the politics and bureaucratic mentality are kept under control, they’d get done faster. Nasa could be reorganized to handle exploration and certain kinds of orbital science and monitoring while private companies could take over LEO operations. If they prove that they can’t handle it, then it would have to be either taken away from them or put under very strict control. That’s not saying government shouldn’t have some launch and heavy lift capability for military and large probe or other components though.
Again, my point simply is that government is the biggest impediment to business today and it doesn’t need to be. If it would just scale back the regulations and taxes and handle or assist with very large scale projects like nuclear plants and a revamped and hardened electrical grid, we’d really start getting problems solved.
China is in the process of buying Africa. Specifically natural resources. In Guinea, they came in and built nice asphalt roads, and a new soccer stadium. In return, they are mining aluminum for export to China. The locals see very little economic benefit. I hear the Chinese are building roads in Kenya. I wonder what resource they are getting there. Does anyone else know of other such incidences.
China just purchased a Canadian petroleum firm (Nexen, in Calgary, the firm has a large stake in Alberta’s oil sands). The Chinese company is named CNOOC (the third largest oil firm in China.) It gives China political leverage which I don’t like. (Chinese firms are state owned and operated, they’re not capitalist enterprises…Hence politics become a concern.)
China is the corporatist state the left claims to fear so much. Funny how they all seem to be so enamored of China.
Afghanistan is supposed to be rich in rare earths and the Chinese would like to move in there, too. It’s what they do – they move in, take what they want, and leave.
China is undertaking most of the infrastructure work in sub-Saharan Africa, even importing most of the labor from China. I’ve seen it myself in Angola, Chinese labor repairing streets and roads and sidewalks.
I do know the natives don’t like the Chinese and see them as clever exploiters of their natural resources.
Obama is using Chinese imports to keep overall inflation under control. As food and fuel rise, people don’t notice the hammering they are taking, because they are saving on electronics, clothes, furniture etc. The downside is the American job loss.
Tyranny advances unchecked within and without our borders and nobody notices, or if they do, cares. It will soon be time to choose between liberty and something else which by the time it is generally defined and realized will have become irreversible. Honestly, I’m thinking it’s already a done deal. It won’t be very long before anyone who remembers different will be irrelevant or dead.
You need to stop worrying so much about stuff you can’t change and figure out how you can personally PROFIT from the coming changes. If you know so much that everyone else doesn’t you should be able to invest in the right stocks, etc, right?
I’ve never been so worried about the future. Where in the world does one go? I can’t see any scenarios where the cards don’t come crashing down. Right now, I cling to my faith that this is written and will all come out in the end, but that doesn’t make the preparations any easier.
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Bob Owens has written many interesting recent posts that all of you (except Obama and his commie-fascist minions) should read. His blog posts give me great hope for the future.
Yeah, a lot of people in the US are noticing the well is running dry too. Its not just our over seas ‘responsibilities’.
I’m a hypocrite – I still want the United States to be assertive. Just think there needs to be something more in it for us than the concept of peace through keeping our ‘allies’ infantilized by paying their bills and gaurding their borders.
Even Israel the US leans on to not fight for itself. Maybe without US involvement you will ultimately be better off.
I am starting to think that with this new gun controll debate is the big overreach, I don,t think the American people are going to go along with that one. Our country was founded on a little thing( freedom) that has a lot to do with the private ownership of guns. I think the US government is going to be very surprised at the result, of trying to disarm the American people. Everyone knows what needs to be done , but nobody wants to go there, wait till the government pushes them to the cliff, they will fight like hell.
“…much of the world already believes this is the case.”
Much of the world is a great deal more connected to the world of reality and thus they can see the handwriting on the wall.
Though it sounds old, worn out and I supose irrelevant, a divided nation cannot stand.
Good article. I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog. (www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com). Here’s my take with suggestions: “Keeper of the Flame”
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2013/01/keeper-of-flame.html
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Strange that Dr Rubin does not mention the coming out of nuclearized Iran: This event will be the “december 7th 41″( Pearl harbor ) of 2013. This event will reveal that the US king is naked and can only adapt rather than fight the emergence of a new monster ” shiite fanatics with nuclear wapons ” ! The 1st traget of a nclear Iran is the overcoming og the petro-rich sunnis kingdoms ,in the persian gulf then the House of Saud too will fall into submission-subversion.When 90% of the arab oil producers will behave like obedient schoolboys of the iranian mullahcracy, the flow of oil will be restricted to the China-India-asian buyers.The US and Europe will have to accept the Iranian ultimatum ; discard Israel ( end of diplomatic relations – economic boycott ) or make war with a nuclear Iran. We all know how fast the US will turn its back on Israel…( a week-a month no more ) et voilà….israel will be compelled to accept the coming of 6 to 8 million of so-called refugees , the jewish state will quickly crumble into a Lebanese-style anarchy , et voilà …Enhanced by such a diplomatic triumph ( without firing a single shot , just a brinkmanship game )the next stage of Iran overpowering the west will be monetary.Iran+obedient sunni petro-kingdom will join China-India to sell their US T bonds holding massively.Who will buy them back ? Only the Fed thanks to more US $ debasement.The US $ will plummet, 20% a year inflation will bite back then the US citizens will have their lifetime choice facing them : Overthrow the lousy accomplices of the great american surrender or accept submission to the new monetary powers of China-India-Iran.Devastated by hunger californans will jump into fishing boats to reach the chinese coast to sew Nile sneakers for 2 $/ day. If you think I am wrong then please explain to me how and why this scenario will not occur .
Nice Neocon fantasy about Iran. As soon as they go nuclear, Pakistan will give the Saudis their nukes.
Nice wanabee clever ( Mr Reality check ) and misses the target with a gross generalization and a slur at what you underscore as ” neocon ” ( sorry here at PJM we are 90% neocon ): ” So the pakistanis will provide the saudis a nuclear device and technology and thus everything will stay the same in the mideast nuclear terror balance “…If I give you a gun and I have a gun, and we hate each other who will shoot first ? The one who hates more than the other, theone who aims and shoot better, the one who can receive many wounds and still emerges as the last survivor ? Or in two words ” the will to win the other ” is what tips the scale towards the winner. Have you been to Saudi Arabia ? I have been several times, and since I deal with complex industrial technologies I met several engineers who are also in the saudi air force,and ground forces.My feeling is that despite having superior militray technology they do not want to sacrifice themselves in front of a crowd of fanatical cavemen like the iranians revolutionnary guards , so when the fanatical cavemen will get their nuclear toy ( thanks to frivolous wanabee analysts of your style ) we shall meet at the gas station to refill our car tank ( $ 12 a gallon then )and guess what Mr Wanabee analyst-frivolous amateur , there will be no respect at all for your standing in the waiting line ….just to mention a very common consequence of your snake-oil vendor analysis.
I could be wrong, but i believe that Saudis are behind 9/11/01, the creation of candidate Obama ( an imbecile who can be manipulated and who believes in Islam doctrine), the financing of Muslim immigration into the US etc.
It is an undisputed fact that Saudis are ferociously loyal to Islamic principles ( witness their own societal rules), it is also an undisputed fact that the Koran teaches Muslims to lie and cheat to the infidel in order to gain his trust and then cut his throat.
If I were you people, I’d spend less time bickering over who was at the helm when we hit the iceberg and more time looking for a lifeboat.
All great nations come to an end and when they do, it’s pretty much for the same reason: they had it too good for too long.
Yes sir! In these more modern times especially, greed, excess and corruption of an irresponsible peoples!
If you are Jewish: “After the Fall: What Do You Do When You Conclude America Is (Temporarily or Permanently) Kaput?”
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Just thought I’d add that another group which may be “up the creek without a paddle” are secular Muslims who oppose religious fundamentalism (Iranians who oppose the mullahs, etc). Will they be safe in the brave new Obama world of U.S. style tyranny? Remember, comrades, it is Dear Leader’s claim that there is no future for those who slander the prophet.
Its been said by the left and much of the world that the USA is no better, greater or important than any other country. Well so be it then, just remember that when the next disaster or war hits and old Uncle Sam is nowhere to be found.
The current inept American Foreign Policy, tied in with BenGazi is sending strong signals all over the globe – the wrong signals. I believe many of our allies, while not believing this is happening, are preparing for the worst. This may cause an early war in the Middle East and rumors of wars elsewhere around the globe.
Apparently, they are deliberately doing this, or the “elite” gerrymandered them in knowing they only wanted power and have no wisdom when it comes to foreign policy.
As for domestic policy, the recent “pork stuffed” Super Sandy Storm Fund should have no pork. Beef, lamb and buffalo shouldn’t be allowed either. When will they stop doing stupid stuff like this just so they can get re-elected? Professional politicians are our undoing. For the years since WWII, we haven’t had good choices in our government where the will of American citizens can be realized. Instead we get whitewashed every day of every term. Now, however, laws are being broken, both civil and criminal, and no body of our government is doing anything!
C’est la vie!
The thesis of this article is driven by paranoia and worst case thinking. China is still a paper tiger and there is no military power on earth even close to USA.
Obama just doesnt give a damnm about the ME anymore including Israel.
The Middle East is a death trap and money pit for USA.
We should have nothing to do with Mideast. We should just arm Israel and that is it.
Mike, take a look here, at the blurbs on the Amazon site for top Reaganite economist George Gilder’s latest book, The Israel Test –objectively, Israel is far less an American money pit than an American profit center.
EDITORIAL: EPA’s chilling effect Alaskan liberty goes up in smoke under new air regulations by The Washington Times Friday, January 4, 2013
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/4/epa-s-chilling-effect/
It is for its own good that the US realizes its decline, in the eyes of the rest of the world, including long time strong allies. Regional “powers” are fast sprouting up in all continents, challenging the legitimacy of US global predominance. Still dreaming of white supremacy? Better not. (mtd1943, vzc1943)
“Still dreaming of white supremacy?”
Thanks for diplaying your racist bigotry. Good luck.
I call it the coalition of losers and now they are the majority. To make matters worse whenever socialism is on the march they are led by the intelligentsia, a word we don’t use much anymore. They are usually among the most dismal of people, morally smug , physically weak, unsatisfied with their position the world. They are incapable of building nothing only destroying. The problem is in our country that have ensconsed themselves into positions of confort and ease far beyond their contributions living off the future earnings of their minions many of them who will no longer be able to buy property because they are indebted to their masters for their educations to nowhere.
After 9/11 I don’t care what happens anywhere in the world of Islam. The U.S. needs to cut Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt and Afghanistan totally loose. They ain’t worth it. America may have missed it’s last chance with Romney’s defeat.
The national credit card has been maxed out, it is time for the spending spree to end. Too bad, but that’s the reality. Sorry, world, but we won’t be able to solve every one of your problems for you. Those are problems that you’ve been suffering from for about 5000 years now, more or less. The thought does occur that maybe you folks might just take a stab at solving them yourselves. Or you could just suffer for another 5000 years. It really is your choice. Good luck. In the meantime, the US needs to figure out how to live within its means.
The US has not acted in it’s interest since Reagan. Democrats and Republicans are traitors that do the Global elite’s bidding.
Heard they import workers for their Canadian investments as well.
It is exactly as Dinesh D’Souza predicted in 2016. Obama is downsizing America.