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Topic: Dangerous Times: Gimme a
General Who Won´t Fight! |
Dangerous Times: Gimme a
General Who Won´t Fight!
American Thinker, by James Lewis
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Posted By:DW626, 1/26/2013 6:09:00 AM
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| It was Lincoln who said "Give me a general who will fight!" That was after the North was defeated over and over again by Robert E. Lee´s smaller and more agile armies. Lincoln´s first generals fought desperately hard, but not hard enough to win. In the upshot, the Civil War dragged out to became our bloodiest war ever, 600,000 dead -- mostly white folks. And yes, it was triggered by Christian Abolitionists who made slavery morally intolerable to half the nation. Lincoln was therefore forced to find generals who would fight, and he found Sherman and Grant, who wreaked terrible destruction
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/26/2013 6:24:14 AM (No. 9140049)
Generals who won´t fight ordering their troops not to shoot at the enemy.
G-d help the free world.
We have a traitor in the white house.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
varkdriver, 1/26/2013 6:54:19 AM (No. 9140078)
Excellent article with great historical context. The comments after it are equally enlightening. I know that God watches over the US, and I pray that He will guide us in the right direction. I also pray that on 20 Jan 2017 we still HAVE a country for a American President to lead.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kanphil, 1/26/2013 7:03:35 AM (No. 9140086)
Great and frightening to read. Too bad we didn´t have more of this before the turncoat in the White House was elected.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rinktum, 1/26/2013 7:27:40 AM (No. 9140108)
I don´t understand how anyone could put the "sensibilities" of muslims over the safety of our men and women, but that is evidently the consensus of thought by the men in command who send their men and women to walk the patrols twice a day. Apparently, this only accomplishes the maiming and killing of Americans. The only thing that will change the hearts and minds of the jihadists of the world is releasing the unrelenting hell of the U.S. military on them to such a degree that they are decimated and defeated. Until we reach that mindset, we will continue to sacrifice our young men and women on the altar of political warfare and Muslim sensibilities. Unleash the military or bring them home.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 1/26/2013 7:45:44 AM (No. 9140125)
"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
General of The Army Douglas MacArthur
West Point, Class of 1903
(1880-1964)
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
uno, 1/26/2013 8:20:27 AM (No. 9140173)
Down through the years we have been able to defeat militaries that were full of suck-up leadership too fearful of making a decision without checking in with the dictator or his right hand man. This is even worse!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MissMann, 1/26/2013 8:29:03 AM (No. 9140190)
I´d prefer all US military who would NOT fire on fellow citizens.
Does anyone really connect the horror of Lincoln to today and what that would look like, implemented by 0bama?
When will Lincoln be seen as the monster he was? Maybe when we have the modern day equivalent using those hollow-points he has been amassing on us conservatives, the current enemy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pdmccas, 1/26/2013 8:36:35 AM (No. 9140200)
Gen. Mattis may be the last of the warrior Generals. Great man. Not some perfumed "warrior monk" like Obama and Paula Broadwell favor. I hope he keeps speaking out and others join him. I will. Retired Colonel.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
eoddad, 1/26/2013 10:22:55 AM (No. 9140341)
Great article. When America is not patrolling its beat around the world the world is soon in chaos i.e. WWI and WWII. Obama´s weakness will be challenged in the next four years, and when he surrounds himself with Flag Officers who are Politically Correct Yes Men who rolled over on gays and now are ready to water down combat standards to the point young girls can be pushed to front line combat units, disaster is soon to follow. Weak Generals and admirals added to Obama´s thinking he is the smartest guy in the room will lead to the deaths of our finest young people and a disaster of magnitude Americans have never seen before.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Reality, 1/26/2013 10:59:33 AM (No. 9140450)
Perhaps Gen. Dempsey will read this and reflect upon what his job really is and how he has been complicit in degrading the effectiveness of the force.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MrYules, 1/26/2013 11:18:40 AM (No. 9140489)
Mr. Obama wants obedient generals (as well as other Citizens), so the capable and independent types have to be removed. Stalin did this in purges of the Red Army in the late 1930s, so that the Army would be his instrument rather than a potential power rival. Mother Russia paid the bill in the blood of millions against Hitler, until courage and fighting spirit were again permitted by the central dictatorship.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 1/26/2013 12:31:17 PM (No. 9140638)
The more I see of this president and the Democrat Party the more I think that the wrong side won in 1865.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 1/26/2013 12:32:48 PM (No. 9140645)
#2, at your suggestion I read some of the comments after the excellent article, and one struck a note with me because I have noticed this in my church, which is an evangelical version of a mainline church. Even one of my pastors is kind of caught up in it and I am concerned.
From commenter amerigal1 who voiced her feelings in her Sunday school class said: Islam has malevolent plans for Jews and Christians. I just can´t keep from repeating the awful truth about the insidious "interfaith bridges" that some Christian churches are falling for.
While the Great Commission, which my pastors love to tout, Matthew 28:16-20, Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.,I don´t think Jesus meant for us to abdicate to a false "religion of peace" that intends to wipe out all Christians and Jews.
As another commenter, diane+tx said:ISLAM is the global problem. It doesn´t need to be parsed into "peaceful", "moderate" or "radical". The stated goal of Islam is to make the entire World Islamic.
They say it over and over again. So why don´t we believe them?
Also why don´t we believe that Obama agrees with that? So what if he took his oath on a stack of Bibles - I imagine he had his fingers crossed, liar that he is.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
harper, 1/26/2013 1:29:15 PM (No. 9140753)
"...Obama is a gambler, and he doesn´t want to think about what might happen if his wild gambles don´t pay off."
I disagree. Obama is a cookie-cutter appeaser.
What he is doing is what every appeaser in power will do. There is no gambling involved, because appeasers never consider outcomes, which are 100% failure.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Babsathome, 1/26/2013 3:48:00 PM (No. 9140979)
Dempsey is recovering from Christmas in Killarney. Bootlicking is a tough job. You. Never see the sunlight. Top good brass being forced out this year.they knew it when the election results were posted.
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