Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!

He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and pissing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge…

thirteen28 on April 3, 2007 at 7:50 PM

You just made it to the top of my favorite posts list. Thank you, thirteen28, great job, and an excellent life.

It’s magnitudes easier to destroy than to build.

Don’t waste your breath – not coming back to this thread.

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 7:41 PM

Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!

He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and pissing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge…

As many have expressed, excellent post!

IMHO, however, there is a key element omitted both in your post and the comments it prompted (as far as I could see).

Canadian Infidel opens the topic by saying:

Global reach, even on the cheap, still costs money. As Hot Air has documented, Iran’s economy is on the skids and it looks like oil revenue will be running out in a decade or so. When and if their economy tanks, does this threat diminish or does another state or group start funding the cells? Canadian Infidel on April 2, 2007 at 11:04 PM

We make a horrible mistake if we believe it is only the Mullahs behind the curtain. Russia and China – with their combined economic and military power – may stand in deeper shadows, but are there with ready support for Hezbollah nonetheless. Not in the future. Now.

If we regard their engagement as anything less than intentional we seriously underestimate the forces that are manuevering into position against The West – and the US in particular.

With the “stabilizing presence” of the United States diminished or nullified, China is loosed to pursue its own global ambitions. Russia would be freed to re-exert its world presence as well. If we dismiss this reality we are nearly defenseless. First terrorist offensives scatter us, then the major Asian powers advance in areas we are newly reluctant to defend. If we hesitate at that point of vulnerability, Pax America is ended and a new a dark order is ascended.

Don’t waste your breath – not coming back to this thread.

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 7:41 PM

Color me surprised!

LOL I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you weren’t some adolescent type such as Misha. Guess I was wrong. Go put a uniform on and defend our country or go back to your video games and girls gone wild videos.

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 7:21 PM

And now, on cue like a typical troll, Bradky pulls out the chickenhawk argument. Nancy would be proud.

I take pot shots at posters whose only future view is some Mad Max type world where the individual and not the republic is in charge of justice.

Those posters have already pointed out to you the fact that if such a scenario comes to pass, it will only be because our leaders refuse to do what’s in their power to defend our country now, hence this statement which you missed:

Currently the “leaders” of the West seem content to ignore every single lesson history has to offer about how to deal with barbarians, “lest we become what we fight.”

BTW, I’ve worn the uniform for my country, don’t own a console, and don’t watch GGW. You need better material than that.

And to date, I haven’t seen any brilliant ideas from you on how to change things and maintain the republic without it becoming the fourth reich.

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 7:30 PM

All that life experience and you want lil ol me to tell you what to do. I did offer my thoughts and you have done those things. Good on ya. I will give you credit for not spewing Misha’s fantasies – why you feel compelled to defend them is puzzling though.

Don’t waste your breath – not coming back to this thread.

why don’t you share your view of what the future will be like? Tell us all what exactly will have to happen in order to make your view of the future come true? Oh, and give us all the benefits of your wisdom and insights into how to deal with the expanding terrorist threats that Bryan talked about.

Uhm, you do know the meaning of “you” and “your” don’t you? I guess you just couldn’t do it, huh?

Serve in Uniform? Been there done that, Navy Carrier Pilot.

Run for Office? Been there done that, Circuit Court Judge

Lived in the “real” world”? Apparently not, at least not in the “reality” you live in.

Tell us all what exactly will have to happen in order to make your view of the future come true? …Or do conditional threats, in a possible future, against “appeasers”, hit a little too close to home for you?

Fatal on April 3, 2007 at 7:20 PM

What needs to be done? How about coming from behind your keyboard and running for office and make changes within the system. Maybe spend some time in the military if you haven’t already.
Appeaser doesn’t hit close to home at all but nice try with the labeling. I’ve served and been involved in community politics.
And believe me the last thing in the world I worry about is some internet commenter posing any threat to me. I’ve lived in the real world and continue to do what I can to make a difference.
I take pot shots at posters whose only future view is some Mad Max type world where the individual and not the republic is in charge of justice. The desire to kill those with whom you disagree is no different than what the Islam extremists desire.

And to date, I haven’t seen any brilliant ideas from you on how to change things and maintain the republic without it becoming the fourth reich.

thirteen28 on April 3, 2007 at 7:16 PM

LOL I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you weren’t some adolescent type such as Misha. Guess I was wrong. Go put a uniform on and defend our country or go back to your video games and girls gone wild videos.

sooo you are enabling Misha? Guess you aspire to be his second in command of the militia. Good luck throwing your keyboards at the bad guys.

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 7:09 PM

Instead of just taking pot-shots at other posters for their views/fears of what the future might hold, why don’t you share your view of what the future will be like? Tell us all what exactly will have to happen in order to make your view of the future come true? Oh, and give us all the benefits of your wisdom and insights into how to deal with the expanding terrorist threats that Bryan talked about.

Or do conditional threats, in a possible future, against “appeasers”, hit a little too close to home for you?

sooo you are enabling Misha? Guess you aspire to be his second in command of the militia. Good luck throwing your keyboards at the bad guys.

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 7:09 PM

Enabling him as much as you would enable the Islamofascists and their sympathizers with your own sense of moral superiority. If it weren’t for people like you, Bryan’s original post would have never been written and this debate would never have taken place.

Now go pray towards Mecca, it’s about that time and you need to get used to it.

Nope not mindreading — just reading. He revels in the thought of its collapse.

Misha I on April 2, 2007 at 11:27 PM

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 6:58 PM

Well, I shouldn’t presume to speak for Misha, and he’s certainly more than adept at defending himself, but I read it as him reveling in the thought of the appeasers and enablers (along with our enemies) getting their just deserts IF things were to collapse.

And I would certainly revel in the same, because anyone that places their own feelings of moral superiority over defense of this country and the west in general would be deserving of such a fate.

I must not be as astute at mindreading as you are.

thirteen28 on April 3, 2007 at 6:50 PM

Nope not mindreading — just reading. He revels in the thought of its collapse.

Misha I on April 2, 2007 at 11:27 PM

Anyone who wants to see the country fall, no matter what their political views will rub me the wrong way, especially when they dream of killing those with whom they disagree. No different than the Extreme Islamafascists in any way shape or form — just a different form of tyranny.

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 6:35 PM

I don’t recall him saying he wanted the country to fall. I must not be as astute at mindreading as you are.

thirteen28 on April 3, 2007 at 6:07 PM

Anyone who wants to see the country fall, no matter what their political views will rub me the wrong way, especially when they dream of killing those with whom they disagree. No different than the Extreme Islamafascists in any way shape or form — just a different form of tyranny.

I just hope that, when the dust settles, the bloodbath includes all of the appeasers and their enablers. Because if they’re still around, then I’ll have to hunt them down and kill them myself instead. With my own hands. And I’ll enjoy it.

Misha I on April 2, 2007 at 11:27 PM

What a nice Christian young man you must be!
So in your apocalyptic fantasies I take it you see yourself as Mel Gibson in the Mad Max series.
Judge, jury and executioner — continuing our constitutional principles after the apocalypse….

Bradky on April 3, 2007 at 9:41 AM

Obviously Misha’s wishes regarding appeasers and enablers rubbed you the wrong way, didn’t it, Bradky?

but over all we need to put them were we can watch them and monitor their communications.

opusrex on April 3, 2007 at 2:31 PM

We already have that ability. It is called ease dropping on mosques on Fridays.

opusrex on April 3, 2007 at 2:31 PM

I guess it is all good as long as you are a legal US citizen that isn’t in the “wrong” group. Precedent doesn’t mean it was right or constitutionally sanctioned. By your logic slavery could be reinstated because there are precedents — just need to be more equitable….

Internment.

It can be done in more equitable manner then we did with The Japanese-Americans in that we can pass provisions to let them keep their properties, defer the taxes on said properties, let them have legal standing and recouse, but over all we need to put them were we can watch them and monitor their communications.

Unlike the America of WWII, almost two generations of Americans have been brought up with the idea that peace in the world is brought about by “being nice”, that no culture is better than any other – all that other stuff – and that a pricipal enemy of realizing their goals of better humanity is any sense of “American exceptionalism” or power projection, etc.

Rosie’s latest rants reinforce that many millions of Americans don’t even have the ability to identify what is in their long-term survival interests, and they will gladly either serve as a 5th column against anything representing a strong America (as opposed to world citizenry), or, even if they recognize the enemy, they are ready – as Winny said – to feed the crocodile in hopes that it will eat you last.

Misha I on April 3, 2007 at 11:31 AM

I know Misha — it is embarrassing when someone you haven’t met is able to so easily deduce what you are hoping for — the collapse of America so you can come out from behind your keyboard and shoot a few people you deem undesirable or not in agreement with your worldview. (Although you may find the short supply of guts a bit surprising. Killing is not a video game or remote view of others doing it.)
Why should you and a few others that post here be so hard on the “leftie traitors” who want the country to collapse? After all they are helping you reach your goal of anarchy and chaos that lets you be the star in your own fantasies.

The question now is, which side’s global reach and power is the most effective?

Since we have defeated the taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam in Iraq, I would say that ours is more effective. The blabbering in the MSM and the left about the “illegal and immoral” war in Iraq and the dire warning about what may occur if we attack Iran helps prove that. They would not be blabbering so much if they thought our military was not up to the challenge.

As to how long our superiority will last; that depends upon congress as they have the power of the purse and can defund our military to the point where the military is no longer effective. I hope this doesn’t happen but the current attempts by the democratic controlled congress to limit the president’s effective use of the military does not bode well for America.