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What's our greatest threat?

Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 2 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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Imagine two guys at a 4th of July picnic, after imbibing a bit too much, and laughing too much, the conversation gets serious. The guys names are Hector and Dewey, and here's an edited version of their conversation:
Hector asks, "What is the greatest threat facing the United States today? Dewey replies, "As I see it, there are three. One radical Islam, two the Chinese, three those knuckleheads in congress." Hector says, "Wrong, not even close. Here's the answer. The gravest threat facing the United States comes from within, when our best people refuse to get involved. When the men and women we need to fight those threats you mentioned -- radical Islam -- China, stay on the sidelines. That's our greatest threat."
Excerpted from "The Refuge" by Ben Coes.
So...what does the Gulch think? What is the U.S.'s greatest threat?

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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    For Ecofreaks, "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" is more religion than science. And you know how pissed people can get when you question their religion.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 10 years, 1 month ago
    I'd have to agree, It would seem, everyone has given up, won't stand up or engage.

    It ain't over till the fat lady sings. Do the job we're paying you for.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Which brings up the question of whether we should go to Europe & the Middle East and clear up the rat's nest it has become or mind our own business and let them stew in their own juice.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Be careful about Putin. Obama is such a bad president that he gets folks thinking about Putin. Putin is a KGB thug. The press seems to be afraid to put forth the huge amount he has killed either directly or by proxy. His ambitions for world domination has no limits and where he detects weakness, he moves in aggressively. This may a strong leader, but not when it come to freedom of any kind.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes but his actions have unleashed some rabid dogs within this country and around the world. It will take decades to resolve the damage he's done.
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  • Posted by bsmith51 10 years, 2 months ago
    Our dumbed down population, especially our youth - all unique snowflakes - who don't know, don't care, don't want to know and don't want to care.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    and they called it a philosophy conference? . that in itself
    is reason enough for laughter, and then heavy concern!!! -- j
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 2 months ago
    Complacency.

    Irregardless of who has been in power, our lives just keep chuffing along: We hit the switch and the lights turn on. We adjust the thermostat, and magic heat or cool come out of the wall. We drive our cars, watch our TV, play games on our computers, read.

    There is nothing that touches our everyday lives that gives us something to fight about. Sometimes we even 'make up things' so that we can have a cause worth fighting for (feminism; black lives matter), but the truth of the matter is that we live in a lotus land of affluence; even the people we label as poor have a better life than Alfred the Great or Ramses.

    We are happy lobsters in a pot of slowly warming water, and we do not notice the increase of heat.

    Jan
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Read "The Creature from Jekyl Island." It was the banksters in control of Congress; Congress just did what they were told to do........ like these days.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 2 months ago
    contemporary arrogance -- the sense that "we know better
    than those folks in the past because we are here and not there."
    this is derived directly from page xvii of "Liberty's Secrets"
    by Joshua Charles, which I am reading. . many members
    of the U.S.A. are so self-absorbed that they think nothing
    of history and its lessons, thus rendering the wisdom
    of our founders "secrets." . the demise of the nation
    hangs in the balance. -- j
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  • Posted by peterchunt 10 years, 2 months ago
    I believe our greatest threat is ignorance. We get the government that we vote for, but the majority of people don’t know or it appears to want to know what the issues are. If they vote, it is a reflex condition, but one out of ignorance not knowledge. I recall seeing an article by Thomas Sowell which basically stated that we need to abolish the universal right to vote, and only allow people who are smart enough to know the issues to be able to vote. He points out that Hitler got elected by popular vote but from an uninformed electorate.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 2 months ago
    O is the greatest threat because he is supplying and encouraging everything counter-American within the US and in the world . If we had leadership the US and the world would not be in its present state.
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  • Posted by term2 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yeah. either a storm of protest about how bad Putin is, or an acknowledgement he is a better leader than what we have and not a lot different in terms of philosophy actually
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  • Posted by blackswan 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There would be a lot fewer "banksters" if the politicians weren't so busy attempting to "make life fair." The meltdown must be laid directly at the feet, not of the "banksters," but the politicians, who passed laws requiring banksterism.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The torpedo is launched. Let's see if it catches on.
    Some of my posts take off. Others go plop.
    I put it in Government. It was either that or News.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I had my eye on something else to post, but OK.
    This will be my first one without a link.
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  • Posted by term2 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    actually I dont know how to post a question, so if you know, go for it. I feel like Putin sticks up for Russia at least and is honest about it. He's no Ayn Rand of course.
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