Muslims and Enlightenment
The Muslims in power are stuck in 1200 AD. We, the USA are trying very hard to bring them into the 20th Century, where we are stuck. Some of the Muslim people want to change, but not those in power, at least not yet. These people are going to have to realize something is wrong with their religion and the way it treats people in general. This will be a long wait. This will be far longer than the Soviet Union coming out of Communism, which it hasn’t fully yet, or China coming out of Maoism, which it definitely hasn’t yet.
I submit to you, my imaginary reader, that it is not anyone else’s place to bring someone in to the light when that person or people are drenched in the beliefs of a past age. We cannot and should not direct their destiny. We should leave them to their own type of reality and do the best we can to see that their reality does not infect ours. They have the right to be as they are or were which they will probably go back to when we leave. When Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or any other essentially Muslim nation elect a non-religious government leader who is willing to ask how to proceed with that endeavor, then we will be getting somewhere. We cannot and must not force the issue upon them before they are ready to accept it. We do not and must not control another nation’s destiny, especially by forcing it on them.
By being stuck in the supposed 20th Century, we are fooling ourselves too. This is the 21st Century and the Chinese are in control because we forgot what we were about. We got complacent and now have to reinvent ourselves all over again. For one thing, we are still fighting war in the 1900 style when war has changed. How do we maintain that just bombing everything in sight is going to work when all the supposed bad guys just hide in the caves and in the ground until we get tired of bombing them? They then come out and kill our soldiers in a street kind of way that is still baffling our commanders. Not only are we deceiving ourselves, but then we have to rebuild the city we just bombed. We are distinctly not good at rebuilding cities from scratch in areas of the world where we are not wanted.
As a nation that exports war and mayhem, we are not doing so well. We would be better off concentrating on rebuilding our economy and recognizing that the world has left us behind in the job skills market arena. That is, hopefully before China pulls our financial plug and lets us all drown in our own mess. China has a plan, that is for sure, and we are in it. Now that China owns us, we have to figure out what that plan is and play our part, while reinventing the greatness America has inside. We have to re-figure out that it is not our government that is great; it is the American people that are great. We made this mess and we can get out of it only by getting rid of the socialism that keeps us in the 20th Century. The power that made us great is not our unique ability to foment war, but our ability to invent things that make our lives better.
Right now, the world is in an oil age and trying to break free. When the world was in a coal age and that caused us not to breathe so well, we changed to an oil age, which is still great for making plastic, but not so great financially speaking because we are out of oil in abundance in America and it costs us too much to maintain the level of stability we are used to without inviting Muslims to be nice to us and give us “their” oil. They are running out too, and now have to frack more and more to get the oil out in any quantity that is useful.
The way out for America is to use our ingenuity to reinvent the energy world around us. True enough, solar has battery problems, and wind has the same battery issues with an over speed shutdown problem to boot. Nuclear has to storage of waste issue. We must begin to think long term and get our best minds on it or we face the Muslim terror built with our very own funds that we continue to give to them. Why are we giving the Muslims our money if there is another way out that doesn’t involve killing 1.5 Billion people?
I submit to you, my imaginary reader, that it is not anyone else’s place to bring someone in to the light when that person or people are drenched in the beliefs of a past age. We cannot and should not direct their destiny. We should leave them to their own type of reality and do the best we can to see that their reality does not infect ours. They have the right to be as they are or were which they will probably go back to when we leave. When Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or any other essentially Muslim nation elect a non-religious government leader who is willing to ask how to proceed with that endeavor, then we will be getting somewhere. We cannot and must not force the issue upon them before they are ready to accept it. We do not and must not control another nation’s destiny, especially by forcing it on them.
By being stuck in the supposed 20th Century, we are fooling ourselves too. This is the 21st Century and the Chinese are in control because we forgot what we were about. We got complacent and now have to reinvent ourselves all over again. For one thing, we are still fighting war in the 1900 style when war has changed. How do we maintain that just bombing everything in sight is going to work when all the supposed bad guys just hide in the caves and in the ground until we get tired of bombing them? They then come out and kill our soldiers in a street kind of way that is still baffling our commanders. Not only are we deceiving ourselves, but then we have to rebuild the city we just bombed. We are distinctly not good at rebuilding cities from scratch in areas of the world where we are not wanted.
As a nation that exports war and mayhem, we are not doing so well. We would be better off concentrating on rebuilding our economy and recognizing that the world has left us behind in the job skills market arena. That is, hopefully before China pulls our financial plug and lets us all drown in our own mess. China has a plan, that is for sure, and we are in it. Now that China owns us, we have to figure out what that plan is and play our part, while reinventing the greatness America has inside. We have to re-figure out that it is not our government that is great; it is the American people that are great. We made this mess and we can get out of it only by getting rid of the socialism that keeps us in the 20th Century. The power that made us great is not our unique ability to foment war, but our ability to invent things that make our lives better.
Right now, the world is in an oil age and trying to break free. When the world was in a coal age and that caused us not to breathe so well, we changed to an oil age, which is still great for making plastic, but not so great financially speaking because we are out of oil in abundance in America and it costs us too much to maintain the level of stability we are used to without inviting Muslims to be nice to us and give us “their” oil. They are running out too, and now have to frack more and more to get the oil out in any quantity that is useful.
The way out for America is to use our ingenuity to reinvent the energy world around us. True enough, solar has battery problems, and wind has the same battery issues with an over speed shutdown problem to boot. Nuclear has to storage of waste issue. We must begin to think long term and get our best minds on it or we face the Muslim terror built with our very own funds that we continue to give to them. Why are we giving the Muslims our money if there is another way out that doesn’t involve killing 1.5 Billion people?
posted by Mike Liesveld @ 3:28 PM
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