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THIS IS NO ACCIDENT, COMRADES |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 |
Ever since he was inaugurated in January 2009, inheriting an
economic basket case from his predecessor, Zero has done the absolute
exact
opposite of Ronald Reagan - which is why he is failing. Or
is he?
He is certainly failing at re-launching the American
economy. But what if he defines his
success to the extent he makes our economy worse, not better? Yes,
as someone who is not an actual
American, someone who truly and deeply hates our country, his goal is to
ruin America
as much as he can.
Yet this goal dovetails with that of the Democrat
Party's: the continuance and expansion
of its political power. A Second Great
Depression is the Democrat Party's path to power.
Are you thinking, aha, but wait until November 2nd? We'll
kick these evil Dems out and spoil
their dream! Electoral retribution this
November is our dream. What could the
Dems do to spoil it?
I have lost count now of the number of predictions being
made of a GOP "tsunami" in November.
Serious political analysts, soberly and without hyperbole, are
saying
that Dem losses in the House, Senate, Governor's mansions, et al, are
likely to
be of "historic" proportions.
And every one of them unfailingly comes with a caveat,
something along the lines of, "barring some huge unexpected disaster for
the
GOP." Now, if you were Rahm Emanuel,
what would that caveat cause you to think about?
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WHY SHOULD THERE BE AN AFGHANISTAN? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 |
Last week, we learned that Afghanistan
is The
Doormat of
Empires. Yet the ignorant myth of
the mighty invincible Afghan keeps getting repeated - even by
conservative
writers who really ought to know better.
Washington Times columnist Jeff
Kuhner is an example, who has proclaimed (6/24) that Petraeus is
"doomed to
fail," that "the jihadist iceberg is about to sink the American
juggernaut,"
because:
Afghanistan
is not Iraq. It
is the graveyard of empires - a nation whose rugged terrain and
collection of
disparate warlords and tribes is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare.
The
vaunted Soviet Red Army was crushed in the 1980s. Imperial Britain
was defeated - not once, but twice - during the 19th century. The
reason: They
got dragged into protracted wars of attrition. Eventually, the fierce,
primitive mountains, caves and fighters of Afghanistan
wore down much superior forces, slowly bleeding them to death.
This
is ridiculously not true. Kuhner has obviously neither
been to Afghanistan
nor studied its actual history but is simply repeating memorized
slogans. Thus he asks, "Who lost Afghanistan?"
as if this is preordained. Let's ask a
different question instead: "Why should
there be an Afghanistan
at all?"
Afghanistan
is a problem, not a real country. It is
a pain in the world's ass. The solution
to the problem is not a futile effort of "nation-building" - that
effort is doomed to fail - it is
nation-building's opposite: get rid of
the problem by getting rid of the country.
It's a salvage operation - carve the wreck up and parcel it out
to its
neighbors. Here's how to do it.
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THE COMING NIGHTMARE OF CRACK NICOTINE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 25 June 2010 |
On Monday, June 21, the demented state legislature in Albany
passed a bill increasing cigarette taxes.
A pack of smokes will average $9.60 across the state, and will be
$11 a
pack - $11 for a single pack of
cigarettes - in New York City.
This is not only pro-smuggling, it is pro-terrorist. Who
do you think runs the most lucrative
cigarette smuggling operations from Virginia and the South into New
York? Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. The
higher taxes will mean higher profits for
them, which they will use to kill Israelis and Americans in Afghanistan.
The state legislators who voted for the taxes should be
tried for aiding and abetting terrorism for this alone. But
the consequences could be vastly
worse. New York's
new tobacco tax law is an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences
run
amok. It's the coming nightmare of Crack Nicotine.
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THE DOORMAT OF EMPIRES |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
I couldn't agree with Jack Kelly
more
in his approval of Zero's firing General McChrystal.
Stanley McChrystal is an insufferably arrogant putz whose
criminally stupid Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan
deserve more than being relieved of his command.
They deserve a court-martial and prison. His "courageous
restraint" ROE's are directly responsible for getting our
soldiers killed. He thinks the lives of
Afghans are more important to save than Americans. As of
last week, one of those Americans
fighting and risking their lives to bring freedom to Afghanistan - and
one of
those lives McChrystal's political correctness is jeopardizing - is my
son.
Afghanistan
is personal - for me, and because of 9/11, it should be for all
Americans.
Here we'll dispense with the idiotically ignorant myth that Afghanistan
is the "Graveyard of Empires." Afghanistan
has been steamrollered by conquerors for millennia. Then,
next week, we'll discuss how easy it
would be for us to do so and why it's important that we do.
In 327 BC, Alexander the Great married a beautiful princess
named Roxanne in Balkh, capital of Bactria. She was the
daughter of the King of Bactria,
Oxyartes, and Alexander had just conquered his kingdom. Bactria
is
now northern Afghanistan
- Alexander's wife was Afghan.
At this moment, US and NATO forces are preparing to secure Afghanistan's
second largest city, Kandahar. The city was founded by
Alexander in 330 BC
and is in fact named after him, from the original Iskandaria
(Alexandria
- Iskander being the Persian
pronunciation of Alexander's name).
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AMPUTATE OR DIE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 |
It was a sobering dinner party last night (6/16). Hosted by a London billionaire in his exquisite home - a Boccaccio hung on the wall behind me - the wine flowed liberally, but the conversation between the ten of us was stone-cold serious.
There were lighter moments, as when I proposed a toast to "a great hero of Europe - Geert Wilders." Every one raised their glass in a smile, but the biggest smile was that of a spectacularly gorgeous super-model (you've seen her in many a high-fashion ad). She was from Holland.
Then a well-known Hollywood producer raised his glass to toast his hero - Ronald Reagan. "We need him again," he commented. I guarantee you've watched one of his TV shows.
But when a self-made billionaire with an 11-figure private equity fund and a clear grasp of Austrian economics starts to talk about America's prospects, you listen. So we all listened.
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