Michael Scheuer | Non-Intervention

I received the below note from some NPR journalist last night; he is apparently cooperating with Britain’s anti-Trump Independent. You will note the NPR journalist’s intense anti-Trump prejudice and how he uses the idea that the “deep state” must be honored and protected for what it is doing to President Trump and the republic. My response follows the journalist’s note.

Also, as you read the note, please remember that your tax dollars are paying for this guy’s salary and the thoroughly anti-American NPR network, which appears to be cooperating with foreigners to try to oust the president.

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From: Bobby Allyn <outbound@mygovcost.org>
To: Michael Scheuer <scheuermf@aol.com>
Cc: aluther <aluther@independent.org>; dtheroux <dtheroux@independent.org>; ptheroux <ptheroux@independent.org>; rade <rade@independent.org>
Sent: Sat, Nov 2, 2019 6:44 pm
Subject: WEBFORM: NPR Calling

Hi Michael,

Bobby Allyn here, reporter with National Public Radio in Washington. I’m working on a story about efforts of right-wing trolls to out “deep state operatives” who are really just career civil servants and career foreign service officers. It’s relevant now with conservative media outlets trying to out the Trump whistleblower. I’m not interested in outing any names, but instead I’m trying to examine the larger picture of how aggressive online smear campaigns fueled by right-wing media (and even some members of Congress) impact civil servants, who already have a difficult job to do. I’m looking at how conspiracy theories that implicate current and former White House officials can cause really harm, not to mention endless threats, to people who have served the country honorably in highly-placed positions. I’d like to chat with you about the importance of keeping whistleblower identifies anonymous, and how outing a whistleblower could not only put that individual in danger, but could discourage others from speaking up.

I’m wondering if you would be willing to speak with me about this? I have until Monday evening to wrap up this story. Please let me know if you have a few minutes.

Thanks and best,

Bobby

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You got the wrong number asking me. The deep-state shitbirds are real, fascist, going down and none of your troll or conspiracy nonsense can stop what is going to happen. This whole business will not be over until Obama, his gang, and the mainstream media are indicted, tried, convicted, and hung. That will be, indeed, the happiest of days, hopefully televised. Check my blog site if you care to understand what is going on: non-intervention2.com

Mike Scheuer

After today’s vote in Congress to begin the process of impeaching President Trump, the citizenry should insist that the process must stop for a week or forever how long it takes to rid the Congress and Senate of every member and staffer who holds a passport other than that of the United States.

Commonsense and settled law cannot be imagined to sanction the impeachment of the President of the United States by men and women who think so little of their country to have pledged allegiance to another country. No person can serve two different masters, as the adage warns, and certainly no person who has documented his loyalty to another country can be allowed to decide on the future of a chief magistrate who was legitimately elected by the American people.

The easiest way to begin the process of culling of these traitors is to identify and then permanently remove any congressman, senator, or congressional staffer that holds an Israeli passport. The reality that anyone so identified is a traitor is completely established by his or her deliberately pledging allegiance to Israel; such a pledge is a requirement for getting a passport from any government on earth. My own hunch is that when this joyful harvest of traitors is completed, Americans will see that there are very few congressman and senators who have the legitimate right to sit in judgment of the president. The Congress as a whole, on this issue, seems to be a hive of traitors.

Once accomplished, Americans must demand that the same culling of those U.S. citizens who have pledged allegiance to Israel be rapidly and thoroughly conducted in every agency of the executive branch – including the White House, the Pentagon and all military components, the State Department, the CIA, the FBI, etc. – and then in all levels of the judicial branch, including the Supreme Court.

After these initial harvests are completed, the three branches of the national government must be re-culled for people holding any kind of second passport, be it from Ireland, Pakistan, Britain, China, South Africa, Panama, or any other country on the planet.

After all, only loyal Americans – loyalty as documented by their holding a U.S. passport and no other – should deal with American problems and decide the nation’s domestic and foreign policies. Ridding the national government of dual-passport holders will eliminate a longstanding and republic-killing fifth-column, while concurrently powering the greater growth and durability of the patriotic America First movement.

And to ensure that this disloyal scourge of dual-passported individuals does not return, the beginning of wisdom is to mandate that all political candidates for office in the national government be made to acknowledge under oath they do not hold another nation’s passport. Such a mandated, under-oath acknowledgement must also be made by all Americans seeking employment in the federal civil service and the U.S. military and intelligence services.

At times, I wonder if any Democrat can see what is really going on. Or why what is going on is making sure that there will be (a) trials, convictions, and executions of leading Democrats for treason, espionage, corruption, and murder, or (b) martial law, or (c) civil war. One or more of these three possibilities must occur before social cohesiveness and common-feeling can begin to be restored among the nation’s citizens. Recent events suggest confrontation is near.

–Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Schiff went to Jordan to enlist the assistance of King Abdullah in both their Constitution-defying war against President Trump, and their effort to make sure that American kids keep getting killed in unnecessary interventionist wars. One also wonders if Pelosi and Schiff were in Jordan to try and warn Baghdadi. With the large number of traitors that Obama left behind across the government, it is a mistake to think there was no leak, or at least a hint, of something being up regarding Baghdadi, though that Democratic leak, in this case, did not get U.S. military personal killed. It also did not save the putrid life of the longtime terrorist who was a friend of Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Hillary Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer, McCain, Graham, Kerry, and an as yet unknown number of treacherous general officers.

–Pelsoi, Schumer, and many other Democrats, journalists, former-CIA officers turned shitbirds, and movie stars are crying crocodile tears because IS leader Baghdadi was killed by U.S. Special Forces, as well as because President Trump described their sparkling operation and the dog Baghdadi’s death in words that are familiar and welcome to any non-elite American – including all non-general-officer military personnel – and which describe their feelings perfectly. Only the European-wannabe, bipartisan U.S. governing elite could be offended by Trump’s words. Indeed, those words may be the best Americans have heard from any recent president about the national government’s intent to eradicate genuine threats to the United States – which the lack of democracy, freedom, secularism, or women’s rights abroad are not – since U.S. Admiral Halsey correctly and directly advised that the way to win the Pacific War was to “kill Japs, kill Japs, and kill more Japs.”

–Finally, the disgraceful conduct of the full-house at Nationals Stadium in booing and mocking the president who had just directed the U.S. military to kill a deadly enemy of the republic, and then honored Major League Baseball by attending a World Series game, will live forever in the memories of anti-Democrat Americans. The event will be recalled by Americans not only as an attack on President Trump and his family, but also as an attack on them, their families, their republic, and – in an increasingly affectionate way – their president. It also will convince the few Americans who have resisted the fact that Washington, D.C. really is the fetid, stinking, and disease-and-corruption spreading asshole of the United States.

So, a hard future awaits these enemies of the republic, and whether it be by trials and hangings, martial law, of civil war, fierce retribution will be delivered to the Democratic Party and its apparatchiks for the pain, poverty, and savage social and tax policies they have for decades deliberately inflicted on non-elite Americans, most especially those in the Midwest, the South, and all along the southern border.

After Franklin Roosevelt and his British-manipulated administration had artfully driven Japan to begin war against America in December 1941, he made a speech asking for a declaration of war that rightfully stands as one of the best made by any American. A portion of that speech will suffice for warning the Democrats about the price they are going to pay for so long abusing working and middle-class Americans. It must be said that between most Americans and the Democrats – as FDR said in December 1941 after Japan’s attack —

“Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces — with the unbounding determination of our people — we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God.” (1)

While carrying no brief for the deceitful, war-wanting Roosevelt, his words ring as true today as they did in 1941. Let us work to ensure the definitive end result against Japan that was promised and accomplished by Roosevelt will be again applied against the lethal social, economic, and atheist scourge that is today’s Democratic Party.

-Endnote:

–1.) For FDR’s full speech, see, https://www.loc.gov/resource/afc1986022.afc1986022_ms2201/?st=text

–1.) U.S. Special Forces killed Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last night in what, from all reports, was a stunningly professional operation. Some U.S. government officials are saying that the plan was to capture al-Baghdadi alive; praise God that part of the plan failed utterly. This event winds up all the United States needs to do in the region. Russian ground and air forces and unleashed U.S. air power demolished IS’s geographical caliphate and severely culled IS manpower. With Al-Baghdadi’s death, there is no reason to remain in Syria and Iraq. (NB: Any sane reason for staying in Afghanistan has long been missing). President’s Trump explicit message to the region’s countries – amounting to, “So long, over to you” – is in line with the republic’s most pressing national interests, and hopefully signals Trump’s intent to quickly end America’s role in the remaining interventionist wars; bring all U.S. forces home; and thereby give U.S. generals a chance to begin to conceive a doctrine that includes the use of main force so that future war-fighting eras do not have to be measured in decades.

–2.) While my family and I were waiting to hear President Trump speak this morning, the British radio network LCB called me asked that I do an interview about the event. Just as we were about to begin the interview, the interviewer pulled away to let his audience – and me – listen to the President’s announcement. I listened for a bout 90 seconds or two minutes and walked out into the kitchen to see what my family thought about what the President was saying. When I came into the kitchen, there was NBC’s Chuck Todd interviewing some former intelligence- community dirt-bag discussing why it is still a mistake for the U.S. military to depart from Syria. In other words, LBC’s listeners in Britain were listening to the President speak, while NBC, Todd, and the guest were trying to get a last dig into Trump before letting American viewers hear what the president had to say. After Mr. Trump’s announcement, I did the interview, but I bet most NBC-watchers do not know that Todd and his network delayed their access to the president’s talk for partisan political reasons.

–3.) For what it’s worth, during the LCB interview, I reminded those Brits who were listening that all of the American and Western blood and treasure that has been spilled and spent in the Middle East since May, 1998, is the direct result of either the abject cowardice, or a willingness to accept payoffs from Arabs, of Bill Clinton, George Tenet, Richard Clarke, John Brennan, and a host of other Democratic apparatchiks in the White House, the Pentagon, and the federal bureaucracy, all of whom refused to try and kill Osama bin Laden. I told the interviewer that between May, 1998, and June, 1999, Clinton and his gang of misfits were presented with ten chances to try and kill bin Laden, but refused to attempt even one of them. At the time, Brennan was stationed on the Arab peninsula and refused to request the data we needed from the Saudis; he wrote in a cable that our requests upset them. Then, on the eve of an attempt to capture bin Laden – a plan reviewed and approved by the U.S. Special Forces command, which had been forbidden by the Joint Chiefs to actively assist the plan – Brennan used his back-channel to Tenet and Clinton’s White House and told them he could arrange a meeting with the Saudi king, and that the king and his colleagues would arrange the turnover or apprehension of bin Laden. Clinton, et. al, quickly agreed, the meeting was held, and the Saudis thereafter did nothing to get bin Laden. Clinton, perhaps drunk, confirmed many of these facts in a videotaped meeting with businessmen in Australia on 10 September 2011. In that talk, he told the audience that he absolutely had multiple chances to kill bin Laden, but if civilians got killed in the process, he believed that he would not be any better than bin Laden. (NB: I would like to watch Clinton tell that to the kin of every U.S. military person or civilian killed by Islamists since May 1998, and see if he gets out alive. For the tape of Clinton a day before 9/11, see, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z-BTgjVmEo),

The fact that Clinton and his gang are haunted by their deliberate failure can be seen weekly in a television program called Looming Tower, which is written by the novelist and Democratic shill Lawrence Wright. The series is called a docudrama and has no contact points with reality. The script makes the Clinton administration and the FBI the heroes of the tale; myself and all the CIA officers who risked their lives to give Clinton his chances are, of course, the bad guys. In July, 2017, I wrote a letter to the series’ producer, Legendary Television, after learning what this farcical program was to be about, saying that their story was more or less a total lie. I got a snot-nosed letter back from a fool named Jennifer Grazier at Legendary that said something like “a docudrama is free to be flexible with the truth of a story to make it attractive to the audience.” Well she was surely correct as Wright’s series savages the truth to hide the responsibility of Clinton, Tenet, Brennan, and many others in that administration for the carnage and expense that has befallen Americans and the people of the region since May, 1998.

A final note. When I reminded the LBC interviewer of the foregoing facts, he asked if I was telling him that Clinton had a chance to stop 20 years of war. I said yes, I was there, and I would swear what I said was true on a stack of bibles while under oath.

Enough, once again, is enough. The raging hysteria of the opposition to President Trump’s decision to leave Syria comes not only from the AIPAC-bribed Congress, but from numerous retired generals and their former sycophants among retired lieutenant-colonels and colonels. All of this nonsense rhetoric, along with their pathetic war-fighting performance since the 9/11 attacks, shows why all the U.S. generals charged with defeating al-Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State (IS) ought to be required to have an “L” — for loser — tattooed across their foreheads.

AQ, IS, and other Islamist insurgent groups remain a threat because America’s generals are failures and moral cowards. They did not defeat the enemy, and they have led their men and women into combat in wars that they knew the president did not intend to win. Not a single one of these multi-starred cretins resigned to tell the American people about the lethal con game that was being played on them and the lives of their soldier-children. They preferred to remain silent; take their pay, housing, and other benefits; and patiently wait until they can retire and go directly to the cash-awash world of corporate directorships in the arms-making industry.

The American people have given these generals enormous amounts of tax money and great numbers of talented young people for their use in annihilating the republic’s enemies. That, after all, is the only goal of any war; if it is not, no war should be fought. U.S. generals dabble with war and get what their efforts richly merit; namely, failure, defeat, and humiliation.  Given thoroughbreds by the citizenry, the generals have used them as plow horses, driving them ever deeper into the bloody mire and leaving them stuck there for decades at a time, while they pursued the idiocy of “small foot-print strategies” and swore undying allegiance to the moronic idea that wars can be won with special forces and air power, rather than main force.

The generals’ non-leadership and callous attitude toward their troops has produced precisely the disaster that General Douglas MacArthur saw coming during the Korean War, especially the doctrine of “limited warfare” that was being applied in that conflict. “[T]here are only three ways [to wage war],” MacArthur told a congressional committee,

“Either pursue it to victory; to surrender to the enemy and end it on his terms; or what I think is the worst of all choices – to go on indefinitely and indefinitely, neither win or lose, in that stalemate; because what we are doing is sacrificing thousands of men while we are doing it.” [1]

MacArthur somehow saw the exact nature of post-Korean War, American war-making, but he probably would not have believed that his successors as senior U.S. general officers invariably would follow what he called the “worst of all choices”. In so doing, America’s postwar general officers have not won a single war, and, in the case of Afghanistan, they have, in reality, been defeated by a vastly inferior enemy and have allowed thousands of U.S. troops to die or be maimed during two decades of ass-backward war-making that have allowed the ever-patient Islamists fighters to prevail.

In addition, these brain-dead generals – with the approval of presidents and Congresses that share their risk aversion and unconcern for U.S. interests – have been delighted to delegate the responsibility of defeating America’s enemies to third parties, including Kurds, Afghans, Pakistanis, and any other Third Worlder who comes along with an AK-47 in one hand; his other hand poised to dip into Uncle Sam’s pocket; and an ability to say “I want democracy” in broken English. The generals and politicians always label these mercenaries as “allies” and lavish them with arms and taxpayer cash, even though they share almost no common ground with the United States; are fighting –as they should — for their own and their country, clan, or tribal interests, not ours; and will turn and kill U.S. military personnel as the whim moves them.

If there is a potent enemy of the republic’s survival active in the field, presidents, Congresses, and generals must man-up and act as adults who are willing to do America’s dirty work and utterly destroy that enemy root and branch. They must never be allowed to delegate that job to a motley array of usually anti-U.S. foreigners who have never, in the last half-century, succeeded in doing the job for which they were paid.

The time has come for a decisive thinning of a general-officer corps that is the antithesis of praiseworthy, even in the simplest of things. Polybius, the great historian who authored the Rise of the Roman Empire, wrote that “it is the duty of the commander to know when he is beaten, no less than when he is victorious.” [1] Even this task is beyond our generals, who can only speak of “a light at the end of the tunnel”, or that there is “no military solution to this war”, or that “more troops and money are the road to victory”, or “this is a multi-generational war, so be patient”. Such phrases are meant only to obfuscate their continual failure: their studying-in-the-Ivy-League-produced effeminacy: and their resolute willingness to trade the lives and limbs of our soldier-children for a defeat they recognize but will not speak of. In the 17^th and 18^th centuries the rank-and-file of European and American armies were often assessed to be “the scum of the earth.” Currently, when contrasting American generals and their troops, that five-word assessment remains correct, but now applies to most of the general-officer corps.

The best way to understand what war requires is to recall what you saw and experienced in the schoolyard as a kid. That environment taught all who paid attention that when you are attacked you must respond in a way that spoke of fearlessness and reciprocal ill-intent. The schoolyard taught that only an immediate, fierce response both ended a confrontation and its potential for continuation.

War is the same in principle, but is much more deadly. War requires a readiness to wipe out the attacker and his war-making assets and supporters. But, just as in the schoolyard, if you are attacked and respond in a milquetoast manner – as did the U.S. government and its military in Afghanistan – the enemy, especially if he is weaker than the entity he attacked, will conclude that you are not serious and can be beaten.

In a book of rare incisiveness, Honor. A History, James Bowman makes the foregoing point about war brilliantly.

[T]he international order throughout human history has been founded on the playground hierarchy writ large. Dominant nations and their leaders are expected to give demonstrations of their dominance so as to avoid the necessity of having to establish it by fighting. When such demonstrations are ambiguous or unconvincing, fighting and all that it implies of heartbreak and misery ensues. It may not be a very good system of maintaining international order, but it is the only one we have got. And, I think interestingly, the only won we have ever had. (3)

Obviously, U.S. general officers have no conception of what Mr. Bowman is talking about in the foregoing comment. Americans are certainly lucky, however, that General Mattis and the Pentagon grumbled publicly and dragged their feet when President Trump asked them to help close the southern border. Their public slow-rolling of the President during a clear national emergency allowed the citizenry to learn that neither the lives of U.S. citizens nor those of U.S. troops matter much to the republic’s current crop of general officers.

–Endnotes:

–1.) Polybius. The Rise of the Roman Empire. New York: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 108.

–2.) General MacArthur is quoted in James Bowman. Honor. A History. New York: Encounter Books, 2006, p. 196

–3.) Ibid., p. 321

The hysterical bipartisan and media opposition to President Trump’s correct decision to withdraw less than 30 U.S. troops from northern Syria is an important learning opportunity not to be missed. What was the job that Obama’s administration and pliant U.S. general officers assigned to those troops? Well, they were there as what was called during the Cold War a “tripwire”. This is an obfuscating way of saying “they were there to die.” Those troops were there because both parties wanted a bigger war in the region, but they knew Americans wanted no part of such a thing.

How to turn that situation around? Simple, by basing a number of sacrificial U.S. service personnel in the middle of a war zone. Sooner or later, of course, such a small force’s number will come up, and some of the troops will die and or be wounded. With American blood spilled, the governing elite would exploit the citizenry’s deep patriotism and desire for retribution and launch the United States into another unnecessary and wasteful war. The elite’s best known con on the American people would have worked again.

Now the chance of the U.S. elite using this con to turn affairs in northern Syria into a large U.S.-led war has dissipated. President Trump rolled up the tripwire and brought it home, and the fighting in the area belongs to those who either live there or want to be there. Now is the time for Americans to make the governing elite abide by their own word by asking a few questions. Following are four that need to be answered in a manner that fully meets U.S. national security interests:

–Q: Who is fighting in northern Syria now?

–A: Syria, Russia, Turkey, and Syrian and Turkish Kurds.

–Q: What commonality can be found among these combatant entities?

–A: The U.S. government and military, the bipartisan governing elite, and the media have for decades identified four of them as enemies of the republic; Russia and Syria as nation-state enemies, and the Syrian and Turkish Kurds as terrorist enemies. They also identify Turkey as an enemy whenever it suits their political convenience.

–Q: Does that mean that four full-time and one part-time U.S. enemy are fighting and killing each other in a remote and landlocked region almost 6,000 miles from Washington D.C.?

–A: That is correct

–Q: Should Americans care about what goes on in the war there, or even about who wins?

–A: Only those who are more insane than the average Democrat presidential candidate.

A final word for Americans examining the situation along The Turkey-Syria border. The U.S. governing elite is claiming that the Islamic State (IS) fighters imprisoned in the region will be released by the Syrian Kurds, and that is true enough. But so what? U.S. and Russian air assets and Syrian and Russian ground forces destroyed the physical ISIS Caliphate, which was IS’s most important attraction for much of the Muslim world’s militant Islamist population. The released fighters will have the choice of going home, fighting with the largely Sunni Kurds against three IS enemies – Turkey, Syria, and Russia – or trying to move into Iraq, Afghanistan, or Yemen. U.S. forces are likely to be totally withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan before long, and so – for the United States – whatever those fighters decide to do will be no more than a temporary annoyance. If the released IS fighters decide to try to rebuild the caliphate where it once stood, it will be up to the Europeans, Turkey, Syria, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other Gulf tyrannies to defeat them.

No doubt the gang of U.S. war-mongers will shrilly claim that the released IS fighters will come to the United States and fight us here. This is a truly silly claim. IS has no navy or shipping, and floating across the Atlantic with their ordnance on inner tubes is problematic. In addition, President Trump and Secretary Pompeo appear to be eradicating the pro-Islamist rot from the State Department’s staff and so visas for terrorists – like those given to the San Bernardino shooters – will no longer be issued. Next, the construction of the southern border wall is progressing and will be completed before too much longer. That wall is today – as it was on 12 September 2001 – the single most important and effective U.S. anti-Islamist defense measure.

Finally, when all U.S. combat forces are out of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the importance of the American target to ISIS and other Islamist insurgent groups will drop markedly. After all, they hate Americans today – as they did on 12 September 2001 – not for who we are or how we live and think in North America, but because they believe – with some reason – that the U.S. government has long tried to destroy their religion, culture, traditions, mores, and history and has sent its military forces to protect Israel and tyrannical Muslim governments, as well as to occupy Muslim territory. Getting out of the region may not make the Islamist heart grow fonder of the United States, but it surely will refocus the Islamist eye on the remaining host of enemies they must confront and defeat after we are gone.

As ridiculous as current politics seem, there is still, even for an elderly fellow like me, a large amount that can be learned by listening to what now is being said and then comparing it against personal experience. I have just completed such a comparison.

First, a decade and more ago, before I was banished by the American media for opposing Israel’s dominance of U.S. policy in the Muslim world, I frequently appeared on Neil Cavuto’s program on FOX News. Mr. Cavuto always struck me as a most thoughtful and fair-minded individual, perhaps more so than any other television interviewer I was dealing with at the time, with the exception of Lou Dobbs, also of FOX.

As it nears three full-years since President Trump was elected, it has struck me strongly that I made an erroneous assessment of Mr. Cavuto, either because he is a master of deceit or because I was stupid. The latter always is a possibility.

Today, however, I lean toward believing Mr. Cavuto is a deceitful person. For the past three years, Mr. Cavuto – now hosting important programs on both FOX News and FOX Business – has used every opportunity to overtly or implicitly criticize and undermine Mr. Trump. I catch parts of both programs each day in the car and Mr. Cavuto’s snide attacks on the president, his policies, and his accomplishments are unrelenting. Indeed, there are many programs on which Mr. Cavuto is joined by a loud-mouthed, but more frank Trump-hater named Charlie Gasparino so they can do some team-bashing of Trump. Gasparino is always praised as an “elite” business journalist, and he may well be. That said, he strikes me as being better described as an arrogant worm who cannot keep his mouth shut.

What really hit a nerve with me about Mr. Cavuto’s deceitfulness is that he currently is orchestrating a broad advertising campaign on FOX Business in which he and many of the other FOX Business anchors and reporters are shown declaring their sincere dedication to making sure that that the network’s viewers will have the best information so they can realize the “American dream”, at least in the economic realm.

I would like to believe that this is the goal of all the speakers –  and I am sure of Dobbs, Varney, Maria Bartiromo, and Payne on that score – but for Mr. Cavuto and his side-kick Gasparino to claim that they share that goal is absurd. For three years, this pair have done nothing but attack, ridicule, and generally deprecate the man whose administration has resuscitated the republic’s economy from its near-death status, a development that also has caused many Americans to again think that they and their kids may have a crack at achieving that American dream.

But if Mr. Cavuto and FOX Business really do want to help everyday Americans advance economically, why are Mr. Cavuto and the thug-like Gasparino so eager to deliver the citizenry to one or another of the demented, deviant, and/or criminal Democratic presidential candidates, each of whom is pledged to destroy the economic recovery now underway, to raise taxes on middle-and-lower class Americans, to disarm Americans, to kill unborn and just-born Americans, and to make dead letters for Americans of their Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

That, it seems to me, is a question in need of asking. It also is one that certainly demands an answer framed in that quaint, old adage “truth in advertising”.

So, President Trump again makes good on a campaign pledge and gets more U.S. military personnel out of harm’s way. Naturally, the usual culprits are whining and crying tears of blood for our “Kurd allies”. Senators McConnell and Graham, and treacherous McCain’s ghost are leading the attack on Trump, sounding as if the president has done the wrong thing. No doubt Bill Crystal, Max Boot, and all of the retired, never-won a-war general officers on retainer as war-mongers with the media networks will join the chorus of abuse, which will be amplified by other Neocons, Israel-Firsters, and as soon as the latter can deliver 535 emergency cash bribes, almost all of the U.S. Congress. We have heard and will always hear this kind of war-mongering in disguise as patriotism and loyalty-to-allies whenever the president shuts down an unnecessary and ultimately losing interventionist war.  Let the opposing bastards wail long and loud; hopefully, each will pick up a cat-o’-nine-tails and scourge themselves as the whine and weep. Trump did what was right for the only nation that matters, and that’s the United States.

Trump earlier unleashed U.S. air assets and Special Forces on the Islamic State and – with the indispensable assistance of the scorched-earth practices of Putin and Assad – took back all of the territory IS controlled. With that success, all U.S. military personnel should have been immediately brought home from Syria and Iraq. The Islamic State organization is far from dead but it has no Caliphate, it has suffered high casualties, and it is dispersed across the region. Its future is now in the hands of Syria, Russia, Iraq, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf tyrannies, and Iran. At some point, all of those countries will again have to fight a regrouped IS. We will see how they fare, perhaps wish them well, but the morass they are falling into is now all theirs. America has come to its senses and its soldier-children are coming home. About time.

Trump also has correctly noted that if the Europeans have any worries about America’s departure from a war in which it has no genuine interest – the Europeans, like Democrats, will not recognize commonsense at work — they ought to join together and ride to the rescue of one or another of the war’s remaining participants.  And, of course, if the war in the region is really about democracy, the only democracy in the Middle East doubtless will be eager ride into the death-promising Muslim quagmire with the European interventionists.

Finally, the Kurds are not America’s friends or allies; they are, at most, our paid killers, people whom we have trained and armed to a higher level of military capability and lethality. After we leave, they will not hesitate to kill an American – military or civilian – if one gets in the way of what they intend to do. Recent Kurdish history amounts to a long and exceedingly lethal terrorist campaign against Turkey inside Turkey, so if Ankara’s military brutally kicks hell out of the Kurds, and then just as brutally drives them much farther away from Turkey’s borders, it will simply be, once again, another proof of the adage that what goes around comes around.

Overall, Mr. President, well done and keep it up. There are still many of our military people eager to come home from the useless wars caused by both the hubristic interventionism of Obama, Hillary Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, and the personal greed of each and the political parties and arms makers they represent.

When Pelosi, Schiff, the other semi-humans in the Democrat caucus, and the mainstream media initiated an impeachment investigation of President Trump, Americans heard, for the first time in the republic’s history, a declaration of civil war that would genuinely threaten the citizenry’s freedoms and liberties. When President Jefferson Davis ordered Confederate batteries to fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, he and his cabinet colleagues did indeed start a civil war. Davis’s action, however, did not in any way constitute an attack on the liberties of northern citizens. That said, a civil war is the sort of conflict whose outcome and consequences can never be foretold. It therefore was perceived by some at the time as just such an existential threat.

To repeat, there is no evidence that Davis and his colleagues wanted to enslave northerners. Their intent was to leave and thereby break the Union and establish a second slave-holding republic in North America. This goal was a threat to the Union’s survival – so it had to defeated – but the Confederates were no threat to liberty in the North. The always wildcard nature of civil war, though, did initiate – during and especially after Lincoln’s death – the slow but steady consolidation of wartime policies into the now Democrat-backed policy of completing the national government’s transformation into an elites-run, dictatorial regime that is beyond the control of the electorate.

So now Americans are facing, thanks to the Democrats, the first genuine life-and-death threat to their liberties; Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and the USSR never posed such a domestic threat, only the deeds of G.W. Bush and, especially, Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama came close.

There is – if it is possible – less substance on the issue of President Trump’s conversation with Ukraine’s president, then there was on the Democrat-fabricated Russia lies. The Democrats clearly hate Trump, but is even clearer that they hate Americans and their republic more. They intend to seize all guns from Americans to make resistance to tyranny impossible; control all healthcare, so the unborn, born, and elderly can be murdered at their discretion; reimpose Obama’s exorbitant taxes on all Americans; further fill the country with illegal, criminal, diseased, and unwanted foreigners and ensure they vote Democrat; eliminate the ability of working-class Americans to save anything by taxing them to the bone for their totalitarian, enormously farcical, and utterly anti-scientific global-warming charade; and subordinate America to China’s communist regime, the anti-human UN, and the authoritarian EU.

Unlike the Confederate leaders, the Democrat leaders’ plan is not to split the Union but to create a death-dealing, continent-wide internment camp for U.S. citizens, just as their Chinese idols and pay-masters have done for their Muslim population in Xinjiang. Once confined, the Democrats will offer Americans the chance to choose between death and pledging obedience to the Democrats’ neo-fascist, globalist agenda. In the end, however, they intend to kill all incarcerated Americans, and they will laugh especially hard as they kill those who thought they saved themselves by renouncing liberty and pledging fealty to the globalists.

America’s first civil war, for the most part, was fought by able, honorable, and patriotic republican politicians on both sides, men who had spent several decades working together, often with acrimony, to avoid war. Their efforts finally failed, and 625,000 Americans died in bloody struggle in which neither side had a monopoly on virtue before, during, or after the war . The North prevailed, but it and the South owe unending respect and thanks to one of the greatest Americans, General Robert E. Lee. As Marse Robert surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to the temperate, nay generous terms offered by General Grant, he also firmly and definitively forbid the plans of several of his general officers to disperse the army into the mountains and countryside to begin waging a guerrilla war against the North. Lee’s commonsense and personal courage in facing down his officers on this score ended bloodshed and protected liberty in the republic until the Democratic Party formed the Ku Klux Klan and began the guerrilla war Lee had stopped in its tracks.

At this point in his first term, President Trump has only begun to resuscitate a dying economy, a despairing, overtaxed, censored, and over-regulated citizenry, and a preference for peace that was abandoned by the governing elite. By his example and successes, Mr. Trump also has so far prevented the smoldering hatred of Americans for the national government; federal, state, and local bureaucrats, and the teachers who educate their children to revel in the glories of sexual deviancy, libertinism, atheism, socialism, and anti-Americanism from blazing into civil war.

America, then, stands on the edge of a Democrat-made civil war, and the Ukraine lie has the potential to push the republic over the brink into conflict. The Democrats so far have been protected from the eradication they richly deserve by two things. First, by Trump’s tangible economic successes and consistent willingness to work with the Democrats on issues vital to the citizenry, jobs, infrastructure, health care, trade, border control, etc. His supporters have stood back and watched to see if he could wring positive cooperation from the republic’s Democratic tormentors. Second, by the simple, accurate economic determination of thrifty and patriotic Americans that there is not a single Democratic leader whose life is worth the cost of a 9mm cartridge.

If a time comes when the Democrats seem about to wreck Trump, his presidency, and so the republic, however, the traditional concern of American patriots for thrift and cost effectiveness in their expenditures surely will be tossed out the window. The Democrats then will reap the much-merited slaughter brought by whirlwind they stupidly created.

So now we have heard the Democrats’ eternally adolescent, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke promise that, if elected, he will order the national government’s police and military forces to seize AR-15s and other incorrectly described “assault weapons” from law-abiding U.S. citizens. It is an odd and, perhaps, even a dangerous decision to tell Americans that you will strip them of inalienable rights as soon as you can, but there you are.

Some people, and even a few of the country’s semi-human Democrats, have criticized O’Rourke for his indifference to the legitimacy – and popularity — of the 2^nd Amendment. More people, and especially Democrats, have damned him for telling the truth and failing to disguise the “extremism” of his remarks, which all but doom the passing of any legislation that would begin the process of strangling the rights of gun-owning citizens without needing to raise the radioactive issue of formally amending the U.S. Constitution.

Two points here. There is no real disagreement with the plans of boy-wonder Beto among Democrats. They all agree with his plans to seize not only AR-15s, but all firearms from American citizens. This consensus has nothing to do with the Democrats compassion for the people and families that have suffered at the hands of the shooters. All of the Democrats’ faux outrage, theatrical tears, and choked-up voices are meant merely to hide their plans to seize all privately – and so constitutionally — held firearms.

After all, this is party whose most vociferous leaders and media champions have, since 1973, resolutely defended and celebrated the mass murder of 61 million innocent, unborn Americans (premeditated murder is wonderfully empowering for women, you know); who now demand that infants can be murdered after they are born; and who, if the party wins the presidency, will legalize the removal of functioning organs from the still-living unborn, or only mortally wounded, babies, and permit the sale of them to the highest bidder. To believe that any Democrat actually gives a tinker’s damn about those few who have been killed by nut-job and often pro-Democrat mass shooters is a transparently false claim for most Americans – unless they count themselves among those certifiably deranged individuals who are the only people (?) permitted to be members of the Democratic Party.

The second point to understand about Beto and all other Democrats, is that the mob of them are, in some ways, not nearly as dumb as they look and sound. (They have no ability to govern a republic, but would be splendid tyrants and top-notch Stalinist gulag managers.) At least among Beto and the party’s other so-called leaders, their advisers, and their innumerable, dishonest media shills, there is a full understanding of the Founders intent for including the 2^nd Amendment in the U.S. Constitution. Ol’ Beto and his unhinged, spendthrift, communist, and/or deviant colleagues know that the Founders wanted to ensure that Americans, through the length of the republic’s existence and with a quality of arms appropriate to the era and task, could defend themselves against, or rid themselves of, those who would abandon the U.S. Constitution and rule as tyrants, not as the Constitution-bound governors of a republican citizenry.

In frank terms, Beto, his fellow presidential candidates, other party leaders, most of its rank-and-file, and the media know that the 2^nd Amendment is aimed squarely at their ongoing effort to destroy the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Christian tradition that informs both. They know that the Founders’ too-often unspoken, but understood by all, intention was to afford Americans in all eras to possess the tools with which to kill those who declare that they will deny citizens the rights that belong to them as birthrights and as they are cited in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and, ultimately, by the design of their Creator. Today the 2nd Amendment also is aimed at those who have committed treason, with foreign help, by trying to overthrow a legitimately elected government. Beto and his party already have tried and failed to do the latter, and now he and his party have designated the destruction of the 2^nd Amendment – and thus the Constitution – as the governing mission of the next Democratic president and his team of gauleiters and commissars, probably led by Reichsführer Eric Holder.

In the early morning of 19 April 1775, Captain John Parker aligned his militia company on Lexington Green to face an approaching British military column. The latter had been assigned by the king’s commander-in-chief in the colonies, Major-General Thomas Gage, to disarm the population around Boston and to seize or destroy any arms, gunpowder, and ammunition the colonists had stored in makeshift arsenals. Both Parker and his men knew precisely what the British were after, and as he formed the unit on the Green, Parker is reported to have said “Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” The British tried and failed to disarm those they called “damn rebels”, and then their units were nearly bleed white as that rabble attacked them all along the route of their forced and hurried retreat toward Boston.

Like the British, Little Boy Beto has “fired” for himself and his party on all law-abiding Americans and their families. Well, the citizenry still holds the authority of the 2^nd Amendment and their Creator, as well as their era-appropriate firearms. So, to Beto and his crew of lawless and deviant sidekicks, the only possible response, as they seem to have a death wish, is the Greek phrase Molon labe – come and take them.