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The War will come to us.

Posted by Sam Allen on Saturday, October 03, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Pat Buchanan in his column today about the wars in the Middle East closed with this statement.

"The killers of 9-11 were over here because we were over there. How has being over there benefited us, to compensate for the cost?"

That is simply Baloney!!  His isolationism is demonstrably false. The killers of 9-11 were over here because they saw their efforts as part of a larger effort to make the whole world submit in one form or another to Allah. They were primarily belief driven not revenge driven.

The terrorist attacks that still happen in Europe, which in general has acquiesced to Muslim culture shows that radical Islamist will attack based upon their beliefs not our actions. Whatever other excuses they used to justify their actions are simply that, excuses.

Now whether we should continue to prosecute wars in the Middle East is debatable, because it may in fact not be effective in changing their culture. Unless you combat the real enemy, which is Islam itself then you will not change their culture.

On the other hand, as with communism, the Korean and Vietnam Wars may not have been totally effective on those terms, but it did keep the communists busy somewhere other than America. I know the cost of continuing to prosecute the war is high, and it may never result in a long term change in those areas, but it may still be the safest place to have a war.

Don't fool yourselves, Islam is at war with the west, and we will either be fighting them somewhere or we will be submitting to them here.


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Hollow victories

Posted by Sam Allen on Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:39:55 AM
I wrote this response to Will, a homosexual man who regularly posts responses to Mike Adams columns.  In this response, he was gloating about the fact that Maine has become the 5th state to affirm homosexual marriage (in spite of the fact the the column was not about homosexuality in any way, but was rather about Statist.)

You are constantly bringing up gay rights, and you may in fact be right that gay activists are "winning" politically.  Sadly though, just like the Statist of this article, when you win, everyone loses.  People often do choose to indulge their own immediate sexual desires verses engaging in the harder work of forming real families and real marriages. 

People in this country for years have denigrated marriage to follow their own lusts which makes it natural to completely destroy the meaning of the institution completely, but is this a good thing.  No, of course not, you can no more change the fact that stable families with a dad and a mom are the best environment to raise happy healthy kids then you can change the law of gravity.  Our problem these days is that so many people are already a screwed up, so they cannot see how bad the destruction of marriage is.

By the way, the same self-indulgent culture also leads us to give our right away along with our responsibilities.  To many Esaus who are willing to sell their birthrights for a bit of government soup.

So go ahead, celebrate your victory, but remember if you do "win" it will be a very hollow victory that leads to more misery for everyone.
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It's your fault!!

Posted by Sam Allen on Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:47:50 PM
I am a little tired of hearing both sides blame each other for the mess, and hearing "average" Americans blame everyone but themselves.

The truth is that we live in a materialistic "get it now" culture that affects/infects both Washington, Wall Street, and main street. The Dems pandered to the underclass to have the government push bad loans for people who could not afford them, so those people would continue to vote for them. The Republicans pander to the business community (who can do no wrong apparently) who like idiots give loans to people who cannot afford them, because for awhile we can make big money.  A great number of average citizens refuse to take responsibility for their own choices in buying homes they could not afford, because my banker said I could afford it (not just sub-prime buyers either).  As long as the bubble kept growing everyone was happy, but now that it has burst, everyone blames everyone but themselves.

The solution is not more or better government regulation or less government regulation, but it does include more regulation -- namely, self-regulation by everyone.  At all levels of society we have people who refuse to regulate their own behavior. I think capitalism, democracy, and freedom in general are obviously the best systems, but they only work if the people in them can regulate themselves!

The problem with a bail-out is that it is simply putting off the day when we as a society feel the full effects of our bad behavior. Like a co-dependent spouse cleaning up after an alcoholic, this action may mean that we don't get the wake up call soon enough to change our society.
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