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Hot Coffee
Gotta love those
grandkids.
I was eating breakfast
with my 10-year-old Granddaughter and I asked her,"What day is Monday
?".
Without skipping a beat
she said, "It's President's Day!".
She's smart, so I
asked her "What does President's Day mean?".
I was waiting for
something about Washington or Lincoln, etc.
She replied,
"President's Day is when President Obama steps out of the White House,
and if he sees his shadow, we have 4 more years of Bull Crap."
You know, it hurts
when hot coffee spurts out your nose!
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Hot Coffee
PROVEN FACT! OBAMA INELIGIBLE TO SERVE
PROVEN FACT! OBAMA INELIGIBLE TO SERVE
You Can Prove This Yourself: Barack Hussein Obama (a.k.a. Barry Soetoro, a.k.a. Soebarkah) is a Usurper –
His 4-27-11 Birth Certificate is an Easy-to-Prove Fraud –
Obama's First Act in Office was to Hide His Identity –
Congressional Ruling Applied to John McCain Defines Obama as Ineligible –
Not Constitutionally Certified to Serve by Any US State –
Not Natural Born –
Refused to Show His Long Form Birth Certificate –
Jailed a Military Officer and Arrested a Woman Who Both Asked to See His Proof of Eligibility –
Spent $Millions, Signed an Executive Order and Created a Hawaiian Law to Hide His Identity –
His Grandmother Swears He was Born in Kenya –
No US Hospital Claims His Birth Location -- No One Claims to have been Present at His Birth –
Three in Five Americans are Not Convinced of His Claimed Hawaiian Birth –
School Records Say He's was an Indonesian Citizen –
He May Have Received Aid as a Foreign Student –
Yet No Government Body Has Demanded to See His Eligibility Credentials!
Instead, the US State Department has Destroyed His Mother's Files, the Hawaiian Gov't Has "Lost" Obama's School Records and the National Archive has "Lost" Obama's International Flight Records.
Government Agencies Refuse to Show Original Obama's Identity Documents.
Want to Get Rid of Obama, Obamacare, Two Communist Supreme Court Justices and Every Law Obama Signed Since He Took Office?
Then Insist the House of Representatives Immediately Arrest and Investigate Obama.
If the House Does Not Demand Obama Prove His Identity, then the GOP is Complicit in a Treasonous Conspiracy of Epic Proportions Against All American People!
The Evidence: http://commieblaster.com/ineligible/index.html
Food Stamp Participants Exceed The Population Of Spain
Food Stamp Participants Exceed The Population Of Spain
As of this writing, Obama’s State of the Union address hasn’t happened yet, but he’s expected to focus on jobs and the economy. A recent Gallup poll showed that most Americans are not at all happy with his job performance thus far into his tenure. His highest approval rating was 53% in the area of national defense. What exactly he’s done to defend this country remains a mystery, but at least in that same area, 44% disapproved.
His top disapproval rating was 65% in the area of the federal budget deficit, followed by a 60% disapproval rating for his performance on the economy.
With such horrendous approval ratings, how in the world did he get re-elected? Figures are showing that his biggest voting blocs, blacks and women, are worse off now than they were when Obama first took office in January of 2009. For most people, especially blacks and women, this has been the worst “recovery” the U.S. has ever had. Black unemployment has gone up from 12.7% to 13.8%, and female unemployment has increased from 6.9% to 7.8%. But it’s even worse than that:
“Further,
an additional 1.2 million African-Americans had left the workforce entirely
during the same time period, with the number of those reported as not in the
workforce rising from 10.3 million in January 2009 to 11.5 million in January
2013… Similarly, the number of women who had left the workforce and given up
hope of finding a job grew in the four years since President Obama promised to
rebuild and recover. In January 2009, 4.9 million women were not counted in the
labor force – by 2013, that figure had risen to 5.4 million.”
And as more people are forced out of
employment by Obama’s “economic recovery” measures, more people get signed up
on food stamps. During his tenure, food stamp participants have increased by
49%, from 31.9 million to 47.6 million. CNS News reported that the current
number of food stamp enrollees now exceeds
the population of Spain.
I doubt that Obama brought any of these things up in his address. He likely talked about how we just need a few more years to create more (government) jobs, and that if we trust him and his executive prowess, the economy will be fully recovered by the end of this term, and the middle class will be restored.
But none of that will happen. Things will continue to stagnate or deteriorate. Rights will continue to be transferred from the people to the government. People will continue to be forced out of the private sector and onto the socialist plantation. That’s the state of the union, and to us, it’s abysmal. But to Obama, things are moving along quite well and according to plan.
I doubt that Obama brought any of these things up in his address. He likely talked about how we just need a few more years to create more (government) jobs, and that if we trust him and his executive prowess, the economy will be fully recovered by the end of this term, and the middle class will be restored.
But none of that will happen. Things will continue to stagnate or deteriorate. Rights will continue to be transferred from the people to the government. People will continue to be forced out of the private sector and onto the socialist plantation. That’s the state of the union, and to us, it’s abysmal. But to Obama, things are moving along quite well and according to plan.
PECANS IN THE CEMETERY
PECANS IN THE CEMETERY
On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old
pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a
bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began
dividing the nuts.
'One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me,'
said one boy.
Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.
Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle.
As he passed,
he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He
slowed
down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, 'One for you,
one for me,
one for you, One for me...'
He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and
rode off.
Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane,
hobbling along.
'Come here quick,' said the boy, 'you won't believe what
I heard!
Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up
the souls!'
The man said, 'Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for
me to walk.'
When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to
the
cemetery.
Standing by the fence they heard, 'One for you, one for
me. One for you, One for me.'
The old man whispered, 'Boy, you've been tellin' me the
truth. Let's
see if we can see the Lord...
Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet
were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the
wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to
get a glimpse of the Lord.
At last they heard, 'One for you, one for me. That's
all... Now let's go get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done....
They say the old man had the lead for a good half-mile
before the kid on the bike passed him.
Darn Right I'll Forward It!
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Date: Tuesday, February 12,
2013, 5:40 PM
Subject: FW:
Darn Right I'll Forward It!
You're a 19 year old kid.
You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central
Highlands of Viet Nam ..
It's November 11, 1967.
LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards
away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the helicopters to stop
coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're
not getting out.
Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll
never see them again.
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a
helicopter.
You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no
MedEvac markings are on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.
He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and
decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of
you at a time on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses
and safety.
And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out.
No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times
in the legs and left arm.
He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it
without the Captain and his Huey.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died
last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise , Idaho
May God Bless and Rest His Soul.
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure heard a
whole bunch about Whitney Houston, Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sicko
Sandusky , and a 72- day sham marriage.
Shame on the media !!!
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Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Now... YOU pass this along. Honor this real hero.
Please.
-- David E. Coia |
College Football-Gate Escalates
Tom Heneghan explosive intelligence briefings ALL patriot Americans MUST know, with sources inside American/European intelligence agencies and INTERPOL, reporting what is really going on behind the scenes of the corporate-controlled, fascist, extortion-friendly propaganda U.S. media's massive deceptions
Tuesday February 12, 2013
College Football-GateEscalatesTuesday February 12, 2013
by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
University of Alabama crooked coach Nick SabanAP Photo/David J. Phillip
UNITED States of America - It can now be reported that the arrest of four (4) African-American student athletes playing football for the University of Alabama on charges of armed robbery and fraud is just the tip of the iceberg in a scandal that will eventually engulf the University of Alabama and their crooked coach Nick Saban.
During the last four (4) years under Nick Saban's reign as head coach at the University of Alabama, black Alabama student athletes received bought and paid for credit cards from University of Alabama boosters, which is total violation of NCAA rules.
The credit cards supplied to the student athletes were financed through a slush fund tied to crooked coach Saban.
Note: Most of the players recruited by Saban since he has been University of Alabama head coach are black with serious academic deficiencies.
The question now, similar to the University of Miami case is: Do these black student athletes even attend class?
P.S. Now it gets worse!
Sports Illustrated is working on a block buster story identifying a Miami doctor who supplied steroids aka illegal performance enhancement drugs to players currently on the University of Alabama team.
University of Alabama
crooked coach Nick SabanAP Photo/David J. Phillip
Instead he just suspended the players. I guess Saban is afraid they may talk.
P.P.P.S. Stay tuned for future intelligence briefings which will have an update on how the corrupt Washington Post covered up for years the involvement of Penn State's late coach Joe Paterno in criminal felonies aka obstruction of justice in the cover up of the pedophile sex and homosexual sodomy aka sexual assault against Penn State student athletes.
The late coach Paterno refused to be interviewed in the federal investigation done by former FBI Director Louis Freeh. Instead pedophile enabler Paterno chose to do an interview on his death bed with the enabling Washington Post.
In closing, college football in the 21st century has become a corrupt whore house.
Most of the teams that have won BCS national titles in the 21st century have been on probation or about to go on probation.
What is coming next? You can assume it will get worse.
Finally, we are happy to announce that the corrupt U.S. media like ESPN, the Washington Post, CNN's Anderson Cooper, deadspin. com and MSNBC now have a real college football scandal to cover.
Remember, folks, if they do not cover it we will expose it for them.
http://www.myspace.com/tom_heneghan_intel/blog/546706029
The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over the World
The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over the World
From Globalresearch.ca
It could be named History of the Wars (and crime)
How quickly best laid plans become passé. New world orders come, it seems, as frequently as eclipses.
The old world order (ancien régime), along with 16 million people, died during the Great European War which began on June 28, 1914 when the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated by a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, in Sarajevo. (Today he would be called a terrorist.) This assassination sent nations that had no desire to go to war into the most destructive war the world had yet experienced.
Europe at the beginning of 1914 consisted of six major empires and an assortment of minor states that the major empires didn’t care much about. The six major empires, (the Austro-Hungarian, French, German, British, Ottoman, and Russian) were ensnared in military alliances (much like the US is today) which were formed to keep the peace. The diplomats, like those today, believed that forming alliances that balanced the powers of different groups would keep them from attacking each other. The Central Powers consisted of Austro-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire; the Triple Entente consisted of the other three. Peace, the diplomats thought was assured. What happened?
When the archduke was assassinated, the Austrians, confident in their military prowess (as Americans are today), decided to punish Serbia which was attacked on July 28. But the Serbs ambushed the Austrians at the battles of Cer and Kolubara. The Austrians were thrown back with heavy losses. Russia came to the aid of its ethnically related Serbs, and Germany invaded France through Belgium and Luxembourg. Britain came to the defense of France and the Ottoman Empire joined the war in the Balkans on the side of the Central Powers. The alliances that were to ensure the peace changed a single assassination into a massive war. When it was over, the Austro-Hungarian, the German, the Ottoman, and the Russian Empires had vanished and the United States, which joined the war late on the side of the Triple Entente had become a world player. The old world order was gone!
Woodrow Wilson, the American President, sought to create a new old world order by proposing his Fourteen Points. Wilson wanted to create separate nations out of former colonies and ensure the peace by creating a League of Nations (another peace by treaty scheme). Territorial reductions were made to Germany and Austria, a slew of new and revived nations were created in Eastern Europe, while France and Britain carved up the Ottoman Empire to suit themselves. The new old world order was just a reconfigured old world order. It didn’t last and it didn’t ensure the peace. So much for the best laid plans of diplomats.
Germany was reborn in 1933 when Adolph Hitler became Chancellor. He, too, sought to create a new world order, one dominated by a Thousand Year Reich (Empire). To that end, his policies were aimed at seizing Lebensraum (living space) for the German people by extending Germany’s borders. Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia were annexed and Poland was invaded. But alas, Poland had a mutual defense treaty (another alliance formed to ensure the peach) with Great Britain and France, so the invasion of Poland started World War II.
When it was over, Germany again was destroyed and Great Britain and France, for the most part, had had their empires diminished. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia) found themselves at the top of another new old world order.
The victorious powers, the US, the USSR, China, Great Britain, and France tried again to ensure the peace by creating the United Nations which they attempted to keep firmly in their control by making themselves rulers of the Security Council which had a veto on all UN Activities all five nations didn’t give unanimous approval to. That was to be the new old world order. But it began to come unglued immediately. China was not represented by mainland China which had become Communist but by “Nationalist” China whose government had fled to Taiwan. Communist China soon took the Chinese seat and the two Communist nations formed a bloc while the remaining three Capitalist nations formed another. The United Nations became the Disunited Nations and has remained so to this day. This new old world order was stillborn.
Sometime after 1950 (because of secrecy, the exact date is unknown) the Bilderbergers, realizing that the old world ancient régime and all of these new old world orders were founded on nation states that kept going to war with each other, began an attempt to create a truly new world order. David Rockefeller writes,
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. . . . It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it”
If there were no nation states, no wars could erupt between them!
Some believe that these international bankers have succeeded in taking over the world, but it has never succeeded in abolishing nation states. In fact, there is some evidence that nation states may be disintegrating into smaller ones. Scotland is going to hold a referendum on withdrawing from England, Catalonia is talking about withdrawing from Spain, Czechoslovakia has broken up into the Czech and Slovak republics, there is talk again of secession in the US, and no one quite knows what is really happening in the Arab world. A new world order ruled by one government? Not hardly!
But things began to break down in the 1950s. Until then, wars were fought between armies supported by nation states, and their endings were foreseeable. A war ended when one army, either voluntarily or on command, surrendered. That era appears to have ended. Old world order warfare appears to have become passé.
When the second world war ended, the Korean Peninsula was partitioned into Northern and Southern sections occupied by the Russians and Americans respectively. Elections for unification were to be held in 1948 but were not; the Americans were unsure the result would favor the South. Open warfare broke out when North Korean forces invaded South Korea in June, 1950. Because the Soviet Union was boycotting the United Nations Security Council at the time, the United States and other countries passed a Security Council resolution authorizing military intervention. The war’s progress favored each side from time to time and continued until July, 1953 when an armistice was signed. Officially, the war still goes on today. The US provided 88% of the 341,000 international soldiers which aided South Korea. The Russians and the People’s Republic of China aided North Korea. The West’s army was international, and the era of never ending, wars may have begun.
After a short pause, the American hubris led the US to play one-upmanship with France. Since the end of World War II, the French had been trying to maintain its hold on its Southeastern Asian colony of Vietnam. But at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the French were soundly defeated and decided to give up the fight. American hubris about its military prowess made American diplomats believe that the US could do what the French could not and began to use American military resources to keep South Vietnam from being united with the North.
The Pentagon’s military minds viewed this conflict as a traditional two-nation-state one and believed that America’s military only had to defeat a primitive North Vietnamese army to succeed. They were wrong, and after twenty years of fighting, 58,000 Americans, millions of Vietnamese had died, and the Americans fled. But this war marked another first: the army that won all the battles lost the war. That had never before happened in history. Today, winning battles does not win wars. Truly a new era in warfare has begun. What the Pentagon’s commanders failed to realize was that the war was not a two state war. It was a war between an invading army and an indigenous people who could only be defeated by total annihilation. No possible way existed for Americans (or any other nation-state) to “win” this war.
But Americans are hard learners and they learned nothing from Korea and Vietnam, so after two misadventures that appeared to be successful (Grenada and the 1st Gulf War), the US led another multinational force into Iraq and Afghanistan. After eight years in Iraq and the installation of a new government, the US withdrew without achieving its goals, leaving Iraq in disarray. And after more than a decade in Afghanistan a similar outcome seems to be imminent. Like Vietnam, these wars too are not two-state wars.
They amount to invading armies battling indigenous peoples who themselves are not united and not under the control of any government, group, or commander. No surrendering army in either country will ever be found. But now there’s a new twist. The forces facing the invaders do not merely consist of local peoples. Those peoples are assisted by non-state but similarly minded multi-state actors. The people opposing the West in Afghanistan are the same groups opposing the West in Libya, Algeria, Syria, Yemen, Mali, Somalia, the Sudan, and elsewhere. People who have been subjugated and exploited by the West have begun an undeclared war on the West and westerners everywhere, and winning this war will require not their defeat but their annihilation. The West cannot do that without annihilating itself in the process.
The real new world order has emerged–the world’s downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military force cannot subdue, and that concessions cannot placate. Ancien régimes relied on military power to influence events. The true new world order renders military power effete. All it can now accomplish is kill for killing’s sake. Pure barbarity is what the promise of Western Civilization has been reduced to. What a wonderful world we have made!
It could be named History of the Wars (and crime)
How quickly best laid plans become passé. New world orders come, it seems, as frequently as eclipses.
The old world order (ancien régime), along with 16 million people, died during the Great European War which began on June 28, 1914 when the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated by a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, in Sarajevo. (Today he would be called a terrorist.) This assassination sent nations that had no desire to go to war into the most destructive war the world had yet experienced.
Europe at the beginning of 1914 consisted of six major empires and an assortment of minor states that the major empires didn’t care much about. The six major empires, (the Austro-Hungarian, French, German, British, Ottoman, and Russian) were ensnared in military alliances (much like the US is today) which were formed to keep the peace. The diplomats, like those today, believed that forming alliances that balanced the powers of different groups would keep them from attacking each other. The Central Powers consisted of Austro-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire; the Triple Entente consisted of the other three. Peace, the diplomats thought was assured. What happened?
When the archduke was assassinated, the Austrians, confident in their military prowess (as Americans are today), decided to punish Serbia which was attacked on July 28. But the Serbs ambushed the Austrians at the battles of Cer and Kolubara. The Austrians were thrown back with heavy losses. Russia came to the aid of its ethnically related Serbs, and Germany invaded France through Belgium and Luxembourg. Britain came to the defense of France and the Ottoman Empire joined the war in the Balkans on the side of the Central Powers. The alliances that were to ensure the peace changed a single assassination into a massive war. When it was over, the Austro-Hungarian, the German, the Ottoman, and the Russian Empires had vanished and the United States, which joined the war late on the side of the Triple Entente had become a world player. The old world order was gone!
Woodrow Wilson, the American President, sought to create a new old world order by proposing his Fourteen Points. Wilson wanted to create separate nations out of former colonies and ensure the peace by creating a League of Nations (another peace by treaty scheme). Territorial reductions were made to Germany and Austria, a slew of new and revived nations were created in Eastern Europe, while France and Britain carved up the Ottoman Empire to suit themselves. The new old world order was just a reconfigured old world order. It didn’t last and it didn’t ensure the peace. So much for the best laid plans of diplomats.
Germany was reborn in 1933 when Adolph Hitler became Chancellor. He, too, sought to create a new world order, one dominated by a Thousand Year Reich (Empire). To that end, his policies were aimed at seizing Lebensraum (living space) for the German people by extending Germany’s borders. Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia were annexed and Poland was invaded. But alas, Poland had a mutual defense treaty (another alliance formed to ensure the peach) with Great Britain and France, so the invasion of Poland started World War II.
When it was over, Germany again was destroyed and Great Britain and France, for the most part, had had their empires diminished. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia) found themselves at the top of another new old world order.
The victorious powers, the US, the USSR, China, Great Britain, and France tried again to ensure the peace by creating the United Nations which they attempted to keep firmly in their control by making themselves rulers of the Security Council which had a veto on all UN Activities all five nations didn’t give unanimous approval to. That was to be the new old world order. But it began to come unglued immediately. China was not represented by mainland China which had become Communist but by “Nationalist” China whose government had fled to Taiwan. Communist China soon took the Chinese seat and the two Communist nations formed a bloc while the remaining three Capitalist nations formed another. The United Nations became the Disunited Nations and has remained so to this day. This new old world order was stillborn.
Sometime after 1950 (because of secrecy, the exact date is unknown) the Bilderbergers, realizing that the old world ancient régime and all of these new old world orders were founded on nation states that kept going to war with each other, began an attempt to create a truly new world order. David Rockefeller writes,
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. . . . It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it”
If there were no nation states, no wars could erupt between them!
Some believe that these international bankers have succeeded in taking over the world, but it has never succeeded in abolishing nation states. In fact, there is some evidence that nation states may be disintegrating into smaller ones. Scotland is going to hold a referendum on withdrawing from England, Catalonia is talking about withdrawing from Spain, Czechoslovakia has broken up into the Czech and Slovak republics, there is talk again of secession in the US, and no one quite knows what is really happening in the Arab world. A new world order ruled by one government? Not hardly!
But things began to break down in the 1950s. Until then, wars were fought between armies supported by nation states, and their endings were foreseeable. A war ended when one army, either voluntarily or on command, surrendered. That era appears to have ended. Old world order warfare appears to have become passé.
When the second world war ended, the Korean Peninsula was partitioned into Northern and Southern sections occupied by the Russians and Americans respectively. Elections for unification were to be held in 1948 but were not; the Americans were unsure the result would favor the South. Open warfare broke out when North Korean forces invaded South Korea in June, 1950. Because the Soviet Union was boycotting the United Nations Security Council at the time, the United States and other countries passed a Security Council resolution authorizing military intervention. The war’s progress favored each side from time to time and continued until July, 1953 when an armistice was signed. Officially, the war still goes on today. The US provided 88% of the 341,000 international soldiers which aided South Korea. The Russians and the People’s Republic of China aided North Korea. The West’s army was international, and the era of never ending, wars may have begun.
After a short pause, the American hubris led the US to play one-upmanship with France. Since the end of World War II, the French had been trying to maintain its hold on its Southeastern Asian colony of Vietnam. But at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the French were soundly defeated and decided to give up the fight. American hubris about its military prowess made American diplomats believe that the US could do what the French could not and began to use American military resources to keep South Vietnam from being united with the North.
The Pentagon’s military minds viewed this conflict as a traditional two-nation-state one and believed that America’s military only had to defeat a primitive North Vietnamese army to succeed. They were wrong, and after twenty years of fighting, 58,000 Americans, millions of Vietnamese had died, and the Americans fled. But this war marked another first: the army that won all the battles lost the war. That had never before happened in history. Today, winning battles does not win wars. Truly a new era in warfare has begun. What the Pentagon’s commanders failed to realize was that the war was not a two state war. It was a war between an invading army and an indigenous people who could only be defeated by total annihilation. No possible way existed for Americans (or any other nation-state) to “win” this war.
But Americans are hard learners and they learned nothing from Korea and Vietnam, so after two misadventures that appeared to be successful (Grenada and the 1st Gulf War), the US led another multinational force into Iraq and Afghanistan. After eight years in Iraq and the installation of a new government, the US withdrew without achieving its goals, leaving Iraq in disarray. And after more than a decade in Afghanistan a similar outcome seems to be imminent. Like Vietnam, these wars too are not two-state wars.
They amount to invading armies battling indigenous peoples who themselves are not united and not under the control of any government, group, or commander. No surrendering army in either country will ever be found. But now there’s a new twist. The forces facing the invaders do not merely consist of local peoples. Those peoples are assisted by non-state but similarly minded multi-state actors. The people opposing the West in Afghanistan are the same groups opposing the West in Libya, Algeria, Syria, Yemen, Mali, Somalia, the Sudan, and elsewhere. People who have been subjugated and exploited by the West have begun an undeclared war on the West and westerners everywhere, and winning this war will require not their defeat but their annihilation. The West cannot do that without annihilating itself in the process.
The real new world order has emerged–the world’s downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military force cannot subdue, and that concessions cannot placate. Ancien régimes relied on military power to influence events. The true new world order renders military power effete. All it can now accomplish is kill for killing’s sake. Pure barbarity is what the promise of Western Civilization has been reduced to. What a wonderful world we have made!
Pope Benedict Resigned to Avoid Arrest, Seizure of Church Wealth by Easter
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Pope Benedict Resigned to Avoid Arrest, Seizure of Church Wealth by Easter
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