Sipsey Street Irregulars: My son is deploying to Afghanistan shortly, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to read this.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

My son is deploying to Afghanistan shortly, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to read this.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Sorry to hear that, best wishes to you and yours.
I thought you recently posted that your son had just returned from
that thankless duty.; February 9, 2012 at 5:33 AM
Dutchman6 said...: No, Matt has done three tours of Iraq, 2 with the 101st ABN (invasion and surge) and the last one with 1st Armored. This will be his first of Afghanistan.; February 9, 2012 at 5:41 AM
Hefferman said...: I will be praying for Matt, and the men in his unit.
May God, keep them safe.; February 9, 2012 at 8:40 AM
We the people... said...: Godspeed to him.; February 9, 2012 at 10:01 AM
rumplestiltskin said...: Some things just never change. Same news, different timeline. I remember much of the same about Vietnam many, many years ago.; February 9, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Anonymous said...: “Also, when a Taliban member is arrested, he is soon released with no action taken against him."

Compare and contrast: When a gangsta from teh Crips or teh Bloods is arrested, he is soon released with no action taken against him.

Look, everybody! We aren't only giving guns to the Zetas, we are exporting U.S. "revolving door" justice to the Taliban, too.

At the risk of sounding like a paulbot, I propose that we bring our troops home now, deploy them along our southern border and equip them with the armaments presently being given to the Mexican drug cartel.

MALTHUS; February 10, 2012 at 5:16 AM
Pat H. said...: Your son has all the training he needs to be a patriotic American, now he needs to leave the Yankee Empire's army and return home to raise his son.

That's the most important thing he will ever do.; February 11, 2012 at 7:39 AM
Anonymous said...: It,s been about 2yrs now but I can hear that phone call like it was 2 minutes ago"Dad this place is nothing like Iraq was,this is a REAL war." You are both in our most sincere prayer,s.; February 12, 2012 at 3:23 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

My son is deploying to Afghanistan shortly, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to read this.

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