tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post3119044306388747667..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Licensed to KillAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-3904800944114128122013-04-11T22:30:46.522-05:002013-04-11T22:30:46.522-05:00I am thinking that those who are happy to keep the...I am thinking that those who are happy to keep the bar low encourage more of the same from government. It seems to be a very low standard.Louis H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18301694575991500936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-64701662356951150502013-04-11T21:25:39.579-05:002013-04-11T21:25:39.579-05:00Obama, like his predecessor, gets no pass from me ...Obama, like his predecessor, gets no pass from me on foreign policy. But, also like his predecessor, there are dynamics both outside of his span of control and irrespective of the chosen course of action.<br /><br />Libyan SAMs were vulnerable to falling in the wrong hands [and indeed many did at the outset of the rebellion] regardless of our involvement.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-53886778395407811572013-04-11T15:57:07.481-05:002013-04-11T15:57:07.481-05:00Warren Sieruk is English or Hebrew your primary la...Warren Sieruk is English or Hebrew your primary language?Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-27557708262990175602013-04-11T15:55:05.889-05:002013-04-11T15:55:05.889-05:00@Bunkerville --- The film Lawrence of Arabia was r...@Bunkerville --- The film Lawrence of Arabia was recently on t.v. It is the same old story. The Middle East has been at war for centuries.<br />--<br /><br />Pretty good film wasted on a shallow reading by a fringe right winger.<br /><br />Now go back, watch the film and PAY SOME ATTENTION to Lawrence's reaction to the betrayal of Faisal by the British.<br />What happened to the self rule he was promised?Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-58474503599640376502013-04-11T15:53:12.291-05:002013-04-11T15:53:12.291-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-22528096948760248032013-04-11T15:43:10.464-05:002013-04-11T15:43:10.464-05:00Sell that thought to Congress...
Cuz the money sp...Sell that thought to Congress...<br /><br />Cuz the money spigot is still, decidedly, "on".Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-31158421313596818802013-04-11T15:23:13.195-05:002013-04-11T15:23:13.195-05:00Does declaring a war on terror (just about the dum...Does declaring a war on terror (just about the dumbest thing I've ever heard) actually make the case for a compelling national interest?<br /><br />We declare wars on other countries, not goat herding associations, or ideologies. <br /><br />... Jus' say'in.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03945887384596946397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-75415949602507098852013-04-11T13:22:59.974-05:002013-04-11T13:22:59.974-05:00On the other hand, has anyone yet heard a compelli...<i>On the other hand, has anyone yet heard a compelling argument from any prominent politician that there is a compelling national interest for our muddling in Middle Eastern affairs? </i><br /><br />Didn't we declare a WoT? Have they signed the "peace treaty" yet?<br /><br />Jes' sayin'...Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-59131827331188842962013-04-11T10:51:48.401-05:002013-04-11T10:51:48.401-05:00The term "political incompentence" is a ...The term "political incompentence" is a very mild way to the describe what Obama and his adminstraion are engaging in. Madness or even worse would be a better way to put it. For example Obama had send last year 1:5 billion to uphold the radical Islamic group THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD that is now in power in Egypt. This year so far alone Obama has sent another 2.5 million to the radical Islamic enitiy. All at the same time America is in grear national debt. A debt that Obama himself has had a hand in the making. Some of those billions or million could to pay off this debt. Furthermore, Obama has also send many tanks and M-16's fighters to this Islamic group that is now in power in Egypt. What could be the reason behind this ? Could it be that Obama is hoping that Egypt will use these weapon to attack The State of Israel ? Could be that Obama is that evil? Nevertheless, Obama has used this national debt as an excuse to make large in the US military spending. The US military should have those tanks and M-16's instead of the Islamic group in Egypt. The American military should have some of that American taxpayers money that Obama has sent to Egypt. Morover, Obama has used this national debt as an excuse to make great cuts in US intellengence and information gathering agencies. Such as the CIA. FBI, NSA, DIA, etc... The America taxpayers money that Obama has sent the that Islamic entity in Egypt should to fund these American national security agencies. One former Muslim who is now a Christian said of Obama one night in a lecture about Islam that "He is going to hurt this country. All this brings up the question about Obama "Just who's side is he on anyway ?"Walter Sieruknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-85371121913255845972013-04-11T09:35:43.144-05:002013-04-11T09:35:43.144-05:00I pretty much agree with what Sam has written. I ...I pretty much agree with what Sam has written. I think Free thinke is correct too, but like Marx, he has unrealistic expectations. We can’t get to that place, given the nature of those in power. On the other hand, has anyone yet heard a compelling argument from any prominent politician that there is a compelling national interest for our muddling in Middle Eastern affairs? I think it should be incumbent upon elected officials to convince the American people – to convince the Congress – that we must employ our troops and lethal weapons in another country. If they cannot show a compelling national interest, then we shouldn’t be there, period. Equally important, our standard for “compelling interest” should be extremely high.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01230399044647334018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-23848496849266285622013-04-11T09:28:40.541-05:002013-04-11T09:28:40.541-05:00Maybe not such a fool. How better to keep the mil...Maybe not such a fool. How better to keep the military industrial complex haapy the creating an ever lasting source of terrorists emerging from the caotic culdren known as the Middle East.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-14826501178826140112013-04-11T08:18:38.233-05:002013-04-11T08:18:38.233-05:00Well said. We are foolish for embroiling ourselve...Well said. We are foolish for embroiling ourselves in Satan's Sandbox.<br /><br />I was there, and I pray to God none of my progeny ever have to go there.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-769121750187571002013-04-11T08:12:39.882-05:002013-04-11T08:12:39.882-05:00The film Lawrence of Arabia was recently on t.v. I...The film Lawrence of Arabia was recently on t.v. It is the same old story. The Middle East has been at war for centuries. Why we ever thought we were going to civilize the region beats MelBunkervillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427978686579892380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-87232075710327321932013-04-11T06:56:54.694-05:002013-04-11T06:56:54.694-05:00...or colonize them like the British, Dutch and Fr......or colonize them like the British, Dutch and French did North America in the 1600's. Tribes are easy to conquer, if you have advanced (firearm) technologies.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-55699202249566205272013-04-11T05:15:51.779-05:002013-04-11T05:15:51.779-05:00I'm not sure the president is a fool. I see hi...I'm not sure the president is a fool. I see him more as a tool -- of unseen, largely unknown, extraordinarily powerful moguls -- nefarious influences with unimaginable wealth who operate behind the scenes and remain unaccountable to the people of any nation.<br /><br />I believe Barack Obama was selected groomed and placed in office by these high-handed forces. I believe that virtually all of our presidents in the modern era with the possible exceptions of Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan -- and maybe Richard Nixon -- were foisted on us in this way. <br /><br />I believe our elections are largely a sham.<br /><br />I have been stunned by the apparently deliberate obtuseness of the GOP in selecting candidates bound and determined to lose, and in the feeble show of opposition the Republican members of congress make to Democratic initiatives.<br /><br />It's almost impossible NOT to believe that the failure of conservative-libertarians to gain ground is the result of some sort of unholy agreement between the parties.<br /><br />All that aside I see the situation in the Middle East as the direct result of two things:<br /><br />1. Our insatiable thirst for oil<br /><br />2. Our -- I think inordinate and inappropriate -- support of the Jewish State, which no matter how you slice it came about because of the machinations of Great Britain and later the United States, who in my opinion had no RIGHT to IMPOSE their policies on the Arab countries. <br /><br />Sooner or later everyone's chickens come home to roost, and the lack or foresight and the colossal errors in judgment of the Western Powers in monkeying around in the internal affairs of sovereign states have made the Middle East the tinderbox it is today.<br /><br />YES, the Arabs are backward, arrogant and bellicose by nature, but THEY have every much right to be who THEY are as anyone ELSE.<br /><br />It IS our fault things are the way they are, and the sooner we face it, get rid of our SUPERIORITY COMPLEX (a grievous fault inherited from the Jewish peoples' belief in their own exceptionalism) and STOP trying to DOMINATE the world with our money and military might, the better things are apt to be.<br /><br />I think we need to adopt a policy of VOLUNTARY austerity, curb our excesses, discipline our tastes and ambitions, humble ourselves before God, and accept our profound <i>LACK</i> of OMNIPOTENCE and OMNISCIENCE.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.com