Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
“Weakness is provocative.”
It just struck me… The safety advice given to people out and about alone includes walking with an assertive posture and acting in a confident/aggressive manner because thugs will more likely pick victims who have head down, rounded shoulders, uncertain body language, etc. And yet the same people who subscribe to and understand that advice cannot recognize the broader application of the very same principle.
*sigh*
I wouldn’t mind the “unclenched fist” so much if he’d use to to pimpslap some folks when they need it.
Does this post answer Mongo’s earlier question about how bright our fearless leader is? Are we there yet?
Said it before, still believe it to be so: none of our national or global organizations can or will act. Israel will.
I fear deep in my soul that you are right. And Israel won’t pull any punches when they do respond.
With what? Israel doesn’t exactly have legs. Not many B-52′s in the world sporting the Magen David. Not to mention any strikes will have to overfly at least two contries who aren’t exactly friendly, the IAF is also somewhat short on B-2′s. The distributed nature of the Iranian program also means that any strike is only going to delay things.
Israel can’t act. We won’t act. Iran will get nuclear weapons. Israel will go public. Syria and Saudi Arabia will get nuclear weapons. Iraq will get nuclear weapons 15 minutes after we leave.
This is going to be exciting…
bc … We here in the West have a choice. We’re not sitting almost on top of a nuclear bomb. Israel, which is, has no choice except to respond. And soon. And it will, if the Ditherer doesn’t offer to help. And he won’t. Like Young Lochinvar’s rival, he’s “a laggard in love and a dastard in war.”
Marianne
All that bowing has sent shivers down the spine of Ahbeahdinnerjacket.It did to me.
Watch it Iran. If you’re not careful we’ll write you a letter telling you how cross we are!
to be issued only after ObamaCare is passed, all people in the US are on wage controls, and card check is a done deal…then The WON shall have time to consider such insignificant affairs of the State.
My only fear is, at this rate, there will be no historians left to document how, after freeing millions upon millions upon millions from tyrannical and fascist dictators, we will stand by and allow same to take over first the Middle East, then Europe, and comoe to our shores, but disguised as “equal rights” and “politically correct” movements, to compensate for the “bad” the US has done in history.
Time to hold a writing contest: The World Without America.
If you look like food, you will be eaten.
Not to worry!
The United Nations is about to send a REALLY strongly worded letter to them. The UN may even discuss sanctions.
Our only hope is that the evil joooos will somehow manage to do something to stop the Iranian nutjobs before they get their weapons (note plural!) finished. After that, all bets are off and no one (really NO ONE!) knows what will happen. As bad as an Israeli strike may seem now, the effects of a madman with the 12th Immam fixation allied with multiple terrorist groups having nukes is unimaginably worse.
And the tool in the White House is totally unprepared to take any intelligent action against any possible scenario, as has been the case since January 20th.
Screwed, so screwed, we are.
Excuse me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the One put Iran “on notice” a while back that if they didn’t respond to diplomatic overtures by sometime in September or October there would be “consequences?” Anyone remember that? Like the 57 states or ending oil imports simply by driving with inflated tires this seems to be another rote embarrassment from our “uber-intelligent” fearless leader the MSM woul rather feed us our daily dose lotus or soma than remind us of.
His election will NOT be remembered as the moment when the ocean levels started to fall. More realistically it will be as the moment when the West lost it’s will and Iran could pursue its nuclear weapons program with little more impediment than having to jerk around as long as possible people who are unwilling to do anything but negotiate -whether it produces results or not. Hardly a dis-incentive. I agree no one knows how this will play out but I for one won’t be “betting two for good” a la Rain Man as to how History will ultimately remember the consequences of that moment.
ProwlerAMDO, sometimes there ARE advantages in being Blue Four. Coming in late on this topic this am on Monday all the headlines–especially in Dubai–besides the banking crisis, is the fact that Iran is beginning work on Ten (10) new Nuke reactors/powerplants. Yep, Obama sure showed THEM guys!! “Consequences” indeed…..
What?? We’re screwed, you say? Naw, can’t be, not with Fearless Leader large and in charge up at West Point leading from the front!
The new power plants may not be allowed multiple Starbucks franchises.
Time for some MOP testing in some underground areas of Iran. Send a few Israelis along for some damage assessment and to clear away those unruly – and aged – Tomcats and Freedom Fighters they still got flying. Of course, such decisions take backbone, grit, determination, and steely eyed resolve. All in critically short supply at 1600 Penn.
Chip in a few titanium rods “dropped” from space, you know, for system testing purposes. Make sure OPTEVFOR is available to certify the system ready for production.
Jerry Pournelle proposed a system called “Thor” which would have been a system of rods in low earth orbit with some terminal guidance. If you had a problem like Iran, all you had to do was deorbit the number of rods you needed. The kinetic energy absorbed by the target would have seemed on the nuclear level.
We could have had such a system fairly inexpensively. No vision in FedGov.
That would do the job nicely….Thor…maybe a old/new name: “Hammer” as in Thor’s, or Time for the younger crowd.
Quoting Larry Kenny’s characterization of George S. Scott “The crazy Bast@$ds in Iran keep yammering about a nuclear program. Well, I say we give ‘em one!” Regrettably, nothing more than humorous in this Administration.
Even more regrettable is the fact, IMO, that should Iran get a nuke and cook it off anywhere, WunWhoWon would simply vote present from his oh so deep bunker. Besides, isn’t Iran just one of those ‘Tiny Nations’?
MM’s quote of a laggard and a dastard is quite fitting.
OT -Happy Birthday to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874).
I suspect that Mr. Churchill would have a rather strong opinion on how to handle Iran, amongst other areas that BHO is waffling on.
In addition…he may appreciate having his bust back….so as to not associate any longer with the cowardly.
Forgot about that bust Xformed. It would surely have a place of honor in my home.
My “one-derful” friends continue to justify every action of the current administration as steps which will lead to a real peace. Apparently not the kind of peace we here in these United States have fought for and enjoyed from time to time, but one where the PTBs will tell us all we need to know, where we need to be and what we need to have.
The notion of liberty escapes their understanding completely. I suspect it was (if at all) taught whilst they were in Canada for a brief respite forty years ago. These are all educated “educators” or social workers. Those who were in service to country at some time, held down a real job (in their own company) as a career or have seen police or fire work simply wonder with me, how can grown people be so stupid?
Obama’s crew is working fast to emasculate the nation. They are doing well and their success or failure depends upon our ability to get some common sense into the mix.
“Weakness is provocative.”
Affirms what I’ve long believed concerning state-to-state comms. Idealism has its place, but if it carries overmuch concessions, it brings out the selfish impulse in leaders whose interests aren’t our own. Only time will tell when Obama will learn to engage in level-headed hardball.