Veterans’ Day is November 11 because on November 11, 1918, the Armistice between the Allies and the Central Powers took effect. World War I had been more peculiar, unnecessary and pointless than most wars, but from it comes many lingering features of the American and international political landscape: the messianic idea of “making the world safe for democracy,” even for people who don’t value democracy or want it; the powder keg of a web of global alliances that can be touched off into a worldwide conflagration by a minor incident; the repeated recourse to failed analyses and refusal to reexamine them, no matter how often and spectacularly they fail; the stigmatizing of all opposition and even outright restrictions on the freedom of speech to crush dissent; and more.
Yet in other ways the military landscape of World War I was profoundly different from that of conflicts today. During the Christmas truce of 1914, the British, French and German soldiers came out of their trenches and exchanged Christmas greetings. In some places they even exchanged gifts and played games together. They respected each other as human beings. They recognized that they shared the same values. Yet this was infrequently repeated in subsequent Christmases; the bitterness of war overwhelmed any impulse to see the opponent as a person worthy of respect.
In today’s conflict with Islamic jihad, the jihadis likewise do not respect their non-Muslim foes. The Infidels are “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6) while the Muslims are “the best of peoples” (Qur’an 3:110). There is no sense of shared values. Yet many of the leaders and opinion makers among the non-Muslims do not understand or accept this. They continue to believe that gestures of good will will be appreciated and reciprocated. They continue to think that their own careful displays of respect for the values and principles of the jihadis will be received with something other than amused contempt. They continue to send their young soldiers into the Afghanistan meat grinder, imagining that they’re winning hearts and minds by forcing our soldiers to train their “allies” who, in appallingly increasing numbers, turn on them and murder them as soon as they have the opportunity.
Meanwhile, the same leaders and opinion makers insist that groups holding the same goal held by those who have declared their hatred for, and indeed their state of war against, the United States, but who pursue this goal by non-military means, are not our enemies at all, but our friends and allies, who should be encouraged in every way and afforded access to the corridors of power. Some, but not all, of them may dimly realize that in doing so they’re endangering Americans and America itself, but by the time they see this clearly, it may well be too late. For those groups seeking the same goal as that of the jihadis — the submission of Infidel states to the rule of Islamic law — have, with willing help from the establishment media, stigmatized all resistance to this agenda as “racism,” “bigotry” and “Islamophobia.” Few are willing to brave the stigma, and those who do are widely derided and disregarded: while the jihadis and Islamic supremacists advance ever more aggressively and confidently, those who sound the alarm are increasingly unheeded.
As a result, numerous Constitutional and societal principles, including that of equality of rights for all, with no special privileges for individual groups, and the freedom of speech, are being assailed by forces that are increasingly assertive and confident. The mainstream media, government, and law enforcement do not resist those forces, but aid and abet them.
The record of the resistance to jihad since 2001 is a record of failures caused by false analyses enacted as policy, and that is worse than ever. Still, the last chapter hasn’t yet been written. As long as free people still draw air, there is hope. But only if we don’t give up now, but work all the harder, and solidify our determination to resist tyranny.
Today, then, we should remember and be grateful to those who gave their lives to secure and protect these freedoms for us, and resolve not to throw away without a fight those freedoms for which they died. We should remember that if we are not willing to give our own lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to protect the unalienable rights enumerated at the founding of this Republic, we will most assuredly lose both them and the Republic itself — lose them for ourselves and for our children.
And we are far closer to that than most people realize.
Let us never shrink from the task before us: the great struggle to defend human rights, human dignity, and freedom from oppression and injustice — particularly the oppression and injustice, and assaults to human dignity that are enshrined in the Islamic law (Sharia) that is coming, step-by-step, steadily and apparently inexorably, to an ever more ignorant and indifferent West.
Happy Veterans’ Day.
jihad3tracker says
THANK YOU ROBERT, FOR PUTTING UP THIS ITEM.
Now 69 ancient years old, I am ashamed to admit how many decades I spent without sufficient appreciation of what “The Ultimate Sacrifice” REALLY MEANS.
mummymovie says
Excellent article, Robert.
le mouron rouge says
Robert Spencer says,
“Today, then, we should remember and be grateful to those who gave their lives to secure and protect these freedoms for us, and resolve not to throw away without a fight those freedoms for which they died. We should remember that if we are not willing to give our own lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to protect the unalienable rights enumerated at the founding of this Republic, we will most assuredly lose both them and the Republic itself — lose them for ourselves and for our children.”
Thank you Mr. Spencer for this insightful commentary.
Mel Gibson said, “I hate war, but I love the warrior and those guys that went to war. I appreciate and honor their sacrifice because many of them lost much and they are still suffering even when they come home they suffer, so, they need some attention.”
“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
– Douglas MacArthur n(1880-1964)
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
– George S. Patton (1885-1945)
Agreed, let’s us thank God for the sacrifice that the men and women of our Armed Forces have and are making for their country and let us keep them in continuous prayer.
gravenimage says
Fine post.
Andy says
AMEN
Westman says
Agreed!
Infidel says
FANTASTIC. POST.. SALUTE TO THE USA FORCES…. The Indian Army too has its share of bravehearts who sacrifice their lives against the mad Paki Jehaadis from across the border.. these vermin infiltrate across the border with hatred and mass murder in their hearts and only the Indian soldier is standing between Hindus and those hate filled animals..
Save Europe says
I always say BRAVO to EVERY Brit, American, Canadian, Aussie, Kiwi, Pole, Dutchie, Indian and ALSO Russian who dealt with the Nazis. If I missed any nationality out then I do, genuinely, apologise.
le mouron rouge says
gravenimage, Andy, Westman and Infidel,
Thank you.
gravenimage says
🙂
Andy says
Thank you le mouron rouge.
Cheers!
Andy
Undaunted says
It’s Patton’s birthday today, as well.
Andy says
Thank you Mr. Spencer for writing this message of Remembrance on Veterans Day.
We were at a Remembrance/Veterans day service today to give thanks to God and all his blessings and to the men and women who have served and our serving today.
I have such a soft spot for veterans being in a military family myself.
Pray for our Veterans and always give thanks to them.
God Bless Them All and God Bless you Mr. Spencer for the work you are doing.
mortimer says
If you had stopped soldiers from the two world wars at random and to ask them, ‘What are you fighting for?’, they would all have answered, ‘For freedom!’ They were all aware of why they were fighting.
In the East River at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island next to Manhattan, there is a monument that quotes a speech given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1941.
FDR spoke of Four Freedoms. They are: Freedom of speech and expression, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, Freedom from fear.
Islam cares nothing for any of the four, but rather prevents the four freedoms entirely. Freedom of speech and expression are the basis of the other freedoms, but that freedom is the greatest enemy of Islam.
The freedom of expression is under attack right now by an EVIL ALLIANCE between the Left and Islam to take away the freedom of expression.
WE HERE RESOLVE THAT THEY SHALL NOT TAKE AWAY THE FREEDOMS PUCHASED AT SUCH A GREAT COST!
mortimer says
If you had stopped soldiers from the two world wars at random and to ask them, ‘What are you fighting for?’, they would all have answered, ‘For freedom!’ They were all aware of why they were fighting.
In the East River at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island next to Manhattan, there is a monument that quotes a speech given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1941.
FDR spoke of Four Freedoms. They are: Freedom of speech and expression, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, Freedom from fear.
Islam cares nothing for any of the four, but rather prevents the four freedoms entirely. Freedom of speech and expression are the basis of the other freedoms, but that freedom is the greatest enemy of Islam.
The freedom of expression is under attack right now by an EVIL ALLIANCE between the Left and Islam to take away the freedom of expression.
WE HERE RESOLVE THAT THEY SHALL NOT TAKE AWAY THE FREEDOMS PURCHASED AT SUCH A GREAT COST!
gravenimage says
+1
Jan Aage Jeppesen says
No soldier in the First World War knew what he was fighting for. How could he if the war was unnecessary, and he was fooled by the statesmen most responsible for the horrors lied about the real reasons?
Unnecessary wars are wars of choice. So who plunged us into these hideous and suicidal world wars that advanced the death of our civilization? Who are the statesmen responsible for the death of the West?
So ask Patrick J. Buchanan in the monumental and provocative story “Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War” (2008) and he makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen – Winston Churchill first among them – the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe`s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations.
Buchanan present solid argument for his conclusion and it should not be rejected just because Churchill reached an iconic status placing him above criticism.
Among the British and Churchillian errors were:
– The secret decision of a tiny cabal in the inner Cabinet in 1906 to take Britain straight to war against Germany, should she invade France
– The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that mutilated Germany, leaving her bitter, betrayed, and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler
– Britain`s capitulation, at Churchills urging, to American pressure to server the Anglo-Japanese alliance, insulting and isolating Japan, pushing her into the path of militarism and conquest
– The greatest mistake in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939, ensuring the Second World War.
In my opinion to the list of errors after The Cold War we should add the unnecessary American instigated wars taking part in muslim civil wars from the liberation of Kuwait, the regime change and occupation of Afghanistan, war on Iraq in 2003 bringing the shia majority to power and empowering Iran and creating Islamic State.
President Donald Trump seems to take lessons from Lord Salisbury from before Britain engaged in unnecessary wars:
“Isolation is much less dangerous than the danger of being dragged into wars which do not concern us.” (Lord Salisbury, 1896).
To this good advice I would add the value of knowing one’s own limitations.
Rebecca says
Everything is the WASPs fault. Heard it all before.
Jan Aage Jeppesen says
I think you should take my comment more seriously.
If the wars mentioned were all unnecessary then millions of soldiers died for nothing. They did not die for freedom, justice and democracy and peace as the statesmen claimed but was sacrificed for nothing. Or for no god reason because the statesmen chose war when they could have chosen peace or at least non intervention.
The lessons of all the unnecessary wars since 1914 should be to look at our own culture with critical eyes and fix the pathologies that caused our civilization to be weakened from within.
gravenimage says
The repulsive Jan Aage Jeppesen wrote:
So ask (sic) Patrick J. Buchanan in the monumental and provocative story “Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War”
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We’ve heard *this* crap before–how *dare* good people defend against Fascism and genocide?
We should just roll over for any savagery, including Islam.
Some of us actually believe that standing up against tyranny is an important value. Not apologists for evil like this one.
Jan Aage Jeppesen says
Do not lower yourself to the level of Islamists and their useful idiots on the left by defaming opponents and calling a well-founded criticism for “crap”.
If the arguments put forward by a conservative Republican thinker is just “crap”, it should be easy for an intellectual capacity as yourself to prove Buchanan wrong.
Before Winston Churchill lost his way he said something prophetic about future wars:
“Democracy is more vindictive than Cabinets,” Churchill had told the Parliament in 1901. “The wars of the people will be more terrible than those of kings.” The twentieth century would make a prophet of the twenty-six-year-old MP. And the peace the peoples demanded and got in 1919 would prove more savage, for, wrote one historian, “it was easier for despotic monarchs to forget their hatreds than for democratic statesmen or peoples.”
(Quoted from Buchanan’s “crappy” book, Chapter 3: “A poisonous Spirit of Revenge”. The historian referred to is A.J.P. Taylor in “A History of the First World War”, 1966).
Let us not forget that the savagery and totalitarian ideas – Fascism, Nazism and Marxism/Leninism originated in a European culture, which is why I talk about the pathologies within. Therefore the conflicts from 1914 to 1991 can be seen as “Western civil wars”, as William Lind has labeled them. And civil wars are the most savage ones only surpassed by clashes of civilizations where Islam is part. “Islam has bloody borders”, as Huntington wrote in his famous “Clash” article from 1993.
The lesson is that the West should only fight necessary wars in order to defend the nation states and values in our democratic culture. Engaging in Muslim civil wars does not serve any purpose unless we are attacked by Islamic nations or groups from the Islamic civilization. The more Muslims are killing each other the better for the West.
That leaves us with only one necessary war since 1991: The unprovoked terror attack on US homeland 11th September 2001.
The Afghan war could have been finished in 6 months. By that time what was achievable by military means was achieved. US and Nato forces should then have left the Afghan quick mire with the warning, that any future governments harboring and abetting international Islamist terror groups would be punished the same way as the Taliban government.
Instead the US leadership believed in the crazy notion that prolonged occupation in order to bring peace, prosperity and democracy would win the hearts of ordinary Afghan dads and moms. Had they known the history and dogma of Islam or read Huntington’s hypothesis the whole Afghan adventure would be finished in the spring of 2002. Instead billions of dollars and thousands of lives was wasted and the US became a laughing stock among Muslims. Open ended wars are by definition unnecessary wars.
gravenimage says
The repellent Jan Aage Jeppesen wrote:
Do not lower yourself to the level of Islamists and their useful idiots on the left by defaming opponents and calling a well-founded criticism for “crap”.
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Ah…right. Using a mildly off-color word for emphasis is just the same as raping children, using Infidels as sex slaves, stoning women to death, and mass-slaughtering unbelievers. Try again, creep.
More:
If the arguments put forward by a conservative Republican thinker is just “crap”, it should be easy for an intellectual capacity as yourself to prove Buchanan wrong.
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Pat Buchanan is an antisemite and apologist for Fascism. Calling him a “conservative Republican thinker” is an insult to all decent people who wear that designation.
He is also pretty iffy when it comes to the horrors of Islam–he slammed Jews for being concerned about threats from Iran.
He has said that considering Jihad a world war is “Zionist”.
More:
Before Winston Churchill lost his way he said something prophetic about future wars…
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Before he “lost his way”–that is, before Churchill dared to stand against the threat of Fascism. *Ugh*.
And taking this quote about the trouble with the violence of crowds as a blanket condemnation of Democracy is ludicrous.
More:
Let us not forget that the savagery and totalitarian ideas – Fascism, Nazism and Marxism/Leninism originated in a European culture…
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I stand against totalitarianism whatever its origins. Would that that were true of this vile poster.
More:
The lesson is that the West should only fight necessary wars in order to defend the nation states and values in our democratic culture. Engaging in Muslim civil wars does not serve any purpose unless we are attacked by Islamic nations or groups from the Islamic civilization. The more Muslims are killing each other the better for the West.
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I see that Jan Aage Jeppesen has moved the goalposts here–now he is talking about taking sides in Muslim civil wars, rather than defending against Fascism.
I have *never* advocated taking sides in Muslim-on-Muslim savagery, as anyone familiar with my posting history knows.
More:
That leaves us with only one necessary war since 1991: The unprovoked terror attack on US homeland 11th September 2001.
The Afghan war could have been finished in 6 months. By that time what was achievable by military means was achieved. US and Nato forces should then have left the Afghan quick mire with the warning, that any future governments harboring and abetting international Islamist terror groups would be punished the same way as the Taliban government.
Instead the US leadership believed in the crazy notion that prolonged occupation in order to bring peace, prosperity and democracy would win the hearts of ordinary Afghan dads and moms. Had they known the history and dogma of Islam or read Huntington’s hypothesis the whole Afghan adventure would be finished in the spring of 2002. Instead billions of dollars and thousands of lives was wasted and the US became a laughing stock among Muslims. Open ended wars are by definition unnecessary wars.
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Again, I have never advocated this–it is a fool’s errand trying to civilize Muslim barbarians.
Conflating this with defending against the Nazis is simply grotesque.
And notice his sneering at the idea that defeating Fascism brought freedom. His wanting to live under Nazi conquest does not mean that civilized people agree with him.
Westman says
I had wonderful Uncles that served in WWII, some wounded, one shot down in a bomber, yet all survived. They took pride in their support and love for their country and never spoke to us about the horrors they endured. They lived their lives with honor and fidelity to their spouses, raising accomplished children, and now are all gone and greatly missed.
My flag for they, their fellow soldiers, the many who gave their lives, and all the rest who have served to secure the nation, went up yesterday.
I cannot express enough gratitude for this life of freedom and prosperity that I have experienced – that I know was bought by the blood of patriots.
When cowardly elites and students only value citizenship like an entitlement, it is manifest ingratitude and moral bankruptcy. It is easy to give away that to which one ascribes little value until it is lost and the replacement price becomes due – or, worse, it is gone forever.
gravenimage says
Yes–my mother and aunt served in the British Army during WWII, and one of my husband’s uncles was a much-decorated war hero serving in the Pacific.
Fine post, Westman.
Westman says
Hi, Graven. Great hear of your serving relatives.
I happened to tune across NPR(The US university voice) today and they were remembering Veteran’s Day by running programs about the claimed fear and victimization of American & immigrant Muslims.
All America would need to lose the nation’s freedom is to allow the Left and Universities run America. They like what the EU is doing to Europe, want see the destruction of Israel, and would like all of that on a global scale – with themselves in the driver’s seat, of course. For them, the value of citizenship is like a throw-away bottle, “No deposit, no return”.
gravenimage says
Grotesque from NPR, Westman. Thanks for the head’s up.
And thank you for your kind words. My English aunt is still going strong at age 95.
Hugo Hackenbush says
When I gave the linked article below to my father who had been on an attack cargo ship getting ready for the invasion of the Japanese mainland he immediately spoke of how, with the dropping of the the atomic bombs and the end of the war, they all got down on their knees and kissed the deck giving thanks that would now live. He said that they were all waiting to die and now they had been saved. He’s 95 now and it took me years to understand fully what his generation had been through. When I see little professorial revisionist (insert appropriate plural epithet here) speak of the horrors that America “inflicted” upon Japan It makes me want to scream. This article makes a nice Christmas gift to those who want to understand the reality faced by us in WWII and the resolve it took to win. The contrast with today’s attitude towards the totalitarian forces facing the West today could not be greater.
https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2007-winter/american-victory-over-japan-1945/
Hugo Hackenbush says
And…Speaking of the West today, see also the following: https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2015/11/ten-steps-to-end-jihad-against-the-west/
This article minces no words and when combined with “Gifts From Heaven” creates a mixture guaranteed to produce cranial implosion in the Leftist Professorial Class.
Hugo Hackenbush says
And…Just in case one is dealing with a moron who can’t or woun’t read, there is always the popular culture created by those who lived through WWII:
Star Trek (original series), Season 1, Episode 23, “A Taste of Armageddon” : Synopsis from IMDB: On a mission to establish diplomatic relations at Star Cluster NGC321, Kirk and Spock beam down to planet Eminiar 7 to learn that its inhabitants have been at war with a neighboring planet for over 500 years. They can find no damage nor evidence of destruction but soon learn that their war is essentially a war game, where each planet attacks the other in a computer simulation with the tabulated victims voluntarily surrendering themselves for execution after the fact. When the Enterprise becomes a victim in the computer simulation and ordered destroyed, Kirk decides it’s time to show them exactly what war means.
gravenimage says
Yes–I am sick of revisionist history about WWII–everything from castigating Churchill and Roosevelt for “forcing” Hitler to declare war, to hand-wringing over the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Japan (usually made to sound as though this happened out of the blue for no reason), to minimizing or even denying the Holocaust.
I think it was Roosevelt who worried that when WWII left living memory–as is happening right now–that people would forget. But in many cases it is even worse than that, and we are seeing outright lies.
Often at the forefront of this is Muslims. Here is one example:
“UK: Muslim Labour candidate says teachers ‘brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/uk-labour-council-candidate-says-teachers-brainwashing-us-and-our-children-into-thinking-the-bad-guy-was-hitler
PRCS says
Can’t remember where I heard/read/saw it:
A Muslim/group/organization noted that Hitler hadn’t finished the job.
gravenimage says
Yes–I’ve seen this many times from Muslims, PRCS.
“Women Attack Jewish MOther in Paris: ‘Hitler Didn’t Finish the Job'”
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/African-women-attack-Jewish-mother-in-Paris-Hitler-didnt-finish-the-job-403528
Of course, these “women” were Muslims.
While Muslims generally hate and despise Infidels, they make an exception for Hitler, who is widely admired in the Muslim world.
mgoldberg says
Same to you Robert and to all. I hope all those articles from the miserable Stanford ‘student’s. and their cowardly administrators, of the dorms, all get to read printed out copies of all the false allegations against robert, and his replies. I think they define and defy their absurd stranglehood upon the freedom of speech, freedom to reason, the freedomto analyze and the hunger to get it out their, as it should at a ‘University’ of higher learningl
My word, these wars that had to, have to be fought have frequently been fought because their was no freedom left…. and thats what they secretly want, since they do not respect it, do not understand it, do not accept the responsibility to propagate such understandings.
mortimer says
Islam is a greater evil and greater threat to mankind than Nazism. The proof is the 270 million tears of jihad.
Islam has killed one person every three minutes since Mohammed began his attacks.
mgoldberg says
Agreed. The depth of the hatred within Islam, for all others, is always so easily displayed and under so many casually demonstrated situations. Over at pam gellers site, there is an article
on a UK candidate, a woman, who blase’ announces on a facebook page:
“In 2012, writing under a video titled ‘The Palestine you need to know’, she said: ‘It’s such a shame that the history teachers in our school never taught us this but they are the first to start brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler.’”
“And this genocidal Jew-hating savage is a Labour Party candidate.”
“This shows how compromised the left is, how completely sold out leftist leaders are to the jihad force. The key to this alliance is that both the left — in the UK, the Labour Party — and Islam hate Western civilization, and hate Jews who did so much to build it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Labour hates Britain, and the British history and tradition so much, it embraces destroyers such as Nasreen Khan and runs them for office.”
These are the ‘moderates’ in Islam.
t. says
I agree with both of you, mgodberg and mortimer!
What a beautiful piece written by Robert, above! A few days ago I found my self spontaneously praying for Robert, the soldier and veteran for the truth about Islam, given all this hoopla he’s facing regarding his appearance at Stanford, next Tuesday.
mortimer says
CIVILIANS should fight the same fight for freedom with words, petitions, talking to our neighbors and relatives about Islamic tyranny, contributing to Jihad Watch and other human rights organizations and doing everything in our power to convince people of the facts about Islamic misogyny, supremacism and amoral double ethics that will destroy the freedom and equality our military personnel fought for.
We must now fight this pernicious ideology as civilians so that our war heroes did not die in vain!
gravenimage says
Hear, hear! There are many ways to fight for freedom.
gravenimage says
On this Armistice Day, let us remember those who have sacrificed to ensure our freedom
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Hear, hear!
We also have to remember why we fight–not just what we are fighting against, but also what we are fighting *to defend*.
Matt says
Happy Armistice Day from the UK, Robert!
Many thanks for everything you’ve taught me over these last few years.
Matt
sidney penny says
“They continue to send their young soldiers into the Afghanistan meat grinder, imagining that they’re winning hearts and minds by forcing our soldiers to train their “allies” who, in appallingly increasing numbers, turn on them and murder them as soon as they have the opportunity.”
Robert, you put it so well.No more meat grinders for American soldiers.
And my god it is still happening!!
http://www.newsweek.com/3-us-soldiers-killed-afghan-commando-624038.
“Three American soldiers were killed and one wounded on Saturday when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan, according to three U.S. officials”
Lydia says
Very true and very moving. Thank you.
That is my argument also, they fought for these same ideals.
But these ideals are under attack all over.
We all need to take a stand and make sacrifices for these things if we expect to win.
We can’t just leave it to the armed forces. We must fight in every forum, for this is an intellectual battle ‘for your heart and mind,’ once they have you in their back pocket they can just push all the right buttons to control you. We see the mind control at work with the propaganda and indoctrination as we speak. Just look at the nazi uprising at Stanford!!! That is a perfect case in point. All they have to do is throw up one label and they have everyone hurdled right where they want them, all in an uproar against their very own human rights, all to their own demise.
WE must all battle this on every front we can at every opportunity that we can.
Robert is a hero for putting himself at personal risk for the general good; protection and knowledge. He has been making sacrifices as has Pamela. We all need to step up and do our part!
That was my pep talk for this time!
Thanks again!
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John S. Obeda says
We need not only the truth, but also pep talks and also to be reminded: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”
RichardL says
A heartfelt Thank you to all US veterans from a German.
Jayell says
Here’s an update on the Tesco saga that’s kind-of relevant here. My local large east London branch has a triangular flowerbed, about 10’x10’x10′ outside its main entrance that’s been transformed into Garden of Remembrance. They’ve put little plain wooden stakes about 9 inches high in the ground with religious symbols on them to represent the contribution of the different faiths in the last major world conflicts – crosses for the Christians, crescents for the Muslims and stars for our Jewish friends (plus just a few others that I can’t make out). Ignoring the few that I can’t recognise, I counted 23 crosses, 17 crescents and 9 stars. According to my rather dodgy maths, that would mean that the powers-that-be at Tesco’s (or whoever organised it) have concluded that contributions to what I presume is intended as a memorial to the world struggle against evil would work out as; approx. 46% Christian, 34% muslim and 18% Jewish (just counting the recognisable symbols).Would these proportions seem to be broadly accurate? If so, fine. If not, which groups have been down-graded and which have been up-graded?
Just one small point, however. At a first quick glance, the crescents stood out as very apparent, at least as much as the crosses. The stars became noticeable when you looked a bit closer. The reason for this became clear on closer inspection when it one could easily judge the crescent symbols stuck to the stakes were somewhat larger than the others (probably at least twice the size of the stars). Significant or just incidental?
gravenimage says
Jayell, thanks for that story. Of course, Tesco’s implications about Muslin contributions are a complete load of tripe.
gravenimage says
Muslim
Infidel says
MAD MUSLIM PROFESSOR ABANDONS WIFE OF 23 YRS UNDER THE NOTORIOUS TRIPLE TALAQ CLAUSE OF THE INDIAN MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW… Ps note that the Muslims are NEVER satisfied. In spite of creating a separate land for them in 1947, many Muslims remained back and those that remained back DO NOT ACCEPT THE COMMON INDIAN CIVIL CODE.. They have their own MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW.. that is threatening to partition India once again (I have predicted a second partition by the year 2047) .. their demands are insatiable and never ending…
Ps C
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/city/lucknow/amu-professor-give-triple-talaq-to-wife-via-whatsapp/videoshow/61615728.cms
Infidel says
Also, I want to know as to what the FEMINISTS of the FREE WORLD have got to say about this Muslim lady who has been abandoned by her husband…
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims can kick any woman to the curb, either by intoning the “Triple Talaq”, or even by “Honor Killing” her.
Lori says
Patrick Henry said, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Thank you Mr. Spencer for sounding the alarm and waking many up to the encroaching enslavement of the west.
TL says
How will American militarism and American military personnel prevent an enslavement that isn’t being imposed by a foreign military but BY PESTS WHO ARE PROTECTED AND SERVED BY THE MILITARY OF THE USA?
Naildriver says
It has indeed been the traitors, as racist blacks, venal colluders as greedy white billionaires, together with blind feminists and gays, and politically myopic leftists who’ve effected this current defenseless condition to the Islamic invasion.
It has actually taken a few decades for the devotees to Islam to fully realize that the defenses are down, and all they must do is take down the imposed colonial structures of nations and government and walk into the West. The reality even took Osama Ben Laden aback when he was told Islam was free to be practiced in the USA.
Islam should indeed be restrained in its practice in the USA; as with denial to clerics and mullahs to incite Muslims with the numerous passages in the Koran, that ask Muslims to break our laws and engage in violence, intimidation, and bigotry toward minorities, as Jews, non Muslims or gays.
Muslims in fact should themselves be denied participation in the government, voting, or holding office, denied teaching in universities and public schools, participation in the military. The Koran itself should be regarded as an enemy publication of hate and sedition to the US constitution, and denied publication and dispersal in the USA.
Naturally, the supreme court of the USA would be crucial in approving any such laws, and a miraculous transformation in the popular perceptions of Islam from the decades of propaganda.
As another poster pointed out, such defenses against this enemy, Islam, will take extraordinary actions from people or militias willing to sacrifice all — for our nation and mankind.
Politicianphobia says
Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave,– Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save.
JOSEPH says
For those that protest our brave men and women they should stop and reflect that because of the great sacrifices made, they have this right to protest.
THEN they should stop and THANK and praise the very men and women they so dishonor.
It is so easy to criticize someone for a job that they themselves refuse to do.
To all you protesters; STOP IT!!!! Think of what you are doing.
To all my service men and women; A very teary and heartfelt THANK YOU ALL!!
TL says
You need to take your own advice about thinking. Follow this link to a question that can help you do so:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/on-this-armistice-day-let-us-remember-those-who-have-sacrificed-to-ensure-our-freedom#comment-1772808
JOSEPH says
Read what I am saying very carefully.
I respect all that serve our country and I say that those that protest our service-people, they should stop and think about what they are doing.
These so called “free” thinkers (protesters) are taking the first step towards their own enslavement.
My family has a long history of serving this country and I NEVER will disrespect a service man or woman.
JOSEPH says
TL.. We are the protection against such people when we speak up and tell the people that they have freedoms because of great sacrifices that were and are made.
When was the last time you spoke up for our service people?
Mine? Last Friday.
TL says
Robert Spencer, the first paragraph of your post suggests a very different title:
On this Armistice Day, let us remember those who died
while acting on the pretext of ensuring our freedom
Notice the absence of hagiographic flummery about sacrifice, and please answer, if you dare to, the question which I posed to Lori and JOSEPH.
Rebecca says
I’m not Robert, but I have to agree that the first paragraph is a little odd. Before WWI, Lenin had the IWW (syndicalists ) in America sabotaging our war efforts before the war even started. This was because Lenin was protected by the Germans at that time. They were on the same side. Communists were already plotting to take over Russia and had infiltrated the West. We Westerners had plenty of reasons to have WWI. Communists switched sides at some point. But both Germany and Russian Communists were our enemies at that time. So, I’m not sure of the point in the first paragraph.
gravenimage says
What the appalling pro-Fascist TL is protesting here is that the United States military dared to oppose Hitler and the rest of the Axis.
Rebecca says
The writer of the article did not make it clear about WWI. WWI was fought for almost the exact reasons as WWII. But he stated it was “more peculiar, unnecessary, and pointless the most wars.” Now, since it was backed by Socialists like H.G. Wells, and it was called the “war to end all wars,” he could have a point, but it didn’t look like it in those days. The Germans and Russian Communists had been stirring the pot for years even here in America. The Communists wanted the Germans to have the war. This would help them defeat the czars which it did. The czars were our friends and they were trying to bring the Russians into the modern world.
Eric says
We must remember the sacrifice of those who have and are fighting for our freedom. One result of WWI was the end of the Ottoman Empire. This was a major defeat of Islam but many do not recognize it was such. My father was career military. He fought in WWII and Korea. He is gone now. As his son I will not knowingly or willingly submit to sharia in this country.
Eric Jones
Rebecca says
Yes, the end of the ottoman Empire. From time to time I read about how unfair Europe and America were to the Turks. Not so. We have allowed Leftists to get into our schools and they teach an anti-American story.