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| Terror Networks |
| America needs a better class of enemy |
| 2011-05-18 |
| So they found a big stash of porn in Osama bin Laden's compound. I thought the whole point of terrorism was supposed to be religious or something, but apparently the terrorists are like cafeteria Muslims -- they don't subscribe to the whole Islamic tenet of clean living and instead just adhere to the blowing-up-infidels part of the religion. It seems one of the biggest goals of Islamic terrorists -- besides pointless murder and mayhem -- is to have absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. We have bleeding heart liberals who automatically side with America's enemies, but the terrorists are dead set on giving even those people absolutely nothing to hold onto. You can search and search for the terrorists to have any redeeming qualities, and the best you'll come up with is something like, "Well, one time they only kicked a puppy when they easily could have stomped it to death." They're just pointless, useless enemies -- far more one-dimensionally vile than anything you'd find in the most hackneyed fiction. And that's a big problem for us. America has been in a slump for a long time. We just can't get our act together and be the shining city on the hill we used to be, and I think a big part of that is terrorists. Not terrorism; terrorists -- in that they are our big enemy right now. The fact is, to achieve great heights, America needs a great villain to overcome, and as long as our big enemy is a bunch of primitive thugs servicing themselves in barren compounds, we're going to be stuck in a rut. |
| Posted by:Frozen Al |
| #7 The enemy is already inside the gate. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-18 09:19 |
| #6 Well I guess we still have our Domestic Enemies to fall back on. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-05-18 09:03 |
| #5 Substitute Native American/Indian for terrorist and you get the feel of some writers of the late 1880-90s were musing about as they prepped America for the world stage leading to the Spanish-American War to be followed by the inevitable complications of becoming involved in the fratricidal European wars of the early 20th Century. Again, and again, the military men have seen themselves hurled into war by ambitions, passions, and blunders of civilian governments, almost wholly uninformed as to the limits of their military potentials and almost recklessly indifferent to the military requirements of the wars they let loose. Aware that they may again be thrown by civilians into an unforeseen conflict, perhaps with a foe they have not envisaged, these realistic military men find themselves unable to do anything save demand all the men, guns, and supplies they can possibly wring from the civilians, in the hope that they may be prepared or half prepared for whatever may befall them. In so doing they inevitably find themselves associated with militaristic military men who demand all they can get merely for the sake of having it without reference to ends. - Vagts, Alfred, History of Militarism, rev. 1959, Free Press, NY, pp 34. We do not need to seek enemies or create them for that matter simply for some weird concept that boils down to 'that which does not destroy us, makes us stronger'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-05-18 08:31 |
| #4 You're loosing to the current enemy. |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-18 08:09 |
| #3 You go to war with the enemy you have. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2011-05-18 07:21 |
| #2 "America needs a great villain to overcome" - iff History is any measure, a villain worse than Osama,etal. will come along shortly during this 2011-2020/2025 time period. THE PROVERBIAL "RIGHT BUTTONS" WERE NEVER EVAR! PUSHED, UNTIL NOW!? Ask, + Ye shall receive. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-18 01:54 |
| #1 "...it's a crying shame the way war has been handled in the last few decades. I mean, let's look at it out in the open. Let's stop this pussyfootin' around. Can you tell me why the hell we've given up on the Germans? Can you? Those damn politicians in Washington have chalked them up on our side, and the wars ever since have been a national disgrace. Hell, look at history. The two best wars this country has fought were against the Jerries. Now I say, get the Krauts back on the other side of the fence where they belong, and let's return to the kind of enemy worth killing and the kind of war this whole country can support." -- Uncle Victor, "Harold & Maude" |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-05-18 01:36 |