Once again, managerial liberalism offers up human sacrifices to its creed. Men of courage are unknowning being sacrificed to the false god of imitation liberty. The concepts of liberty and freedom, how are they perceived by the third world, innoculation or infection? It woulds seem they’re are comfortable with a societal philosophy of inevitable tyranny.

So, history repeats itself, America seeks to spread liberal ideals to a world that sees them more as a disease than a cure. Let them devolve back to the stone age, they neither deserve nor merit any further rescue efforts. The only message remaining to be delivered is that retribution will be swift and as merciless as they are.

The intellectual malignancy will eventually spread back to the west unless such quarentine measures be taken.

Several months ago, an American soldier from a rural Tennessee county next to mine was killed in Iraq. This man was a 54 year old National Guardsman. He was a grandfather and a Vietnam veteran. He was driving a truck near Baghdad and was killed by a bullet through his neck.

Quite a few of the men in Iraq fit this profile. Many are Guardsmen and Reservists pushing 60 years old, who collapse in the heat. Others run businesses that are the backbone of small towns. The Guard is supposed to be for emergencies like floods, hurricanes, etc, or to protect our own country.

Of course, this has no effect on GWB. This is another trait of the Republican Businessman, mentioned on another thread. They have to “get along” with liberals, plus a lack of feeling for the problems their policies like Open Borders cause others.

David’s comments are interesting, but the situation vis-a-vis the Guard and Reserves dates back before Bush. Rather, it stemmed from policy choices favored by the military and built in at the time of the switch to an all-volunteer military. The military leaders back in the 70s insisted on arranging things, or were compelled to, so that in any future conflict of any scale the Army would HAVE to call up the Guard just to stay in the field. They wanted to force the politicians to be sure that they and the people would be certain of backing a future war, unlike Vietnam… Unfortunately, they ignored the earlier lesson, of Korea, that calling up the Guard and unorganized reserves also involved a terrific cost and backlash.

Fallujah I: The Gaza Strip Snap-On Kit

You wouldn’t think a big powerful country like the US would go out of our way to make our own version of the Gaza Strip. I mean, even the Israeli rightwingers, some of the mean-craziest people this side of my HS vice principal, are scrambling to find a way to get out of Gaza, which is like all Hell crammed into a beachside slum a few miles square. But that’s what we’ve done in Fallujah.

At least the Israelis have the excuse that Gaza is right next door. What we’ve done is much weirder: we took this crappy Iraqi town half a world away from America and turned it into a sanctuary for every crazy Jihadi, with hundreds of American troops supplying the entertainment by giving the locals something to shoot at.

[Note by LA: Gary posted an interesting comment but it was 2000 words long, so I’ve deleted it. This is a discussion board, not a place to publish full-length articles.]

gary writes:

“Israeli rightwingers, some of the mean-craziest people this side of my HS vice principal, are scrambling to find a way to get out of Gaza”

Last time I looked, Israelis, right or left wingers, didn’t practice suicide bombing, kidnapping, beheading of captives, female slavery, etc. And settlers themselves would love to stay, it is coalition goverment that want sto pull them out.

Garry’s anti-Israeli nonsense belongs on pravda.ru or antiwar.com, not on VFR.

Gary’s comment about right-wing Israelis didn’t strike me as beyond the pale because, for one thing, he was comparing them to his High School vice principle, whereas, for example, Patrick Buchanan described the Israeli coalition government in 2002 as the “mirror image of Hamas and Hezbolah.” Second, his main concern here is not to attack Israel but to describe the insanity of the U.S. deliberately creating its own West Bank, its own Gaza.

I graduated from HS less than two years ago. Some vice principals are almost as bad as Hizbullah. :-)

A lot of people lose sight of the fact that historically, Gaza was predominantly Jewish as late as in the 17th century. The false Messiah Shabbetai Zevi was discovered and trained by another charlatan, Nathan of Gaza. The last Jews were “evacuated” from Gaza during the British mandate.

Instead of fleeing Gaza and kicking out Jews, Sharon should’ve carpetbombed the Hamas strongholds there and moved in with tanks and bulldozers. Many people Sharon is a cross between Patton and Pinochet, but in reality he’s a coward who pretends to be a tough guy.

Excellent solution Eugene At least you don’t appear to be antisemetic. You do however validate the concerns of those who question the quality of the nations educational system when you speak in such fantastical terms. I hope you are jesting.

Of course I’m jesting, but the HS I went to had only two rightwing teachers, the rest were crazed liberals. I got suspended during my junior year for publically confronting a teacher that chastised my friend (who’s a Democrat) for saying that Blacks don’t deserve affirmative action. People used to say that I was the Jewish version of Mussolini and made Pat Buchanan look like a liberal. Of course that characterization didn’t offend me at all.

I surprised Eugene, that heated political discussion occured to you in High School. When I attended High School we were pretty much concerned with anything but politics and teachers as far as I can recall never expressed their political views in an informal way.

I am surprised…sorry.

The teachers’ unions (at least the current ones) are breeding grounds for inefficiency, leftism, and anti-Americanism. They must be broken.

Eugene, google for David Horowitz at Frontpage. He formed called Campus watch. Maybe you would be interested in learning what he does to fight bias in the universities.

I know about Campus Watch, it’s a good organization. I wish I knew of it when I was in HS.