What are you scared of?

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

I'm glad to see you're still above personal attacks and insults when none have been made towards you.


I shed a tear for the children you have taught.
Surely the remedial children are the future of America.

Your lack of respect for knowledge in general is an affront to humanity. My little barbs are minscule in comparison to your insults.

And I don't teach children, I teach adults. Yet another pearl of wisdom from someone who refuses to educate himself on any topic he discusses. Its been YEARS, Typhoid, that you've been embarrassing yourself in political conversation for the simple reason that you are intellectually lazy. YOU ARE NOT STUPID, just lazy, and that is worse than being stupid. I think you're a reasonably smart kid and I'd love for you to care enough about your world to learn what is going on in it.

Yeah, he should definately let it unnecessarily affect his life.

I agree with you, why worry about what we can't control.

These are opinions I can't fathom. I'm sorry you feel helpless and when it comes to your futures and those of your families, but I don't. To say that terrorists and ruthless regimes can't be controlled or eliminated is to give up on civilization in general. We can control it and fight to get our world back, if only by educating ourselves on the subject at hand and speaking out about it. We can affect the world by affecting the ideas and attitudes of our own people and government. We have the right to vote and the freedom of speech, which is more than most people in the world have (scary to think we are the minority, but its sadly true).

All it takes to stop evil is the will to confront it with no limits. Hitler was not an unstoppable force, he was a petty political boss until the world let him be a tyrant. The world tried to appease Hitler, while selling him weapons, and so he turned the world upside-down because we let him. If England alone had followed the policy of Churchill instead of Chamberlain (I think thats his name), we could have avoided the millions of deaths that followed.

The world is slowly reverting back to one reminiscent of 1938-40. Russia is pulling back to their old ways, removing the right to vote and persecuting newspapermen that critcize them, and continuing to work with Iran and sell them weapons. Venezuela is pushing South America into a pro-Iran version of Cuba. Hezbollah, the right arm of Iran, has spread across the ME and simply waiting for Iraq to fall to become more active. Radical Islam is growing in leaps and bounds in Western Europe and intense violence is still prevalent in France, even though you'd never hear about it in the mainstream news. Meanwhile Iran laughs at the world while developing nuclear weapons which they've essentially said the'll use to bring about the apocalypse, or at least destroy Israel with.

Meanwhile, we've appointment a bunch of cold-war era officials that have determined that we need to adopt a policy of appeasement and negotiations with countries who want only one thing: The US and Israel to cease to exist.

Something we can't control? No. Something our government and majority population don't have the stomach to control anymore. They're not willing to bomb mosques that harbor terrorist leaders. They're not willing to commit more troops when things aren't going well. They're not willing to do what it takes to win a war because they're scared to death of what the New York Times will say. The American people are too tired and absent-minded to stomach the fight any longer, especially when the fight is across the ocean and seemingly won't affect them, until it does affect them.

To affect change you first have to have a spine, and thats something we've lost over the last 5 years.