How We Lose Wars.

I was home watching TV today and on the History channel, shows about the Vietnam war played much of the day. The news stories of were uniformly opposed to American involvement. At one point they showed how crossing into Cambodia, allowed American forces to capture huge arms depots from the North Vietnamese. Essentially Cambodia was a safe zone where North Vietnamese would hide their forces and equipment. This move into Cambodia should have been hailed as a military victory, but instead it led to non-stop student protests and condemnation from MSM news sources. According to History channel, Americans were treated to a non-stop barrage of pictures of disfigured American soldiers; 90 percent of all news shows were devoted to this narrative every day.  When you think of Communist infiltrators affecting political decisions within our government, a much more successful infiltration affected our news culture and Hollywood.  No wonder we pulled out of Vietnam in defeat.

In recent conflicts, we went into Iraq and quickly succeeded in most of our military goals. At the time this war began, most of the American public were solidly behind this action and news stories were also largely supportive of our armed forces but, in time, this changed.  Obama achieved the destruction of all American achievements from the Bush era and under the current barrage of defeatist propaganda I don't see how we can defeat anyone.

We have a divisive leadership in the White House, MSM works towards same goal of weakening our country, and the culture permeating colleges and entertainment is also one of defeatism.  Under present conditions, we can only lose.  We must change our situation at home, if we are to survive as a nation and if we are to save our civilization.

Ebola Concerns.

Two good articles address this topic at today's American Thinker web site. It appears that there is a reasonable concern for possible airborne transmission of this virus and the medical staff working with the 2 returned American patients are appropriately dressed. This also explains London's actions regarding cancelling flights to parts of West Africa dealing with this epidemic.  Read for yourself here and here.

On the other hand, is the attention being given to Ebola another distraction? The border crisis in the US and a whole host of other problems caused by the Obama administration, aren't receiving as much news coverage now.  This administration certainly excels at taking us from one crisis to another.

Interesting Headlines at Breitbart Today.

OBAMA STRESSES OPENNESS, FAIRNESS AS TRIGGERS OF PROGRESS AT US-AFRICA SUMMIT

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EBOLA TESTED ACROSS THE NATION; GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSES INFO

Oh, Oh, Part Two.

A Blaze post from today mentioned that 6 New Yorkers are being tested for Ebola and an Ohio woman. All of them apparently recently traveled here from a place where many are sick with Ebola, and all of them displayed some of the symptoms common to such an infection.  Unfortunately, these symptoms are not specific; they are fever, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Just wait till the Flu season is here.  Same symptoms but, at this point, influenza is infinitely more common. Since we won't be able to isolate everyone with these symptoms, coming from West Africa, when so many will display them...we won't isolate them and someone sick with Ebola will arrive here and make others sick.  It is only a matter of time.

Oh, Oh.

A traveler from West Africa lands in NY and is hospitalized with high fever and diarrhea...Mount Sinai Hospital says "All is well"; we're testing him for ebola but we don't think he has it because he still lives.  Ahm... the 2 confirmed Ebola infected patients are still alive after being evacuated from Liberia. While it kills almost uniformly in poor African villages, one cannot say that it will remain as individually lethal in the USA. Instead of 90% lethality it may be only 50% or less. That is not necessarily a good thing as it may lead to greater number of infections and consequently more dead. Also the reassurance about Ebola only being spread by such fluids as blood and urine is misleading; I doubt the volunteers in Liberia that became infected were being peed on by the locals infected with Ebola and I also doubt they were sharing needles with them. I am certain that it is more easily transmitted than HIV, and what has kept this bug at bay was the fact that a small village would get infected and wiped out, and that was the end of a local outbreak. This particular strain doesn't kill as fast and hence greater spread.  If it establishes a local reservoir in the good old USA, then oh, oh.... and the we'll stop caring about Obama's criminal activities and those illegals might start moving back to South America. By then, it will be a pandemic.