Sir;...What do you think of the situation now that the shoe is on the other foot, and we are forted up in foreign lands where freedom fighters can take pot shots at us at their leisure???... No writer on military tactics would recommend our actions... No person who understands the nature of democracy would justify offense for a defensive form of social organization... If we were a democracy we would not have made the enemies we have...If we were a democracy we would have protected our own shores, controlled our own trade, and sealed up our own borders before trying to attack the world... Look at our behavior in Iraq... What general would choose to attack fixed fortifications against the recommendations of the sages, and yet we have done just that...Mobility is not only an asset, but is an essential to all armies, and yet ours is tied down by choice in two countries that together are not worth spit... I may have been the first to call the General-betrayus; but they have all betrayed us... Those generals who do not have the sense or the courage to tell brain dead presidents the limits of the military's ability have no business in war... If they are not lunatics, then they are traitors... They have not done their home work, and not done their school work... What the America military is very good at is threatening our freedom in this land...They represent the rich and the most reactionary people in this country...They suck in that evangelical feeling as if that will protect them from their own stupidity, and while they lose in Afghanistan they position themselves to blame the current president for a loss that was always inevitable... Give us more troops, they say, or the defeat will be yours... They own this defeat... A professional military is unfitted to defend a democracy... Of course; we are not a democracy, and they are not defending us... The military is defending their own political perogatives... They put their personal ambition before common sense or military science... They are our curse...Thanks...Sweeney

Good article as always, Chuck but the young will need wise and mature leadership. That's your role, Bro. Remember Joshua's army buddy, Caleb, Joshua 14:10, 11, "And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in." He then said, "Give me this mountain" Joshua 14:12. I pray you'll be like Caleb, Chuck, all the way to Capitol Hill. "As thy days, so shall thy strength be" Deuteronomy 33:25.

CHUCK- INTERESTING THAT YOU MENTION GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON. I WAS JUST READING WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS AND HIS ADVICE ON PROTECTING THE COUNTRY. HERE'S A QUOTE, WHAT DO YOU THINK CHUCK?
---------"They (the Jews) work more effectively against us than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America."

--------------Source: Maxims of George Washington by A.A. Appleton & Co.

THEN I WAS READING SOME BEN FRANKLIN, YOU KNOW ABOUT HIM DON'T YOU CHUCK? HERE'S WHAT HE SAID ABOUT PROTECTING THE COUNTRY:

--------------declared:
"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation was founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
"For over 1700 hundred years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only amongst themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race. If you do not exclude them from these United States in the Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land, and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our substance, and jeopardized our liberty.
"If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will or how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even though they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention."

------------Franklin's remarks were recorded in "Chit Chat Around the Table During Intermissions," a section of the Diary of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina. Pickney (1746-1825) attended the Convention as a delegate, and took down excerpts of some of the outstanding addresses and discourses, which he later published in his diary. Perhaps the best proof of the Franklin prophecy—as with any prophecy—lies in its actual fulfillment. What Benjamin Franklin foresaw as an ominous possibility in 1787 has today—a little over two hundred years later—become painful reality.