This along with just about 100% of what this administration has done both domestically and internationally has done nothing but destabilize the entire world. This will result in a major war where millions will die and its almost entirely Obama’s fault!
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REPOST: “The Benghazi Brief” – With Additional Research and Source Vetting
Great summary of the entire affare; lots of blame to go around and since both parties have their hand in it its unlike that the truth will ever be made official! Back in the day this report would earn someone a Pulitzer today not so since real reporting is left to only a few such as is found here!
Obama Budget Seeks To Strip Funding That Allows Veterans To Receive Faster Medical Care Outside VA System…
Obama does not like the military or the veterans!.
Still More of President Obama’s Moral Equivalence
By Victor Davis Hanson // NRO- The Corner February 6, 2015 8:41 am
President Obama, at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, said:
Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
This is banal.
The problem with all such high-horse declarations by Obama is his continual omission of historical context and, in this case, his conflation of the frequent with the rare. The Crusades began in 1095, almost a millennium ago; the Inquisition in 1478, now over 500 years past. When the president says “people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” he should remember that all religions at the time committed terrible deeds that shock the modern sense of morality — given the savage wars between Christendom and Islam, and the religious purifications and civil discord common to all the religious factional strife that played out, violently, in accord with the ethos of the times.
Slavery was outlawed in the U.S. in 1865. Jim Crow ended officially a half-century ago. Indentured servitude, however,continues, almost exclusively among some Islamic groups in the Middle East and Africa. The caste system and ethnic and religious tribalism that institutionalized discrimination and second-class status, quite akin to Jim Crow, persist in places in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. I doubt today whether a Jew of any nationality would be allowed to immigrate and buy real estate in too many corners of the Islamic Middle East. Outside of the West, women and homosexuals are often treated no differently than in the Seventh Century.
In fact, Christian countries were the first to legally end the age-old human sin of the slave trade, and the first to outlaw slavery’s continuance. The president, is fond of historical sloppiness and moral equivalence (cf. the Cairo Speech). But what is the point of citing sins of 1,000, 500, 150, or 50 years ago, without acknowledging 1) that such pathologies still continue today outside the West, especially in the world of Islam, and 2) that Christianity had a unique role in ending these wrongs?
So the question for the president is, why does such medieval violence persist to a much greater degree among so many Islamic extremists in the present world than among most zealots of other religions? (This is an empirical statement. Cf., for instance, the nature of recent global terror attacks in resources such as the Global Terrorism Database). And why search the distant past for examples of moral equivalence, unless the present does not offer suitable data?
Did Churchill point to the excesses of Oliver Cromwell, or did Daladier to the French Revolution, to remind their contemporaries that National Socialism in Germany was not doing anything differently in the 1930s than had their own countries in the distant past? Those of the 1930s who sought to make such facile comparisons between their own past and Germany’s present were written off as appeasers.
Areas of Central and Latin America are as poor as the Middle East, but Christian liberation theologists, unlike the Islamic State, are not beheading and burning prisoners alive to advance their redistributionist cause. Chinese imperialists and colonialists have absorbed Tibet, but the Dalai Lama is not sending suicide bombers into China. The children of East Prussians expelled from 1945-47 are not suiting up with suicide vests to attack Poles. Impoverished Hindu extremists, angry at centuries of British colonialism, do not hijack planes and ram them into high-rises in British cities. Jews are not blowing up cartoonists and satirists in Paris and Germany who deny or caricature the Holocaust.
No one has easy answers to the dilemma of contemporary violent Islamism; for brief interludes in the recent past, secular ideologies were more likely than radical Islam to be the expressed popular driving forces in the violent Middle East (e.g., fascism [1930s], Communism [1940s], Baathism and Pan-Arabism [1950s], which produced the Grand Mufti, Nasser, the Assads, Arafat, Saddam, and Qaddafi). The president and his advisers should be investigating why radical Islam is currently terrorizing the globe, rather than denying it entirely, hiding it by euphemisms, or excusing it by citing morally equivalent examples from the past.
Optimism v Pessimisim
There is little doubt that we live in interesting times. However, it is not always doom and gloom. What you have to understand is there will never be any change or reform without the doom and gloom. We have to crash and burn in order to create what Joseph Schumpeter called Waves of Creative Destruction.
There was the Great Depression, which everyone says we must prevent. All they see is the doom and gloom. Without the Great Depression you might still be growing tomatoes. Here we can see the shift within the make-up of the economy. Agriculture crashed and burned sending unemployment to 25%. This forced people to become skilled labor. Unfortunately, it marked the birth of government which grew tremendously. Now we have reached the peak in government and they must go through their wave of collapse. Government produces nothing – it consumes the wealth created by the people. The more it consumes, the slower the economic growth and the less opportunity in the future for the next generation.
So yes, we are in a doom and gloom era for government. But the light peaking through the clouds is a new land of exciting opportunity – a Private Wave of opportunity. What we must be careful about is government will not reform nor will it go quietly into the light. They will rage against their coming demise. The object is to step out of the way and help others understand this is a Wave of Creative Destruction – not the end of the world. Embrace it and prepare for a new way ahead. In part this is why I will do the SOLUTION conference now rather than latter.
The End of the Heroic
By Paul Eidelberg
If you are puzzled by “homegrown” Islamic terrorism in America, if you are wondering why many youth join “radical” or “extremist” Islamic organizations, you may want to consider, among the various causes of such phenomena, certain hitherto unexamined facts about American “culture.”
One such fact is the lack of any clearly defined culture in this country. Most clearly lacking is what was once deemed admirable and worthy of praise and imitation: the heroic.
The concept of the heroic was once propagated by Hollywood Westerns, personified, for instance, by Gary Cooper in “High Noon.” Such heroic personalities have been replaced by urban misfits, portrayed, for example, by physically unimpressive types like Dustin Hoffman. But this touches only the surface of the anti-heroic.
Probing more deeply, the heroic, which portrays man as larger that than life, has been buried by the ordinary. Shakespeare is dead, replaced by the meaninglessness Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea.
The ordinary has become the preoccupation of the cinema. It has been endowed with philosophical trappings, such as the college-bred doctrine of moral relativism, a doctrine that denies black-and-white distinctions, such as “good” and “evil.” The old Hollywood ending in which good triumphs over evil is now ancient history. For Americans, history began with the dropping of the A-Bomb on Hiroshima, hardly an act requiring personal courage.
To make things even clearer, ponder Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” whose central character is rightly named “Willy Loman.” The salesman has nothing of his own, and this exactly defines the anti-heroic.
Indeed, the anti-heroic has conquered the American mind and is vividly exemplified in Barack Obama’s servile apology for American greatness. Moreover, Obama’s retreat from America’s pivotal role in the Middle East may be compared to Miller’s Death of a Salesman translated from the stage in Broadway to the stage and death of American foreign policy!
We see this demise in America’s anti-war movement and corresponding anti-war movies. We are witnessing the senility of contemporary America. This senility goes against the grain of youth. It clashes with youth’s full-blooded imagination and dreams of greatness. Small wonder that some young Americans have joined a Muslim terrorist group that exalts self-sacrifice in the seemingly heroic cause of Islam.
Contrast the moral relativism and milquetoast nihilism of American colleges and universities. Barack Obama ingested the moral anemia of academia. Hence his phlegmatic description of ISIS terrorism as “bankruptcy” and his less than heroic forays on the golf course while the world is going to hell. But now you may begin to understand why some American youth want more than Willy Lomans
The Death Cross of American Society
These are very real and very bad trends and they can not go on for long before the system falls apart, which is what the progressives want to happen so they can re make America into what they want!
Not Surprising – The Obama White House Manufactured The Netanyahu ‘Speech To Congress Controversy’…
Well we do know that Obama, and all in this administration, have never been known to tell the truth.
INTEREST COSTS SOON TO EXCEED NATION DEFENSE WITH SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE… LATER: MUST CONTROL GLOBAL WARMING
This is why the FED’s primary goal is holding interest rates down because if they go up the country is Bankrupt!
12 MINUTES OF WONDERFUL HUMOR
Compare this from President Ronald Reagan to anything the our current president as been able to give us and you will have to agree that Obama is not Reagan and never could be! In Fact, I will predict that Barack Hussein Obama will be the worst president America will ever have no matter how many follow him.
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