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Lower Your Expectations — and Your Defenses
The Pentagon is in the midst of reducing our armed forces to levels not seen since 1940. Thirty thousand active duty Army troops are to be eliminated in the next two years. The Obama Administration has since announced that they want 1,500 illegal aliens inducted into service. This is madness.
Just this year, since the beginning of the southern border crisis, at least 40,000 detained illegals have been released and vanished into the wider population. No one knows who they are, what their intentions are, or even their health status.
The reliably clueless New York Times screams a headline about the “mystery respiratory illness” that has swept into 38 states and hospitalized hundreds of children. No one stops and asks the obvious. Could the Feds moving thousands of sick children, teens and young adults unannounced to hundreds of communities across the country be the cause?
Democrats, you know, the “pro-science” crowd, who eschews vaccinations and epidemiology are so desperate to end America’s founding principles and finish off the march to full socialism, they don’t care how many get sick. While no one has died from Enterovirus-D68 who knows what other diseases lie in wait.
Then there’s the “Ft. Hood Disease.” Introducing persons of suspect loyalty into the military. Because it would be politically incorrect to acknowledge it, not everyone coming across our southern border is necessarily an economic refugee.
Last year Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tyler, TX) mentioned on C-SPAN about possible alliances between Mexican drug cartels and al Qaeda. The press, particularly PolitiFact, were quick to dismiss his claims as being false. “Experts” from think tanks and universities all fell in line against the Congressman. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told PolitiFact that “Gohmert’s claim struck him as ‘incredibly sloppy. It doesn’t help the debate. We don’t know that these claims are true.'”
Of course, he failed to say, we don’t know that these claims are untrue, either.
Either way, it seems that a lowering of defenses in an unstable world seems to be the order of the day.
Oh, that way madness lies. Let me shun that. No more of that.
I sure wish wish there was a political party that would oppose all of that- no wait, that would be racist.
Never mind.
Like.
(for the well-written post, not the disturbing subject matter)
The problem is, from my perspective, that no one seems to be serious – not our side, not theirs. All anyone wants to do is rant.
We have a large and extremely capable military. Perhaps we don’t need quite such a large force on constant duty. But there is no real, rational debate over what we ought to have.
We have a porous southern border (to say the least). Yet there is no discussion of using the military, which we have in large numbers, now mostly unemployed except for training, to close the border. ?Might that include raids into “Mexico” to get to the cartels. Well, since we apparently can bomb Syria without a declaration of war, I would submit we can bomb/raid into Mexico for the purpose of demolishing cartel headquarters/communications hubs/storage locations/etc.
This is not a posse comitatus issue. We w0uld be using the military to defend the national border, a valid usage of federal troops.
On the foreign front, we seem incapable of identifying our enemy, despite his repeated self-identification! We are at war with Islam. This is not a “war on terror”, just as WWII was not a “war on V2 bombs”. We may not have to kill every muslim, but we need to put them on notice that we are willing to. IF, indeed, they want to “get their religion back from the extremists who have hijacked it”, then they will, indeed, have to do just that.
Like! the post, EJ – as George Rapp says, above; wondering what we can *do* about it?…(“Pray!”, for certain – and I’m on it.)
It’s worse. A recent article in Navy Times (cannot remember the author, a guy named Bacon, IIRC) wrote on Navy officials stating their lament about much-needed repairs to our ships (including carriers!) going unfulfilled because of cutbacks – Obama is Jimmy Carter redux.
I joined the Navy in October, 1977, and went to OCS January 1978. Even with Carter in office, I didn’t think any President could possibly let our military start to rot from within, but it happened in the last couple of years under Jimmy, even with (now-extinct) Democrat hawks in Congress. The military experienced its own kind of malaise . . .
When Reagan swept into office, our attitude and morale improved overnight.
Yet I don’t see or hear GOP candidates pointing this travesty out. When are GOP politicians going to start pushing an Americans First agenda?
No need. The Federal Government has ceded a wide swath north of the Southern border to the drug cartels (for instance, in Arizona, the territory south of the I-10/I-8 line, which is now one of the prime “trade routes” for the drug cartels into the US).
Perhaps the military could retake and defend this area of the US and “get” a significant number of cartel members in the process. From Arizona:
Excellent comment! I believe Rush is correct when he says the Republicans need to point out what they are for, not just assume the voters will elect them because they hate the Democrats.
I decided to educate myself about that virus after reading that idiotic Times piece. Took about 15 minutes. The virus has been around for a while, and was first described in California. No mystery, just a bug that’s likely always been with us finding a denser population makes it easier to transmit.
And given how much Americans move around anyway, I suspect the movement of those illegal aliens is just a drop in the bucket…
That’s just great. I love the fact that our public lands are no longer public. Hey, feel free to use them, but don’t be surprised if you get shot by illegals crossing the border.