tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799405573384453075.post875620027490762423..comments2019-07-12T02:19:42.749-07:00Comments on Preemptive Offenses: The Inculcation Of HatredThe Preemptive Offenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117644567355911494noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799405573384453075.post-89561236242294901252013-04-05T23:40:24.303-07:002013-04-05T23:40:24.303-07:00We seem to think we can CTRL_ALT_DEL and somehow r...We seem to think we can CTRL_ALT_DEL and somehow reset all this.<br /><br />I was 17 in 1967 when Johnson was pushing for Civil Rights legislation and doing "war stuff" I didn't understand.<br /><br />NOW I think the legislation was fine, but he did a lot of stuff that wasn't good for the country.<br /><br />His medical stuff was the same socialist plea as Roosevelt's. The statement that it would pay for itself was a bald-faced LIE, as was Obama's, about his plan.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Johnson took us to war, as Truman had, WITHOUT Congressional approval, which is against the law.<br /><br />But we slid along that groove with him. And Kennedy, before him.<br /><br />We thought we had smart men like McNamera and good men like Kennedy leading us, and we thought we could always press some sort of reset button to get our enemies to understand us, if things went south.<br /><br />I'm not arguing that the North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam was a good thing. But I will argue 'til I die and add my death to the 55,000 brothers I served with that we should have either flattened North Vietnam AND CHINA, or kept our nose out of it.<br /><br />We DID NOT HELP, in the long run.<br /><br />We need to win or shut up, and there is no RESET BUTTON we can hit to forgive our past mistakes.<br /><br />If we see some THING we dislike - whether it's Jews being killed or Darfur people killed, or some Syrians killing others, or South Vietnamese being hurt by the North - IT US UP TO OUR PRESIDENT AND OUR MEDIA TO MAKE THE CASE CLEAR TO US SO THAT WE DESIRE TO *WIN* AND CRUSH THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE KILLING OR DENYING FREEDOM TO OTHERS.<br /><br />Think about it. Who Has Obama spent more time with hate speech? Republicans, or Islamist killers?<br /><br />Think about it. What the heck was our reason for attacking Libya, the Balkans or Syria? WHY ARE WE MAKING WAR WITHOUT A DECLARATION FROM CONGRESS?<br /><br />I understand global chess. But we are supposed to be a nation of laws. And the LAW is that ONLY CONGRESS can declare war.<br /><br />This idea that our president can deploy troops globally or domestically as he sees fit is VERY dangerous, and (to my mind) worthy of . . . what's that word?<br /><br />What's the idea that WE THE PEOPLE are sovereign, NOT some populist demagogue?<br /><br />Oh, right. Impeachment.<br /><br />There is no ALT-CTRL-DEL key that will fix this terrible economy and bad diplomacy.<br /><br />Impeach Obama and reverse his policies if you really want things to get better.<br /><br /><br /><br />furballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15779319678886254479noreply@blogger.com