What I do not agree with is, that WE the beings who have been given the leadership of this vast and apparebtly unendeless planet; have to go to war and/or worship, and pay huge amounts of money to so very few.

If you think about the nickname I have chosen for this site, you should also think about Pandora´s Box: Please remind me about what Pandora found in the bottom of Epimithieous
s box

That said, we would want the most aggressive strategy we can develop to get in, get it done, and get out. Unfortunately, President Bush failed us in the GWOT fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq. President Obama is doing worse. Now, we just need an exit strategy that gets us out with minimal loss of life and face. I do not think, with the tenor of his speech at West Point, that President Obama is adequate to the task.

Ken Wallin, PhD (abd)
Major, USAR (ret)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kmwallin

“Keep up the fight”

They don’t benefit from our efforts to force our form of government on them, especially when we have thrown our compass, the Constitution under the bus.

We have opened the doors to Muslim integration into our culture. The world has known the results of this nonsense for many years.

Our Constitution forbids official religion and theirs demands it.

To relax once in awhile and enjoy a stress relieving distraction in the form of watching an occasional game or television program , is of course needed in today’s fast paced and hectic world. Yet for grown adults to obsess over these various forms of entertainments
(fanatical sports team devotion, video games, grown adults collecting child’s toys such as Star Trek, Star Wars, comic books, etc. has all the earmarks and characteristics of a nation and culture in rapid decline.
To keep the overall populace distracted, sedated, and by and large completely complacent by feeding them mass amounts of mindless entertainment that requires no thinking or active questioning, is a form of control. The concept of this form of control was defined back in ancient times when the government figured out it could keep the general population distracted and peaceful by sedating them with entertainment and full stomachs….

From Wikipedia….
“Bread and circuses” (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metaphor for handouts and petty amusements that politicians use to gain popular support, instead of gaining it through sound policy. The phrase is invoked not only to criticize politicians, but also to criticize their supporters for giving up their civic duty.

In modern usage, the phrase has become an adjective to deride an infantilized populace so defined by entertainment, instant self gratification, and personal pleasures that they no longer value civic virtues and the public life (not necessarily accomplished through deliberate pacification by politicians but through the popular culture itself). To many social conservatives, it connotes the wanton decadence and hedonism that defined Rome prior to its decline and that may similarly contribute to the decline of modern society.”

Grown adults watching and fanatically following entertainment sports is nothing more than the man’s version of voyeuristically watching those sad and pathetic “reality tv” shows that engage mostly women’s interests, where someone else’s life and world is far more interesting than one’s own.

I sincerely doubt that any athletes or media entertainment celebrities are going into the locker room or dressing room at the end of their day and obsessingly checking the daily statistics and high point events in the lives of any of their “fans”.

Why should I, as a rational adult, give more than a passing moment of my time, or modicum of money, to follow the accomplishments and lives of these far removed and inconsequential people in sports and entertainment.

There are more seriously important and immediate personal reality issues to attend to with the admittedly limited time remaining in my life and I’d rather not squander that time.

You have it exactly on the response to johnwolfe53. However, as you mentioned “the list is as long as you want to make it.” Because of single issue thinking (a symptom), we are somewhat individual or small herd instinctual. We can’t seem t get together on delivering a death blow to the socialist march toward socialist governmental control.

Because there is not a national “Mantra” supported by libertarian voices (a solution to the list/symptoms) the “beat goes on” as it were. You must cut the socialist power base off at the knees.

Repeal the Federal Reserve, back the “money” by gold and silver, pass the Fair Tax and eliminate the IRS. I’m looking for the mantra to ignite national passion. Randall
You have the voice

We also enjoy, in this country, the “freedom” to have our phones tapped, our internet activity monitored, our social and business contacts logged, and our shopping and personal habits on file for possible prosecution fodder for the vultures who care more about our range of normal human behavior more than we and our families even do, for their sadistic personal life destruction and profit motive, of course.

We also, under Roosevelt, had the “Freedom” to have our gold expropriated,under penalty of law (prison sentence) if we did not comply, in exchange for inflatable paper currency, in the biggest “legal” heist ever purpetrated upon a civilized society. But of course the perpetrator was a Democrat, so we never read nor hear of it, these days.

Enough. Just tell me ONE real freedom we still enjoy which justifies our young people having to die in foreign wars defending, and I will defer to your brillance.

“But that quagmire, too, could be ended in one day by dropping a nice, neat string of nuclear bombs on the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

Lets explore the issue: When is the use, including the first use, of nuclear weapons justified?

My first thought is that it’s almost an absolute certainty that some group or country is going to use nuclear weapons. When it happens, how will we as individuals and a nation respond when there is, for example, a mushroom cloud over Jerusalem?

Bethlehem, the city of Jesus, is about five miles away from Jerusalem: How will you and I feel when all the places that we’ve learned about in the Holy Bible; the places that we were taught are Holy; The places that even if we’ve never set foot on them, they’re still cherished. Even if, like me, you have serious doubts about God and Jesus; How will we act when a suit- case nuke is opened? And what kind of response will we demand from our leaders?

Fallout raining down like a Christmas snowstorm on The Mount of Olives, Nazareth, Galilee, and all of Zion: Think of it! And the worst part of all this is that if something like this happens on the night of the World Series, then it might even preempt the the big game! My, my, my—-all those poor broken-hearted baseball fanatics would feel such disappointed about missing the games they so worship.

I sometimes wonder which are more zealous: The religious fanatics that are plotting to nuke the West or the sports fanatics that work themselves into a total frenzy over a kid’s game.

The thing that bugs me most about professional sports is the taxpayer subsidy of people who can’t even claim to need it.

The team owners are billionaires, the players are millionaires, but they refuse to pay to build their own stadiums. Rather, they blackmail gutless politicians in making the taxpayers build their stadiums. And then they expect us to cheer for them.

On another level we are quickly becoming nations of spectators rather than participants.

I thought, “what happens if we move to New York? We then immediately root for the Yankees and Giants and despise the Philly teams?” and “what if the Philly players you love so dearly get traded — do you now hate them with a passion?”

Even as a child, I always chose my teams. First the Yankees because they were the best, then the Baltimore Colts because they had John Unitas. Later, I chose the NHL Sabres after watching them rally against mighty Montreal early in the ’74-75 season.

For many years now I’ve been bored with all sports, essentially having outgrown them. Rabid fans in their forties and fifties seem slightly idiotic to me. Grow up!