Prepper Recon

News Update

In our 9/11 post, I mentioned a quote by Thomas Jefferson. He said “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations- entangling alliances with none.” We spoke about the adverse effects of our foreign entanglements. The news headlines have been filled with more examples of why we should have “entangling alliances with none”. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning we saw news reports from around the world of protests against America.

Followers of Islam were enraged over a film called “Innocence of Muslims” that ridiculed their prophet Mohamed. On September 11th, they directed their anger at the entire US and our embassies rather than the one person who made the film. If you some how feel responsible for offending them even though you have never seen the film, don’t worry, Obama was quick to issue a formal apology. If you don’t know what you did wrong and don’t understand why we are apologizing to these murderers, join the crowd.

My God constantly has his name used as a curse word on prime time television, yet I hear no apologies from our great leader.  South Park on Comedy Central portrays Jesus as a wimpy, some what effeminate, powerless human who does a day time talk show like Dr Phil, and there are no explanations from the White House. I guess the squeaky wheel gets the greesin’.

Libyan protesters attacked the US Embassy in Benghazi on Tuesday and killed the US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, as well as three of his staff. I know the following picture is disturbing, but it is important for the American people to see the return on their investment.

US Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered at the US Embassy in Libya. AFP/Getty Images

Here is our first dividend payment on the $1,000,000,000.00 plus investment we made in funding Libya’s freedom. Read  the itemized expenses for $600 million spent in the first week of the Libyan no-fly zone in this ABC News article. Similar protest occurred in Egypt where our embassy was also attacked.

Like kind investments often provide similar returns. It is only human to want to help those we see suffering in Syria at the hands of a tyrant. I suspect that we are supplying them with weapons as I seldom see footage on the news of the rebels without AK 47s and RPGs. They seem well armed for people having trouble feeding themselves. My concern is we will kill a monster that we are able to reason with and replace it with one that we are not.

The weapons used to assault the US Embassy in Libya could have been provided by US operatives. We know we provided  the weapons and training  to the  Afghan Mujahideen  in  their conflict with Russia during the 1980’s. Our intentions were great as we wanted to cease the spread of communism. However, we have just passed the 11th adversary of an unintended consequence from that involvement. We are still dealing with the unintended consequence from that involvement as we fight against the offspring of the very militants we helped to arm and train. The threat of soviet brand communism has long since past but our soldiers are killed or wounded everyday in Afghanistan.

Keep your eyes open.  As I said in our last post, we have missed the chance to elect a leader who is willing to use our military might in a constitutional manner. This election cycle is just going to be about defeating Obama Care so we can salvage some remnant of an economy. If you haven’t read it, pick up a copy of  The Revolution, by Ron Paul. Dr Paul is retiring this year but his ideas will not. I don’t agree 100% with everything he says, but he has laid out a much better path for our country than the status quo. After you read it, pass it on. This is how ideas are spread.

Happy Prepping!