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2014-06-17 Iraq

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-17 11:20|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Fascinating article. Good effort g(r)om, but I'm still not entirely convinced I should hate myself.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-17 12:01|| 2014-06-17 12:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Americans simply don't want to think about the world as it actually is.

How can they? They're not taught real history. They have no record to go on other than what they recall in their own lifetime and what the Marxist infused academia/media tell them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-17 12:13|| 2014-06-17 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Americans simply don't want to think about the world as it actually is.

Back in the early 1900s where the most education people got was to the 8th grade, this was understandable.

Now days it is by design as the education system is built for assimilation and subjugation.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-17 12:20|| 2014-06-17 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 FTA: "No-one could have gone to American universities and recruited the soldiers, spies and diplomats to execute a plan which preferred the slow and inevitable spread of human misery to a cataclysmic alternative."
Especially now when the domestic economy is faced with the same two miserable choices. Better to keep kicking the can down the road.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-17 12:30|| 2014-06-17 12:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Americans may not be taught real history, but the underlying problem is, they don't care about it, and would much rather pursue other interests. They are like perpetual children. 2000 years ago, Cicero nailed it: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
I don't know how people can be taught to appreciate history. However, Cicero also said, Where there's life, there's hope.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-17 12:40|| 2014-06-17 12:40|| Front Page Top

#6 "It is a fool's errand to stabilize them [Muslim states]; the best one can do is to prevent their problems from spilling over onto us."

If only. Open borders and feel-good immigration standards don't do much for us or The U.S.

Uyghurs? Aren't they Harry Reid's bestest buddies?

I also doubt the framers could process our current predicament of importing Somali's just to have them go back and raise hell under the banner of Allen. And then come back.

We are beyond redemption.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-17 13:33|| 2014-06-17 13:33|| Front Page Top

#7 We are beyond redemption.Posted by Uncle Phester

Earthly 'redemption' anyway. It should now be abundantly clear, even to the unbeliever, that providence is the only one who can sort this mess out.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-17 14:38|| 2014-06-17 14:38|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm doing my darnedest from deep in red-state Texas, writing historical fiction.
Look, what most people take away from history classes in school is outright bunk ... politically-correct, chewed-to-mush grey goo muck. What they take away from the major pop-media organs is more of the same. What I would say is to support those creators who are working outside the box - indy-published authors, self-financed move makers, amateur historians of every stripe, right down to the local reenactors.
Despair is a sin. Lie down and bleed a bit if you must, but get up and fight again. Isn't our past, our people, our history WORTH fighting for?

*steps down from soap-box*

All right, back to the polite and well-meaning civil discourse.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2014-06-17 18:17|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2014-06-17 18:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Once upon a time america knew those in other countries were messed up. We all come from folks that risked all to flee those places. It is only recently that we doubted that opinion but i believe the middle east has restored that opinion.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-06-17 19:18|| 2014-06-17 19:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I was unaware the average people of any country had any effing clue about anything. Apparently that's a uniquely American trait and we should all slit our wrists in angst over it.

2000 years ago, Cicero nailed it: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

And the average Roman in the street during Cicero's time knew little more about history than the myths and legends he heard around the family hearth.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-06-17 22:23|| 2014-06-17 22:23|| Front Page Top

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