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Fundamental Concepts - Weakness Invites Aggression [Weirddave]

It's human nature to live in your own bubble. We have only experienced the world that we live in, so naturally many people assume that the world as it is is its default state. In order to move beyond this paradigm, one must first be introspective enough to recognize it, then take the time and effort to study history and culture to examine whether your norm is anything at all like the human norm through history. Often times this forces one to confront truths that may be, like life, nasty and brutish. For example, students are taught today that the shameful reality of slavery in America is somehow unique and uniquely horrible. It is only through further study that one discovers that slavery has been practiced in almost all human cultures for as long as human beings have been around. In fact, it was the hated Judeo-Christian civilization that recognized it for the evil that it is and fought to eliminate it. Slavery is still practiced today across much of the Arab world and in vast swaths of Africa. What little slavery remains in the West (sex slavery) is universally condemned and vigorously prosecuted. Recognizing that slavery is not a uniquely American phenomenon, and that there is still lots of it around can be a distressing challenge to a world view that has been unexamined. Acknowledging that the West is the only culture in the history of mankind that has for all practical purposes eradicated it can destroy that world view.

The same thing is true with peace. Almost everyone wants peace, the problem is that we've had peace in this country for so long that most people don't recognize it for the aberration that it is. Because of this, a curiously contradictory mindset holds sway over a large segment of the population, most of them on the left side of the political spectrum. It goes something like this: "Well, we want peace, so we'll just refuse to fight. If we refuse to fight, the other guy will have no reason to fight us." If you point out to them that the other guy just might not want peace, you'll get a predictable response: " Well, since peace is the default state of the world, if we can figure out what we did to make the other guy mad at us and desirous of war, and make it up to him, then he'll feel comfortable with allowing the default state to resume."

The problem is, of course, that peace isn't the default state of the world, war is. Human beings are predators, and we are genetically designed to be in competition with other human beings, either individually or in groups. If group A has something group B wants, the natural instinct of group B is to attack group A and take it. The only way that group A can prevent this from happening is to be stronger than group B. For centuries, the Mongol tribes roamed the countryside of Mongolia, squabbling with and fighting each other. The great neighboring dynasties, the Xia and Jin, had little to fear from the Mongols beyond nuisance raids, because they were stronger. Then Temujin united the tribes, assumed the title Genghis Khan, and swept both empires off the face of the earth. The empires had enjoyed peace for generations - because they were strong. When they ceased to be stronger than their foes, they soon ceased to be entirely.

So what? Primitives. Barbarians. Savages. We're different now. Civilized. Cultured. Superior.

I hate to break it to you, but we're not. 13th century man is behaviorally identical to modern man. 8 centuries is nowhere near long enough for that kind of evolutionary change in the human animal. People are...people. Always have been, always will be. The reason that we've enjoyed centuries of peace in America (even our wars haven't been fought here since the 1860s) is because we've been strong enough that nobody has had the ability to fight us over here, and we've had the ability to go fight them over there when we needed to. There is nothing about this situation that is written in stone. Our homeland is peaceful because we've had the military might necessary to make it impossible for foes to make it not peaceful.

But now, with so many believing that peace is the natural order of things, we are in grave danger of finding out that peace is not the natural order of things, it's a luxury, one that is paid for in blood and the willingness and ability to shed it. Our military is a shell of its former self, hollowed out to buy bread and circuses for the masses. Our diplomacy a joke, conducted insecurely and thus transparent to our foes. Our foreign policy is a hot mess of appeasement and apology. All of this makes us look weaker and weaker to the world, and so now they believe that they can take what they want from us because we can no longer defend it. Bill Clinton gave Ukraine a rock solid guarantee of protection in return for them giving up their nukes to ensure "peace". That's gone, along with half that country. Our strongest allies are realizing that they are on their own against genocidal aggressions and prepare to act alone or in concert with new allies. We issue ultimatums and draw red lines and the world laughs at us. This isn't peace, it's the prelude to destruction. Our destruction. Ronald Reagan had the right of it.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation." And they say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace -- and you can have it in the next second -- surrender.

Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face -- that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand -- the ultimatum. And what then -- when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin -- just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it's a simple answer after all.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance." And this -- this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said, "The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits -- not animals." And he said, "There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:53 AM




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Posted by: smaulz at March 07, 2015 10:54 AM (AbcTu)

2 Now that that's out of the way, off to read the post.

Posted by: smaulz at March 07, 2015 10:55 AM (AbcTu)

3 We have "weakness" every time the FSA elects a Democrat/Commie to the WH or Congress.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2015 10:58 AM (wlDny)

4 What little slavery remains in the West (sex slavery) is universally condemned and vigorously prosecuted.


There is a lot of that in the hell-holes South of the border. SC law enforcement busted a sex slavery outfit being run in the migrant worker's camp here a few years ago. And these were Legal aliens on work permits.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2015 11:00 AM (wlDny)

5 Apologies to Y-Not, I didn't meant to stomp her most excellent post that's still going below, but I'm on vacation in NYC right now, and I'm about to check out of the hotel. I'm not prepared to drag my laptop up and down the five boroughs looking for free wi-fi to post it later.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 07, 2015 11:01 AM (NVmJr)

6 "Weakness Invites Aggression"

Republicans seem to understand this as far as foreign policy goes. Why don't they understand the same goes with regard to the raging political war at home with the left?

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at March 07, 2015 11:02 AM (1BQGO)

7 Human nature?

I think the Alliance had a plan to deal with human nature.

Ask Mal how well that worked out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2015 11:02 AM (2Ri9w)

8 Exterminate Socialism.

After that we can see if this "weakness" problem returns.

Posted by: eman at March 07, 2015 11:03 AM (MQEz6)

9 6 "Weakness Invites Aggression"

Republicans seem to understand this as far as foreign policy goes. Why don't they understand the same goes with regard to the raging political war at home with the left?
Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at March 07, 2015 11:02 AM (1BQGO)

The GOP is not at war with the Left.

Posted by: eman at March 07, 2015 11:04 AM (MQEz6)

10 Good ole' RR. Will we ever have another?


Not likely with the current RNCe.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2015 11:04 AM (wlDny)

11 When open blogger volunteers to leave his comfort zone and fight for peace and justice more of us will take notice
These autocratic Arab/Muslim areas have for long been under the defacto control of western business interests
We were more than happy to look the other way as long as our national security and economic needs were being met

Posted by: Tighter at March 07, 2015 11:05 AM (cr2Uu)

12 It's kind of hard to blame Democrat progressive Woodrow Wilson for starting WWI fear not, I can still nail him. Wilson ran in 1916 on the slogan he kept us out of the war. When the Zimmerman telegram was revealed he did nothing. When the Germans first began unrestricted submarine warfare, Wilson did nothing. Finally, after promising the American people we would not go to war, the Germans felt they had nothing to lose by engaging in unrestricted submarine warfare and six months after the election, we were at war.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at March 07, 2015 11:06 AM (LImiJ)

13 "When open blogger volunteers to leave his comfort zone and fight for peace and justice more of us will take notice "

Sort of missed the point there, didn't you, Skippy?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2015 11:07 AM (2Ri9w)

14
And abuse/excess opens the door for Leftist reforms.

For example, decades and centuries of employers treating their employees poorly opened the door for unions.

Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 07, 2015 11:08 AM (Gx7Uw)

15 The media is the message. The USA is a horrible place and the sins of slavery can never be expunged. In fact everyone knows all check your white priveledge folks want to make everyone a slave. It's human nature!

Posted by: Edmund Burke's Shade at March 07, 2015 11:08 AM (cmBvC)

16 In case there are still Morons that don't have this bookmarked, here's the video of Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech referenced above. Should you choose to watch it, I generally recommend a healthy dose of ValuRite and a nice corner to weep in.

http://youtu.be/qXBswFfh6AY

Posted by: smaulz at March 07, 2015 11:09 AM (AbcTu)

17 And a century of union abuses has opened the door to their demise. Things evolve. Unregulated capitalism needs unions, so they developed. Now they're the ones rife with corruption and abuse, so it's time for them to go.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 07, 2015 11:11 AM (NVmJr)

18 Well, that was uplifting.

*looks for spork to cut wrists*

Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2015 11:12 AM (mx5oN)

19 Any post that lists "The Speech" is a good post.


I cried that night and I still cry, 50 years later. NOTHING has changed we are still fighting the socialist.



http://tinyurl.com/l9u62sa



Those who have not watched it, need to take 30 minutes and watch it. It was done the week before the 64 election when everyone knew we were losing.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 11:13 AM (0FSuD)

20
Another example, when a CEO is paid tens of millions while laying off employees it opens for Leftists to come in and agitate for communism.

Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 07, 2015 11:14 AM (Gx7Uw)

21 Just think, Reagan did this speech, with NO teleprompter.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 11:16 AM (0FSuD)

22
That disgusting Michael Moore got rich himself by recognizing and exposing the rather lousy practices of General Motors.

It opened the door WIDE for even more union nonsense and corruption.

Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 07, 2015 11:16 AM (Gx7Uw)

23 Not only was slavery not the world-view evil of its (pre-Civil War US) day, it was not the worst system around (war-lords thieving from peasant farmers did not have a whole lot arguing in its favor). Many slave-owners actually understood the magnitude of their investment and protected it, including providing a standard of living that often exceeded that in the slaves' native environment.

The share-cropping economy following the Civil War was quite arguably less desirable than slavery. Most share-croppers lived in total squalor, and very often had a lower standard of living than they did in slaves' quarters.

The great truth is that there will always be (or at least always has been) a very sizable part of the population that does pretty demeaning work - whether in agriculture or industry. Wages are low and so is standard of living. Formal ownership is outlawed, but economic equality? Not happening, really.

Posted by: One-Eyed Cat Peeping in the Seafood Store at March 07, 2015 11:16 AM (aeVIR)

24 Another example, when a CEO is paid tens of millions while laying off
employees it opens for Leftists to come in and agitate for communism.



But that was what the BoD hired me to do. Make the company (more) profitable. So you don't want to get paid for the work you were hired to do?

Posted by: Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap at March 07, 2015 11:17 AM (JO9+V)

25 Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

And those of us that do learn from history have to helplessly watch those who didn't, fuck it all up.... again

Posted by: fixerupper at March 07, 2015 11:17 AM (JmjOe)

26 'A thousand years of darkness,' Reagan said, and that's exactly what a 'Let It Burn' mentality will bring. The truth of civilization is that once it burns, it stays burned for a very, very long time.


President Obama sees everything through an ideological prism, those pernicious untruths taught to him from earliest childhood by his mother, his father, his mentor and surrogate father Frank Marshall Davis, and others. To Obama and his like-minded neo-Marxist fellow travelers, we are the bad guys of history. For that we must be punished, reformed, and rehabilitated like the worst sort of criminals.


Two more years of this. During these two years we'll be led by the worst president in our history, with an agenda guaranteed to invite aggression from enemies who make the Bond villains of SMERSH look like wayward school children.


I worry for the future, the immediate future. Don't ask me what the future holds. Magic 8-Ball says COME BACK LATER.

Posted by: troyriser at March 07, 2015 11:18 AM (gJU39)

27 so you're saying those weightlifting ads in the comic books where the bully kicks sand in the comic nerds face were correct?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 07, 2015 11:18 AM (Cq0oW)

28 22
That disgusting Michael Moore got rich himself by recognizing and exposing the rather lousy practices of General Motors.

It opened the door WIDE for even more union nonsense and corruption.
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 07, 2015 11:16 AM (Gx7Uw)

You do realize that Roger & Me was a fundamentally dishonest hatchet job, right?

Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2015 11:18 AM (mx5oN)

29 It's getting dark. Guns and ammo, while you can still get them.

Posted by: Cornfed at March 07, 2015 11:20 AM (UqfYp)

30 27 so you're saying those weightlifting ads in the comic books where the bully kicks sand in the comic nerds face were correct?
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 07, 2015 11:18 AM (Cq0oW)

and those X-ray glasses really let you see naughty bits

Posted by: MikeH at March 07, 2015 11:20 AM (/2E+M)

31 and here i was, wasting money on xray spectacles and remote controlled ghosts!

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 07, 2015 11:20 AM (Cq0oW)

32
The rationale for what CEO's do is irrelevant.

But when there's a photo when one buys a 100' yacht the week he cuts 2K jobs it only follows that therell be repercussions.

Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 07, 2015 11:20 AM (Gx7Uw)

33 Listening to speech. Attacking the Dept of Ag. !!


Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 11:21 AM (0FSuD)

34 Sea Monkeys.... Get Your Amazing Sea Monkeys!

Just add water .... Hours of Fun!!!!

Posted by: fixerupper at March 07, 2015 11:22 AM (JmjOe)

35 What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have
acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for
people like you. If you let my stock options go now, that'll be the end of
it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I
will look for you, I will find you, and I will unemploy you.

Posted by: Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap at March 07, 2015 11:22 AM (JO9+V)

36 It's the John Lennon Syndrome -- Give Peace A Chance. People aren't evil, just misunderstood, and if you treat your fellow man with respect and dignity, why just Imagine, no more war.

That philosophy ends in a pool of blood outside the Dakota.

Posted by: Kate58 at March 07, 2015 11:22 AM (oLZsm)

37 One of the LESSONS OF FERGUSON was that strength invites aggression, as in a strong police response incites riots.

Posted by: Eliott Spitter at March 07, 2015 11:23 AM (5fSr7)

38 17 Unregulated capitalism needs unions, so they
developed. Now they're the ones rife with corruption and abuse, so it's
time for them to go.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 07, 2015 11:11 AM (NVmJr)


We have never had "unregulated capitalism" in this country. But we got unions anyway. If you go back and look at the history of the unions you will find that they were uniformly started by communists.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2015 11:24 AM (wlDny)

39

.....and ironically, John Lennon shot dead.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 07, 2015 11:25 AM (JmjOe)

40 Because when you're 'that kid' on the play ground everybody is going to take a shot at you. It's only when you stand up and return fire that they back off.

6
"Weakness Invites Aggression"

Republicans seem to understand this
as far as foreign policy goes. Why don't they understand the same goes
with regard to the raging political war at home with the left?


Posted by: George Orwell de Leon

Crap, Eman beat me to it.


Republicans are not at war with the Democrats, they are at war with conservatives, because they are the ones threatening their way of life and power.

Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at March 07, 2015 11:25 AM (74McK)

41 9 6 "Weakness Invites Aggression"

Republicans seem to understand this as far as foreign policy goes. Why don't they understand the same goes with regard to the raging political war at home with the left?
Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at March 07, 2015 11:02 AM (1BQGO)

The GOP is not at war with the Left.

Funny...they sure seem to be at war with us. They never, ever miss an opportunity for victory, and we hand it to them time and again.

BTW: "Weakness invites aggression" is applicable in many areas of life. For example, I know that as a teacher I have to have complete authority over my students in order to teach anything. Any sign of weakness (such as it is in that context) is a recipe for disaster.

Posted by: NY2SC at March 07, 2015 11:28 AM (pcAyO)

42

Funny because psychology professors use Al Dunlap as a case study for psychopathy. I shit you not.

Business decisions = mental disorder

Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 07, 2015 11:29 AM (Gx7Uw)

43 Damn, THE SPEECH is good. I mean GREAT.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 11:29 AM (0FSuD)

44 All Reagan did was give us a little more time before the lefty utopian socialists took over. There are enough of us left who remember Reagan and remember what the country was like back then; however, the young are taught that Reagan was a terrible president. Since we allowed the left to teach our children and take over our education system unchecked, we have a two or three generations of young people that have been taught that all the conflict in the world is the fault of America, and if only we would just disarm and let the world alone, there would be peace. They are taught that America is the worst country in the world, the most racist country in the world, and the source of all the world's problems. Well, we are getting a glimpse of what it's going to be like with out the Pax Americana.

Posted by: Mistress Overdone at March 07, 2015 11:30 AM (2/oBD)

45 For years I always said mankind has not changed in 10,000 years. We get better toys, but we haven't changed. I also always say that the world needs willing slaves/anti war hipster douchebags, because dictators need to have something to grind under the boots, and the resistance needs sandbags. Its a dark view, but the 10,000 years of history hasn't proven me wrong.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2015 11:30 AM (FMbng)

46 Can't throw enough praise at Weirddave for all his work.

You know you should publish these, so people can read all of them in one book instead of piecemeal here and there.

Posted by: EC at March 07, 2015 11:32 AM (doBIb)

47 Socialist, aka government, teachers teach socialism.



They use to have some knowledge of capitalism, now? None

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 11:32 AM (0FSuD)

48 One of the LESSONS OF FERGUSON was that strength invites aggression, as in a strong police response incites riots.

----

Nope. That was not a strong police response. That was a tepid, let's not make any effort to stop unlawful criminals, law and order effort mixed with soppy handwringing over raced based indentity fear mongering.

It is THE perfect example making Open Bloggers point.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 07, 2015 11:33 AM (JmjOe)

49 Can't throw enough praise at Weirddave for all his work.

You know you should publish these, so people can read all of them in one book instead of piecemeal here and there.

Posted by: EC at March 07, 2015 11:32 AM (doBIb)


After last night I'm more impressed he was up early enough to do it . lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2015 11:36 AM (FMbng)

50 I am not a pyschopath. A sociopath, sure, who isn't on the deep-piled plush carpeted floor of the executive suite. But not a psychopath.


And a very rich sociopath at that. How many Time and BusinessWeek covers were you on?

Posted by: Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap at March 07, 2015 11:36 AM (JO9+V)

51 Two great posts this morning. Part of the reason that the military is being hollowed out is that political correctness is infecting it. Victor Davis Hanson worried about this when he was a visiting professor at the Naval Academy.

Posted by: KT at March 07, 2015 11:36 AM (qahv/)

52 After last night I'm more impressed he was up early enough to do it . lol


How was it? Anyone wake up in jail?

Posted by: EC at March 07, 2015 11:37 AM (doBIb)

53 Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2015 11:37 AM (oKE6c)

54 *hic*

Posted by: Lunchtime O'Booze at March 07, 2015 11:39 AM (zLk9E)

55 War. War never changes.

Posted by: Ron Pearlman at March 07, 2015 11:41 AM (M1rPb)

56 Btw, that was a $100 million golden parachute when I sold Scott Paper to Kimberly-Clarke. CEO work is tough, I tells ya.

Posted by: Al "Rambo In Pinstripes" Dunlap at March 07, 2015 11:42 AM (JO9+V)

57 How was it? Anyone wake up in jail?



Posted by: EC at March 07, 2015 11:37 AM (doBIb)


Not that I know of. It was good. After leaving the main location we walked a few blocks trying to find a quiet place, but that don't exist in a city like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2015 11:43 AM (FMbng)

58 ISIS is certainly determined to remind us all that man is still capable of 13th century barbarity.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 11:43 AM (lHHyw)

59 12 It's kind of hard to blame Democrat progressive Woodrow Wilson for starting WWI fear not, I can still nail him. Wilson ran in 1916 on the slogan he kept us out of the war. When the Zimmerman telegram was revealed he did nothing. When the Germans first began unrestricted submarine warfare, Wilson did nothing. Finally, after promising the American people we would not go to war, the Germans felt they had nothing to lose by engaging in unrestricted submarine warfare and six months after the election, we were at war.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at March 07, 2015 11:06 AM (LImiJ)




Something liberals in general and Obama in particular consistently fail to grasp. Situations can arise where you can't do anything, so it's important to buy credibility in those situations where you can.


Realistically, we cannot fight for Ukraine; too far away, too close to Russia, etc. So, early on in Obongo's reign, he needed to find an issue on which we could be hard-nosed, and then follow through.


Of course, the brainiest President ever is too stupid to figure that out. This perspective assumes, of course, that scuppering America on behalf of his Red masters was not his motivation, which oftentimes seems to be the case.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2015 11:45 AM (oKE6c)

60 "Peace through strength". We don't hear that much anymore. The first time I read it was on a plaque hanging on the wall of a college professor's wall. Imagine that. He was a former USAF intel officer and it was in Montana. He was also a Democrat. You'd never see that today. Today's Democrat has a coExist bumper sticker on his Prius and would rather die at the hand of a jihadi than join the military.

Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 07, 2015 11:46 AM (cNpuB)

61 Stop by my Student Success Center at Florida State University sometime.

Posted by: Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap at March 07, 2015 11:48 AM (JO9+V)

62 "So, early on in Obongo's reign, he needed to find an issue on which we could be hard-nosed, and then follow through."

You know who seems to have a reputation for taking a stand, and following up warnings with actions?

Putin
ISIS

If Putin says he's gonna do something, he does it.
If ISIS says they're gonna cut your head off, they do it.

If Obama says you can keep your insurance...well, we know how that goes, don't we.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2015 11:48 AM (2Ri9w)

63 Anyone wake up in jail?


Me.

Posted by: Hillary's IT tech at March 07, 2015 11:49 AM (Dwehj)

64 11:16 AM (aeVIR) You sound like most Dems I know. Its better for those folks to feel tied to their depressing HUD housing in cities where the teachers barely pretend to teach their kids but be well fed than it would be for them to have real freedom but occasionally suffer hunger pangs. I'll never ever agree that people should be kept as either livestock or pets.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 07, 2015 11:50 AM (7w/kf)

65 >>"Peace through strength".

I think that needs to make a comeback. Stat.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 11:51 AM (lHHyw)

66
Bloggers are not only doing the job the MSM won't do..... you guys are also doing the job self proclaimed "educators" won't do...

Very interesting and informative post Dave.

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at March 07, 2015 11:51 AM (g+GHZ)

67 If you read that Reagan speech to Boehner he flees the room like Bela Lugosi shown a crurcifix.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 07, 2015 11:52 AM (XO6WW)

68 Serfdom - essentially slavery (get it - Slaves, Slavs?) didn't end in Eastern Europe until 1848... 12 years before the civil war. My wife's ancestors were slaves. We need to educate reality to the Americans who would become the new slaves under the democrat's slave state.

Posted by: Brendan at March 07, 2015 11:52 AM (8YVZT)

69 It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.

Posted by: Reaver snack at March 07, 2015 11:52 AM (yl/WE)

70 Another reason America has enjoyed peace on our shores for so long is because we do, indeed, have shores. It helps not having a hostile neighbor... except, oops! We're not giving away our southern border to an invasion of sorts.

As soon as a military power figures out they can subdue this country without having to land an invasion force on one of our coasts, we'll be toast.

I still cannot understand why we don't yet have suicide bombers showing up in malls, on highways, sporting events, etc.

We will.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 07, 2015 11:53 AM (Dj0WE)

71 Charlotte has a meet up called cars and coffee first sat of every month. I went for the first time. Holy shit, 500 cars. About half were souped up Mustangs, but lots of Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and Porsche's, including mine



Really sort of neat. Just car guys drinking coffee and shooting the shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 11:53 AM (0FSuD)

72 It helps not having a hostile neighbor

Hehehehe...excellent.

*continues plotting*

Posted by: Stephen Harper at March 07, 2015 11:55 AM (yl/WE)

73 Hehehehe...excellent.

*continues plotting*
Posted by: Stephen Harper at March 07, 2015 11:55 AM (yl/WE)


If (when?) it turns out that South Park movie was essentially a documentary, that's when I finally cash in my chips.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 07, 2015 11:59 AM (Dj0WE)

74 71 Charlotte has a meet up called cars and coffee first sat of every month. I went for the first time. Holy shit, 500 cars. About half were souped up Mustangs, but lots of Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and Porsche's, including mine



Really sort of neat. Just car guys drinking coffee and shooting the shit.
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 11:53 AM (0FSuD)



We have that here in Raleigh too. GGE and TR show up frequently.

Posted by: EC at March 07, 2015 12:00 PM (doBIb)

75 >>t's the John Lennon Syndrome -- Give Peace A Chance. People aren't evil,
just misunderstood, and if you treat your fellow man with respect and
dignity, why just Imagine, no more war.

Grrrr - hate that song "Imagine".
Yes, let's imagine no religion* - when Christianity has been a such an effective civilizing force for the past few hundred years. Yeah, no religion = no basis for morals, no value given to life.


*yeah, not all religions tame savage men IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 12:03 PM (lHHyw)

76 65
>>"Peace through strength".

I think that needs to make a comeback. Stat.



Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 11:51 AM (lHHyw)

I believe that is the SAC motto.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2015 12:03 PM (wlDny)

77 Back when the Berlin wall was deconstructed by a mob, everyone was singing hallelujah Communism is dead while I was quietly mumbling, "nature abhors a vacuum, something will fill that power vacuum."

Well, Communism wasn't dead, it metastasized and spread, and all the little cells grew up into tumors. Now, instead of Cubans in Africa, it's muslims. Now, instead of revolutionaries and counter revolutionaries, it's warlords and drug lords. Nothing has changed except the labels. Well, the United States has been transformed into something older than civilization but that's nothing new.

Posted by: G. Rodger Aimes at March 07, 2015 12:03 PM (6ywRZ)

78 Really sort of neat. Just car guys drinking coffee and shooting the shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 11:53 AM (0FSuD)




Party like it's 1774.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2015 12:04 PM (oKE6c)

79 Allow me to ramble for a moment about a half formed idea on a related topic I've been pondering lately.

Why is there evil in the world? Because men have free will and choose to do evil.

Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden because they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Later, the people try to build a tower to Heaven without God and fail as they argue amongst themselves.

Much later, Jesus comes back and presides over the millennium during which the lion lays down with lamb and we beat our swords into plowshares. The lion is not exercising his free will by foregoing chomping down on the lamb so therefore why should it be that we will exercise our free will to forego war and beat our swords into plowshares?

Could it be that that by eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that they obtained free will by believing falsely that they could distinguish between good and evil leading to such boondoggles as the Tower of Babel and Obamacare? And could it further be that the millennium can be made possible only if we are relieved of free will?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at March 07, 2015 12:04 PM (LImiJ)

80 75 >>t's the John Lennon Syndrome -- Give Peace A Chance. People aren't evil, just misunderstood, and if you treat your fellow man with respect and dignity, why just Imagine, no more war.

Grrrr - hate that song "Imagine".


Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 12:03 PM (lHHyw)




If I ever meet Mark Chapman, I'll buy him a beer.


And also ask him why he didn't smoke Yoko Ono when he had the chance. She was right there. What was up with that, Mark?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2015 12:06 PM (oKE6c)

81 And also ask him why he didn't smoke Yoko Ono when he had the chance. She was right there. What was up with that, Mark?


Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2015 12:06 PM (oKE6c)


Definite indication that he was insane.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2015 12:08 PM (FMbng)

82 The meet up in CLT seemed sort of organized. One car dealer was giving away coffee and cokes, the Lamborghini dealer, go figure.




Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 12:10 PM (0FSuD)

83 "Peace is a concept we have deduced from the fact that there are periods between wars."
-- Gwynne Dyer

Posted by: Socratease at March 07, 2015 12:11 PM (2GbWn)

84 "Peace is the time it takes to reload."

--Bob Dylan

Posted by: troyriser at March 07, 2015 12:13 PM (gJU39)

85 Never again really means

Perhaps not today


Everybody best be ready

Posted by: Thunder B is Sick of This Shit at March 07, 2015 12:13 PM (zOTsN)

86 >>> The truth of civilization is that once it burns, it stays burned for a very, very long time.

For well over a millennium after the Romans left Britain, the Roman roads were the best mode of transportation.

An interesting detail in the (cartoon?) movie "10,000 BC": One thing destroyed when the slaves rebelled and broke away was a very elaborate table map showing other continents and a round world. I know it's fiction, but it caught my eye.

Posted by: fluffy at March 07, 2015 12:16 PM (Ua6T/)

87 If I ever meet Mark Chapman, I'll buy him a beer.


And also ask him why he didn't smoke Yoko Ono when he had the chance. She was right there. What was up with that, Mark?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2015 12:06 PM (oKE6c)


Is that supposed to be humor?


If not, I find it unfathomable to be having a discussion about evil, while at the same time advocating murder on the streets because of a singer/songwriter's lyrics.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 07, 2015 12:17 PM (Dj0WE)

88 It's ironic that (at least right now) directly under the Reagan speech that ends this post is a slightly befuddled picture of Jeb Bush. The contrast could hardly be greater.

Posted by: Advo at March 07, 2015 12:17 PM (7hUS8)

89 " And could it further be that the millennium can be made possible only if we are relieved of free will?"

Most definitely not. The Millennium will come, neither for or against Free Will. It can not come do to or by lack of effort by Human Beings.

Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 07, 2015 12:18 PM (Vyg9x)

90 Jeez but that Reagan guy sure talked purdy.

Posted by: jwpaine at March 07, 2015 12:19 PM (a3NCX)

91 Speaking of cartoons . . . .
-

Shalala calls Pres Clinton the "supreme guardian of the galaxy", he says she'll be CEO of Clinton Foundation

Posted by: The Great White Snark at March 07, 2015 12:20 PM (LImiJ)

92 I didn't read the article beyond the title, Mr. Weirddave (if that is your real name), but I can tell you that you are wrong because of racism and cultural imperialism.

Posted by: Liberal College Professor at March 07, 2015 12:22 PM (VAsIq)

93
You know, of course, that the bedrock of our country remains.

Bedrock being the precepts and ideals that we were founded on and governed by.

That genie is never going back in any bottle.

At a point, the filth and degradation the left has piled on those precepts and ideals will be cleansed from them.

It is incumbent on all of us to work toward that point, in whatever way appropriate to us--no matter how insignificant it may seem.

You cannot quit or fail--because as Americans, those options are denied us.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 07, 2015 12:22 PM (jeCnD)

94 >>> And could it further be that the millennium can be made possible only if we are relieved of free will?

Just before that millennium there will be a battle in The Valley of Decision where the blood will run to the the height of a horse's bridle. I think onlookers will decide to stop fighting for a while.

Posted by: fluffy at March 07, 2015 12:22 PM (Ua6T/)

95 Weirddave that was a thing of beauty.

Well said.

Posted by: eleven at March 07, 2015 12:24 PM (MDgS8)

96 "29 It's getting dark. Guns and ammo, while you can still get them.
Posted by: Cornfed at March 07, 2015 11:20 AM (UqfYp)"

You'll be criticized here for being simplistic, but I agree with you. I've never before been one to stockpile ammo, but I'm buying now.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 07, 2015 12:27 PM (lG2E3)

97 I didn't read the article beyond the title, Mr. Weirddave (if that is your real name), but I can tell you that you are wrong because of racism and cultural imperialism.


Posted by: Liberal College Professor at March 07, 2015 12:22 PM (VAsIq)



You forgot to mention that Faux News is evil even though you've never watched once.

Posted by: eleven at March 07, 2015 12:28 PM (MDgS8)

98 Let me add one thing to the sidebar video on feminism and Aliens. That movie did not have an evil male caricature representing the patriarchy the way all good feminist movies do.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at March 07, 2015 12:29 PM (LImiJ)

99 OT: Monica Lewinsky to give TED Talk:

http://cnn.it/1Evd0SO

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 07, 2015 12:31 PM (0Ew3K)

100 When I was growing up people had more often then not 6 kids. And those kids were thrown into the worst and best of what humans do with a minimum of parental control. What I learned from my brothers was never let a bully beat you without paying a price. You may not win the fight but the bully will move on to more submissive targets and leave you alone.

Posted by: Robinson at March 07, 2015 12:31 PM (W2Cji)

101 93

irongrandpa, you're a blessing.

What has me worried is Holder's attempted takedown of the Ferguson PD. It looks to me like step one of nationalizing the police force. Typical of this arrogant fool in the White House to ignore the dangers of a nuclear Iran while criminalizing American citizens.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at March 07, 2015 12:33 PM (rJUlF)

102 OT: Monica Lewinsky to give TED Talk:

http://cnn.it/1Evd0SO
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 07, 2015 12:31 PM (0Ew3K)


Good lord, on what? How to keep the teeth out of the way?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 07, 2015 12:35 PM (Dj0WE)

103 Good lord, on what? How to keep the teeth out of the way?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 07, 2015 12:35 PM (Dj0WE)

To swallow or not to swallow? The question all girls axe.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 07, 2015 12:36 PM (0FSuD)

104 "Typical of this arrogant fool in the White House to ignore the dangers of a nuclear Iran while criminalizing American citizens."

Haven't you heard? Iran is an ally.

We Americans are now the "enemy".

Posted by: navybrat at March 07, 2015 12:36 PM (JgC5a)

105 This morning I was reading about the Emanuel Goldstein of Turkey

It's a group called Ergenekon. Ergenekon is Turkish Valhalla or Shangri-la. Ataturk wanted to wrest the grip of Islam from the turkik peoples. He knew nature abhors a vacuum so he would have to substitute Islam with something else. So he demanded a secular curriculum that emphasized a Turkish national identity, based in part on folk tales. A new nationalism not based in Islam. One of those stories was about Ergenekon.

For several decades the military and the intelligentsia manipulated the laws and media to oust popularly elected officials who did not embrace this secular ethos, and thereby suppressed islamists. While undemocratic this more or less worked for 80 years.

Then leftists in education and the media complained about the anti democratic control of the military. And then came the rise of Erdogun. He seemed populist and more democratic.


But he needed to get rid of these staunch anti islamists. So he started the Ergenekon trials. They have been going on since the early 2000s. He started with the spy agencies, then the military, then the media, and finally even turned on the schools that supported him.

He has blamed this Ergenekon group for everything from the Armenian genocide to PKK (Kurdish communist terrorists) to hezbolluh. Groups with different beliefs and philosophies who often fight each other. He has made this group a Turkish emmanuel Goldstein. Of course he is using it to suppress all his enemies. And as long as the trials go on, the people will be afraid to criticize him

Enters ISIS. They serve him well. He can get rid of his enemies without getting his hands dirty. He feeds the tiger hoping it eats him last. But it will still eat him. Turkey is a NATO country. When ISIS finally turns on Turkey, and it will, there will be a world war

Posted by: Thunder B is Sick of This Shit at March 07, 2015 12:37 PM (zOTsN)

106 See Erdogun rose to power and the backs of Turkish islamists. He may feel he can't turn on ISIS.

Posted by: Thunder B is Sick of This Shit at March 07, 2015 12:41 PM (zOTsN)

107 I have heard of this Ronald Reagan fellow. It would seem he said what he believed, regardless of how his political opponents would spin it. How novel.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 07, 2015 12:42 PM (VAsIq)

108 "Haven't you heard? Iran is an ally.



We Americans are now the "enemy"."


Got it.

Where do I cash my welfare check now?

Posted by: LIV at March 07, 2015 12:43 PM (vvS6Q)

109
because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically.

Khrushchev is very close to being right.

The Manchurian in Chief is doing a great job for him.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 07, 2015 12:43 PM (ODxAs)

110 91 Shalala calls Pres Clinton the "supreme guardian of the galaxy", he says she'll be CEO of Clinton Foundation

Posted by: The Great White Snark at March 07, 2015 12:20 PM (LImiJ)


She will be the sacrificial anode when we get a real AG and they get nailed for giving tax free money to Clinton's campaign.

Posted by: Vic at March 07, 2015 12:44 PM (wlDny)

111 All you have to do is listen to them.
What are the harshest words Obama has used to describe Iran?
Now,
What are the harshest words Obama has used to describe the GOP congress?

Posted by: navybrat at March 07, 2015 12:45 PM (JgC5a)

112 >>That movie did not have an evil male caricature representing the patriarchy the way all good feminist movies do.

So true - saw Malificent last night and OMG is that anti-male, anti-patriarchy, anti-traditional family..

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 12:46 PM (lHHyw)

113

"Imagine a world where Education has all the money it wants, and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale." -The Left.

We see the results.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 07, 2015 12:46 PM (FlRtG)

114 ThunderB - do you have a link? Sounds like an interesting (and scary) article...

Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 12:47 PM (lHHyw)

115
You know, I would love to give a TED talk. I have a fantastic, (small) award winning presentation on global (3/4/5th world)medicine, differing expectations and the medical care outcomes they get, and what really works and doesn't work to really advance medical care... very diffent than what the typical person expects to hear, and thought provoking.

Instead, we get Monica Lewinsky.

Sorry, I had forgotten my place as universally reviled scum and source of all problems for a minute. I'll go back to cutting myself now.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 07, 2015 12:47 PM (j1tga)

116 What total bullshit. If you treat people nice and act as the submissive one, then they will become nice and act submissive too. Even if they are ISIS. Even if they are Ted "bunny" Bundy.

Posted by: Neville Chamberlain at March 07, 2015 12:51 PM (XrHO0)

117 What total bullshit. If you treat people nice and act as the submissive one, then they will become nice and act submissive too.

---

Hear, hear!

Posted by: The girl from 50 Shades at March 07, 2015 12:53 PM (VAsIq)

118 Oh, um, gardening thread is up.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 07, 2015 12:56 PM (VAsIq)

119 In case you didn't know.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 07, 2015 12:56 PM (VAsIq)

120 But it seems you all knew that, because you're not commenting here anymore.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 07, 2015 12:56 PM (VAsIq)

121 *sigh*

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 07, 2015 12:56 PM (VAsIq)

122
Nood garden.

Nice to see people having lives and happiness and shit.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 07, 2015 12:57 PM (j1tga)

123 >>That movie did not have an evil male caricature representing the patriarchy the way all good feminist movies do.

So true - saw Malificent last night and OMG is that anti-male, anti-patriarchy, anti-traditional family..
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 12:46 PM (lHHyw)
=========================
Maybe this administration can defeat ISIS. by offering them free copies of Malificent and Frozen.

Posted by: pre-op transwoman at March 07, 2015 12:57 PM (XrHO0)

124 >>That movie did not have an evil male caricature representing the patriarchy the way all good feminist movies do.

So true - saw Malificent last night and OMG is that anti-male, anti-patriarchy, anti-traditional family..
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2015 12:46 PM (lHHyw)
=========================
Maybe this administration can defeat ISIS. by offering them free copies of Malificent and Frozen.

Posted by: pre-op transwoman at March 07, 2015 12:57 PM (cIoI4)

125 The Speech makes me weep. America has fallen so far.

Posted by: jmel at March 07, 2015 01:22 PM (cfFqn)

126 Anyone have links to the previous posts in the series? While I've read most, I think I may have missed a few.

Posted by: plum at March 07, 2015 01:25 PM (bIq2B)

127 Excellent as always. Bookmarked as always. Thanks so much.


These should be gathered into a collection with a link on the sidebar.


And I can't wait until South Korea gets nuclear weapons. Most of the population actually supports having nuclear weapons. And I can't believe that they are looking at the United States and not seeing the weakness. Hell, we don't even know if President Dumbass would respond if entire US cities were wiped out, much less if South Korea were attacked.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 07, 2015 01:36 PM (AC0lD)

128 If you haven't, you should read some 'Reagan in his Own Hand'. All of his speeches were this good.

The man's ability to argue moral principles was genius.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at March 07, 2015 01:48 PM (FFIoe)

129 Anyone have links to the previous posts in the series? While I've read most, I think I may have missed a few.

Posted by: plum


This place still has the funniest commenters.

site:http://acecomments.mu.nu/ "fundamental concepts"

Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2015 02:08 PM (DL2i+)

130 8 Exterminate Socialism.

After that we can see if this "weakness" problem returns.

Posted by: eman at March 07, 2015 11:03 AM (MQEz6)



I'd love to, but I don't think it's possible. Socialism is based on envy, which is part of human nature, so it's not going to go away. The best we can do is teach that envy is morally wrong and marginalize it.

Posted by: rickl at March 07, 2015 02:32 PM (sdi6R)

131 25 Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

And those of us that do learn from history have to helplessly watch those who didn't, fuck it all up.... again

Posted by: fixerupper at March 07, 2015 11:17 AM (JmjOe)



"Those of us who do learn from history are doomed to repeat it anyway, because those who don't are in the majority."
~Me

Posted by: rickl at March 07, 2015 02:39 PM (sdi6R)

132 Excellent fantastic too bad most people don't look outside their box to see reality.
And don't worry, soothy, under communism we will all starve equally! ( except the elites of course), kind of like now, but worse and with gulags......

Posted by: fuqdat at March 07, 2015 03:10 PM (4Z0vT)

133 GhssssssffFssshhhhshsh,.Awesome essay...and RR was right..but what to do?
Doing the right thing vs. looking out for yourself ??
KKKLLLLddddddddddddddddddddddsssssssssssssssssssssssssssghhhhhh....

Posted by: stephen livingston seagull at March 07, 2015 05:48 PM (UFPdl)

134 Turkey is a NATO country. When ISIS finally turns on Turkey, and it will, there will be a world war

Posted by: Thunder B is Sick of This Shit at March 07, 2015 12:37 PM (zOTsN)
-----------------------
Who's going to show up to fight it? NATO can barely decide where to have lunch, and no one can afford lunch when they finally do figure it out.


Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at March 07, 2015 07:05 PM (TqyFL)

135 From I Will Bear Witness: Dresden, Germany, 1933 - 1941, diary by Victor Klemperer:

[March 10, 1933, right after Hitler's accession]:
"It's
astounding how easily everything collapses. . . . Reichstag fire . . .
wild prohibitions and acts of violence. . . . And on top of that, the
never-ending propaganda in the street, on the radio, etc.. . . Day
after day commissioners appointed, provincial governments trampled under
foot, flags raised, buildings taken over, people shot, newspapers
banned, etc. etc. . . . A complete revolution and Party dictatorship.

"And
all opposing forces as if vanished from the earth. It is this utter
collapse of a power so recently present -- no, its complete
disappearance (just as in 191 that I find so staggering. Que sais-je? .
. .

"I feel shame more than fear, shame for Germany. I have
truly always felt a German. I have always imagined: the twentieth
century and Mitteleuropa was different from the fourteenth century and
Romania.

"Mistake."

Posted by: Beverly at March 07, 2015 07:13 PM (+JLM1)

136 Let see, after the fall of Rome it took Europe about 1,000 years to recover. There was a loss of knowledge, loss of technology, and the world became very small. The only people that knew how to read and write were the scribes holed away in some abbey somewhere. The world became brutish, and people sought the safety of some feudal lord for protection from roving bands of robbers and thieves. They became slaves, and they would have to fight for the lord if he went to war with some other feudal lord. It's interesting that the word lord actually means one who gives bread, or a loaf-giver. Let someone "take care" of you and "feed" you, and you are basically making yourself a slave. This is what the left will implement if it has its way - create a new slave state, a new form of feudalism. Obama likes Iran because they hate America and all that she stands for. It's pretty clear who Obama is at this point. When all those protests were going on in Iran, he didn't say a thing. Yet when the so-called Arab Spring started sprouting, he was quick to criticize Assad and Mubarak. As in all things, he is very selective in his outrage. Yeah, it's pretty clear who he is.

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