tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post8740985617892553685..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Against Whom? Against What?Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-48571326927191764842018-07-18T08:53:20.672-04:002018-07-18T08:53:20.672-04:00The enemies in the UK and Europe today are interna...The enemies in the UK and Europe today are internal. Their names are Islam and the governments promoting and supporting its establishment.Seneca IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11877060732683704429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-20853683698705819242018-07-16T09:58:01.057-04:002018-07-16T09:58:01.057-04:00One unnamed factor in our involvement in WWII was ...One unnamed factor in our involvement in WWII was that many in America - resident aliens, as well as citizens, had strong ties to Europe. We weren't just helping those European countries, we were helping Uncle Gus, and former school friends and other acquaintances. The then-immigrants got their news from foreign-language papers, and those news sources begged for help from the USA.<br /><br />We haven't a major stake in assisting Europe at this point. The immediate danger is over, the dangers they face, THEY allowed to happen (unleashed invasion from other continents).<br /><br />Let's put some money in shoring up our Asian/South Pacific allies. And, building up our OWN defense.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-51499001046770203202018-07-14T07:12:36.276-04:002018-07-14T07:12:36.276-04:00The currently in progress demographic death of for...The currently in progress demographic death of formerly Christian Europe coupled with the deliberate importation of the Islamic horde will result in a European Caliphate during our grandchildren's lifetimes. Why are we still defending something that is disappearing before our eyes and won't defend itself?RMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00689836761685082478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-56373163421766512992018-07-13T13:14:10.481-04:002018-07-13T13:14:10.481-04:00An outstanding post, Fran. Our facilitating the e...An outstanding post, Fran. Our facilitating the expansion of the European welfare states is galling as is, especially, seeing Europeans importing millions of third world primitives and parasites. GIs who fought in Europe never dreamed that the Germans they pushed out would be replaced by the said imports, who would be enthusiastically invited in and welcomed by government and people as well. UFB!<br /><br />We are killing ourselves with our own malevolent invitation to the third world so the disease is a Western one. Still, our own surrender is all the more galling when we have had tens of thousands of troops in Europe on the NATO boondoggle but not a single troop on our own borders. It's true they would not have been stationed on our border even if there were no U.S. troops in Europe, Easter Island, Zanzibar, and the North Pole. I realize that but the optical lesson is there in any event. Massive, massive military expenditure but not one bleeding, mother trucking troop to defend America. <br /><br />It's gratifying in a certain way to see the Eurotwerps be made to squirm as their 50 years of shucking and jiving are plastered all over their faces by Trump. But it raises the question on your mind, Why? So everyone ponies up another pittance under extreme duress and the Bundeswehr tank inventory rockets from 20 to 40 to defend against . . . the Russians? It's just a given that Putin's a "thug" as the fool LTC Peters liked to say. They'll pony up to do "something" but it's never clear what that "something" is. "Russian expansionism"? It is to laugh. It's like Bigfoot. I hear a lot about it but have yet to lay eyes on that bad boy. Any enlargement of a Russian military presence (slight by any measure you want to use) has been due to extreme Western provocation, too-clever-by-half State Dept. tinkering with others' lives, or host government invitation.<br /><br />And Assad's "brutality"? I hear a lot about it too. "Everybody knows" y'all but could someone please FedEx me the Bill of Particulars? I know of the 500,000+ civilian and military deaths in Syria and the total devastation of that country that are the direct result of our efforts and alliances in the region. Were Assad's "depredations" worse than that?<br /><br />It's like hearing ghosts in my basement all the time. I go investigate but nothing's there. Maybe if I spray fluorescent paint everywhere I can get a better idea of what I'm up against. Is there something like that we can use to find out why we still spend trillions on "defense"? Does "North Atlantic" now include Afghanistan and Iran? Not an idle question.Col. B. 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