Korea is also a peninsula, which helps.

“I see it as history repeating.”

Right. My point is that the history repeating is not a passive, inevitable happening, as though it’s a collective naturally occurring phenomenon that just is. It’s a process, deliberately manipulated. The nature of the American people has not changed. Our collective will to compete and lead is a function of activism, yet that fundamental aspect of competition has been all but ceded to the Left.

As such, I would add to Bill O’Reilly’s call to action that petitioners should include a special set-aside chapter showing that Obama owes these actions due to his errors. You want results from this President? At least lay the foundation with a historical narrative deploying frame and premises, not just a recommendation going forward. Obama is an activist, for whom past is prologue and historical grievances are cause.

Activism is sociology weaponized. The narrative contest covers the ‘moral level of war’. The frame and premises are the underlying clockwork mechanisms that are necessary for any course of action to work. Most non-Left folks are disinterested in taking it on, but it’s necessary. The underlying clockwork frame and premises of the Left’s Vietnam War narrative were applied effectively to OIF. The frame and premises from the Left’s OIF narrative will be applied to any course going forward, unless it’s neutralized and replaced.

Range of Light, JJ,

Check this out: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/19/irans-shiite-militias-are-running-amok-in-iraq/

About the author:
-By Ali KhederyAli Khedery is chairman and chief executive of Dragoman Partners LLC, an international strategic advisory firm. The longest continuously serving American official in Iraq, he was special assistant to five American ambassadors in Iraq and senior adviser to three chiefs of U.S. Central Command from 2003 through 2010.

It was not until Nixon unleashed strategic bombing with operations Linebacker I & II in 1972 that air power made a difference. It is now an accepted fact that, if Nixon had continued the bombing for another month (Linebacker II ended on 12/29/72.), the U.S would have been able to secure a much stronger peace agreement which would have insured the safety of South Vietnam. However, Nixon was embroiled in Watergate by that time and he was all too willing to conclude a less than perfect end to the war.

Our losses in Vietnam were enormous compared to Afghanistan and Iraq. Thus, the majority of people were very turned off by the war. It traumatized the country. The period after the North violated the peace agreement and overran the South was marked by enormous bloodshed and suffering. Our failure led to a human tragedy, but even today, few see it or care. Just as our failure to secure our gains in Iraq is leading to enormous bloodshed and suffering. I see it as history repeating.

What I see in looking back at the Cold War was some areas where we fumbled the ball militarily – mainly Cuba and Vietnam. Korea, Afghanistan (Charlie Wilson’s War – a proxy war par excellence), Nicaragua, and Grenada worked out in our favor and to the detriment of Communist interests. We muddled through with some wins and some losses, but never a Waterloo. We never realized until Reagan became President that our greatest strength against any foe is our economy. China and the USSR went bust as did Vietnam. They all had to change in order to feed their people. We won, they lost.

In evaluating this latest threat we have to take the longer view and accept that there will be failures along the way. And remember that a strong economy is our biggest weapon. We had a limited military success in Desert Storm, bigger military successes in Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan, but leftist political forces have given those successes away just as they did in Vietnam. The anti-American left never believed Communism was a threat. Just as they seem unable to see Islamism as a threat. Maybe ISIS is doing us a favor. Their vicious brutality is shocking even to the left and many in the press are beginning to get alarmed.

Only when enough people get on board with seeing an enemy that is implacable and wants war, when they see that war is interested in them even if they’re not interested in war, will the LIVs finally come around to wanting to taking action.

As for being an activist: Bill O’Reilly is asking all ministers, rabbis, and imams to ask their congregations this weekend to write to President Obama, asking that he put a plan in place to defeat ISIS. We’ll see how that goes.

I’m writing him and asking him to:
1. Put together a coalition of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and any other nation willing to join us against ISIS.
2. To challenge moderate imams to lay the ground work for reforming Islam by rejecting or modifying Sharia to make Islam a tolerant faith.
3. To immediately begin a strategic bombing campaign against ISIS supply bases, training bases, command and control centers, oil storage/production facilities, and other assets.
4. To pressure Turkey to stop ISIS from smuggling oil on their territory.
5. To interdict in any and all ways possible the ISIS money pipelines.
5. To stop immigration from Muslim lands unless the immigrants have a job, sign a pledge to obey American law and reject Sharia, integrate/become educated in English, and agree to never to ask for special religious dispensations from society at large.
6. To begin a covert campaign to either kill or deport radical imams. As well as a similar program against the most dangerous of those in the Muslim world.
7. To put a Marine Expeditionary Force into Iraq to help the Iraqis push ISIS back into Syria. Once Iraq is clear, then proceed as deemed necessary up to and including invading Syria.

And, then it was abandoned by this Fool and his slathering bunch. Holy Smoke, Folks…What a surprise that weakness & flabbiness invited Provocation.

I am fairly well convinced our programs to liberalize Afghanistan and Iraq were Sisyphean tasks that our country could not accomplish because we are too impatient and too divided.

I am not looking longingly backwards for what might have been. I think we have to look forward with cold, hard reality staring us in the face.

I will not belabor what needs to be done. I’ve said it all before. If we aren’t up to it, Sharia may well be the law of the land here at some future point in time.

These points added together explain why “looking longingly backwards” is critical to going forward correctly: past is prologue.

It’s not about trying to move backwards. It’s about orienting ahead correctly.

The narrative contest of the activist game sets the frame going forward with underlying, guiding premises for our culture and politics in general and leaders’ decision-making in particular.

It puzzles me that the people who best appreciate the manifested harm of the normalized, originally countercultural Vietnam narrative, which is the model for the narrative contest of the activist game, and rail often about its growing effects on successive generations of American culture, politics, and leadership choices, yet seem uninterested in countering the Left’s Iraq narrative despite that the Left is openly applying the same MO, for the same purposes going forward, for the Left’s Iraq narrative, which is the successor to the Left’s Vietnam narrative.

It’s like Neo’s change account about the Left’s Vietnam narrative has failed to teach us any practical lessons to deal with the analogous events happening right before our eyes that are shaping the course for current and future American generations.

Countering the malignancy of the Left’s Iraq narrative needs to be done decisively now or else it will cement and metastasize going forward, purposefully and deliberately, in the same way as the Left’s Vietnam narrative. ‘Now’ may already be too late to counter it, but it ain’t getting any earlier. And Left activists aren’t slowing down for their competition to catch up in the only social-political game there is.

In order to “to look forward with cold, hard reality staring us in the face” in order to do “what needs to be done”, We the People must be able to look back correctly in order to orient our azimuth and course ahead correctly. For cognitive frame and operative premises, past is prologue.

2-Thoughts…In this current age of cultural and political madness(aka-Batshit Insanity), my mind flashes—many times each day—to Melanie Phillips’ great book,”The World Turned Upside Dowm” and how EVERYTHING in it(2010)has now leapt to steroids+meth leaps!! Who’da thunk it could get quantitatively worse?! I keep hoping the brilliant author is writing a Volume Two. F***!!

And, secondly, as Beverly was stating or at least inferring: One of the many constantly on display and growing exponentially is the Parody-Paradox-Irony of Western Liberals/Lefties aka (Thank You, Comrade Lenin)USEFUL IDIOTS is that they’d be burned alive/beheaded in nanoseconds if those (Cough-GAG)misunderstood, impoverished ‘yoots of Radical Islam took control. (*Full Disclosure: In my fantasies I get to attend as a witnessing Eagle on a Nearby Wall…Just sayin’…*)

Okay, this Old School T-Rex Neocon Sensitivity Trainer has gotta git for now((-: Hugs and Fuzziness for All,’Yo.

Exactly!

It really is that simple and they really are to that amazing level of bigoted indoctrination.

(Hamlet?)

A contemporary example might suffice (there are millions and millions more…):

http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/02/18/on-eve-of-synagogue-attack-in-denmark-copenhagen-imam-incited-against-jews-video/

Hey, maybe this dude should have a chat with Obama?…..

This.

Ergo, they can’t make sense out of the moslem terrorists of any stripe, whereas to a Christian believer or an orthodox Jew they are no mystery at all: they are, in a word, devil-worshippers, and they’re not about to submit to/get along with the Leftists when the s*** hits the fan. They hate Christians, but they really despise “liberals.”