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  1. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight. It’s the size of the fight in the dog.
    – Mark Twain

  2. Churchill ultimately viewed his life’s work as a failure because his aim was more than winning a war. He meant to save and uplift the soul of the British nation and people, whose spiritual decline in the wake of WW1 worried him tremendously.

    Although the British rallied admirably to defeat the Axis, the rally proved to be ad hoc only. The decline of the British national spirit, which is what mattered most to Churchill, resumed after WW2.

  3. The Muslim world has been at war with us since Mohammad walked the earth. Not all Muslims, and not all the time, but it’s been consistent enough that even the dimmest detective should regard it as a “clue” to Islam’s true nature.

    I think it was also Churchill who said he’d rather have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep. When I look at what’s called the National Command Authority, I see lots of wool and hear plenty of bleating. Those few who have borne the brunt of the war against the Islamic terrorists deserve better, as do we.

  4. “I already assumed that this war would last in some form or other for the rest of my life…[and that] it would require patience, fortitude, and skill. There would be no quick fix or simple solutions” neo

    There is no quick fix or simple solution because we are so deeply divided. At least half of the American public and quite probably 2/3rds accept the premise that; Islam is a ‘religion of peace’ being used by radicals.

    And accept the argument that, if Islam itself is our enemy, if Islam itself is at war with the West, then we would have to make war upon a billion+ Muslims, an impractical and immoral proposition.

    I argue that neither premise is true but of course as long as a majority of America’s and the West’s citizens believe them to be true, as long as the divide exists, we will face either “The Forever War” or eventually, a nuclear ‘resolution’ to the conflict.

    I have yet to experience a substantive rebuttal to either my analysis of or proscription for how to resolve Islamic terrorism.

    Not that it is possible to create and enforce such a doctrine now, for clearly the conditions in support of it do not presently exist but rather that no one has convincingly shown how its reasoning to be faulty.

    If it is not logically flawed, then it becomes a viable solution to consider after we lose our first city to a nuclear/WMD attack, a probability that the FBI has publicly declared to be 100% certain.

  5. Regarding Churchill’s view of islam;

    Winston Churchill on Islam

    “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

    The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

    A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

    The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property — either as a child, a wife, or a concubine — must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

    No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

    Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

  6. Some interesting results from a June 9-11 Fox News poll:

    34. How do you view the war on terrorism? As a real war, like War II or Vietnam, as a figure of speech, like the “war on drugs” or the “war on poverty,” don’t know

    War on terrorism is a real war–39%
    War on terrorism is a figure of speech–53%
    Don’t know–8%

    35. Which of the following comes closest to your view of the war on terrorism?

    It’s over and should be a lower priority to the government–17%
    It’s ongoing and should continue to be a top priority to the government–77%
    It’s winding down, but it isn’t over–2%
    Don’t know–4%

    Heartening, that 77% who think it’s a top priority.

    That 53% who liken it to the war on drugs or the war on poverty seems to indicate an understanding that it will go on a very long time. But it would also seem to indicate that it shouldn’t really be fought with everything we have.

    Also, a big change since January 2009, when 62% thought it was a real war and 33% thought it a figure-of-speech war.

  7. After the war, they got rid of Winston Churchill in favor of a socialist “war on poverty” scheme. The unity of war, the success of its progress against real enemies (external or internal) was harnessed for a domestic war in which “fake enemies of poverty and discrimination” were invented for those power maniacs and megalomaniacs to utilize.

    Thus a nation’s progress of war, turned to socialism and the UK of today.

    Sounds like Bush->Obama eras.

  8. Consider that Churchill wrote “The River War” in 1899. In those days before political correctness, he had Islam pegged, and could say so in print without fear of perpetually-enraged Muslims attacking him or his publisher. Unfortunately, his comments about Christianity in a European context seem almost quaint. It is telling that African and Southeast Asian Christian missionaries are now proselytizing in Britain to persuade Britons to rejoin the faith of their ancestors.

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