When I read that Barrack Hussein Obama, presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States, had uttered words like "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it," before an adoring throng of Berliners, I got confused. It's almost as if the senator from Illinois seems to suggest that this 'well' is something that the US (or the West in general) has dug, and then thrown the 'extremism' in it. In other words, it's somehow 'all our fault' and we need fix it.
That has all kinds of bad implications, though this claptrap is typical of the Liberal/Left Wing crowd that Mr. Obama comes from. He might as well have stood before the very same crowd of 200,000 and said 'we caused 9/11 and are guilty of terrorism' - and chances are, they STILL would have cheered him wildly.
Call me a redneck but Mr. Obama does not symbolize to me the 'hope' that US foreign policy might take a 'new' direction. In fact, if he does get elected (he won't but some people need to dream, right?), his new policies will be a repeat of the old ones; that of 'blaming the rich' and the powerful for the problems of the poor and the weak. That's because Mr. Obama wants to attack the symptoms of the disease instead of the disease itself.
That 'disease' wasn't sparked by the US support of Israel, or the presence of its troops in the Middle East. It's also not caused by poverty or a lack of education as many of the best-known terrorists are highly educated people themselves, and come from well-to-do families. Nor it is this 'disease' a result of America being the richest and most powerful nation on the planet and is somehow 'oppressing' people to secure it's own selfish ends. This disease is called ignorance, and the only cure for that is truth; a truth no one wants to admit because it would undermine many of the wild notions held dear by people like Mr. Obama.
US actions, are simply a response to that, not the catalyst for it. This view, however, is anathema to Mr. Obama and the Democrats, whose political mantra has always been that 'it's our fault and we need to fix it.' That approach might play well to that small segment of the public who take a perverse pleasure from begging forgiveness from the extremists (and their sponsors) for the evil they inflict upon them. But it also betrays the cause for which so many brave men and women have died and are dying right now.
These soldiers and statesmen, a group of people far more noble than capitulationists like Mr. Obama, have died fighting for the truth, and for the liberty of those now living in ignorance, so that they can lead peaceful and productive lives. In fact, the reason why terrorism and extremism exist in these tyrannical Middle East societies is because those are the only weapons such countries have against the steady advance of freedom and liberty throughout the world. They see it as a threat to the established order, an order that suits those who have and enjoy the benefits and perks of power and are not willing to give it up.
Like the Nazis, the Soviet Union, China and other Communist and Islamic regimes today, these modern-day Fascists fear the truth because the truth leads to freedom, and this is incompatible with their goals. So they resort to terror, knowing that a heads-up fight with either the US or Israeli army would result in their utter defeat and overthrow. Then they justify their actions in the guise of nationalist or religious zeal, while continuing to create the kinds of societies that breed yet more ignorance, extremism, terrorism, and tyranny.
That is why when I hear Mr. Obama, talk of defeating "terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" by withdrawing US and allied forces, I get rather confused. Our troops, after all, are there fighting to DEFEAT terror and extremism by building free societies where such things cannot take root. Unlike Mr. Obama, however, I believe that the first step in this process is to move away from Liberal-inspired guilt and reject the bizarre notion that the 'rich' and the 'powerful' are always to blame for the problems of the poor and the weak.
Instead we need to support our troops, take our lumps, and never lose sight of the ultimate goal of bringing truth and freedom to those now living in ignorance and oppression. When we do that, when every citizen in whatever country he or she may dwell in can live without fear of arbitrary arrest or torture, can worship whatever they want without consequences, and think and speak their minds openly regardless of what the government says then, and ONLY then, will Mr. Obama's "the well of extremism" dry up and the source of terror abate.
Too bad he and his Liberal/Left-wing horde can't grasp that. Instead they see 200,000 cheering people in a foreign country, and then congratulate themselves on their 'wisdom.' But it is the wisdom of the Lemming as it races off a cliff, not the wisdom of those who truly wish to bring peace, liberty, and justice to the world.
Ironically enough, 70 years ago, another large crowd cheered another 'great' leader, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain. It was he who, after visiting Germany and meeting Adolph Hitler, returned with the promise that he had brought 'Peace for our time' by caving in to tyranny. A year later, the world exploded.
Sincerely,
I.M. Ulysses
Friday, July 25, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Al Gore and the Politics of Hypocrisy
Well it's summertime, and idiocy abounds. By that I mean Al Gore and his latest plan to save the world from climate change.
This wanna-be president, with all the charisma of wet paint, just cannot keep his mouth shut, can he? Give a guy an Academy Award, stick an Nobel Prize in his hand, and suddenly he feels that anything he says is important and should be followed without question.
His latest rambling, according to the BBC, is that the US can and should move entirely away from generating electricity produced from burning fossil fuels in 10 years. According to him (or should that now be spelled HIM?) we need to "tax what we burn - not what we earn" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7513002.stm). Yeah, great plan. Spoken like a true country-club Liberal; and by that I mean a total idiot!
Well, with all due 'respect' to Al "I invented the Internet' Gore, I think he has become the poster-boy of self-righteous, ignorant, buffoons; and who's ego over the plaudits and praise given for his flawed 'Inconvenient Truth' has finally surpassed his intelligence. Unlike him, and his Liberal, idealistic (if not drug-addicted, colleagues), most of us live in what I call the 'real world,' not the jet-setting, limo-chauffeured, mansion-living one that he does. Hence his latest 'brain fart' should be taken as the mere ramblings of a self-indulgent twerp than the clear reasoning of an average hard-working man and woman; people who don't have the millions of dollars that he does to shield their families from the costs associated with Gore's latest 'good idea.'
Already private industry has gotten the message; high oil prices are here to stay and we better get used to it. That has already started to transform our economy by the introduction of more and more fuel-efficient vehicles, more demand for alternative clean fuels by energy consumers, and a bearing down by average families to focus more on the essentials. Unfortunately that has also resulted economic hardship, too, as higher energy prices mean less disposable income available for travel, entertainment, and the other 'treats' that we have long enjoyed. Some have even lost their own homes as a result, while others can now barely afford to buy food for their children as the impact of higher energy costs works its way through the system.
Of course, this has no affect on Mr. Gore. With his fame, and his millions, people like him and other country-club Liberals can afford to spout off about the need for switching off fossil fuels and 'taxing what we burn not earn.' After all, it won't affect THEIR lifestyles, which are already far beyond the scope of the ordinary middle class family they claim to support. Of course, that's the rub here too, and why I personally resent this kind of blabber from people who, in another century, would have considered themselves our 'betters'
While we ditch our small cars and cram ourselves into trains to get to work, they'll still be getting their limo driver to drop them off to the latest shin-dig to celebrate their own pomposity. While we take the Greyhound and drive for 3 days to visit our relatives across the country, they'll still be using their private jets and drinking fine wine and eating good food to make their 3 hour 'ordeal' more palatable. And while the US and the world might, after the average working man and woman learns to live on table scraps while paying a mortgage on a house no bigger than an energy-efficient cardboard box, finally switch off fossil fuels entirely, the self-congratulatory talk of people of Mr. Gore's ilk, will likely make up in sheer hot air whatever reduction in the emissions of carbon our now-impoverished society will have made.
Frankly, I don't see a net benefit out of this for anyone, except guys like Mr. Gore and his ilk. So unless he and his country-club Liberal clique are prepared to impoverish themselves (the way they expect the average man and woman too), in order to accomplish these 'nobel' goals, I believe the best way to stop global warming is for him to shut his trap and count his blessings instead.
After all these years of hearing this droning stack of self-righteous hypocrisy and pomposity talk about climate change while I pay $60 bucks to fill up my Honda Civic to get to work, I truly sick of it! In fact I now honestly believe that not only will Mr. Gore's silence remove a billion tones of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, annually, but it will also free up more fresh air for the productive use of scientists and other people, to come up with genuine solutions to climate change and improve our society.
When that is done, not only will the world be a cooler place, but a quieter and far less hypocritical one too!
Sincerely,
I.M. Ulysses
This wanna-be president, with all the charisma of wet paint, just cannot keep his mouth shut, can he? Give a guy an Academy Award, stick an Nobel Prize in his hand, and suddenly he feels that anything he says is important and should be followed without question.
His latest rambling, according to the BBC, is that the US can and should move entirely away from generating electricity produced from burning fossil fuels in 10 years. According to him (or should that now be spelled HIM?) we need to "tax what we burn - not what we earn" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7513002.stm). Yeah, great plan. Spoken like a true country-club Liberal; and by that I mean a total idiot!
Well, with all due 'respect' to Al "I invented the Internet' Gore, I think he has become the poster-boy of self-righteous, ignorant, buffoons; and who's ego over the plaudits and praise given for his flawed 'Inconvenient Truth' has finally surpassed his intelligence. Unlike him, and his Liberal, idealistic (if not drug-addicted, colleagues), most of us live in what I call the 'real world,' not the jet-setting, limo-chauffeured, mansion-living one that he does. Hence his latest 'brain fart' should be taken as the mere ramblings of a self-indulgent twerp than the clear reasoning of an average hard-working man and woman; people who don't have the millions of dollars that he does to shield their families from the costs associated with Gore's latest 'good idea.'
Already private industry has gotten the message; high oil prices are here to stay and we better get used to it. That has already started to transform our economy by the introduction of more and more fuel-efficient vehicles, more demand for alternative clean fuels by energy consumers, and a bearing down by average families to focus more on the essentials. Unfortunately that has also resulted economic hardship, too, as higher energy prices mean less disposable income available for travel, entertainment, and the other 'treats' that we have long enjoyed. Some have even lost their own homes as a result, while others can now barely afford to buy food for their children as the impact of higher energy costs works its way through the system.
Of course, this has no affect on Mr. Gore. With his fame, and his millions, people like him and other country-club Liberals can afford to spout off about the need for switching off fossil fuels and 'taxing what we burn not earn.' After all, it won't affect THEIR lifestyles, which are already far beyond the scope of the ordinary middle class family they claim to support. Of course, that's the rub here too, and why I personally resent this kind of blabber from people who, in another century, would have considered themselves our 'betters'
While we ditch our small cars and cram ourselves into trains to get to work, they'll still be getting their limo driver to drop them off to the latest shin-dig to celebrate their own pomposity. While we take the Greyhound and drive for 3 days to visit our relatives across the country, they'll still be using their private jets and drinking fine wine and eating good food to make their 3 hour 'ordeal' more palatable. And while the US and the world might, after the average working man and woman learns to live on table scraps while paying a mortgage on a house no bigger than an energy-efficient cardboard box, finally switch off fossil fuels entirely, the self-congratulatory talk of people of Mr. Gore's ilk, will likely make up in sheer hot air whatever reduction in the emissions of carbon our now-impoverished society will have made.
Frankly, I don't see a net benefit out of this for anyone, except guys like Mr. Gore and his ilk. So unless he and his country-club Liberal clique are prepared to impoverish themselves (the way they expect the average man and woman too), in order to accomplish these 'nobel' goals, I believe the best way to stop global warming is for him to shut his trap and count his blessings instead.
After all these years of hearing this droning stack of self-righteous hypocrisy and pomposity talk about climate change while I pay $60 bucks to fill up my Honda Civic to get to work, I truly sick of it! In fact I now honestly believe that not only will Mr. Gore's silence remove a billion tones of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, annually, but it will also free up more fresh air for the productive use of scientists and other people, to come up with genuine solutions to climate change and improve our society.
When that is done, not only will the world be a cooler place, but a quieter and far less hypocritical one too!
Sincerely,
I.M. Ulysses
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