"Regional conflicts .... ". I have to laugh my ass off at the willful obfuscation. This is the same "conflict" being fomented in "regions" all over the world; different "regions" same "conflict". It's islam.
Yeah. We have to be on guard for those Thais and their deadly spicy peanut sauce. Oh and those Koreans scare the hell out of us with their killer kimchee WMD.
Not only willful obfuscation, but willful delusion. As I've said before, we are living in a time where Truth would
love to be a poor red-headed stepchild. We are living in the Orwellian world of universal deceit, a world where an 8th grader wearing an NRA t-shirt to school becomes a Revolutionary Act and subject to arrest.
Much of the blame for where we are in this Jihadi War can be laid at George Bush's feet. He failed to communicate the nature of the threat, instead giving us that not so brilliant bullshyt 'islam is a religion of peace'. I said it at the time, the President's job is not to get into a comparative religion exercise, but a little factual History might have gone a long way to educate the masses about islam and the word, concept and act of 'jihad'. It really is insanity, trying to buck the millenia of History we have at our fingertips exposing islam for the violent fraud it is, more so now with the internet rather than having to go digging through some musty library shelf (not that that's a bad thing, you just have to actually get up an go to an older library to enjoy that sensory experience). As I said in another comment, progressivism is not anything if not suicide on a national scale. I'd be willing to bet that of 535 members of Congress (I'm not even going to throw Barry into the mix because I know he isn't capable of reading such things), maybe 5% have read any Greek or Roman classical historian. That's a high end guess of around 27, now 26 with Allen West gone from the House. How many people even know what the true lesson of Rome was? It sure wasn't the bread and circuses of the Flavian Amphitheater or the Circus Maximus, although our current emperor seems to love that aspect of Rome, what with his Free Shyt Army. How many people have heard of Julius Caesar? I'd bet a lot. But how many know he was the man who turned Rome from a Republic into a dictatorship? That the historical lesson of Rome is encapsulated in that previous question, the pitfalls of elevating one man to rule previously free men?
We have gone from a Nation which once educated its children to a high standard on a local level to a Nation with 'lowest common denominator' national standards pushing Ritalin and junk science on kids, among other things. We have a society that has lost all sense of History, even our own limited but damn fine one, notwithstanding our national experience with
The Peculiar Institution. History now begins when one is born. Nothing else matters. It's scary to me that mindset (which I've seen enough to convince me that those so observed were not an aberration). When a Nation is stripped of the very identity which makes it unique in the annals of History, there's not really anywhere to go but down. So while we may not go down because we hire mercenaries to patrol and control our border because we are too lazy and risk adverse to protect ourselves as this Administration would never think of hiring mercenaries to protect our border from their lazy and worthless asses, we are going down right along with our currency. Our Republic will die from a two-pronged attack, with jihadis coming in a distant, but still important, third: Uncontrolled immigration and national bankruptcy.
When it comes to islam and the History of the World, we as a Country have a serious case of Alzheimer's. And now with OwebamaCare, well, . . . .