Active Army Special Forces member’s Jaw-Dropping letter to America’s politicians

The writer of this letter is still an active US Army Special Forces member therefore, his name is being withheld. However, his opinion is the farthest thing from being held back- Via The Havok Journal

“To the political leaders of America,

I write to you today regarding my concerns about the current state in which we find our beloved planet and your efforts in resolving the many issues we face.

Over the last decade, we have managed to allow our mighty position at the head of the table to dwindle down to a seat at the kids table, with our counsel being received as if it were that of a child making a suggestion on how to cure the world of evil: everyone thinks it is adorable, but no one takes it seriously.

To put it politely, you all are about as successful in global politics as an overweight middle-aged American with a severe case of tetanus trying to perform fellatio on himself.

Understanding that you have the attention span of indigenous forces undergoing rifle training, I give you the options of either reading this letter in its entirety or simply skipping to the last two paragraphs.

Sadly, you neither get the reference about indigenous forces (ask your college educated SMEs and think tanks) nor are you capable of making a decision on what to do next. Go ahead and post a tweet asking for thoughts/advice and hashtag this out with the others. #hashtaggingworldproblemsisabsurd #noseriouslystopit #itisridiculousandembarrassing You have time, this letter will still be here.

Due your ineptitude in your decisions with regard to who we back with foreign aid, and your complete lack of a spine in dealing with global threats, we find ourselves, for the first time in ages, being looked at with eyes filled with disdain and disrespect.

The mere mention of ‘America’ leaves a bad taste in the mouths of our friends and allies. The prospects of being saved by our once-great nation are now nothing more than a fleeting thought in the hearts and minds of Third World Country natives who dream of a life with fewer hardships than ones they currently face—hardships that could be vanquished by the hands of a great nation and its allies.

We have entered into a time in which it is not only possible to spread one’s hate filled rhetoric, it is also actually profitable and protected. Your understanding and misinterpretations of our founding freedoms are being used and twisted to further your own political agendas without any consideration for the people you are meant to represent.

Your understanding (or lack thereof) of our Constitution contributes to the complete madness of a country that is run where someone’s rights to desecrate the flag that represents these very freedoms is more important than the patriotic peoples who stand to protect it. Allowing people to lose houses or be fined for flying the American flag on their property due to it offending someone or being against a housing covenants is beyond ludicrous. It’s both absurd and frightening. These are just a few examples of countless rights that are being used to tear the very fabric of which this country is founded.

You see, all of you have forgotten the very key that makes this country work. You fight for one’s freedoms to express their beliefs regardless of where their loyalties lie. Using our very own founding documents, you argue that it is ones right to speak and act freely on their beliefs, regardless of their view of this great nation.

For fear of offending someone to pure political motivations, you stand up for the very people that wish to tear you down. What you, as well as most Americans have forgotten is this: Those individual rights end where others begin! It may be ones right to protest a certain religions display or another’s stance on certain political views, however, it is also the others right to display and have those stand points.

If one is offended by a shirt displayed with an image of a gun, a flag of our nation, a statue representing their faith in their chosen religion or any other example; that is their right to be offended and speak out. However, it is the others right to wear that shirt, fly that flag, display that statue or whatever else they wish to do. Freedom cannot be one-sided. The complete madness of political correctness is overwhelming.

You have stripped away our 1st Amendment rights by disguising it as political correctness and making the very people that make this country great afraid of offending any and everyone. I use these examples in our own country as the catalyst that has spawned our current position on the global stage.

Through political motivation or just complete incompetence, your methods of governing our country have clouded your views and thought processes for helping forge a united world. We stand at the table, with weak knees and shivering hands. Our word as a nation holding as much weight as that of our President doing curls in the gym. We have all seen the video…

We live in a world where you can contest our very lands with flyovers without consequence. A world where one can sweep through two entire countries, massacring everyone along the way with no fear repercussions. One where sanctions and empty threats are wielded as a mighty sword against the very enemies that threaten our existence. You fail to see that in today’s world, the pen is not mightier than the sword.

You have demonstrated this time and time again over the last 13 years. Take Afghanistan for example. Politics alone have been the source of Taliban resurgence. How could this be? Let me school you. In 2001, a mixture of CIA, Special Forces and other Special Operations Forces (SOF), in very limited numbers, swept through the entire country of Afghanistan, demolishing the Taliban forces that stood in its way. Thinking that the back had been broken, we backed off and brought more and more ground forces in the country.

As time went on, more and more troops arrived and operational control was taken away from the Special Operations types, to make way for conventional commands. Along with this came more and more restricted Rules of Engagement.

Fast forward to 2006. Following more political moves and further NATO control, we found ourselves in an Afghanistan where the freedom of movement for the insurgents is unprecedented in Operation Enduring Freedom—a freedom of movement that not only limits NATO troops ground movements, but also has even the hardest of SOF elements avoiding a drive into Kandahar City. So, NATO asked the US to help. Enter into the timeline, Operation Medusa.

US Special Forces demolished the insurgent forces to the point that insurgent operations in the entire country dropped. The morale of the insurgents also dropped to an all time low, the grounds upon which the new Afghan Government stands, are once again sturdy. Now, fast forward to present day…

What has happened? Are the insurgents in Afghanistan fleeing and backs broken? Far from it. All of this due to your politics. The war effort drawn down to a near standstill due to more and more pointless commands and approval process. All, in which serve to help some pointless commander to further his career and push some pointless political agenda.

You see, the current world in which we find ourselves isn’t one that can be tamed by the pen. The evils of the world find protection behind the shield of your politics. This is due to one simple fact. You have no clue how to play this game. You listen and make decisions based of your Subject Matter Experts who read about war in a book. You base your strategies on the opinions of ‘Think Tanks’ and conventional wisdom. The answers to these problems being spoken by the men on the ground only to be silenced by ‘yes men’. Due to this, you will continue to fail.

Not only will you fail in Afghanistan, you will fail in bringing peace and security back into this world. All of these failures will be caused by you because of one simple factor: none of you have the intestinal fortitude to do what is necessary. You will use your own misguided experiences and delusions gained in your failures in governing our own country as the grounds on which you base your strategies. But understand this, you can’t defeat evil with butterflies and rainbows. And you sure as hell can’t do it with pens and empty words.

Face it, for the most part, our Foreign Policy is a joke and your efforts on the global stage are nothing short of pathetic. Not going into the fact that you all are voted in for the people by the people to do a job, a job in which you are failing. At least you all aren’t receiving a ridiculous paycheck and benefits package for providing a public service. oh wait…

Our saving grace is that there are still a handful of you that will find this, as frustrating as it is, accurate and motivating. But, then again, if that was the case, then we wouldn’t find ourselves in this situation. Oh the conundrum. We have faith in our abilities as a nation. We have faith in our abilities in unconventional war as well as faith in our ability to destroy the current threats to the world given the freedoms and support required to do so.

So, I write to you today calling you out. You have failed. It is time to hand that Capri Sun and straw over before you put your eye out. You’ve been poking at that hole for some time now. You gave it your best lil buddies, but it’s time. Pull those trainers up around your waist, latch down the Velcro, and watch how real men fight wars.

It is time to unleash the hounds. You have had over a decade of war filled with warriors that would gladly step up and fight. These former service members are battle hardened and ready. More importantly, they understand the game. We stand at the gates, waiting to smite all that is evil in this world. You will not defeat the current evils in this world by playing your political chess games because it is spreading at an alarming rate. Unleash us. Back us. Stand behind us.

History has shown us that evil is only successful when the righteous stand aside and do nothing. Let us show the world that it will not tolerate the likes of ISIS or Boko Haram. That there most certainly are repercussions for committing atrocities. Justice will come to them swift and brutal. Step aside and let us do what is necessary! We stand ready!”

Geo

De Oppresso Liber. . . . Brother!

Couldn’t have said it any better myself. Unleash the dogs of war and stand back.
- MongooseBananaHat
  
  So the author, whoever he is, is saying we should go back to Iraq for an unspecified amount of time to go back and fight an enemy that hide and blend among the civilian populace while American troops soak up IEDs? That hasn’t made a difference in over a decade so how exactly is that going to work now?
  Alright, let’s set aside the failed politics as the writer suggests and look at what our own military experts and strategists have to say on the issue. Have you heard of the Army & Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual?
  It was co-authored by the top subject matter experts in both the Army and Marine Corps and what they’ve said is nothing surprising or shocking. They said these aren’t wars that can be won by throwing military, money and American lives at them.
  The problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are cultural, religious, political and ingrained into these countries. They cannot be solved by brute force. That’s already been proven. Furthermore, that’s what our own military experts have said, not our politicians. We could spend another decade or another three decades throwing American money and the lives of American troops at them and they still wouldn’t change, unless the change comes from the Iraqi and Afghan people themselves.
  - donethattoo
    
    What this man is saying, who so brilliantly wrote this letter, is that he understands evil. The greatest cause of evil flourishing in our world is good men doing nothing. There IS such a thing as good and evil.
    - MongooseBananaHat
      
      He also suggested that we just smash more American troops into Iraq to solve the problem, which didn’t work before. It’s all good and well to say that all it takes for evil to succeed is good men doing nothing but the truth is America cannot be the police of the world.
      Both Democrats and Republicans are more than happy to muckrake and shout “Rabble, Rabble, Rabble!” no matter what the President or our politicians do or decide but the truth is Democrats don’t want us to be the world’s police and Republicans don’t want us to be the world’s police. We simply can’t afford to be, and not just financially speaking.
      Not only that but being cautious or using diplomatic channels doesn’t mean that America is weak. In fact, history has proven many times over that we’ve created many of the problems that are now plaguing us due to our past actions.
      Swooping in and smashing American troops into everything doesn’t magically solve all our problems and doesn’t solve all the world’s problems.
      - Nergal
        
        Okay. You go try diplomacy with ISIS. I’ll wait right here, and watch CNN to find out how it goes for you.
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        Yup we’ll see on Youtube how it goes for him !
      - MongooseBananaHat
        
        As I’ve already pointed out, the problems in Iraq and Afghanistan can’t be solved by throwing
        military and money at them. If they could, then we would have solved it
        in the last decade plus that we were over there, wouldn’t we?
        Our
        own military experts who wrote the Army & Marine Corps
        Counter-Insurgency Field Manual have repeated the exact same thing
        numerous times, that these problems can’t be solved with military might.
        
        These problems are ingrained into the culture, religion and politics of
        these countries. It doesn’t matter if we’re there for another decade,
        two or even three. Nothing will change unless the change comes from the
        people themselves and nothing we can do can force them to change. And
        that is the opinion of our own military experts.
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        Man cutting and pasting the same crap time after time but changing it a little so as not to be omitted by WMD doesn’t make you sound any more coherent then any other liberal !
      - Ragnar
        
        You just don’t get it! We went in with our hands tied behind our backs by ROEs. Take them away, unleash us on ISIS, watch us ruthlessly terrorize them and destroy them. Use your head. They will be so fearful that they will not think to attack us again. I’m talking about all out vicious war. Going after their families and torturing them to death. They will see that the price is too high to mess with us. You have no idea what it takes to destroy evil.
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        I have to agree. When you’re dealing with a savage ? You gotta get ruthless and use savagery to get their attention. Why some here will ask ? Because that is all they understand. If you’ve got a rabid dog ? All you can do is kill it ! END OF STORY !!! Oh ! Don’t talk about collateral damage. They use women suicide bombers and child soldiers. So nits make lice !!
      - MongooseBananaHat
        
        The problems in Iraq and Afghanistan can’t be solved by throwing military and money at them. If they could, then we would have solved it in the last decade plus that we were over there, wouldn’t we?
        Our own military experts who wrote the Army & Marine Corps
        Counter-Insurgency Field Manual have repeated the exact same thing numerous times, that these problems can’t be solved with military might.
        These problems are ingrained into the culture, religion and politics of
        these countries. It doesn’t matter if we’re there for another decade,
        two or even three. Nothing will change unless the change comes from the
        people themselves and nothing we can do can force them to change. And
        that is the opinion of our own military experts.
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        So for you all we do is sit on our hands ! Good plan !
      - MongooseBananaHat
        
        As I already said, the problems in Iraq and Afghanistan can’t be solved by throwing
        military and money at them. If they could, then we would have solved it
        in the last decade plus that we were over there, wouldn’t we?
        Our
        own military experts who wrote the Army & Marine Corps
        Counter-Insurgency Field Manual have repeated the exact same thing
        numerous times, that these problems can’t be solved with military might.
        
        These problems are ingrained into the culture, religion and politics of
        these countries. It doesn’t matter if we’re there for another decade,
        two or even three. Nothing will change unless the change comes from the
        people themselves and nothing we can do can force them to change. And
        that is the opinion of our own military experts.
      - kktex12
        
        No. The point of his letter, hack donkey, is that the politicians wasted blood, flesh, and money by intruding into operations they had no business in being in. You don’t send a hair dresser to take out the enemy. You tell the military to go do a job and then you hamstring them with insane rules of engagement.
      - MongooseBananaHat
        
        So, I’m a “hack donkey” because I don’t think throwing thousands of military lives will solve our problems in Iraq and Afghanistan? You know what other liberals believe that the problems in Iraq and Afghanistan can’t be solved by throwing military and money at them? Our own military experts who wrote the Army & Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual. They’ve echoed the very same sentiments, that these problems can’t be solved with military might. These problems are ingrained into the culture, religion and politics of these countries. It doesn’t matter if we’re there for another decade, two or even three. Nothing will change unless the change comes from the people themselves and nothing we can do can force them to change. And that is the opinion of our own military experts.
  - Johnathan Orozco
    
    if you could PLEASE tell me what they’re trying to do right now is working out… i’ll wait.
    - MongooseBananaHat
      
      And perhaps you could “PLEASE” tell me that what they *did* worked out? Oh…I’ll wait too.
      - Johnathan Orozco
        
        I’m just going to say clearly it worked… freedom was given to the people of both Iraq and Afghanistan, they didn’t do what they were supposed to. Yes money and lives were lost, but thats the cost of war.
      - Middle-Aged Male
        
        I disagree…We did not give freedom (whatever that is) to the Iraqis and Afghans. The Iraqi constitution was written by an American bureaucrat to benefit American corporations. Seed saving by farmers is illegal in Iraq.
        
        If this freedom thing you speak of (I think you mean liberty) is so great, how about we try it here….
      - ThaddeusQuackenbush
        
        You call liberals “naive”? The people of Iraq and Afghanistan — the entire Middle East, really (with the exception of Israel) — have zero experience with a working democracy (then again, neither does the US anymore).
        
        And if the people of Iraq and Afghanistan “didn’t do what they were supposed to,” what is the US supposed to do? Stand over them for the rest of time, expecting them to act like civilized human beings?
      - Nergal
        
        http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/world/asia/28tribe.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 How about engaging the locals at a tribal level, instead of playing you ignorant D.C. inspired political games, or trying the (FAILED) approaches in COIN? A simple approach, that worked, when it was used. We provide aid to the tribes. We send troops to assist, and train with them. Combine approaches to warfare with those of the natives, and then aggressively drive the enemy out of the country, or kill them all.
      - MongooseBananaHat
        
        You obviously haven’t been following what the military has been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last decade plus. They have been working with the tribes and local leaders and directly engaging them. And these are the same people who have stabbed us in the back as soon as we turned around or immediately rolled over for the insurgent forces and radical terrorists. It has nothing to do with D.C. politics.
        
        These problems can’t be solved by throwing military and money at them, period. Our own military experts who wrote the Army & Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual have said the very same thing.
        
        These problems are ingrained into the culture, religion and politics of these countries. It doesn’t matter if we’re there for another decade, two or even three. Nothing will change unless the change comes from the people themselves and nothing we can do can force them to change. And that is the opinion of our own military experts.
      - http://batman-news.com Dean Crabb
        
        Have you ever served in the Armed Forces of the USA? If you have not then I suggest you shut your damn mouth you don’t know what you are talking about, if ISIS makes it across the Mexican border and make it as far as Kansas I will be waiting for your brothers
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        Sir if we get ISIS in the USA ? You’ll see liberals running like RATS from a sinking ship ! Liberals these are the most, IMHO abhorrent, despicable, and cowardly creatures in the world. Will break and run. Look at your history. Liberals are very brave when they’re only ones with the firearms ! But when they’re confronted with force they run and hide like Saddam in a hole ! You can’t count on liberals to do anything but stab you in the back ! If these cowards allow this to happen. I mean ISIS or Drug Cartels bringing war to our soil ? We should be merciless to them the liberals ! Outlaw the democratic party and try their leaders for treason !
      - MongooseBananaHat
        
        Take a look at what our “liberal” military experts on Counter-Insurgency have said. The problems in Iraq and Afghanistan can’t be solved by throwing military and money at them. If they could, then we would have solved it in the last decade plus that we were over there, wouldn’t we?
        Just ask our own military experts who wrote the Army & Marine Corps
        Counter-Insurgency Field Manual have repeated the exact same thing
        numerous times, that these problems can’t be solved with military might.
        These problems are ingrained into the culture, religion and politics of
        these countries. It doesn’t matter if we’re there for another decade,
        two or even three. Nothing will change unless the change comes from the
        people themselves and nothing we can do can force them to change. And
        that is the opinion of our own military experts.
        Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican congressman recently referred to ISIS as “guys in pajamas” and claimed they pose no existential threat to the U.S. And he’s a “liberal” who deployed to Iraq himself too. But do go on and run in circles like you’re on fire, yelling “LIBERALS!” at empty chairs and ignore the fact that brute force hasn’t worked and our own expert military strategists have said it won’t work as well.
      - ThaddeusQuackenbush
        
        That’s nice, how your version of “democracy” works. So basically, you’re arguing for a one-party system, kill all those who disagree with you. Hey, you know who else does that? Communists and terrorists. So I guess you’re calling the Republican party communists and terrorists.
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        It’s no different than what the leftists do every election cycle. Stuff the ballot box with the votes of the DEAD. How else in liberal areas can you get a 130% voter turn out with a 80 to 99% democratic vote ? That is the reason that the left fights so hard against voter ID’s ! It’s much harder to steal an election with voter ID’s ! Don’t come back with the same old leftists excuse that voter fraud doesn’t exist because democrats every election cycle go to JAIL for it. The MSM like anything else that makes the left look bad wont report it !
      - TexasTea71
        
        Keeping in mind that the Generation of Americans who defeated Hitler and Tojo elected FDR four times. Seems like it was a bunch of American liberals (working with their Communist allies to the East) who crushed Fascism. But by all means, keep tuning in to that nice Mr. Limbaugh’s show, it really seems to be working well for you.
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        Man we won WW2 at the factory not the battle front ! Anyone who knows the reality knows that. FDR’s economics didn’t work. WW2 brought us out of a never ending socialist/communist five year type planned driven depression. Sorted like we’re in now ! But I hate to have to redo what was already done again because of Barry Soetoro’s screw ups !
      - MongooseBananaHat
        
        Not that I feel the need to justify myself to some random armchair general on the internet, but I have served proudly and honorably in multiple combat deployments and I was moving out on convoys every other week, sometimes every week so I wasn’t swimming in a pool, drinking coffee either.
        I’m not downplaying the threat of terrorism on U.S. soil, like Rep. Duncan Hunter in the U.S. Congress recently did, calling ISIS “guys in pajamas” and saying they pose no existential threat to the U.S.
        I’m fully cognizant of said threats.
        But what do you think we’ve been doing for the last decade plus in Iraq and Afghanistan? Throwing military and money at them. Since you’re such an expert military strategist on this subject surely you’ve heard of the Army & Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual? It was co-written by military experts in the field of counter-insurgency and guess what they have repeatedly said? The exact same thing I’m saying, that these problems can’t be solved with military might.
        These problems are ingrained into the culture, religion and politics of
        these countries. It doesn’t matter if we’re there for another decade, two or even three. Nothing will change unless the change comes from the people themselves and nothing we can do can force them to change. And that is the published by our own military experts. Should they “shut their damn mouth” too?
      - chris jon
        
        I’m going to guess you were logistics. Normal gun-toters don’t typically retreat from the thought of being unleashed on the enemy without being handcuffed by ridiculous ROEs. It’s actually what we thought were signing up for when we enlisted. Regardless anything is better than putting our heads in the sand like we did in the 90’s and like you are implying we do.
      - MongooseBananaHat
        
        Not that I need to justify myself to random guy on internet but I toted a 240 myself and I was in Iraq a couple years after it hitched off and a couple years before we left. But hey, if anyone has a difference of opinion with you instead of coming up with a logical argument in reply, it’s easier to just question their service right? What ridiculous ROEs? Positive identification of a hostile combatant. It’s not the ROE that’s hard to deal with. It’s the fact that the enemy doesn’t wear uniforms. They look exactly like the civilians do.
        Who said anything about “putting our heads in the sand”? I didn’t. I just said, what we’ve been doing for over a decade…HASN’T WORKED. Not only that, our own military experts who wrote the Army & Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual have been saying that same thing for years. It doesn’t work. I guess according to you, all of our military experts on counter-insurgency must have been logistics too, eh? It hasn’t worked for us. It didn’t work for the Russians either.
        Doing the same thing that hasn’t worked for a decade plus and proposing we just throw more American lives and billions and trillions of dollars we don’t have is the definition of ridiculousness. Yeah, we need to do something but not the same thing that has been failing for years.
      - TexasTea71
        
        Nearly as senseless as America pouring 5000 lives and 3 Trillion dollars into Iraq and perhaps repeating the catastrophe with only 3 years interval: Making sourced and logical arguments about America’s neoconservative catastrophes to a bunch of keyboard warriors who need to type tough to protect their precaroious sense of masculinity and, of course, their Freedumb
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        “neoconservative catastrophes to a bunch of keyboard warriors who need to type tough to protect their precaroious sense of masculinity and, of course, their Freedumb”
        Doing the same liberal “Hide my head in the sand mentality till the threat goes away !” also leads to senseless redoing of a job that was undone by our fraud POTUS who refuses to listen to the Generals who told that idiot to leave a force in Iraq to maintain the status quo. You know like we did in Germany, Japan and Korea ? Now that was a way to hard of a lesson for Barry to absorb I guess ? A lesson that has been around since the end of WW2 mind you ! But that is the leftist way of thinking anymore. Run away and hope nothing happens. Look what has happened now ? We’re going to have to do this all over again because of this MORON in the Oval office !
      - TexasTea71
        
        What an interesting world of BS you live in. If you got your information anywhere other than the Wingnut bubble of hate, fear and rage, you might actually know that the complete withdrawal of troops for Iraq was negotiated during the Bush administration (which would be when the Generals advice was either taken or ignored) with the final agreement signed by President Bush on 12/14/2008. But your brain will delete that piece of information within milliseconds because it doesn’t fit your right wing narrative.
        
        A few other realities that clearly have escaped your feverish gray matter: There were no WMD, Iraq had no involvement with Al Qaeda nor with 9/11, and post Desert Storm Iraq posed no threat to the United States whatsoever. If you want a refresher, go read the Dowling Street memo, the classified briefing memo from British intelligence to Tony Blair, detailing that the US was falsifying intel to create a case to invade Iraq, therefore the war was inevitable.
        
        And if you want to discuss ignoring advise? Had Bush/Cheney/Rummy/Wolfwitz/Pearl followed the advise of non-NeoCon foreign policy experts from both parties (Brent Scowcroft and James Baker being very persistent conservative voices trying to appeal to the Bush administration that invading Iraq was a catastrophe waiting to happen) we never would have destablized Iraq, which before that date was indeed ruled by a Dictator who was a bully and yes, killed some of his own people. He also provided a huge hedge in the region on Iranian power, and equally importantly he kept Sunni Fundamentalists completely at bay in Iraq. He was as terrified of an armed fundamentalist coup on his secular regime as he was Shiite Iran. Had we never invaded there would have never been anything known as ISIS or ISIL!
        
        Even after we invaded, some of the catastrophe could have been mitigated if the Generals advice about not dissolving the Iraqi army had been followed! By Bremer executed the plan to completely disintegrate any central command structure which could have been used to help pacify the country.
        
        Now here we are. And ISIS is a big threat to any fiber of stability we could have achieved in Iraq and a threat to Syria and the Kurds. You know who all major intelligence agencies say they are no threat to? The West. They are 25,000 ill trained militia with captured US and Syrian weapons they don’t fully know how to use. But thanks to the reptilian fear driven brains of the likes of you, we need to launch another ground war in Iraq 3 years after winding down the one that killed 5000 Americans, 250,000+ Iraqis and cost the US Taxpayer $3+ Trillion. Think about that the next time you scream about the deficit, too.
        
        One last thought to float for 2 milliseconds across your rage bubble of partisan nonsense: Most liberals will support the use of force when it’s legitimate. You had broad based support for going into Afghanistan in 2002. Liberals, like my 93 year old FDR and Obama supporting father who flew 35 combat missions over Germany, Poland and France, fought and beat Hitler. But if we go to war every time Sean Hannity is scared that there’s a foreigner under his bed, we’re going to destroy both our Armed Forces and our economy.
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        Liberals like you are in such fantasy world no one can debate you. Bushes fault again. When Every Liberal demo-rat at that time voted for the action in Iraq. Plus MORON WNDs are more than Nucs STUPID ! But that is something that most liberals can’t get realize !
      - TexasTea71
        
        If only your intellect was a match for your rage. Its just a damned stubborn fact that Bush negotiated the timetable and complete withdrawal from Iraq. Go ahead, go check on it. It’s a verifiable fact. You should look into those. Absent any ability to counter the objective truth, you descend into a rage. Good on ya. That you cannot debate anyone left of John Bolton is more a testament to your lack of any grip on facts and objective reality.
        
        Also, they didn’t find WMD in Iraq beyond some small stocks of 20 year old mustard gas. Do you really want to claim we went to war, killed 5K American kids and spent 3 Trillion for that? Also, every liberal democrat at the time most certainly did not vote vote for the Resolution to use Military Force: 60% of Democrats in the house voted AGAINST the measure, while 42% in the Senate voted against it. Many more were too timid to vote against it at a time when their constituents fully believed the false intelligence the administration was spreading. That kind of cowardice is why Hillary withered in the primaries vs Obama, and now is pretty unworthy of the presidency should she run.
        
        You do realize that you simply get vaporized when you go from your rage filled opinion and venture into fact, don’t you Borus?
  - Nergal
    
    If the politicians, and colonel blimps would get out of the way and let those soldiers and marines do their jobs uninterrupted, a military solution could work. The problem is two fold: (1) The Afghans do not REALLY want a centralized government of any type. To deal with the Afghans, they must be dealt with tribe-by-tribe. And if the individual tribes can be made into U.S. allies, the Taliban would simply be screwed. Since the politicians like centralized government, and will not let that point go, and the colonel blimps hate to step out of the way, and let a few of the (largely unimportant on a battlefield) aspects of AR 670-1 slide; the American troops are perpetually alienated from their Afghan counterparts. (2) The concepts that Americans have of warfare is drastically different from what has developed in the Eastern world. Because we won’t “go native” (even though that works, whenever it’s tried) we cannot fight effectively alongside our counter-parts, nor can we effectively counter the insurgents.
    - Liberalbasher1955
      
      Every time the liberals try to micro-manage wars. All we get is death. I remember LBJ choosing targets. I remember Jimmy Carter directing the hostage rescue into the ground. I remember Slick Willy blowing up the Chinese Embassy in Prague and refusing Chads offer of Osama. Every time you get liberals in office you get Chaos !!!
    - MongooseBananaHat
      
      These problems can’t be solved by throwing military and money at them, period. Our own military experts who wrote the Army & Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual have said the very same thing. Our military has been doing the exact same thing you’re talking about for the last decade plus in Iraq and Afghanistan, working with the tribes and local leaders directl. It still hasn’t changed anything.
      
      These problems are ingrained into the culture, religion and politics of these countries. It doesn’t matter if we’re there for another decade, two or even three. Nothing will change unless the change comes from the people themselves and nothing we can do can force them to change. And that is the opinion of our own military experts.
  - Liberalbasher1955
    
    On those manuals your quoting ? They were written under the direction of our most esteemed leader Barry Soetoro and his merry muslum cohorts in that Chicago junta in DC. That refused to call muslum terrorists, TERRORISTS ! Refuses to call the Fort Hood massacre a TERRORIST act ! But instead “Work place Violence”.
    
    Now as far as military experts ? Barry Soetoro has kicked out any General or Officer above the rank of captain that disagrees with this incompetent fraud of a POTUS way of thinking. Well at least he didn’t do what Stalin did and have them executed ! But it got the same results. The military high command and most field grade officers now know to tow the liberal party line or their career is OVER !!! Politicians control the mind set not the military ! The military in the modern American way of war are reactionary not proactive. Because of that very leftist political mind set of “Don’t do anything that may upset our enemies !”.
    
    Now this new threat of ISIS isn’t an insurgency. But a full fledged ARMY attacking and carving a nation with oil money to finance it’s savage style of TERRORISM ! Now we have people like Ron Paul and it seems you that want to sit and wait for that SNAKE called ISIS or ISIL or what have you to bite us before you want to do anything.
    
    MongooseBananaHat Dean Crabb • 17 days ago
    
    “Not that I feel the need to justify myself to some random armchair general on the internet, but I have served proudly and honorably in multiple combat deployments and I was moving out on convoys every other week, sometimes every week so I wasn’t swimming in a pool, drinking coffee either.”
    
    I was moving out on convoys every other week, sometimes every week ? You’re my definition of a REMF !!!
    Now your very presence on this forum means you do have to justify yourself to not armchair Generals. But to those that have served also. Those who have served in FAR worse areas of conflict with out calls to mommy or sleeping in a room with A/C, hot showers and cold beer ! I’ve had many old friends that served both in Afghanistan and Iraq. What they’ve told me of the conditions for the REMF’s made me think of military maneuvers not combat operations. Not what I and others went through long ago in some very nasty places. With a lot more KIA’s and MIA’s than what was done in Afghanistan and Iraq over tens years. We had those in a MONTH REMF !
toivomucaluc

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Dawna Barber

Well said brother well said. Thank you for your continued service. I pray that the people in the playhouse and the people standing around watching will head your call and let you men do what you do best, protect those who cannot protect themselves!
http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox

America and Americans are not in decline. Our government is in decline. America’s presumed dive over the cliff is being controlled by 2 factors.
1. The present largest American political power, the Democratic Party, has long ago traded the welfare of our Republic for the welfare of the Democratic Party. The Epitome of that trade is the Obama Administration; weak, vacillating inattentive, self consumed, absent from the job, arrogant, and ignorant of Presidential responsibility; and, especially, weakening our military and nation’s world position during these dangerous times. The Administrations many illegal actions are available in the common news media. The Democratic Party has protected the Administration from changing its courses of action with 100% effectiveness.
2. The Republican Party has not been effectively doing the job of protecting our American Constitution and legal system. Many of them are trying. Some of the problem is difficulty to overcoming the protective ability of the Democratic Party. The remainder seems to relate to the fear of using the House as the monetary engine of protection for our republican form of government, and the fear of being called names by the Democrats for doing that job, and losing the votes they cannot get no matter what they do.
A fraudulent democracy is raging in our Republic, but, our Constitution is gaining ground by leaps and bounds. Our Constitution is the Founded and Ratified Supreme Law of our Republic. The fraudulent democracy is a centuries old pipe dream of tyrants whose every dream of success has been destroyed by the truth in our Founders Legal application of their principles of freedom and self government.
Marvin Fox
- http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
  
  Marvin, it sounds good, and optimistic, but…
  
  I see some gun issues which the Marxists are having a tough time overcoming Constitutionally, but I do not see this as “the Constitution gaining ground”
  
  We continually give up Liberty incrementally, sometimes in very small doses.
  
  The Parties are a racket. Yes, as in criminal Racketeering. Geoge Washington (our ONLY president without a Party) warned us against Political Parties, and if you’ve never read George Washington’s Farewell Address – if you do you will be in for a real eye opener.
  
  I happen to be of the belief (actually, knowledge) the country was overthrown 11-22-63/
  
  That means we all work, and fight, not only for oligarchs, but Marxist oligarchs.
  
  I know this is not a popular statement, but the truth is often unpopular: OUR GOVERNMENT gave Al-Qaeda, ISIS/ISIL, etc the POWER and resources to do what they do: KILL US
  - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
    
    I have read more of G. Washington’s writings than anyone I know. There is a book simply titled “Washington.” I found it in a local library. The book is Washington’s letters, without comment or change, and it is a very thick book. One needs to know the American history of the time to understand the letters. Knowing American history and reading the letters is a magnificent eye opener. My Admiration for Washington as the rock of the Republic suffered no loss. I hope you find the book.
    Marvin Fox
    - http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
      
      Knowing history then, you know a people separated from their history are easily persuaded. Obviously the people have been persuaded (away from the Constitution). Knowing history too, I don’t know how you can say the Constitution is gaining ground, when there is no semblance of our constitutional Republic we knew (the last gleamings) as kids.
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        The Constitution still stands. It is still the supreme law of the land, I agree that there have been many successful attempts to pass laws and for government to work outside the law.
        However, From what I see and what I read, the American people are awakening to the fact that our Constitution was written for our people to use, not for the government to regulate as it chooses. There is a growing awareness of Constitutional ownership being a personal possession of each citizen. Knowing history gives many of us the information we need to help that awareness grow, and we do that.
        T. Jefferson used to say, “This is intolerable, take up your pens and write!” I am involved with that instruction. the more of us who find our present situation intolerable and have the objective of returning our Republic away from the fraudulent democracy, and aim to reestablish the republicanism that brought freedom and prosperity to our nation are helping that awareness to grow. It is growing! It is turning the tide of government!
        Marvin Fox
      - http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
        
        Well Marvin, I love your positive outlook, even though I beleive we are way beyond the point of no return.
        
        The oligarchs are not going to just say, “Oh, sorry, OK, here’s your country/Constitution back”…
        
        We can see by the way the people vote, we are in the minority.
        
        The R Party is = bad as the Ds. It’s only the difference between nazis and commies – both are stone socialists.
        
        The only way to retain the Republic is to repeal myriad laws. Do you really see that ever happening?
        
        To quote Jeff: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
        
        We both want the same basic thing, and just disagree as to whether that is a realistic expectation.
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        People who are active in governing any nation are usually in the minority. The non-active citizens often want the freedom and prosperity of both to be free to them.
        You and I may not have our thumb on all of the ways to save our Republic. However, the myriad of laws that must be repealed were probably unconstitutional when they were passed. The passing of such laws is illegal; they violate our Constitution, the supreme law of the land. Getting rid of those laws is only difficult because our politicians either don’t know, don’t care, or don’t trust our Constitution. An informed and moral citizenry cures that problem. The present chaotic world situation is forcing people to become informed about their own governments, and the morality of their own religions. The uncertainty is caused by good people being slow to protect themselves from evil people. In my opinion. the world is moving toward the good people, with the help of God, pulling off a winner, One-More-Time! God, Family, and Country is the basic priority for that effort.
        Marvin Fox
      - David
        
        “The Constitution still stands. It is still the supreme law of the land….”
        
        Have you actually read the constitution? I mean really read it, not just the first ten amendments? Do yourself a favor and find a text version of the document and put into a word processor. Then highlight and count the words related to what government can, shall and must do. You’ll find that 95% of the words in the constitution are devoted to what government can do while a mere 5% are devoted to the rights of the individual. The constitution was drafted and ratified by statists who wanted centralization of power in the federal government. It is a useless screed in terms of protecting individual rights. Not just useless but detrimental because so many people have been deceived into believing that it protects their liberties. Just the combination of the 16th amendment and article 1, section 8 makes it tyrannical in nature. To paraphrase Spooner – either the constitution authorizes the government we have or is unable to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.
        
        So I have question for you as a supporter of the constitution. I hear people all the time talk about “returning to the constitution” or something like that. Where exactly in American history would you like to return to? Nobody is able to answer that question for me. The constitution didn’t prevent Lincoln from his tyranny. It didn’t prevent the SCOTUS from upholding the ACA or any number of decisions over the last hundred years that eroded personal liberty. So, where would you like to return in history that most represents your values?
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        I have read the Constitution, and I am one-up on you; I really understand it. A word count tells absolutely nothing about the value and meaning of the words, intentions of the Founders, or the meaning of the Constitution as it is used by the people it was written to provide the means of controlling their government.
        Corrupt people presently, lately, or previously using our constitution for their own corrupt reasons does not corrupt the constitution, it corrupts the illegal users, their dupes who follow them, and the ignorant who have no self protection against the corruption.
        The Rest of us are looking for a way to remove the Corruption from our government and get back to self government of the people the Constitution was written by the Founders and ratified by the people to do.
        Our Constitution authorizes a Republican Form of Government. It does not authorize the phony democracy so many believe it is. Our Constitution authorizes government to do very few things.
        You really need to ‘read’ some American history, stop listening to what people say about it.
        Marvin Fox
      - David
        
        You still haven’t answered my question about where in history you’d like to turn back time to. That’s okay however because most people refuse to. They simply deflect and put up straw men arguments. You said – “Our Constitution authorizes a Republican Form of Government.” So what? Republicanism is merely democracy disguised as rule of law. North Korea is a republic too but I wouldn’t want to live there. Ancient Rome was an empire as was the former USSR (the “R” stood for Republics).
        
        The declaration of independence had a “negative” tone and the constitution is very much “positive” in nature. This distinction is lost on most people but it’s the reason this country is doomed. The difference between negative law and positive law is the difference between liberty and tyranny. Were I you I might do a little reading on the subject.
        
        Why was the current U.S. constitution drafted and ratified in the first place? Was it because our founders believed that they were doing more to protect liberty? Did they think that this particular document would serve to expand and protect our freedoms? Were the Articles of Confederation, our constitution at the time, anti-freedom or inadequate? Did that constitution allow the federal government more or less power than the new one?
        
        If one answers these questions honestly, many other questions will arise, and the answers to those questions may cause resentment to replace respect. In fact, our current constitution greatly expanded government power over the people, not the other way around, as most believe. Just consider one example: In the Articles of Confederation the federal government had no power to lay and collect (by force) taxes. Any money needed had to come voluntarily from the individual states. In Article 1, Section 8 of our current constitution, the federal government has virtually an unlimited power to tax. This fact alone should have been reason enough to not ratify the constitution 200+ years ago. Of course, most of the rest of those powers given to Congress in Article 1, Section 8 should have also caused great concern for anyone sympathetic to liberty.
        
        Is that enough history for you?
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        The idiotic idea that conservatives want to turn back time came from the controlling base of the leftwing. It garners nothing but utter contempt from those who are being accused of that leftwing rhetorical absurdity.
        Again, the Declaration of independence 2nd paragraph in the first sentence states,”… all men are created equal.” At that time that statement was more revolutionary to the world in general than anything the Democratic Parties hydra of dissidence can come up with in these times. That simple statement is still the base for freedom for most of the world.
        
        You should have read more than the first sentence of Article 1, Sec. 8. Reading it might have generated some understanding of the reasons for government taxing in our Republic.
        Our present Constitution was ratified because the Articles Of The Confederacy were considered by most to be unable to keep the United States form becoming many nations. Our present Constitution was ratified in and in use during 1789.
        The suggestion that the answers to your questions must include your own misdirected ideas of Constitutional history is offensive to me. Not because you have them; because you stated that an honest reply by me would include and approve of your misunderstandings about American history and Constitutional logic.
        I believe you need to read our Constitution and history of the Founders with an eye for the facts of history. You seem to have gotten your ideas from leftwing propaganda. I think you are probably an honest person. If you want truthful facts, do you own research. Read to discover the facts.
        Marvin Fox
      - David
        
        We’ll just have to agree to disagree. The simple fact is that I’ve been studying for nearly forty years and evolved from Republican to Libertarian to libertarian (there is a difference) to anarchist / voluntaryist. I have no use for the constitution. It doesn’t protect the nearly 2,000 children from being murdered by their mothers daily (Roe v. Wade). It doesn’t protect the hundreds of thousand of travelers that are gate raped each day (TSA). It doesn’t protect any of us from a highly immoral yet constitutional direct taxation scheme (Helvering v. Davis, Flemming v. Nestor). It doesn’t protect any of us from having to purchase a product or service (the constitutional ACA).
        
        You sound like a minarchist, a limited government guy. Here’s the problem with minarchy and constitutional republicanism:
        
        The constant minarchist refrain is this: “Life, liberty and property. Life, liberty and property. Governments do and *must* exist to protect life, liberty, and property.” And this is why that attempt at logic would not fool even a half-witted child:
        
        PROPERTY: A government cannot exist without taxation. If taxes are “voluntary”, they’re not called taxes. They’re called donations or purchases. A tax is a seizure of property. Therefore, government *cannot* protect your property when it must first *confiscate* your property for its very existence.
        
        LIBERTY: If you do not allow the government to confiscate your property, they will come to your house seeking to take your liberty. They *cannot* protect your liberty when their existence necessitates that they *take* your liberty if you don’t relinquish your property.
        
        LIFE: If you attempt to physically defend your property and/or liberty when they come to take them, state agents will take your life. Guaranteed.
        
        And so it is proven: the state CANNOT protect your life, liberty or property when it must threaten all three in order to EXIST.
        
        All of this is enabled by the constitution of the United States of America.
        
        Thanks for your input however.
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        To study a year and find the truth is more productive than studying a generation and not finding the truth.
        Roe VS. Wade is not a failure of the Constitution. It is a failure of the Democratic Party misusing our Ratified Declaration of Independence that guaranteed “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Roe Vs. Wade also corrupts the Right to privacy.
        Your Gate raped Comment needs more explanation for comment.
        Your logic in your post seems very twisted.You would put governments out of business if they followed your suggestion against taxing. On the other hand, Governments cannot exist with being funded by some means; so they violate your finer sensibilities just to exist.
        I am no more a monarchist, whatever that turns out actual to be, than you are standard Libertarian.
        Have a nice day.
        Marvin Fox
      - David
        
        First, I said minarchist not monarchist. Look up minarchy to see what it means. It is basically limited government. And I’m not Libertarian, I’m a voluntaryist. I believe in anarchy as in “an” – without, “archy” – rule. Specifically I’m a Christian voluntaryist/anarchist. I believe that government is evil. It seeks to control people regardless of the size and scope of itself. It violates every precept that was taught by Jesus in order to exist. For instance, in order to exist it must violate what Jesus taught in His sermon on the mount – “Do unto others…..” It violates this “golden rule” as a way of funding itself by permitting legalized theft of property, the fruits of our labor. It uses force or coercion to control people (in violation of “Do unto others…”) with absolutely no mechanism to withdraw consent. If there is please let me know. Locke, Hobbes and others said that ‘good’ government rested on the notion that it existed with the “consent of the governed” yet I don’t recall ever offering my consent. Nor as I said is there a mechanism to withdraw ones consent. I certainly don’t offer mine by voting or any number of ways that could be implied as consent. You are correct about one thing – I would put governments out of business. As Robert Higgs so eloquently put it –
        
        “Although I admit that the outcome in a stateless society will be bad, because not only are people not angels, but many of them are irredeemably vicious in the extreme, I conjecture that the outcome in a society under a state will be worse, indeed much worse, because, first, the most vicious people in society will tend to gain control of the state and, second, by virtue of this control over the state’s powerful engines of death and destruction, they will wreak vastly more harm than they ever could have caused outside the state. It is unfortunate that some individuals commit crimes, but it is stunningly worse when such criminally inclined individuals wield state powers… Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass…”
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
      - The_Sage_Mage_of_Rage_Uncaged
        
        The Constitution that the Founding Fathers wrote and ratified, was rewritten sometime around 1871, for corporate purposes. That’s when Maritime Admiralty was forced upon the People, when the government ceased being a government (as coporations do not serve populations, but they do serve their stockholders), and the population was enslaved, in at least in three or four completely different, and totallly unlawful and fraudulent, ways…
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        Is the original Constitution you think was revised about 1871 still extant, in your possession for perusal, among the hidden knowledge of the ancients; or, where is it that you know the difference between the pre and Post-1871 constitutions.
        Your title The_Sage_Mage_ of_Rage_Uncaged is itself a monument. I wonder about the ‘Uncaged” part. Is that still an active part of the title.
        Marvin Fox
      - http://www.facebook.com/Orrie461 Orrie Froloff
        
        Then we are in a fight for our survival and the freedoms our Founders handed down to us. Those in the government have gradually removed many of the freedoms we once enjoyed as Americans and replaced them with Communist ideals.
    - http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
      
      Oh – haven’t found the book yet, anymore to go on?
      Bill kitsch
    - sovereignfreedom
      
      Marvin E. Fox – Please tell us about the TRUE American history of the “reconstruction era”, the 14th amendment, The Act of 1871, the real story behind the creation of “The Federal Reserve Act” of 1913, the emergency war powers act of 1917, and how just 1 word in that act was amended by FDR on March 9, 1933 to make it inclusive of ALL American citizens, literally and “legally” declaring us “the enemy” of our own government.
      
      Glad to hear you love history so much, but how much have you ever studied the history of our state and national congressional records, the Federal Register, and the history of presidential executive orders?? ….oh and let’s not forget numerous very telling decisions by state and federal supreme courts.
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        I have a good understanding of most of what you mentioned. I do not claim to have the same understanding you may have, You didn’t share that understanding in your self serving spew. I don’t do homework, nor do I use lengthy but unfounded claims for having an in-depth knowledge of our various government systems for records keeping. You did not make a specific objection to your displeasure with my preceding post.
        Since you seem to have all knowledge, past and present, at your finger tips. why would you bother with someone else’s understanding of the facts you are already convinced about?
        Good bye and good luck.
        Marvin Fox
      - sovereignfreedom
        
        Well sir, being that it’s quite obvious you’re convinced that we still live under anything even close to the true Republic given to us in 1787, all I can say in reply is; good luck to you as well!!
        
        Perhaps if you ever spend the time I have in the archives department in the basement of a couple state capitols helping a team of independent researchers in retrieving certified copies of documents from the congressional records, you would come to a much more clear understanding of what really happened to our Republic form of government in the mid and later 1800’s.
        
        Upon leaving the Constitutional convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin has been quoted in a reply to a lady who asked, “Sir, what have you given us?”, as saying; “a Republic mam, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT”. Unfortunately we most assuredly did NOT. …. just in case you aren’t familiar with THAT part of what I mentioned.
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        I have spent my 81 years unhindered by the records held in political basements explaining with dust covered fervor the doings of past political miscreants.
        I have seen what is going on today in the cold light of my days. I agree with you that our Republic has been under siege since its very beginning, as B. Franklin and many others knew it would be.
        However twisted by the current political miscreants, Our Republic’s Constitution still stands and it is still recognized as the Supreme Law of our Republic, even by the growingly fearful miscreants.
        We the American people own our Constitution, not the political lawbreakers. We the American people are becoming more aware of that ownership as we speak. We don’t need to go backward in time for as much as 1 second to take care of this problem. We the people need to use our Constitution as it was founded to be used; remove the revolutionaries, and political crooks from our government, and put our Republic on the path of its Republican Form of Government.
        You stick with your dusty tomes explaining the guilt of the past. I’ll stick with the light of daily experiences and the American people who are healing this nation and taking it forward to the path it belongs.
        Marvin Fox
  - Middle-Aged Male
    
    America was overthrown in 1800 when Justice Marshall introduced Judicial Review and gave the Supreme Court the power to decide if a law was constitutional or not.
    - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
      
      Our Constitution is the Supreme law of our Republic. All legislated Laws flow from that Supreme law. Justice Marshal did not overturn the Constitution, He merely declared the SCOTUS to be able to legally decide the constitutionality of Federal Law passed by Congress. Congress can overturn the Supreme Courts decisions when it has the votes to do so.
      Our Republic and Our Constitution still stand. Both are beleaguered, but recoverable by the American people who are doing just that.
      Marvin Fox
- http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
  
  One more thing Marvin, if “the government” is in decline, the People are in decline as a government of the People.
  
  If one says, “It is no longer a government of the People” then we admit we are overthrown, and whatever this is in place ain’t our government.
  
  If one says, it is a government of the People (by, for…) then I submit the People are utterly base, and corrupt, since they elect the same criminals over and over.
  
  If one still says the People are not corrupt, then they are simply dumb as bricks.
  - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
    
    The people are not utterly base, and most are not corrupt. The people are so misinformed, disinformed , and so lied to by government that it has become difficult to know the government good guys from the bad. One of the requirements of republicanism is that the people be truthfully informed. Democracy would have the same requirement if there was a democracy.
    We need to assert a 9th Amend. Right to force politicians to be truthful by law. That is a difficult job.
    There is a line in one of books that states, “The people are not the deceivers, they are the deceived, and the deceived cannot govern the deception.” The 9th Amend. would remove some of the problem caused by deceivers.
    The people in the long term understand the problem, and they are in the process of solving it.
    Marvin Fox
    - http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
      
      I’m sorry Marvin, I cannot come close to agreement.
      
      The People are decieved because they are ignorant, and they are ignorant because they are stupid and vote on self-interest. The People are base, and corrupt, and we can see the society, nation, and culture collapse before our eyes.
      
      We can read history, and see the same path as all empires, including republics.
      
      We have long passed the point of cognisance that we are taking it up the ol’ kazzoozee. (I think they’re starting to like it.)
      
      The People are fat, stupid, and lazy because the majority are self-serving. No, they can no longer claim they are deceived.
- Calvinius
  
  No, “America’s presumed dive over the cliff” is a fantasy from people like you who are completely out of touch with reality.
  - usmcmailman
    
    YOU are the one who is “out of touch” pal.
- brad
  
  Republicans and democrats are 2 sides of the same coin. Both are the same. They take their orders from the same world ruling elite. When are the American people going to finally get it figured out that Republicans are just as corrupt. Don’t believe me? go look at every Republicans voting record over the past 40 years. It is just like professional wrestling, let’s have a fake fight, make the people choose sides, and baffle them with bullshit. Wake up folks.
- usmcmailman
  
  Well said Sir !
- sovereignfreedom
  
  Sorry sir, but if you had ANY clue about the REAL history of our Constitutional Republic, you would know that it was shelved in the 1860’s, and we’ve had a corporate democracy (literally a corporation POSING AS a government) running our country ever since.
  
  The 2 party system which was so cleverly devised for us by the true owners of this country is primarily a method of divide and conquer. If you’re not bright enough to recognize the fact that despite which political party has been in office for the last hundred plus years, that overall this nation has been very very steadily heading in 1 VERY specific direction, I honestly don’t know what else I can tell you that will get through and overcome the cognitive dissonance.
- ThaddeusQuackenbush
  
  Oh, Marvin, the Republican party has been effectively destroying the Constitution and the average American for decades. They are owned by the corporate oligarchy that really runs this country and buys and sells politicians.
  
  But, please, don’t let me stop you from embracing the crazy.
  - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
    
    The time worn canard that The Republican Party is owned by a nonexistent corporate oligarchy, serves you poorly. The list of billionaires supporting the Democratic Party rivals the time worn canard very easily. The list of Democrat Party billionaires is available to those who bother to look, even you.
    The subject was about the Republic of the United States and our Constitution. The subject had nothing to do with the Republican Party except for the fears of political liberals who are about to lose 2 upcoming national elections to Republicans.
    I belong to no political party. Perhaps I share that political distaste with Thomas Jefferson, who late in his life wrote a letter to John Adams stating his political position concerning political parties, ‘if I had to go to Heaven as a member of a political party, I would rather not go.’
    Marvin Fox
http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox

I hope the politicians get the message. It is well said, well meant, and on target.
God bless the warrior, and all of our armed forces. God bless America.
Marvin Fox
- http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
  
  they have no intention of listening
- http://www.facebook.com/Orrie461 Orrie Froloff
  
  The politicians got the message but will not act on it! Their agenda is not to serve the people but for the people to serve them.
  - usmcmailman
    
    I would like to serve them………………..To an alligator !
- usmcmailman
  
  Marvin, while I agree with much that you say, I am afraid our God will no longer bless
  this now Godless Nation of sinners. Our Republic was founded by God fearing people.
  Most of them are no longer alive, and very, very few people follow God and his Bible
  any longer. Our outcome is in that very Book ! It is not looking very bright for us until
  Jesus returns and changes it !
  Blessed be God forever !
  - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
    
    God and our Forefathers founded our Republic!
    In the last 2 years people have been using an old priority I remember from my youth, I am 81 yrs old. The priority is a basic priority for working within Christianity for the good of all. It is, “God, Family, and country.”
    1. God created the family! God is first.
    2. Family’s growth necessitated families creation of governments for their safety. Family is second.
    3. ‘Country’ is governments and sovereign land. these were created by families to serve families as life became more complicated. Good governments do not rule families, families rule governments
    Country is the least important of the three.
    This priority is my basic priority. It has also become basic to a growing number of Christians. Join us!
    
    Our Republic was founded by Jesus Christ and our Forefathers, every one of them was a Christian. God Has not forgotten to Bless this One Nation Under God He founded with our Forefathers. The blessings of God are waiting for all who ask. The number of us asking for God’s blessings is growing like wildfire on a dry prairie.
    Marvin Fox
    - David
      
      Please direct us to the specific documents where Jesus Christ is mentioned. Or God for that matter. There’s only some nebulous “creator”. The US was not founded by Jesus. That is hogwash. “One nation under God”? That is nowhere in the constitution or declaration of independence. It is in fact a line from the pledge of allegiance which was written by Francis Bellamy who was a socialist. And most of the founders were deists, not Christian. You would think that if they had intended the nation to be Christian they would have at least mentioned Christ, don’t you think?
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit., is one God, the Christian God, and the only God there is. A Christian does not need to vocally acknowledge each personality of the trinity to to be specific about the nature of one God.
        When the Founders mentioned the creator, as was often the habit of those times, that was a specific recognition of the trinity. Our Founders were Christian gentlemen of various Christian faiths. When they were in troublesome discussions about constitutional matters, and called a day to prayer, The prayers were our Christian God.
        The phrase one nation under God is not precisely in the Declaration of Independence or Constitution. However, an unbiased reading of the Declaration of independence shows the fullness of the belief in God. Our constitution was founded on the Judea Christian principles.
        One of the greatest of lies told by atheists is that our Founders were deist, not Christian. It is an old tiresome lie that I and many others have dealt with in the past.
        The truth is easily found that reduces that old lie to a fruitless attempt to legitimize a false belief. The tellers and believers of the lie will accept or reject the lie as they please.
        I have no intention attempting to reeducate one who has already decided to not believe, or one who will not look to the available truth himself to dispel the lie from his own belief system.
        Marvin Fox
      - David
        
        Marvin,
        
        Oh I’m a believer alright. A believer in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Period. The declaration of independence was in many ways spot on. It had the necessary “negativism” to promote liberty. Where they went off the rails was when writing the constitution which turned government “positive”. To better understand where I’m coming from read this:
        
        http://www.free-bible-study-lessons.com/positive-law.html
        and
        http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/positive_and_negative_governme.html
        
        Perhaps after reading them you’ll understand why the constitution does not constrain government.
        
        David
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        Our constitution, if it is obeyed by those who take an oath to obey it, protect it, and enforce our laws, allows the people the freedom to control their government.
        Those who refuse to obey the rules they took an oath to obey, Constitutional or Biblical law, do not corrupt the Constitution or the Bible, they corrupt their own performance of duties they refuse to correctly perform. It is easy to find those who claim the problems from poor performance are rooted in the Constitution or the Bible. The problems are rooted in those who poorly perform their jobs, not the job they are poorly performing.
        Read the 10th Amendment. Give up trying to balance the Constitution using exterior theoretical values. It is what it is. It does what it does on that basis. Our Constitution has been violated by political parties seeking, not the good of the nation, but success for the political parties.
        The Constitution is not the one that is wrong. the political corrupters are the ones who are wrong. We do not need to change the Constitution to cure the corruption. We need to rid ourselves of its corrupters and allow our Constitution to work as it was Founded to do.
        Marvin Fox
      - David
        
        Well you and I will not agree on this whatsoever. First of all, I don’t believe in taking oaths. In Matthew 5:33-35 He makes it clear to not take oaths of any kind. So when someone is elected to office the first thing they do is violate Christ’s edict against taking oaths. Same with those in the military. And I’m not sure you understand that constitutional law is nothing like biblical law. They are as different as night and day. One is negative and the other is positive. Unless and until people understand that distinction then they cannot possible understand why this country (or any other based on positive law) is doomed to failure.
        
        I do agree with you on one thing about the constitution: “It is what it is. It does what it does on that basis.” It was designed from the get go to allow for greater and greater centralization and to impede personal liberty.
        
        Using the 10th amendment as an argument against tyranny is ridiculous. Starting with the tyrant Lincoln that has pretty much been trashed. He did more to undo states rights than any president before or since. That’s why I got a kick out of your statement about “one nation under God” and how it underscored your ignorance about the very foundation of this country. This country was never, NEVER designed by the founders to be “one nation under God” but rather a federation of independent states. The 10th was included on that basis but Lincoln scuttled states rights with his tragic war. That was the beginning of the end of the America the founders envisioned.
        
        How exactly do we “rid ourselves of its corrupters and allow our Constitution to work as it was Founded to do”?
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        Your diatribe is standard liberal tripe. What a shame to use a well developed mind for such erroneous trash.
        However, You did mention Lincoln’s war. Lincoln did not start the Civil War. The Civil War was started by the Democrats at the Democratic Party’s National Convention in 1860 with a speech given by William Downes Yancy. His speech mentioned that democracy had often found it necessary in the past to support slavery. The Civil war began the Democratic Party’s effort to continue ‘their democracy’s’ support for slavery. Fortunately, the democracy failed to continue slavery in our Republic.
        Marvin Fox
      - sovereignfreedom
        
        Marvin, can you say “cognitive dissonance”?
        
        Once again sir, with ALL due respect to your love of America and the many good people still on her soil, I have to argue that you seem to be be missing a serious bit of truth about what really happened during and just after Lincoln’s (banker instigated) war.
        …………………………………………………………………>>>
        
        Someone recently commented to me that they think we need to return America to the way it was under the founders. Here is my response to that notion….
        
        To return this country to the way it was under the founders would simply UNDO all the hard work of bankers and tyrants done from 1860 until now, and shift us all from the form of slavery we were tricked into via the 14th amendment in 1868, back to the form of slavery that existed prior.
        
        This would also shed a MOST unfavorable light on the history they wrote and taught to us in the public fool…. I mean school system they so kindly provided us all for free. …..well, they called it free anyway. People would likely be a wee bit upset about the millions who have died or been maimed for life in all the wars they financed, when they realize all those wars were not about freedom but about the transfer of control over resources and wealth to the banker controlled governments and not so much about the true freedom of the people.
        
        THAT would just end up REALLY pissing off our central banker masters to the max. They MUCH prefer it the way it is now where slavery has equality for ALL regardless of race, religion, nationality etc.
        
        The central bankers of the world just print money out of thin air and loan it to all the governments at interest (the actual amount of the interest due is of course never printed though. hehehe) and the governments go hog wild with all the money, make themselves filthy rich in the process, and just tax all the brainwashed “couch zombie” citizens for the bill. And ANYONE who has a problem with any of it is a domestic terrorist. Sounds fair enough right???
        
        EVERYONE THINKS the civil war ended slavery….. just let it be man, don’t make waves!!
        
        Besides, YOU have been deemed “mentally incapable”!!!
        
        ………………………………………………………………………………………………………
        
        “The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.
        
        “Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave.” Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer. (1828 – 1910)
        
        “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” – Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809)
        
        Despite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” -Woodrow Wilson
        
        “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.
      - David
        
        And it’s too bad that you can’t answer my simple question Marvin. How exactly do we “rid ourselves of its corrupters and allow our Constitution to work as it was Founded to do”?
        
        One more – How does involuntary government promote morality? Because that’s what you have now and for the last two hundred plus years. Please give me an intelligent and lucid argument as to how compulsory government can promote morality.
        
        Slavery still exists in America by the way. It never went away, it just changed form. Read the 13th amendment:
        
        Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
        
        Slavery exists in a giant profitable government-prison complex. In other words, if someone is convicted of a non violent crime such as possession of a naturally occurring substance they become a slave.
      - http://www.MARVINFOX.com/ Marvin E. Fox
        
        David, you twist situations in your mind to give them your personal unreal meanings. Then, you expect someone els to agree to your twisted meaning, and then use your twisted logic to prove to your satisfaction that you are wrong.
        You are not seeking truth. You are seeking validation for your own personal logic by attempting to deny the reality that is itself the proof of the errors in your self inflicted personal reality.
        It’s been fun. LOL
        Marvin Fox
      - David
        
        Yep. It has reinforced my belief that most people are statists and have no clue about what liberty truly is and how to maintain it. In the end you could not or would not answer my questions mostly because the facts don’t support your opinions. But hey, thanks for the banter and God bless you.
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Robert Craddock

Before we destroy the Muslims we have to stop their funding, which means we have to march into DC and wipe out the Democrats first. Then we send our special ops boys there with orders to exterminate the Muslim population.
- Corbin
  
  Youre funny.
- http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
  
  I wish I could read the deleted comments.
  Who deleted them?
- Calvinius
  
  That speaks volumes about this site. Advocating mass genocide is fine, but disagreeing with the far-right nonsense gets your post deleted.
- Robert49
  
  Sorry to burst your bubble but the primary financier and always been the primary financier of middle east and world wide terrorist groups is, Saudi Arabia!
http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit

Once the People realize the politicians are NOT inept, but rather this wholesale dismantling of the Republic/Constutution is DELIBERATE, then things can change.

Until then, keep voting them in, SUCKERS!
http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit

Overthrow Coup: Novemebr 22, 1963
It ain’t even America, and if you don’t remember the overthrow, you could not understand that.

Get it through your thick skull: YOU ARE NOT FREE

you are a slave

YOU are a Communist. Not necessarily by philosophy, but rather because you live, work, eat, and breathe under a Marxist System.

Read the Communist Manifesto, and read the US Constitution and you tell me which prevails in the USA
- dian hudson
  
  Just read thoroughly exactly where in America Obama’s training camps are located. One reporter was VERY AGGRESSIVELY confronted by one of those Jihad in N. Carolina !! The map shows these camps and all of the whole US is surrounded . It’s a shame that while Obama creates MUCH of the activity abroad in order to work under our noses,behind our backs and in between -that it is purposely to take AMerica UNAWARES !! WHAT’S REALLY MESSED UP IS THAT WE ! -are the ones who help him by keeping our HEADS in the sand.START BURNING UP THIS MEDIA WITH FACTS ABOUT WHAT’S GOING ON IN AMERICA. If not-they’ve won already with a complacent ,AND VERY BLIND America. Let’s stand together and search for every tid bit out there !! How can u fight something if u don’t know it exists ??!! BUT IT DOES-I PROMISE YOU,right next door. “you’ll” SEE.
  - http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit
    
    You don’t need to convince me they are amongst us already.
http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit

Y’all worried about ISIS?
Thank your Government that put them in business.
Fred

I stopped when he said the equivalent of “do you even lift, bro,” and made fun of Obama for how much he was lifting in his curls. I can’t take the opinion of some macho-man soldier as anything more than self-centered.

I wonder what this man’s take on the proposed satanic statue on the statehouse lawn in Oklahoma would be. 1st Amendment?
- Calvinius
  
  I have serious doubts whether this guy is actually a soldier at all.
  
  I wonder whether the actual reason he wrote this letter anonymously is to avoid prosecution under the Stolen Valor Act.
  - Alexander Richards
    
    It’s likely due to the fact that every soldier that has openly spoken out against the president, and has gained any media attention has been dishonorably discharged. In fact it’s highly likely that if any of my criticisms where to ever gain any notoriety I would be dishonorably discharged as well. However I just don’t give a damn anymore. If I have so little freedom as to be unable to speak my mind then I’m not doing anything by staying in the army other than helping to ensure they retain their power.
    - Calvinius
      
      That “fact” of your is not a fact at all. It is, on the contrary, pure fiction.
      - Richard Tater
        
        How long have you worked for OFA?
      - Liberalbasher1955
        
        You obviously have you head in the sand or are a Obama Zombie ! Barry has done what Stalin did during his reign in the USSR. Barry has purged every General or Admiral worth a damn in the armed forces to put his cronies into positions where he hoped he wouldn’t get anyone bucking his crazy geopolitical agendas. But even those can’t keep silent now ! He has stripped our armed forces of the ability to fight two major wars at once. Get set lefty ! This roller coaster ride has just started with this lying muslum brotherhood mole in the Oval Office !!!
  - Richard Tater
    
    I have serious doubts as to whether you are actually a U.S. citizen. I wonder whether the actual reason you attack our military is because you’re paid to do so.
    - Liberalbasher1955
      
      Another DNC cyber warrior again maybe ?
- Christopher Andrew Howard
  
  I stopped reading at “proposed satanic statue”. Sorry this is not a theocracy. They can put what they like as a statue.
  - Fred
    
    it’s not a theocracy? thoughts on the existing ten commandments statue right next to the proposed satanic statue?
mcconnellboys

I see two problems with this argument: 1) He presumes that any of our politicians actually consider “peace and security” for the world as a primary motivator during their careers. I would argue that they want to accumulate as much wealth and power for themselves as they can and everything else is secondary to that…. And until we enforce strict term limits upon politicians at all levels of government, I do not think we can hope for a return to altruism in politics as in de Toqueville’s time…. Also, 2), I am pretty sure that he is going to get into trouble for this address. In fact, I’m pretty sure he will be one of the first assigned to “hate speech” status by the newly approved U of Illinois study (along with most of what I post online). Wonder if they’ll take our computers away?
- Alexander Richards
  
  If us soldiers are so afraid to speak out for freedom, and justice that the threat of simply losing our jobs strikes us down, then we have become a disgrace to the men that bled and died at the hands of the British to give us our freedom.
  
  I agree with much of what he said, but I don’t think we can do what is right, and spread freedom around the world until we break the shackles from ourselves first.
brad

I love my country but despise the people in Government who are there not for the people but for the big corporations and lining their own pockets. Our form of government is the best that man has ever created. It is the corrupt bastards in government who have ruined it. ISIS is a product of the US Government. John McCain has met with ISIS to fund, train and support them. Don’t believe me? google John McCain and his pictures meeting with the head of ISIS. ISIS was used to take out Libya and recently to take out Assad in Syria. OUR OWN GOVERNMENT IS OUR WORST ENEMY. Our government creates our enemies and then sends out troops to die fighting them. IT IS TIME TO LISTEN TO RON PAUL. IT IS TIME TO ADHERE TO THE CHRISTIAN THEORY OF A JUST WAR. It is time to bring the troops home and let other nations take care of themselves. THE ENEMY IS IN WASHINGTON DC.
fatwillie

A letter well written, but the peoples attention you desire to get, could care less about this nation, they are puppets in an agenda that sets the stage for all you see going on around you ,not only in this nation, but the world. Preach not to the problem preach to those that are the solution, They can be found in the public sector, real people of God almighty the same God almighty that was used as an example to make this great nation. This constitutional republic was based on God and his ways, look at how the things were written and not only do you see God, but you see men of God standing for the same thing in a form of Government. This will end when the real battle begins, and until then you can expect your so called leaders and elected officials to continue to sell its people and this nation down the drain. The best thing we could do against this evil is to round up every single elected official, from the white house, through the house and senate, continue through the supreme court, the entire banking system, try all convict and hang them. The people while being lazy, stupid, ignorant, greedy and many other things have been manipulated and or deceived by this evil because of their weakness and pleasures, You can help and change the people, not the leaders that are traitors and sellouts.
propel7

Congress has become an infiltrated vehicle of the Globalist Banker Masonic Illuminati satanists and their agenda to create the so-called New World “satanic” Order. Treason has no more accurate description. Serve the American People, their heritage, liberty, wealth and blood bought Constitution, or swing by your necks from the end of a rope. Very simple.
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art7

Sadly, no politicians will read this. They don’t care.
Robert49

Ought to march right to Saudi Arabia, after all that is the primary financier of Wahhabis Arab Muslim terrorists. And so happens to be a ally of the US govt in the middle east. Of which ISIS happens to be Wahhabis Arabs. I always have to shake my head in disbelief as to why on earth Saudi Arabia is never mentioned when in a discussion about middle east terrorism!
thulsa doom

Yeah sure buddy, maybe you ought to start with the illegally armed federal entities at home. The real enemy, DHS, a force made to stab us in the back, the real enemy is in Washington DC. You need to restore the constitution before you worry about being Team USA global police. You lost your god given mind. We were not intended to give other people peace your sole objective is to protect the US and that is where you ffed up. I really doubt anyone in the military wrote this piece of garbage
Mary Brown

Obama is a sniveling coward controlled by muslims in the government so nothing will be done. Those warriors are needed here at home to overthrow the worthless cowards infesting DC and take us back to a constitutional government.
F.O.H

I certainly hope this “dog of war soldier” knows who created, funded and directs the afformentioned Ooga booga alciadah, Isis, boko H etc. groups, please Mr Soldier, don’t ask for permission from corporate shills working for the global banksters aka public servants to go kill people in other sovereign countries….while I admire ur anger it is uniformed as to who your real enemy is…..!! The day is late to wake, you boys in uniform better grow a brain & soon…!
EL ZORRO

That is a very good letter, the only problem is that fail to name the real culprit, the organization that CONTROL THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT from behind the CURTAIN, the REAL GOVERNMENT that for the last one hundred years HAS CREATED all the WARS and PROBLEMS, that WE THE PEOPLE are facing NOW, that organization is the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Joe

Well said bother, I stay in contact with many of the guys I served with overseas and many of us are once again ready to stand in the breach.
Joe G

The sad and simple truth is that they are not going to listen to anyone because they have such a high opinion of themselves… That, and the fact that there is more money to be made from private interests from not listening than listening…

These politicians behave like children that I grew up with… We all grew up with trading card games, people would play the game with bets, and when the bet was lost, naturally they refused to give up what they lost… In one case where I was the victor I insisted on claiming what I had one and offered the kid another card just to be nice… He told me flat out, that he didnt want that one, and wanted to keep his, as if it were a trade…

Politicians are so disconnected from reality that they truly do not understand that there are consequences for failure… It is exactly the same as with the child, he lost, had to give something up, and even when he is offered a caveat in his failure, he still refuses to own up to it…

In the real world there is not running home to mommy and not playing with that kid anymore because you want your card back, the card is your property, your land, your life, everything that you have this illusionary control over…

The game is for keeps, if we dont play to win then we will lose everything…
popeyepopeye

wow, what a tough guy! how about you call them out for supporting IsIS. instead he’s just so dang TOUGH! so easily manipulated into his lower vibrational frequencies, a victory for the devil. such a tough guy yet so much a sheep. unbelievable
FredKapelski

From a Viet Nam Era vet, USN 6/70 – 6/74 Atlantic and some time in the Med. Frankly, with the exception of 1 or 2, I wouldn’t urinate on congress, the pentagon, white house, and supreme court if the building were on fire. How such a perverse generation has brought us down is hard to believe, let alone watch. Some young liberal thanked me for my service, I asked him why. I commented that you have made America into what I put on a uniform to protect us from. He wasn’t happy, he offended by my lack of belief in change. I didn’t say anything else. A fool, like our CINC, Joint Chiefs, Sec Def, Secretary of State and Congress, “is known for his continual talk.”
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http://www.facebook.com/Orrie461 Orrie Froloff

Words are wasted on these political leaders. We write letters expressing our concern and anger about where our country is going but it all falls on deaf ears. Politicians in Washington DC do not care what the American people have to say. They are ignorant self serving miscreants who commit acts of treason without giving it a second thought. They don’t govern themselves according to our Founder’s documents. Even the court judges are arrogant enough to sidestep the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and rule in favor by handing down unjust verdicts.

These are evil people who will not listen to reason and common sense. If there has been anyone who have sold their soul to the devil we just need to look at those who were given the authority to govern and make decisions for America and her people. Either out of pure stupidity or deliberate actions, they have brought ridicule upon America and weakened her resolve to lead. These are not men and women with backbones, they are Jellyfish floundering in the sea.
espersemper

Thank you for your service and blessings through your words and efforts. We honor and owe you and yours. “First and above all else, you must secure life, liberty and the right to pursue your own happiness. That’s politics done right, hard-earned, often by war” . C.Krauthammer
usmcmailman

Most Excellent !……………..and very factual!
SEMPER-FI, Cpl C.E. Morgan USMC, 1968 Vietnam TET offensive survivor.
Udon Nomi

Shout this from the roof tops Brother!! Thank you for so eloquently saying what needs to be said.
Guest

So the author, whoever he is, is saying we should go back to Iraq for an unspecified amount of time to go back and fight an enemy that hide and blend among the civilian populace while American troops soak up IEDs? That hasn’t made a difference in over a decade so how exactly is that going to work now?
Alright, let’s set aside politics and look at what our own military experts and strategists have to say on the issue. Have you heard of the Army & Marine Corps Counter-Insurgency Field Manual?
It was co-authored by the top subject matter experts in both the Army and Marine Corps and what they’ve said is nothing surprising or shocking. They said these aren’t wars that can be won by throwing military, money and American lives at them.
The problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are cultural, religious, political and ingrained into these countries. They cannot be solved by brute force. That’s already been proven. Furthermore, that’s what our own military experts have said, not our politicians. We could spend another decade or another three decades throwing American money and the lives of American troops at them and they still wouldn’t change, unless the change comes from the Iraqi and Afghan people themselves.
- Liberalbasher1955
  
  Oh like Barry isn’t throwing money away ! Get set lefty when the Fed stops dumping money into the system ? You’ll see the stock market CRASH and the dollar dropped as the world exchange currency. Thanks to Barry all the blood and treasure spent in the middle east has been wasted. Terrorists are on the raise ! So rejoice lefty ! Another 911 is coming it will take someone with some spine to clean up Barry’s mess !!!!!!
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Korba

Yeah, this guy is yet another right wing kook who thinks American should flush another trillion down the rabbit hole so he can get more amped up on his faux patriotism
- Richard Tater
  
  Everyone, please give a warm welcome to Vlad Putin.
Forrest Jane Cline

There is one simple fact that most “posters” here have overlooked….even the author of this letter….and by the way…it is a great letter. The “war” is here, on American soil……the Islamist enemy are inside the gate. If anything….our politicians are clueless to this truth or just simply don’t care. Our Military is needed to fight the evil within….not on foreign soil. Our politicians stand idle…..our President’s sympathies lie with the Muslims….at some point the leaders in our Military must take control of this out of control madness. There simply must be a leader within our Nation’s Military that can and will, arise to the call of freedom…..someone….somewhere…..please. May God have mercy on us.
kktex12

Excellent! Thanks for putting the mark on the dog.
Arationofreason

There seems to be a lot of dicussion here about unleashing the hounds of war vs constraining them with a tight leash as was done in Iraq for a decade. There is little doubt that our military could completely obliterate the ISIS if asked and allowed. The broader question which must be asked first is; should we; do we really want to; is it in our (US) immediate and future interest. Apparently we have learned that nation building is no simple task, at least in the Mid Eastern culture.
Let’s talk first and then act decisively on the decision.
silverbackV

The U.S. Has NOT won a war since WWII. Why? Because the war powers have been taken from the pentagon and congress has taken over. All of our problems mentioned in this letter are self induced!
onesoldiersmom

This was an open letter to all politicians, but we all know who it was written for. Excellent work. It had to be said.
sovereignfreedom

So many want to talk about “evil”, yet they can’t recognize evil in their own midst because 2 years ago it kissed their baby on the campaign trail or bought out the local TV news station saving 2 dozen jobs and promising “fair and balanced reporting.

You can’t recognize the evil in your own midst because they have such “caring and family oriented” slick TV ad campaigns and every so often they invented a medication that actually saved a few lives but deny all responsibility for, and do their all powerful best to make sure you never ever even hear about the 100K + every year who die from their products as they continue to rake in a half TRILLION dollars every year in profits, and who know full well that the sicker all of us are and remain, ever the more profitable for them.

You can’t recognize evil in your own midst because they call themselves by clever and deceptive names like “The Federal Reserve” or “The Department of Justice” or because they stand in front of TV camera for all the world to see as they lie through their teeth as they take an oath promising to uphold and defend YOUR God given, constitutionally protected rights.

All this talk about ridding the world of evil….. speaking in terms of us as a nation, have you ever heard that it’s best to remove the log from thine own eye, before trying to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye??

SO SO much lying, clever deception, propaganda and Hegelian Dialectic (“Problem-Reaction-Solution”) going on every day and the vast majority of the masses will NEVER figure it out.

SO SO many unwittingly the pawns of the New World Order agenda!!!
carlito cruz

We can’t change the world alone but, we should help and support specially it’s ALLIED forces of friendly nations . we can erase this ” cancer cell” threatening our healthy body by getting together to avoid catastrophe and slaughtering human life , there must be a COMPETENT LEADERSHIP to lead !
ThaddeusQuackenbush

I think this was written by someone who cares, but who has a very limited understanding about the politics of the Middle East, and makes assumptions about things without full knowledge.
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Kenneth Deome

Yet the question is, with ideology now the main discriminate, exactly how ,many fronts can we fight on simultaneously?

Mr. Kolfage’s sacrifices are inarguable, but for my father and uncles who served in WWII, or my two grandfathers who served in WWI, the outcome was quantifiable, whereas since then our wars have been anything but decisive.

Yet both world wars were against nation-forces that wished to conquer the world through genocide and slavery. Not even the USSR or Communist China seek world ownership, rather like us, they seek to rape second and third world nations of natural resources.

We just abuse our powers under the flag of spreading freedom, while Russia (Eastern Europe) and China (Tibet) barely give public relations lip service.

Patriotism is, after all, Nationalism, and just as Kings embody their nation, subjugating the people, so do Politburos and every other political body that places itself above the people.

So while war can be no more complex than self defense against an invader, is preemptive defense anything but Imperialism in disguise? And if the intent of American leadership–both public and private–is to produce profit from warfare, how is it we are the good guys?

So perhaps we have lost some of our “mojo” when it comes to warfare…but is that a bad thing given the number of civilian casualties among Iraqis and Afghans? Can we really claim the moral high ground if to protect our own children we kill thousands of innocent children elsewhere in the world?

For the person in the field fighting the battle hesitation equals injury, death, or worse, loss of the battle. For those they are protecting, every innocent life taken is a source of shame.

Is war “good”? Never. Is war necessary? That’s a more complex issue, because we aren’t talking about in intruder in our home and protecting our self or our family.

One way to look at our present world situation is to recognize that the five permanent members of the United Nations have been both arming and abusing the rest of the world since 1945, and European nations in general were practicing Imperialism for centuries before that.

What we truly have is a world seriously FUBAR’d, but much of that is due to our own choices, meaning the damage was done long before this century.

And even if it was remotely realistic to fight every perceived threat all at once, has a “Kill them all and let God sort them out” mentality ever served any purpose except added suffering in the world? Is that what the American flag means, that if someone in your country doesn’t like our country we’ll make everyone in your country pay the price?

Is it a wonder so many American citizens are still fighting and dying for Justice and Equality here in the USA if our protectors in the government and military don’t give a damn about the human rights of foreign non-combatants who are themselves being victimized by our latest enemy?

You see, Mr. Kolfage, most Americans recognize that it isn’t Democracy or even Capitalism that is the problem with the United States, rather it is the fact our political leaders choose to be corrupt and our business leaders choose to corrupt our political leaders in the name of money.

Imperialism is about money, not freedom.

The fact we have been fighting only political or fiscal wars (9/11 was an attack on our financial might, our personal and national psyches, our world image, and our foreign policy) since 1945 proves that while we won the war, we’ve been losing the battle for some time.

Gone are the days of John Wayne and unwavering loyalty to those ideals, because we are ever more so a corporation than a nation, and corporations, much like terrorist organizations themselves, are multinationals with no particular loyalty to anything but themselves.

Yet the question is, with ideology (or perhaps more accurately, propaganda) now the main discriminate between sides, exactly how many fronts can we fight on simultaneously?

Mr. Kolfage’s sacrifices are inarguable, but for my father and uncles who served in WWII, or my two grandfathers who served in WWI, the outcome was quantifiable, whereas since then our wars have been anything but decisive.

Yet both world wars were against nation-forces that wished to conquer the world through genocide and slavery. Not even the USSR or Communist China seek world ownership, rather like us, they seek to rape second and third world nations of their natural resources.

We just abuse our powers under the flag of spreading freedom, while Russia (Eastern Europe) and China (Tibet) barely give public relations lip service.

Patriotism is, after all, Nationalism, and just as Kings embody their nation, subjugating the people, so do Politburos and every other political body that places itself above the people.

So while war can be no more complex than self defense against an invader, is preemptive defense anything but Imperialism in disguise? And if the intent of American leadership–both public and private–is to produce profit from warfare, how is it we are the good guys?

So perhaps we have lost some of our “mojo” when it comes to warfare…but is that a bad thing given the number of civilian casualties among Iraqis and Afghans? Can we really claim the moral high ground if to protect our own children we kill thousands of innocent children elsewhere in the world?

For the person in the field fighting the battle hesitation equals injury, death, or worse, loss of the battle. For those they are protecting, every innocent life taken is a source of shame.

Is war “good”? Never. Is war necessary? That’s a more complex issue, because we aren’t talking about in intruder in our home and protecting our self or our family.

One way to look at our present world situation is to recognize that the five permanent members of the United Nations have been both arming and abusing the rest of the world since 1945, and European nations in general were practicing Imperialism for centuries before that.

What we truly have is a world seriously FUBAR’d, but much of that is due to our own choices, meaning the damage was done long before this century.

And even if it was remotely realistic to fight every perceived threat all at once, has a “Kill them all and let God sort them out” mentality ever served any purpose except added suffering in the world? Is that what the American flag means, that if someone in your country doesn’t like our country we’ll make everyone in your country pay the price?

Is it a wonder so many American citizens are still fighting and dying for Justice and Equality here in the USA if our protectors in the government and military don’t give a damn about the human rights of foreign non-combatants who are themselves being victimized by our latest enemy?

You see, Mr. Kolfage, most Americans recognize that it isn’t Democracy or even Capitalism that is the problem with the United States, rather it is the fact our political leaders choose to be corrupt and our business leaders choose to corrupt our political leaders in the name of money.

Imperialism is about money, not freedom.

The fact we have been fighting only political or fiscal wars (9/11 was an attack on our financial might, our personal and national psyches, our world image, and our foreign policy) since 1945 proves that while we won the war, we’ve been losing the battle for some time.

Gone are the days of John Wayne and unwavering loyalty to those ideals, because we are ever more so a corporation than a nation, and corporations, much like terrorist organizations themselves, are multinationals with no particular loyalty to anything but themselves.

I applaud your passion, but the fact WWII tactics have been less successful with each conflict stands in direct contradiction with your assertions that, “It is time to unleash the hounds.”

We’ve been doing that since the Korean Conflict, and our enemies have simply adjusted accordingly while we refuse to see that the world, and how we must approach it, has changed.

I’ve had this same basic discussion with several Conservatives, who cannot understand that if we don’t change with the times, like any corporation, we will fail, and cease to exist. Their vehemence against any type of progression also stands in direct contradiction with the reality of the world.

Basically put, our own Imperialist attitude, based in feelings of superiority, exclusive rights and privilege, are now tied around our necks and drowning us. Perhaps it is too liberal a thought, but how can we rail against other nations and peoples when we have so many Americans who hate other Americans based on ideals as archaic as those of the religious extremists you propose we annihilate?

The history of our nation has been one of abuse and prejudice; do you really think it’s worth fighting to preserve those ideals? No one has all the answers (too many people speak only with their own best interests at heart), and most certainly there are times where fighting for what you believe in is more important than your own life. But are we to fight and kill and die so the United States can continue to abuse its own citizens?

Like I said, it’s a complex issue, one that goes far beyond military might, politics, money and physical survival. The question that should have been raised at the onset of every conflict since the end of the Revolutionary War is, what exactly, beyond life, are we fighting to preserve?

If our leaders and we as a people had asked that question more often over the last two centuries, what would our nation look like now?

In other words, Sir, has the United States of America has become the tyrant we claim to hate and have sworn to fight unto the death?

Has our greatest enemy become…has our greatest enemy always been, us?
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GinnyLee

Amen! And I would bet a million that the majority of Americans totally agree and stand with you!
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Alan Hage

It is a shame this MAN isn’t in the white houes, maybe, HE WOULD GET RID OF THE SCUM, THAT IS DESTROYING OR COUNTRY.
http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit

who cleans up yours?
Fred

JOURNALISM! WRONG INFO! GREAT SITE!

jesus, fade into the “journalistic” abyss that you’re destined for with that kind of thinking already. this domain will be for sale within the next couple years, if anybody wants to start a legit website to honor our real heroes.
http://www.usliberty.org/ Resident of the Unit

I just saw this – i wonder what will happen with my posts?

Generally on discussions when this occurs, you are amongst people who only want to hear (ie: will tolerate), what they want to hear. Nothing else allowed.

I always take heart when I think, this is how they would govern if in government, so thank God they are here where they can’t do any real damage.

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