Smokey the Bear used to say forrest fires instead of wildfires.
Don't know why the change was made, possibly even Smokey is subject to the P.C. Police.
You think about someone throwing a cigarette out the window of a passing car, how simple and easy it would be for someone walking to just step on the butt to extinguish the flame.
How if there is no one around to save the day, that same small flame will grow into an incredibly destructive force and require vast resources and many times, loss of life to vanquish it.
The United States is the focal point for enormous ridicule and derision from most of the planet it seems.
Often referred as The World Police, meant not as a compliment for sure.
Starting with the Korean War, then Vietnam, the Israeli/Islamic strife to the current run of Islamic aggression against its neighbors and human beings from other cultures.
The leftists in this country blame their own nation, saying we have a bloodlust, we are warmongers, Dick Cheney wants Halliburton to make him more money or President Bush wants more oil money.
"No blood for oil" is the mantra of the Idiocrats.
Don't bother to Google that word, I just made it up.
Defined in your volume of the Venster dictionary 2015 edition as follows:
Idiocrat derivative of idiot. "One who ignores fact or reason and will never let logic, truth or common sense get in the way of attacking someone who uses facts, reason, logic, truth and common sense while protecting liberty, democracy, capitalism, freedom, and free thought."
The thing the detractors of the defensive posture taken by the U.S. forget is the terrible price the has been paid in the past when someone walked by a smoldering cigarette and just stepped over it. It was easier to just ignore the small ember. Surely it will go out on its own. If not then someone else will surely stomp out the glowing flame.
Turns out everybody just kept stepping over it, then it got bigger and they walked around it. It went from ominous threat to a raging inferno. The time for stomping the burning ember passed and by the time we joined in the fight Hitler was dominating on three fronts.
We paid a terrible price for the neglect of others.
The world except for the Axis Powers weren't bitching back then about our involvement in the affairs of others.
World War I and World War II polarized our foreign policy, by the 1950's the Third Reich was dead but Communism went from carcinoma to an aggressive malignant tumor.
Our involvement in Korea then in Vietnam began to wear on people and they gradually forgot about the importance of stepping on small embers.
Our vigilance turned into complacency until that day I took my mother to the airport on 9/11.
We snapped out of our coma that day and soon we started kicking the living shit out of these Disciples from hell.
But when politicians prosecute wars and seek to win the hearts and minds of a people that posses neither, you end of with a war of attrition.
Our patience for the "a" word is variable.
It doesn't help when the left side of the nation wants the security they enjoy, they also want to be a dead weight on the process required to accomplish it.
Comes now ISIS, or ISIL, or whatever you chose to call this growing network of evil baby raping murderers.
Obamas fumbling Mideast policies created this vacuum and nature as well as evil abhors a vacuum.
ISIS is filling it with increasing numbers of evil Islamic lunatics who worship a man they call a Prophet. I have other names for a murderer and child molester. I guess there is two of them to start with.
The horrific thing and the difference in the threat posed by ISIS and Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire or even the dead Soviet Union is the latter three understood and respected the doctrine of M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction), (I know, M.A.D wasn't in vogue during WW II).
The radical Islamics not only do not fear mutual destruction, they embrace it.
They believe it is their destiny to bring about what the Christian world calls The Apocalypse.
They are doing the bidding of the Anti-Christ.
Soon thanks to Russia, China, North Korea and Iran the Nuclear Genie will be out of the bottle. Once these Islamic lunatics get their hands on a nuke it will only be a matter of time before they use it. If Pakistan falls to the radical elements in that country the radicals will instantly have their fingers on the button.
It's inevitable that either one or both of these things will happen in our lifetime unless you plan on checking out in the next few years.
Am I trying to sound ominous? Not really, I just lose my patience when the sky is falling loons bend science and distort evidence trying to redistribute Americas wealth making fanciful man-made C.O. Global Warming claims when Global Warming will more likely happen with the push of a button.
There are fires all over the globe now ranging from smoldering embers to growing flames. The rest of the planet is either walking around these fires or critiquing the ones trying to put them out.
It's almost too late now.
Proofing this post made me almost hit the delete button. I wrote it with good intentions but it came off as overblown and mellow dramatic.
Then yesterday I read this article.
Then last night I was in some unknown city with my daughter I looked off in the distance and saw a large nuclear explosion, I grabbed my daughter we ducked and covered behind a large tree and waited for the shockwave.
It hit and all around us buildings were leveled but the tree and me and Nicole were spared.
Then we started gathering supplies and I was trying to figure out how we could get to my fishing shack at the lake.
Then I woke up back here in Fort Myers and thought what the hell, I'm posting this load of digital crap!
3 comments:
You forgot to say, The End.
...And Ed's comment made the old "Doors" song play in my head.
Now I have Appocolypse Now movie replaying in my head!
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