Glenn Beck: We have lost thousands of American lives.
We lost thousands of lives during the Civil War. Perhaps we should've quit, as many liberals/Democrats in the North wanted us to do. We certainly would've saved a lot of lives that way. We lost thousands of lives during World War II. Perhaps we should've decided to quit and not fight Germany or Japan in order to spare us from losing more lives.
"But wait", you might say, "those were different, we secured our victory." Not quite. The transition from the end of those wars was not smooth either.
In fact, I remember reading an article, written in 1946, that was titled, "America Loses the Peace in Europe." From reading that article, you'd think that we would fail in securing our victory. When are we going to pull our troops out of Europe? We're still there, long after World War II, like what should've happened with Iraq.
We're dealing with an ideology that believes that the whole world should be under radical Islamic law. They will not stop in the Middle East. They intend to export this radical Islamic law and require us to convert to it.
Too many here in the United States think that this would be "un-achievable." In reality, if we give up the will to fight, it's very possible.
I'm sorry, I choose that we keep fighting, even if we lose thousands more... if that means that America's daughters are not raped/violated and sold into slavery or forced into marriage with thugs...
* If that means that America's sons are not beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam... If that means that Americans do not see members of their families tortured and murdered in front of their eyes...
* If that means that American communities don't see hundreds, or even thousands, of their fellow countrymen piled into mass graves...
* If that means that American law, culture, freedom, etc., remain supreme on US soil...
This may seem "far-fetched" to most people living in the US. Unfortunately, this becomes an ultimate reality if we decide to not fight anymore.
Our enemies cast a vote in this ongoing war. This war will only have one outcome. One outcome is we succeed and prevail in this war, no matter how long it takes. The other outcome is that radical elements succeed in converting America and other parts of the world into Islamic caliphates.
The newly converted areas will suffer an ongoing holocaust.
If we give up, as implied in Glenn Beck's speech, we are abdicating this war to the terrorists. That's not acceptable. No real conservative would advocate that we quit when the enemy intends to keep fighting.
In this war, we cannot assume that the enemy will not pursue his new momentum. The enemy casts a vote in this war and will act on it.
Glenn Beck: We have lost thousands of lives on the Iraqi side and tens of thousands have been wounded. We have spent $2 trillion -- say that again -- $2 trillion, and upwards of 200,000 Iraqi citizens, aid workers, insurgents have been killed. That's the conservative number. Liberals will tell you it's almost 1 million people.
And a lot of that was a result of terrorist attacks against the Iraqis. They were not just attacking Americans, they attacked Iraqis.
However, you suggest that if we had not gone in at all, we would not have lost all those lives.
That is part of the realities of war. You can lose people. That happened during the American Revolution. Perhaps we should not have fought that war in order to prevent us from losing the civilian lives that were lost during that war.
I mean, if we did not fight that war, Americans would not have any need to become refugees fleeing to the Spanish Empire to escape the war.
As with any war, you don't argue for cutting and running when you lose lives. Even a single loss of life is tragic. But, as we have done successive generations throughout history, people were willing to their lose lives in order to throw off tyranny and secure freedom.
The Liberals/progressives advance the 1 million figure when it comes loss of lives. That was based on a faulty survey. Those that did the survey were extremely liberal as to what constituted a casualty.
The methodology of that survey would not have passed muster with a basic survey class. With the way they identified "loss of life", you're bound to have inflated numbers. Official counts were still lower.
There's an equivalent saying to, "Let's pull out of there before we lose any more lives." It's called "Living on your knees rather than fighting and dying on your feet." That is the future we face if we do what Glenn Beck suggests we do.
The reality is that many Iraqis were praying for the bombing runs to begin. Many were seriously contemplating suicide if the bombings didn't begin. They would've rather that they get killed during those bombing runs, in the hands of the allies, then to continue living under Saddam's oppressive rule.
Then we have the mass graves that were filled during Saddam's reign. That would've continued.
Even in the more recent events, with ISIS taking over large parts of Iraq and Syria. Many were committing suicide or praying for the allies to bomb them to death. They preferred death, by our hands, to the reality they faced under ISIS's Sharia Law.
These people were choosing death over loss of freedom. These people enjoyed democracy, then lost it in the hands of ISIS. They wanted death instead of what ISIS, and their radical Islamic law, offered.
Not exactly what you claim they wanted. That's a far cry from preferring Sharia Law instead of freedom.
Glenn Beck statements from GlennBeck.com; Enough is enough: bring them home, period., June 17, 2014.
We lost thousands of lives during the Civil War. Perhaps we should've quit, as many liberals/Democrats in the North wanted us to do. We certainly would've saved a lot of lives that way. We lost thousands of lives during World War II. Perhaps we should've decided to quit and not fight Germany or Japan in order to spare us from losing more lives.
"But wait", you might say, "those were different, we secured our victory." Not quite. The transition from the end of those wars was not smooth either.
In fact, I remember reading an article, written in 1946, that was titled, "America Loses the Peace in Europe." From reading that article, you'd think that we would fail in securing our victory. When are we going to pull our troops out of Europe? We're still there, long after World War II, like what should've happened with Iraq.
We're dealing with an ideology that believes that the whole world should be under radical Islamic law. They will not stop in the Middle East. They intend to export this radical Islamic law and require us to convert to it.
Too many here in the United States think that this would be "un-achievable." In reality, if we give up the will to fight, it's very possible.
I'm sorry, I choose that we keep fighting, even if we lose thousands more... if that means that America's daughters are not raped/violated and sold into slavery or forced into marriage with thugs...
* If that means that America's sons are not beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam... If that means that Americans do not see members of their families tortured and murdered in front of their eyes...
* If that means that American communities don't see hundreds, or even thousands, of their fellow countrymen piled into mass graves...
* If that means that American law, culture, freedom, etc., remain supreme on US soil...
This may seem "far-fetched" to most people living in the US. Unfortunately, this becomes an ultimate reality if we decide to not fight anymore.
Our enemies cast a vote in this ongoing war. This war will only have one outcome. One outcome is we succeed and prevail in this war, no matter how long it takes. The other outcome is that radical elements succeed in converting America and other parts of the world into Islamic caliphates.
The newly converted areas will suffer an ongoing holocaust.
If we give up, as implied in Glenn Beck's speech, we are abdicating this war to the terrorists. That's not acceptable. No real conservative would advocate that we quit when the enemy intends to keep fighting.
In this war, we cannot assume that the enemy will not pursue his new momentum. The enemy casts a vote in this war and will act on it.
Glenn Beck: We have lost thousands of lives on the Iraqi side and tens of thousands have been wounded. We have spent $2 trillion -- say that again -- $2 trillion, and upwards of 200,000 Iraqi citizens, aid workers, insurgents have been killed. That's the conservative number. Liberals will tell you it's almost 1 million people.
And a lot of that was a result of terrorist attacks against the Iraqis. They were not just attacking Americans, they attacked Iraqis.
However, you suggest that if we had not gone in at all, we would not have lost all those lives.
That is part of the realities of war. You can lose people. That happened during the American Revolution. Perhaps we should not have fought that war in order to prevent us from losing the civilian lives that were lost during that war.
I mean, if we did not fight that war, Americans would not have any need to become refugees fleeing to the Spanish Empire to escape the war.
As with any war, you don't argue for cutting and running when you lose lives. Even a single loss of life is tragic. But, as we have done successive generations throughout history, people were willing to their lose lives in order to throw off tyranny and secure freedom.
The Liberals/progressives advance the 1 million figure when it comes loss of lives. That was based on a faulty survey. Those that did the survey were extremely liberal as to what constituted a casualty.
The methodology of that survey would not have passed muster with a basic survey class. With the way they identified "loss of life", you're bound to have inflated numbers. Official counts were still lower.
There's an equivalent saying to, "Let's pull out of there before we lose any more lives." It's called "Living on your knees rather than fighting and dying on your feet." That is the future we face if we do what Glenn Beck suggests we do.
The reality is that many Iraqis were praying for the bombing runs to begin. Many were seriously contemplating suicide if the bombings didn't begin. They would've rather that they get killed during those bombing runs, in the hands of the allies, then to continue living under Saddam's oppressive rule.
Then we have the mass graves that were filled during Saddam's reign. That would've continued.
Even in the more recent events, with ISIS taking over large parts of Iraq and Syria. Many were committing suicide or praying for the allies to bomb them to death. They preferred death, by our hands, to the reality they faced under ISIS's Sharia Law.
These people were choosing death over loss of freedom. These people enjoyed democracy, then lost it in the hands of ISIS. They wanted death instead of what ISIS, and their radical Islamic law, offered.
Not exactly what you claim they wanted. That's a far cry from preferring Sharia Law instead of freedom.
Glenn Beck statements from GlennBeck.com; Enough is enough: bring them home, period., June 17, 2014.
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