I do think this the great failure of Bush, I have voted twice for him and could a third time looking at the current crop

This ‘long war’ and border security is the two items that matter more than anything and should be the basis for the decision on who to vote for. These are the greatest threats to this nation and therefore the greatest threats to freedom worldwide. Truly our children deserve more than passivity and self absorbed greed by the adults of this time in history.

Nice read… One Shot

Truly, I believe that anyone who was not taken in by the 60’s and 60’s wannabe come lately crowd can easily see the truth in all of this.

Will this message of truth get out to every American before our nation’s game clock expires? And if the message does get out…will anyone understand the urgency?

Having watched in awe as the nation speaks through the tunnel-vission of the demedia in this primary season about the direction of our nation, I take no pleasure in stating I remain pessimistic for same reason expressed by Brig Gen Cash:

“…enriched newscasters, and foolish people like John Murtha (he is no war hero), Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, Harry Reid, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and on-and-on to include the true fools in Hollywood…the Democratic Party has fielded the foulest, power hungry, anti-country, self absorbed group of individuals that I have observed in my lifetime. Our educational system is partially to blame for allowing the mass of America to be taken in by this group.”

Yes Bash, this is the most important article you have ever posted here.

“I can’t stand that I live in a culture, especially in Hollywood, where measure of man is self-indulgence.” — Pat Dollard

Great article Bash. Since at least 60% of dumb Americans wouldn’t have a clue what the man was talking about and wouldn’t worry about a thing until their VISA card is maxed and won’t slide, I doubt it will make a difference. But perhaps for a small percentage of people that still straddle the fence for explanation, maybe articles like that would help to explain why control in the middle east is so vital. That is one thing I would like to kick G.W. in the ass about - doing a much better job of explaining the why.

But I disagree with Brig. Gen Cash about one item. Stopping the flow of middle eastern oil into the U.S. coffers actually help motivate us in the long run and we could survive in the short run. It would dog the economy, tank Wall Street for a time and you might start paying about $4.50 for a gallon of gas but it wouldn’t bring us completely to our knees. Two of the three biggest import countries still sit right on our domestic borders.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

I do agree with Brig. Gen Cash as I sure would like to see us pick up the pace of developing alternative technology - and we could start right now with a few new nuclear reactors. One of the dumbest things we ever did was to interfere with building more sites…and you can thank the dumbshit lib politicians (Al Gore types), green freaks (who ought to be the first on board if they had any sense about chemistry) and ambulance chasers for shoving us in that hole.

I suggest reading “Let’s Be Specific” - Gen. Cash
http://justrightofrush.blogspot.com/2007/02/letter-from-general-cash.html

The ignorant masses scare me more than anything as they can cause the fall of this country and possibly the world.

Thanks for this post, important to say the least. Thank God there are some level heads out there, we need to stop being the silent majority.

GW is a lousy communicator…this is disappointingly true.

The long war must be fought until we kill enough of the enemy that they finally give up. Also true.

It isn’t just Iran that wants control of the ME. It is also AQ/MMA and the Taliban. All want the job of caliph.

Iran would have difficulty dominating the Salifist world
since the majority of Islam is Sunni…who also consider Shit=-ites to be apostate belivers.

Saudi Arabia the great exporter of Salifist Whahabbism is as great a threat to the west as is Iran or Waziristan.

It is the Saudis who have built all the mosques in the west where they preach the Salifist message in 80% of those Mosques. Paid for of couse by western purchases of their oil. Getting off of that oild would go along way to stopping the spread of Salifist Islam to the west and cut off the money supplied reaching the jihadis in Waziristan to include MMA, AQ and the Taliban.

Our schools, universities, Hollywood and the Dhimis are not helping us win this war. They are what I call the near enemy. The good General is wise to point this out.

Nice piece.

When you target an enemy, you must first find it, locate the kill zone and apply a deadly force.

We already know the extremities of the enemy, (educational system, political parties, world bodies like the UN, banking systems, etc.) but I am having difficulty locating the kill zone.

I wonder why most political parties and people in positions of control are…., in a most purposeful and systematic manner…., implementing extremely destructive, chaotic actions and policies. What is their overall rational ? Who or what purpose does this serve ?? Who or what is coordinating all this ?? No large group/committee can perform like this….

What kill zone is making all this happen ?????…..

Keep up the good work and say HI!!! to Louie for me..

I can not, for the life of me, understand our own foolishness to allow a group of environmental whackos to basically strangle this country to death. Our overall dependence to ME oil may now be our downfall. What we are witnessing is the desire of a nation (Iran) to bring us to our knees and we are being totally complacent about this threat. I have paid close attention to Imanutjob’s speeches and he has very clearly stated his goals to his people and those of the ME. Only a fool would ignore his threats. We better wake up! My salute to teh General for this piece.

For too long, I believed the well-educated students in Iran would revolt against the ayatollah-mullah-imam-nuts. But now I believe they’ve proven inadequate and too slow. I’d give Iran about 24 hours to settle the ant-pile-like frenzy that’s sure to follow Damascus and if they don’t stand down, I’d burn Teheran to a cinder. I keep thinking about the 15 years leading up to Pearl Harbor, the millions dead over the following 3.5 years and the fact that Japan absolutely would not surrender until we turned Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki into the ultimate cinder. I don’t know much about Canadian history but last week they greatly bemoaned the loss of one soldier. I believe the liberally-influenced youngsters there don’t know that we sat on our hands from ‘33-’39, just like the libs would have us do now. They probably haven’t been told about Dunkirk and Dieppe. But us old guys know about it and some of us remember.

I recognize some of the complications of energy self-sufficiency. One is the certainty that if we achieved such a goal, the Saudis would no longer be our friend. And where the Saudis go, so goes Pakistan. That said, I believe even I could reassure the Saudis that a powerful oil market would dominate the planet as long as the supply lasts. Plastics alone would keep the world’s oil supply valuable. We’re talking about survivability rather than dominance. Oil is a factor in this conflict but for the period 800-1900, the muzzies had different reasons to kill us. When the oil is gone, they’ll have yet another reason. I believe now is the time to civilize these uncivilized folks and it seems force is the only path. At the very least, we need to listen to men like Gen. Cash, or buy stock in a burquah factory.

About 1/6 of US oil comes from the ME. It is VERY HARD to deprive any customer of access to the “fungible” oil market, short of a physical blockade. IOW, neither Imanutjob nor Chavez nor anyone else can prevent the US from buying all the oil it wants at the going (spot) price.

The sanguine views of the relevance of Syria, and NK, etc., are kind of superficial.

But the emphasis is correct.

As for energy independence, Jason, the Moon and Mars are irrelevant.

For a few million USD (yes, I said MILLION, not billion), the world’s electrical supply picture could be transformed.

Read the www.focusfusion.org site; get a sci-nerd to help if anything is too abstruse (but it’s not all that tough; they do a good job of explaining.)
Combine that with 2 other developments:
www.teslamotors.com
and
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html

Talk about disruptive technologies. These not only detonate the Oil Economy, they cut the ground out from under coal and natural gas, too.

Irrelevant?! Of course the money we have budgeted for Lunar and Mars missions and other assorted NASA boondoggles (billions of dollars) is absolutely relevant to energy independence! It can be utilized instead to develop the technology to extract the HUGE oil reserves we have in the USA in the form of oil shale. There is a minimum of 300 years worth of oil there, some estimates go all the way up to 500 years. It’s there, so it’s just a matter of figuring out how to extract it efficiently. I also would have no problem with taking some of the money from the ill conceived NASA boondoggles or some of the democRat inspired social programs, and putting it towards building new nuclear power plants (Fission based of course since Fusion is many years away). Energy independence is far more important over the next 10-20 years, then going back to the Moon or to Mars in the same timeframe.

You are seriously misled on the fundamentals of Nuclear Fusion and it’s related technology, especially as it’s applied to energy production. The FACT is, that technology is MANY years away. Conservative estimates are 40 years at minimum. If you and the pie-in-the-sky dreamers at that website you linked to understood the bare fundamentals of Physics and Engineering, you would know that already. The technological obstacles won’t be solved any sooner unless there is some kind of breakthrough of massive proportions. And that requires HUGE amounts of money to achieve. Or I guess you could try asking Dennis Kucinich to ask his UFO friends to gives us some help.

You think the world’s electrical supply “picture” can be solved with a few million dollars huh? Pretty funny, you really are a Kucinich kind of guy! Let’s see, they spent 2 BILLION dollars on the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas before they shut the project down. You won’t get Fusion without Super Colliders. Electric cars? Ho hum, been around since the automobile was invented. It will take not an evolution of energy storage (battery) technology to make them viable, but a revolution. And that silicon based battery isn’t it. It could be an advance though. But even if the battery revolution happened tomorrow, it would take at least 20 years for everyone to get rid of all their internal combustion engine powered cars and other devices, and buy electric. Not to mention you would still need powerplants to generate all that electricity. The bottom line is we need energy independence starting now, not 25-50 years from now. None of those technologies you mentioned are “disruptive”, nor will they supplant Oil, Coal and Natural Gas anytime in the forseable future.

I also suggest you think a bit more before you make idiotic assumptions about someone you don’t know anything about. I earned a BSc in Mechanical Engineering summa cum laude from one of the best Science and Technology Universities in the USA. I graduated when I was 20 years old. So nothing on those websites you linked is abstruse. Just because I’m choosing to serve in the Army right now does not make me incapable of understanding advanced concepts in physics, engineering or for that matter, political science, history, etc. That’s another bad assumption. The vast majority of officers in the military are college educated. And most of my buddies (I’m enlisted) take classes when they can. I’m sure when I’m done with my active duty, I’ll go back and earn a graduate degree in engineering.

1. Oil will always be made available by Islamic countries (he also left out Nigeria and Indonesia, which are also both Islamic countries and members of OPEC, as well as Russia and Venezuela who are members of OPEC but not Islamic, but certainly don’t love us). The Islamic countries have no intention of fighting us militarily (which would surely happen if they cut off the oil). They intend to be economic vampires, sucking us dry through high oil prices. Therefore, oil will always be made available to us - unless WE start a world war - but at a VERY high price.

2. The Middle East will never be democratic - period. They can’t handle it and they don’t want it. I live with these people and I am sure. Every American life we spend trying to make them democratic is a wasted travesty. We will destroy our conventional military, as well as our national budget, perpetuating the fantasy of democracy in the Middle East.

3. The answer is to take the $3 billion an week we are wasting in Iraq and put every nickel of it into finding substitutes for oil (i.e., gas and diesel) as a motor fuel. No I am not against the oil industry - this will take 10-20 years to implement even if we start today, and they will be able to sell every drop of oil they can produce at a high price any way. WE HAVE ALREADY WAITED TOO LONG TO FIND A CHEAP WAY OUT OF THIS SITUATION!!!!!

4. Failure to find a substitute for oil is our largest national security threat, not a bunch of rag heads trying to build a bomb for the first time (we did this SEVENTY YEARS AGO and today we have 180,000 times the destructive force of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - what part of 180,000 don’t you understand). Right now, any bomb popped anywhere in the civilized world by radical Islamists (read Iranian-back radical terrorists, whether Shia or Sunni) would mean that Iran would cease to exist as a culture - we would blow it off the face of the map using smaller nuclear weapons and it wouldn’t cause nuclear winter, and we would still leave the oilfields intact - I am really surprised that a general who deals with this on a daily basis for over thirty years wouldn’t realize this. The “nuclear scare card” has been the #1 way for the military to retain funding for all of their programs, whether realistic or not, and it gets our focus off of our REAL security issues (i.e., oil dependence and criminals coming across our border with Mexico by the hundreds).

5. Our constant blind support for all of Israel’s policies, no matter how unfair or wrong, is the biggest irritant to “moderate” Islamic forces in the Middle East - we push them into the camp of the radical Islamists this way. Also, Israel does not always act in our best interest, but their own best interest (this is normal, but we refuse to recognize it). Israel is NOT our ONLY friend in the Middle East, we have NO friends in the Middle East - get used to it!!! I do NOT advocate Israel’s destruction, and in fact, for our own interests, we may want to use them to help maintain a balance of power in the Middle East. But “saving” Israel will not bring peace in the Middle East, only war - this is a fact. Therefore, we need to have a balanced foreign policy about Israel in the Middle East which sometimes goes their way and sometimes doesn’t, as is beneficial to US in any given circumstance.

So look at all these world events with a level head !?!?!

For those of you who believe that this is a “spiritual issue” - our spiritual future does not depend on the survival of a state that today calls itself Israel. This is a farce perpetuated by sensation (and money seeking televangelists). Our spiritual job right now as Christians is to protect the U.S. from all of Satan’s detractors (including radical Islam) as the main base (no other country even comes close)!