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Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western Civilization as it commits suicide.<\/p>\n
Under Capitalism, the rich become powerful. Under Socialism, the powerful become rich.<\/p>\n
Under Socialism, government employees become powerful.<\/p>\n
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The news today is filled with Orlando. Most of what needs to be said is old news to readers of this site. The Caliphate declared war on us over a year ago, and predictably Obama\u2019s response was to make some speeches, in none of which he mentioned Islamic terrorism, nor acknowledged that This Means War and we can expect terrorist attacks on the people of the United States by operatives loyal to ISIS or The Caliphate, AKA Daesh, ISIL, and various other names. When such utterly predictable attacks happen, everyone is astonished. Not, I hope, readers of this journal, but many of our \u201cleaders\u201d. The heads of our \u201cintelligence\u201d agencies are in a pickle: either defy the President and say they knew it was going to happen, or admit incompetence.<\/p>\n
We are at war. We must act as if we are at war.<\/p>\n
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One action we can take: arm our military, don\u2019t disarm our people. It can be done in hours to weeks. Congress can authorize and require all commissioned officers of the United States to carry firearms at all times, on and off duty. This preempts all state firearms carry laws. Allow the commanding officers of the various services discretion in applying this requirement: they may at their discretion exempt non-combatant officers from this requirement; and they are required to forbid any others whom they believe may be a threat to public safety to carry.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d go further in the details, including requiring a loyalty oath explicitly renouncing any religious obligation to conduct jihad against infidels, from all members of the armed forces starting with the officer corps.<\/p>\n
We can add to armed America designated non-commissioned officers, leaving that to the discretion of the officer corps. I start with the officer corps because if we can\u2019t trust our officers with’ weapons, I damned well won\u2019t trust them with my sons or daughter. But that\u2019s a detail. The important thing is that we are at war, and the internal United States is one of the battlefields. Barrack Hussein Obama won\u2019t recognize this, and his solution is to disarm as much of the citizenry as he can manage with his pen and phone. He will also continue to politicize and bureaucratize the FBI and other security services: he will never let this crisis go to waste.<\/p>\n
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I cannot find any details on what the one armed policeman at the Orlando dance hall did after the shooting started. The Los Angeles Times account said, in passing, that the first responder to the event was a police officer hired as part of the cabaret\u2019s security team. Having said that, he is never mentioned again. The next sentence says that the gunman was killed by SWAT three hours later. If anyone has any other information (as opposed to speculation) on this, I\u2019d appreciate it.<\/p>\n
[See below for a tad more, but it is not really informative.]<\/p>\n
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We do know that this was an act of war. Not a \u201chate crime\u201d whatever that is. It was an act of jihad, carried out by a sworn agent of The Caliphate, whose spokesmen now take credit for it. It is not the first, and it will not be the last. We must act accordingly. The Caliphate is able to recruit agents, who may be given orders or may choose their own missions, because it governs territories and imposes Sharia Law on them. If it has no territory to govern it forfeits its right to be the Caliphate. We have known this for years. It is fundamental to its legitimacy.<\/p>\n
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I pointed this out about two years ago. I said then that I could destroy ISIS with an augmented division of Armored Cavalry and the A-10 wings for close support. As time went past and we trickled forces into the Mesopotamian meat grinder, the force requirement grew. It is now up to three divisions, one of them heavy armor, and a great deal of air support to take out Caliphate air defenses and build strike bases. It is now going to require the power of the nation to win this war decisively. Frittering in advisors, special forces, and logistic support to the Iraqi army will not do it.<\/p>\n
War is not police action. The Korean War was declared a Police Action, and ended a stalemate. That may have been justified back then, since the goal was containment. A strategy of containment requires that you use enough force to contain you opponent. It implies a long Cold War that includes. among other things, economic attrition. Containment worked in the Cold War, for many reasons. One of them was the nature of the USSR and its rule by nomenklatura; the nomenklatura needed the myth of Marxist world conquest for their legitimacy, but their hearts were not in it, and the Comintern deliberately avoided terrorist acts against the United States. Espionage, fine. Slaughtering US sympathizers inside the Soviet Union, fine; but when US CIA agents were personally involved the rules changed into a rather delicate dance. It was Cold War.<\/p>\n
This is not Cold War. This is war, war to the knife, and we need leadership that recognizes that. Barrack Hussein Obama is not that man. Hillary Clinton is not that woman; the Caliphate was created on their watch.<\/p>\n
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And as long as the Caliphate exists it will continue to recruit agents who will work us harm. Most will be acts of terror. Some will be more effective than others. And they will continue. Do not be deceived. So long as the Caliphate exists, they will continue.<\/p>\n
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