Most of us know that the Great War, which the U.S. entered one hundred years ago, this past week, disrupted the map of Europe and finished off monarchy as a significant form of government. A lot of us also know that the Treaty of Versailles set the stage for the failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of National Socialism, and thus the vast destruction of the Second World War.
Check out this piece from the Unz Report, posted on April 6, for a glimpse at the propaganda the newspapers fed American readers. Some of it might sound a little too familiar. I recommend reading the whole thing.
I used to believe Americans were the good guys. The men and women who fill the ranks of the U.S. military are good people, for the most part. I walked through a park in Fayetteville, AR recently that is named for Medal of Honor winner Clarence Craft and talked with a person who knew Mr. Craft from his volunteer work at the Fayetteville Veterans' Hospital. He was a good man of great, self-sacrificing courage, but individual courage knows no race, religion, or nationality.
Tariq Aziz was the Iraqi foreign minister during the regime of Saddam Hussein. He was being interviewed on television before, I suppose, the invasion in 2003. When asked if he would fight if Iraq were invaded, he replied that he would. When asked why, he said, "Because I am a patriot." Even at the time, I admired that. I thought he was in the wrong, but it seemed to me to be worthy of respect.
We need to ask ourselves, if we believe in liberty and self-determination for individuals, how we have a right to tell nations how they should be governed and by whom. It's almost as if, in the age of the "United Nations", globalism, and one-world, we-are-the-world sentiments, we have decided that nationalism and love for one's people is the ultimate sin.
I am deeply disappointed in Trump's intervention in the Syrian conflict. We destablized the region by removing Saddam Hussein then, even as the left protested Bush's action there, the left's president brought further chaos in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria. I believe that the Syrian "insurgents" are ISIS or ISIS allies, and I believe further that ISIS is a creation of Western globalism.
The war is globalism versus nationalism, and the United States military is the primary force at the disposal of globalism, as has been the case for most of the last hundred years. American interests were not at stake in WWI. I am beginning to think they were not at stake so much in WWII -- but I confess to having been raised among people who loathed Franklin Roosevelt as much as the left reveres him and attributed Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt's machinations. How was Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, or Iraq any of our business?
How much oil have we gotten from the region as a result of our invasion versus how much we have wasted rolling around the damn desert or versus the trillions blown away to bring "democracy"? That isn't even to mention the blood spilled and the lives destroyed -- American, Iraqi, Afghani, Syrian, Libyan, et al.
As World War III heats up, I return to what I have said here from the first -- individual responsibility, loyalty to family, church, and community -- that's the hope. Trump was never more than a gambit for disrupting the UniParty and buying time. He may still do that for us, but he is not capable of really turning things around. If he succeeds in limiting immigration, we still owe him thanks. He is not our savior.
Check out this piece from the Unz Report, posted on April 6, for a glimpse at the propaganda the newspapers fed American readers. Some of it might sound a little too familiar. I recommend reading the whole thing.
I used to believe Americans were the good guys. The men and women who fill the ranks of the U.S. military are good people, for the most part. I walked through a park in Fayetteville, AR recently that is named for Medal of Honor winner Clarence Craft and talked with a person who knew Mr. Craft from his volunteer work at the Fayetteville Veterans' Hospital. He was a good man of great, self-sacrificing courage, but individual courage knows no race, religion, or nationality.
Tariq Aziz was the Iraqi foreign minister during the regime of Saddam Hussein. He was being interviewed on television before, I suppose, the invasion in 2003. When asked if he would fight if Iraq were invaded, he replied that he would. When asked why, he said, "Because I am a patriot." Even at the time, I admired that. I thought he was in the wrong, but it seemed to me to be worthy of respect.
We need to ask ourselves, if we believe in liberty and self-determination for individuals, how we have a right to tell nations how they should be governed and by whom. It's almost as if, in the age of the "United Nations", globalism, and one-world, we-are-the-world sentiments, we have decided that nationalism and love for one's people is the ultimate sin.
I am deeply disappointed in Trump's intervention in the Syrian conflict. We destablized the region by removing Saddam Hussein then, even as the left protested Bush's action there, the left's president brought further chaos in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria. I believe that the Syrian "insurgents" are ISIS or ISIS allies, and I believe further that ISIS is a creation of Western globalism.
The war is globalism versus nationalism, and the United States military is the primary force at the disposal of globalism, as has been the case for most of the last hundred years. American interests were not at stake in WWI. I am beginning to think they were not at stake so much in WWII -- but I confess to having been raised among people who loathed Franklin Roosevelt as much as the left reveres him and attributed Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt's machinations. How was Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, or Iraq any of our business?
How much oil have we gotten from the region as a result of our invasion versus how much we have wasted rolling around the damn desert or versus the trillions blown away to bring "democracy"? That isn't even to mention the blood spilled and the lives destroyed -- American, Iraqi, Afghani, Syrian, Libyan, et al.
As World War III heats up, I return to what I have said here from the first -- individual responsibility, loyalty to family, church, and community -- that's the hope. Trump was never more than a gambit for disrupting the UniParty and buying time. He may still do that for us, but he is not capable of really turning things around. If he succeeds in limiting immigration, we still owe him thanks. He is not our savior.
Keep posting Mushroom, we need as many sane voices as possible.
ReplyDeleteIt's a catch-22; if we try to help, we're screwed. If we don't, we're screwed. Question is; just how many more "refugees" can we absorb from failing countries?
ReplyDeleteThanks.
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