tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post4956717861963123253..comments2024-03-28T07:24:33.209-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: What Will It Take To Start A Domestic Conflict?Aesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-67571572984197941172018-07-23T23:45:46.127-07:002018-07-23T23:45:46.127-07:00@Brent
The problem with that clever plan is that ...@Brent<br /><br />The problem with that clever plan is that in about a week, they have no leaders left at all, because we're better marksmen. In a far more gentlemanly time, even the Nazis never considered trying that, and while the Brits did manage to snuff out Heydrick, it was essentially a one-off, against the alternative in his case of nothing to lose, and ultimately while that helped a small bit in Bohemia and Moravia, it just put Herr Eichmann in charge of overseeing the Final Solution. No one wants to be fighting a leaderless mob, ultimately. We could have nuked Tokyo back in the day, but then who would remain to sign the instruments of surrender?<br /><br />@T-Rav<br />No one sane on our side (and everyone isn't, sadly) <i>wants</i> armed open conflict, least of all this author. But ultimately, that's a bilateral deal, and the Left isn't even that sane. They don't just want it and fantasize about it frequently and publicly, they brag and gloat about unleashing it. Our side understands that as a precursor to it actually breaking out, because we, unlike they, understand human nature and the behavior of flawed human beings. They think they'll open the ball and "that will show us". Look at how they've thought everything they've done since Nov 9, 2016 - the bonafide World's Greatest Succession Of Failure Strategies, would "show us" that they were right, and we were all wrong, and Trump would miraculously not be POTUS anymore. This level of magical thinking, coupled with their actual adult abilities, is the equivalent of handing live hand grenades to toddlers. Both comedy and pathos will inevitably ensue. <br /><br />As one of my drill instructors cautioned my group: "<i>I see a baby, I'ma throw a grenade at the baby. If da baby blow up twice, da baby was booby-trapped.</i>"<br />It was hilarious, and totally contrary to the letter and spirit of Marquis of Queensbury concept of "The Laws Of Land Warfare" amidst a rather grim period of basic training, but the lesson that sometimes even babies can be lethal, and what happens after that is just tough nails, was nonetheless one of the grimmest reality impressed upon us about the truth of war: you get the conflict you get, not the one you imagine, and then you do what has to be done to survive and win it.<br /><br />Our would-be and now disdained and mostly discarded "leadership" of milquetoasts is the reason the Left is such a problem in the first place, and also the reason Trump is the president now. Had they manfully opposed utter nonsense when it was far cheaper and easier to do so, they would not now find themselves in the role of political appendix, and about to be removed like a wayward and infected organ.<br /><br />And when conflict, near inevitably, breaks out, they will be overtaken by events, overruled, the lucky ones simply voted out, the hangers-on even bum-rushed and whacked over the head, and it'll be nothing but wartime <i>consiglieres</i> after that until happier times.<br /><br />Observe the derangement and fall of former icons like George Will <i>et al</i> for how that works out in reality. Once a voice of deep-running reason, now an aging and senile embarrassment to everything he once stood for, a caricature in utter foolishness and petulance, and a short step from non-existence. Only the leftards propping him up as a shill gives him even a soapbox at the present time, and he's considered a sad reminder of no one as much as Neville Chamberlain, who fails to understand that it's 1940, and he was as wrong as wrong could be, not about everything, but only everything about the most important thing.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-15383085327261767762018-07-23T23:01:29.314-07:002018-07-23T23:01:29.314-07:00"The fact that so many of our "conservat..."The fact that so many of our "conservative" leaders are desperate to kowtow to Schumer Pelosi et al. at the first opportunity doesn't help."<br /><br />You don't think some judicious culling of those sheep would stiffen the spines of the remaining GOPe when things get sporty? History says this will happen as a normal course of events. It becomes a case of playing to win, or you're not playing.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-20539418031681519052018-07-23T18:41:23.727-07:002018-07-23T18:41:23.727-07:00I think I've said something like this before, ...I think I've said something like this before, but I've never been that sanguine about Americans finally taking up arms against the Left. Maybe that's because I haven't grown up in military/gun owner circles and don't fully understand the readiness of those who have. But for the short term at least, I think the networking and the will for an extended conflict, like what Matt Bracken and others have portrayed, is lacking. The fact that so many of our "conservative" leaders are desperate to kowtow to Schumer Pelosi et al. at the first opportunity doesn't help.<br /><br />That's just my interpretation of what I see around me, though. I don't have all the data or the best vantage point, so I could very easily be wrong.T-Ravhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861218035729479354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-84591079204242947342018-07-23T18:20:41.044-07:002018-07-23T18:20:41.044-07:00Another important point is that each side will wag...Another important point is that each side will wage a war of assassination of the other side's leaders. That's how you fight an asymmetrical internal get together.Brentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-65446800976207899742018-07-23T17:28:47.961-07:002018-07-23T17:28:47.961-07:00The radical left doesn’t seem to have any sense ab...The radical left doesn’t seem to have any sense about how dangerous the activities they are engaging in can be when you push the wrong person too far. Or maybe they do and believe that the unpleasantness won’t touch them. They are fools.J Jnoreply@blogger.com