The Myth of Afghanistan

While President Joe Biden is still attempting to blame Trump for his own debacle in Afghanistan, America needs to be reminded of something. That country has spent centuries being at war and has never been truly unified. It is a collection of tribes all warring against each other, switching sides when it pleases them and then switching back when the tide turns. War is all they know, and they accept that.

Under President Bush, we had as many as 25,000 soldiers there at the peak of the conflict. But Barack Obama, the man who got a Peace Prize prematurely for what they "thought" he would do, quadrupled that number to 100,000 and that year we saw more men and women wounded than during Bush’s entire tenure in the White House, over 1,200.

We may think that “This is just war and in war people die,” but the reality of the disaster came because Obama was an ideological coward and even hindered our troops from seriously fighting the Taliban. Supposedly he thought we could change the hearts and minds of eternal fighters but instead it cost lives. Or perhaps, he was trying just not to kill his Muslim friends. Only he truly knows. Our troops had guns but were restrained from using them.

The reality is that Al Qaeda, ISIS and other Jihadi factions will always use Afghanistan as a base to attack the West and even fellow Muslims who they feel are not fundamentally Islamic enough. It will never end.

Islam has been at war with the world since Muhammad put away his role as a preacher of Islam and became a warrior for Islam. Muhammad IS Islam so it will always be so, whether we like it, or admit to it, or not.

And while the media and clueless Liberals choose to still repeat the tireless mantra that Islam is a religion of peace, they continue to kill, rape, and plunder at will. After all, they have their Prophet and Allah's permission to do so.

The idea that our involvement in Afghanistan keeps us safe, is a farce, especially when you consider that since his botched withdrawal Biden has brought to America, to neighbors all across this country, the same people who have known war and aggression to be a lifestyle. We will see Americans die here, because of his failure and all the covering by the media will soon wax old and ineffective.

Unvetted, how many terrorists have we brought here, on the taxpayer’s dime, to begin their plotting from the inside now instead of the outside?

Due to Political Correctness nonsense, among other things, we have become cowards and timid when it comes to calling an enemy an enemy. And it is impossible to fight an enemy you refuse to admit exists. As you'll remember, Obama instituted the policy of not even referring to “Islamic terrorism” as a reality and we are doomed to fail as long as we refuse to name our enemy.

Without the ability, or the wherewithal, to name a problem, it is impossible to address it correctly. That is Commonsense 101.

As long as there are people and cultures in this world that are starkly different from us in fundamental ways, we have to be willing to recognize the difference and understand it has nothing to do with racism or bigotry but survival, especially when those differences are life-threatening. Liberals bemoan the idea of walls and even having a border is declared inhumane. This is lunacy and self-destructive for a nation.

We may think that seeing the best in other cultures is taking the enlightened path and shows our superiority over hatred when in fact it shows how naïve we choose to be. Not all differences between us and others are bad, but to assume there is no difference is suicidal.

We continue to think that we should go to war in some justifiable instances, but we go with the premise that it is not necessary to win. So then, how can we do anything but forfeit blood and treasure for nothing?

America is not like any other nation on the planet or in that has ever existed in history but the new mindset seems to be that we are not exceptional. That myth will bring us down, not bring others up. We are not like all the others and the others will never be like us and to think otherwise is delusional and to be detached from reality. And rest assured, we will pay the price.

Glen Spicer

We Need A Leader of Character and Obama Ain't Him

It is easier to bring people down to the level of those who have less and are less than it is to do the work necessary to bring up the less fortunate. There are two ways to have the best house on the block. One, you work to beautify your own home or two, you burn down everyone else's. Obama wants to burn down them all. It is easier. It is the way of the thug and the brute. It is the Chicago way. It is the Obama way.

And until and unless the American people rise up and become a voice that cannot be ignored by pet media outlets and politicians with their hands over their ears, we will continue to be victimized for our beliefs, our uniqueness, our strengths as he and his motley crew try to spread the misery around. We will continue to be told that we are all the same, we deserve the same bank balance whether or not we work to build it, we all deserve the big house and fancy car even if we cannot pay for it. We are told that some salaries are obscene and need to be taken by the government and put to better use. They’ll take from those who work and give to those who can’t get off the couch because Jerry Springer is on unless it is to open a fresh bag of Doritos. The plan is for us to become less so that those who have less will not get their feelings hurt.

That was the message of Communism – make everyone equal. Erase the class differences. Only the elite leaders will be different, after all, they are called by God to ride roughshod over the ignorant masses because the people are basically too stupid to know what is good for them. Communism has not worked as a valid form of government anywhere in the world and a socialism that seeks to displace capitalism will not work here.

We in America cling to their “religions and guns” and liberal progressives cannot stomach that because they are the signs of a free people. There is a remarkable difference between slaves and freemen, and we choose freedom from the tyranny of an oppressive government. It is why we crossed the ocean and started over here to create this country. We refuse to return to those days of oppression ever again. We wish to remain free and not to have to fight that battle again. Hear that Washington? (I said that we preferred not fight that battle again, I did not say we won’t.)

The only portion of the country that is expanding is the government and that is their goal. Once the government controls all the jobs, the banks, the car manufactures, the unions, the salaries, the insurance companies, the health care benefits, they control us and we will not longer be free people. Slavery is never out of style for those in power who corruptly wield their iron fist over people they see as unimportant and cattle to be herded, sheep to be sheared, and fowl to be slaughtered for sake of a fancy meal. Sacrifices must be made and in their eyes, we are the sacrificial lambs.

We are told that the era of American supremacy is over and that we need to ask permission of third world countries what temperature we can set our thermostats on, what car we should drive, whether or not we have the right to live as free men and women and even if we have the right to defend ourselves against the force of a criminal.

Terrorist who seek our demise fervently are given rights and coddled. Our leader even could not find it in his heart to call the Fort Hood terrorist what he was- a Muslim terrorist. See was that so hard to do? In fact even before the truth got out that he had not been killed in the attack but was alive in the hospital, our government had already determined that it was not a terrorist act. How foolish, misguided and arrogant.

The devout purpose of terrorist is strengthened by a government that hasn’t the backbone to call them for what they are and to sound the alarm to the danger. We are led by a man who claims that the sound of the Imam’s call to prayer is one of the most beautiful sounds in all the earth while we see those same people cheer as our buildings fall in a cloud of dust choking out lives and futures forever.

We are led by a man who watches an evil government in its race to become a nuclear power and he refuses to stand with that country’s own people who oppose the oppressive regime that steals its way into control. He still believes that his silver-tongued rhetoric still thinks he can crumble their will into a sobbing heap apologizing for having ever wanted to hurt us.

Was anyone really surprised that it took days of killing in the streets of Iran before our president found the backbone to even speak up about the Iranian government forces that were doing the killing? He validated the election Iran’s people refused to acknowledge. Our leader cowered from the fray because he didn’t want to be seen as interfering.

Yet this same leader seeks to interfere into every aspect of our lives without even losing a minute of sleep over it, as he tells us what to eat, how much money we can make, and how we should live our lives. He takes millions of dollars from us and lies about where it goes and what good it does. He boasts of bolstering the economy but fails to explain that it is the economy of China that he has strengthened. He spends money he does not have, borrowing to shackle our future. When the debt is called one day because they lose faith in our government, we will be slaves once again to an oppressive force – China.

President Obama hides from the responsibility that comes with the job he tricked so many into giving him. I say tricked because basically every reason he gave for people to vote for him, he has negated by his actions since taking office. If the people had known the truth they tried so hard not to see, he would not have had a chance for the nomination, much less to be sworn into office.

There is an uprising coming to this country fueled by the arrogance of a twisted Chicago minded politician even if he thinks we will eventually see things his way and feebly bow at his altar and surrender our souls. In seeking to control it all and all of us, he will lose it all. I pray “hasten the day”.

Only then can America have a chance to upright itself and return to her former glory. With a leader who has surrendered to world opinion and believes his own press clippings, America will always suffer and suffer badly. We need a true American to lead us in character, honesty, truth and humbleness and leaders can only lead where they have themselves been. Obama has not even visited the places of character, honesty, truth or humbleness, much less lived there. I doubt he has the ability to lead us into such territory so unfamiliar to him.