Lest We Forget
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The common factor in all of these wars is they were fought in Muslim nations. It’s been proven over the last century that can’t implant democracy into a Muslim population and make it sustainable when you leave.
Libya is facing one of its worst water crisis in centuries and yet the political factional fighting in that nation takes precedent to securing clean water supplies to its impoverished people. Yet the US and it’s allies risk the lives of their own innocent men to “fight for freedom”. They don’t want freedom. They want Muslim rule and Muslim law at all costs. And this never involves improving or advancing the well-being of their nation. They live like they live because that is the way they want to live. Those that don’t, leave.
Amen, Ezabelle.
Ezabelle:
I’m not sure any man wants to take orders from another forever. It’s that the desire of some men to dominate and enslave others leads them to conclude “If I am to be free, you cannot.” Islam gives liberty (in fact license) to elite males, which they judiciously share with other less elite males (like heads of families), rather like a mob boss sharing “a piece for the action” with his bagmen. If enough guys are content with their “piece” the big boys can keep the reins of power and there’s no incentive for the second-rank types to upset the system. That’s how any system of tyranny is sustained: a compliant “middle” willing to take orders in exchange for a cut combines with the top to crush the bottom of society every time.
Mr. Byrne, That also applies to the left and the corrupt, China-controlled junta, et al which are more evil and dangerous than the other savages herein being discussed.
“[…] there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
[…] the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. […] were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, […] the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
—Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
One disturbing similarity between Benghazi and Biden’s Afghanistan debacle is our lapdog media’s intense disinterest in the stories of the survivors who escaped after being abandoned by Democrat presidents.
Four Americans died in Benghazi, but it was upwards of thirty of our people abandoned there by Obama. They all would surely have died if retired SEALs Woods and Doherty hadn’t taken it upon themselves to get to the consulate and extract our people after DC ordered our military to leave them to die.
If our press wasn’t so pathetic, we’d have heard those survivor’s stories, and those retired SEALs would be household names for their heroism. But because both Benghazi and Afghanistan are embarrassments to Democrats, the stories of Americans abandoned to die and the stories of their rescuers will both be memory-holed by a corrupt, partisan press.
Agree with many of your points Tom. Islam itself was born out of the need to control feuding tribes. It was never about man improving his situation. Christianity is Islam polar opposite. Nothing much has changed for Islam today. You need to walk into Muslim neighbourhoods of ANY nation around the world to see the squalor they live in even IN western nations. Even in UAE where they are quite developed in terms of infrastructure, the ruling class is very much authoritarian and secretive- and controlling. Yet their Muslim mentality will never bring them up to par with a free and Democratic western nation (even with all of its faults). That’s a Christian ideal (free will and all). Afghanistan etc…used the west for “stuff” they couldn’t get through an ordered government with a thriving economy. It’s not like Afghanistan doesn’t have natural resources to create a thriving export market. Their ruling class are a bunch of Neanderthals who are just too stupid to manage a healthy one. Hence why I think leave them to their own. Don’t put western troops in there to risk their lives. It’s not realistic to think they can sustain what we in the west are fortunate to have. Because at the end of the day they don’t want that. I do feel sorry, however, for those trapped there who try and leave.