Glenn Beck is Wrong, More Lives Will be Lost if we Wait for the Enemy to Come Here

Glenn Beck: If we are directly attacked, so be it. But this must end now.

I'm sorry, what you're arguing here is that we should live on our knees rather than fight and die on our feet. I will not be willing to sacrifice the United States, its people or its future, for the convenience of "stopping now."

The price you pay, for "ending it now" overseas will be doing away with what America was envisioned by our founders. The horrors and atrocities being committed in the Middle East will find a way to America if we give up the will to fight.

That's what you're asking us to do. That's not acceptable. 

Glenn Beck: Can't we come together on that? Are we not all a people that can come together on that?

Never. I will not give up the facts, and what the facts say we should do. Not so that we could come together with a bunch of people that are clueless about what's going on... and who don't know what they're talking about.

I refuse to join others if living on one's knees is what we should be doing together. I refuse to do that. I'm sorry, I will not quit when the going gets tough. I will keep going.

Glenn Beck: Wedon't want our sacrifice to be a waste.

I'm sorry, but if we do what you are imploring us to do here, our sacrifices would've been wasted. The lives lost would have been in vain. That sacrifice is part of the reason we have to keep going until we achieve our ultimate objective in this war.

Glenn Beck: Let me ask you this question: What good will one more life do? To waste one more life, what good will it do, to waste another dollar, let alone another trillion?

We must be willing to sacrifice more than just one, over the next few years, decades, or even centuries. That's what we have to do if that's what it will take to prevent us from suffering the holocaust that they're suffering in the Middle East.

Understand that if we do what you want us to do, to pull back and not to get involved, the enemy will cast its vote. They will not sit by and mind their own business over there. They will finish up their objective over there and then work their way towards our direction.

What you're demanding that we do is nothing more than demanding that we kick the problem down the road. You're trying to get us to embrace a solution that amounts to "hoping that we get eaten last."

So yes, we have to be willing to sacrifice as much lives as possible. To do otherwise is to invite the holocaust, happening in Iraq and Syria, to happen on US soil. Throwing the towel over there will virtually guarantee that Americans ends up suffering that holocaust in the future.

The loss of lives in this scenario would rapidly eclipse the loss of service member lives over there.

Glenn Beck: And conservatives, is there one that believes this President will prosecute a new war in Iraq properly?

We have to do something. Doing the bombing runs that we are doing over there is a lot better than what you are proposing.

Had the President given the military what it needed in Iraq at the end of 2011, for 2012 and beyond, you would not be here waving the white flag of surrender. However, since he did do that, we have to do something.

The bombing runs are a good start. We need to do something more substantial if the troops already on the ground recommend it.

Glenn Beck: When the biggest hawk of them all, the Darth Vader of the entire galactic empire, Dick Cheney and George Bush didn't prosecute it right? No.

When I combat deployed to Iraq, it was blatantly obvious that the United States and its allies won the Iraq war with a straight cut victory.

We can look back and criticize what President Bush and Dick Cheney and the others did to prosecute the Iraq war. There are plenty of examples, in our past history, where we did not prosecute wars properly either.

In fact, we came dangerously close, during the American Revolution, to losing. There were a lot of blunders in that war. Then, as now, there were a lot of times when what was planned ended up changing drastically. Patriots made several mistakes during that war.

Advance to the American Civil War. Again, I can point to examples where mistakes were made. Lots of lives lost to the American Revolution and the American Civil War because of these "blunders."

Today, we have the convenience of looking back in time and seeing how they could have done things better. That is not always a convenience that we have when dealing with situations that are happening "right now."

Glenn Beck statements from GlennBeck.com; Enough is enough: Bring them home, period., June 17, 2014.

Glenn Beck Is Wrong, we Must Fight Perpetually if we are to Win

Glenn Beck: In the end, the result will be the same. Another group of radicals will pop up again. It is like a never-ending game of whack amole over there. The only way to prevent Baghdad from being overrun eventually is stay there and continue to fight this militarily in perpetuity. Are you willing to do that?

And that is how they know they will defeat the West, by fighting in perpetuity. They know that the West has a microwave mentality. The West wants solutions, and closure, "right now." They note that the West will buckle when it comes to things that drag out into infinity.

It's an Asiatic philosophy, the idea that you go on in infinity. The only way we can fight against that is by fighting this militarily, politically, economically, etc., in perpetuity. THAT's the only way that we are going to defeat these guys.

Outlasting the opposition when it comes to patience is one of the things they use to achieve victory. You're giving them the impact indicator that they want by suggesting that we just go home with our tails tucked between our legs.

So yes, I'll be willing to fight them indefinitely. That's a better option than seeing the holocaust happening here on US soil. Because, if we do pull out and disengage, we will be suffering the holocaust on US soil. It won't be a matter of "if," but a matter of "when."

It wouldn't stop there. Just look at the justice system in many of the Muslim countries. 

Look at what people are being punished for, how they're being punished, and imagine that happening on US soil for centuries. Would you put future American generations' lives through this to end current loss of life?

This has been a process that has been going on since Islam started to spread in areas that were formally Christian. Again, their fight against the United States is nothing but a drop in the bucket. They'll keep fighting until they achieve their ultimate goal... Global Islamic law.

They will try to achieve that even if it means working over the next few centuries to do so. They've "only" been doing this since the beginning of the "dark ages."

So yes, even if another group of radicals come up, we'd still choose to fight them. To do otherwise would be like telling our police to lay down their weapons and to stand down their departments because "another group of criminals will pop up and break the law."

Just as the police will continue to chase and detain criminals, America's warriors should fight our mortal enemies indefinitely. The fate of our civilization, and our quality of life, hangs in the balance.

Glenn Beck: Don't even start with me on your oil an gas. Guess we should have thought about that earlier. Maybe if we use our own oil and gas, we wouldn't have to worry about this.

If this was about "oil and gas", we would have invaded Venezuela instead. The United States gets most of its oil from the Western Hemisphere. We get it mainly from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Venezuela.

This makes sense considering that it is more economically efficient to have our oil come to us via pipelines than by ships.

The Iraq war was not about oil. It never was. It was more about changing a philosophy via a structural, political, and economic change to the environment in the Middle East. 

The Japanese used to see it as an honor to take out a lot of the enemy via suicide. Where are those Japanese now and what's there percentage of the population as compared to before?

Likewise, democracies will take time to develop. Keep in mind that we kept US troops in Germany, South Korea, and Japan decades after the respective wars were fought there. Why do anything different with Iraq and Afghanistan?

Once these democracies are in full force, and the free market is allowed to do its thing, the environment would produce people that would be more interested in earning money and prospering than in blowing themselves up.

While we are on the topic, if you want to have true energy independence, let the free market do its job. Get the US government out of its way. No invasion of another country needed.

Glenn Beck: Liberals, you were against it in the first place.

The liberals were wrong then, they're wrong now. They've been wrong throughout history. 

Glenn Beck: How could you be in favor of more intervention now? How could you possibly be for that after everything you have said about how it's going to fall apart in the end was right? Everything I said that we could hold it together was wrong. We need to pull out and end the long nightmarish involvement in this mess. We need to do the same in Afghanistan, once and for all. 

Easy, because the alternative to this "intervention" is a kind of intervention that we would see within our borders. Don't think that this is the kind of "intervention" that we would easily be able to deal with.

This "intervention" would act like a "cancer." Just look in the many areas of this country where progressives/liberals were able to set policies for decades. It's in these areas where we will see our first radical Islamic enclaves... What will later end up becoming "no go zones."

It's from these areas were most recruits for ISIS in America will come from. If not ISIS, some other radical terrorist group. This would just be the beginning. Take a look at Europe to see what's going to be our future when it comes to dealing with radical Islam.

The left/liberals said that everything was going to fall apart not because of any real knowledge or understanding of history or current events. They said that it would fall apart simply because they disagreed with the man that was pushing for it. They did so to repeat liberal mantra from liberal talking heads.

The conservatives also warned that the situation will fall apart too. It was predicated on the liberals getting what they wanted. What did the liberal/left want? They wanted us to be out of Iraq regardless of how ready the Iraqis were for us to pull out.

With no residual force remaining behind to preserve our victory, this fall was bound to happen. We conservatives consistently argued that "if" the liberals get their way, "then" things would fall apart and it would just be the beginning.

What we predicted ended up happening. The "if" in this case was the liberals getting their way with regards to the ultimate troop pullout of Iraq. The "then" that the conservatives predicted would happen in this situation is what's going on right now in Iraq.

When are we going to hear you say, with frustration, that we conservatives were right all along? Because that's what's really happening. The conservatives have consistently argued from the facts. They have consistently argued from the context of current events as well as history.

The situation in the Middle East right now resulted from the liberals getting their way. Here you are telling them that they were "right" all along. How about holding them accountable for demanding their way, in the form of a near-complete troop pullout of Iraq?

Whether you like it or not, this is a global war. This was called the "Global War and Terrorism." You keep forgetting in your rants that the enemy has a vote. You assumed that the enemies is going to stay over there and mind his own business.

The reality is that the enemy that the US-led coalition is fighting over there have a vision. That vision includes the United States and the rest of the free world under the flag of radical Islam.

The demands to pull out "right now" is essentially an abdication of our part. It's ceding to the enemy. That's just begging for a holocaust. A holocaust is happening in Iraq and Syria, this holocaust would come to America if it accepts your suggestion.

Glenn Beck statements from GlennBeck.com; Enough is enough: Bring them home, period., June 17, 2014.

Glenn Beck is Wrong, We'd Still Have Those Problems without the Space Race

Glenn Beck: I remember back in the 1970s, we were going to the moon and liberals at that time would say, 'We have bigger problems here on earth that need to be taken care of.' How much more is that argument correctly applied to today's situation?

First, the liberals were wrong for saying that back then. A lot of the technological spinoffs that happened from the space race ended up benefiting our civilization. We take many of the spinoffs for granted. The liberals use some of those spinoffs to rant their ignorance and misguidance.

Perhaps the Europeans should've taken care of their problems in Europe before ever thinking about finding that western passage to the Asian Indies. The Europeans should've thought about eliminating hunger, poverty, and other problems before ever thinking about sending maritime explorations overseas.

These Europeans had "bigger" problems.

Heck, maybe all seafaring countries should have thought about that first. Where would we be today if they thought that way?

The reality is if we did not engage in maritime or space exploration, we'd still have the problems that liberals complain about.

Second, that has no application to the Iraq war or any other war that we fought in modern history. The liberals were wrong about the Iraq War when it occurred, they are wrong about it now. The liberals have been consistently wrong about geostrategic, geopolitical, and geo-economic issues throughout history.

The liberals were wrong when it came to space exploration. They're wrong when it comes to war. They have yet to prove otherwise.

Glenn Beck: Finally, there are some things we can agree on. Finally, there are some things we can come together on and clean up our own house.

Sorry, you do not speak for the rest of the Republicans or conservatives. You only speak for yourself. You, also ready to throw in the towel, have put yourself in a situation where you could finally agree with the liberals.

These liberals/progressives have all been about throwing in the towel when the going gets tough. They have been all about "giving up" or "surrendering" in order to "stop" the conflict. It's no surprise that when you got into that mindset, you came up with this screed that I'm addressing.

Glenn Beck: But if we do to the liberals what they did to us and George W. Bush and make it just about politics, we will be divided more. This cannot become about the President. It cannot become act the Democrats.

I'm sorry, but I refuse to do for them what they refused to do for us... Especially when they refuse to accept what the facts tell him.

We're dealing with a bunch of people who do not care about the facts. All these people want is for you to agree with them, regardless of how outlandish their story is. They will trash people who represent your vote. However, they will expect you to respect people that got their vote.

Even if we were to treat them the way we wanted them to treat us and those that we voted for, they will not reciprocate.

The liberals have made it just about politics. Their disagreement with the Iraq war, and their demands for us to pull back, was all about politics. 

Their disagreement with the Iraq war, and their predicting gloom, and they're getting it, is more about their hatred against George Bush than it was about knowledge or awareness.

The liberals/Democrats need to know what they're talking about. This is a prerequisite if they hope that those of us that embrace the facts could meet them halfway.

Glenn Beck: This has to become about the principles because in the principles we all agree.

I'm sorry, but the "principles" that you embrace are consistent with those that liberals embrace.

Those are the principles of surrender. Throughout your rant, you call us to do something. You think you're calling us to come together with the liberals. What you're actually doing is calling for us to surrender the fight to the enemy. 

Bringing our troops home, when the enemy still intends the fight, amounts to surrender. It's failure. These are not the principles that I agree with. "Giving up" when the going gets tough may be a "principal" that the liberals/progressives embrace.

It won't be one that I embrace.

Glenn Beck: Enough is enough. Bring them home, period.

When the enemy is willing to continue to fight, and has every intention to outlast our fight, it's never enough. No, we should not come home until our job is done. Or, rather, the military should not stop its operations until the enemy is truly defeated.

It doesn't matter if it takes another decade, another century, or another millennium. We have to sacrifice all if we have to, because the alternative is far worse than what we could imagine.

Having lived most your adult life in Western civilization, enjoying the best of what it offers relative to others, you don't see the gravity of what you are asking us to do.

Glenn Beck statements from GlennBeck.com; Enough is enough: Bring them home, period., June 17, 2014.

SFI is a Multilevel Marketing Scam!

SFI, or Strong Future International, is just another MLM scam. If you look at their claims and numbers, you'll see that things don't add up.

Before the following link went defunct, I managed to get a quote:

http://www.miragebbs.co.uk/info/faq.htm

"Over $10 million has been paid to SFI affiliates in the last two years alone."

The copyright date ends at 2006. Here's a simple way to see that they're an MLM scam.

Lets say SFI has 10,000 affiliates arranged in an MLM pyramid. (There's actually more affiliates than that). Since each affiliate brings more in, that number's going up exponentially. For this scenario, let's say each earns $4,000.00. Four thousand dollars is almost half of what you need to clear six figures.

SFI implies that you could make a 6 figure income through them. SFI used to stand for "Six Figure Income" before it changed to "Strong Future International."

Back to the scenario.

We have SFI disbursing four thousand dollars a month to ten thousand affiliates. This totals $40,000,000.00 a month; which comes to $480,000,000.00 a year; which comes to $960,000,000.00 over two years.

Already, we could see that their ten million dollars over two years raises red flags. These numbers show that this is a scam, people could see one of two things.

The first possibility is that SFI is paying scant amounts to its affiliates. The second possibility is that very few people get paid well, while the majority gets little to nothing.

Let's work this backwards.

Divide $10,000,000.00 by 24 (monthly over 2 years). We get $416,666.67 a month. SFI pays $416,666.67 a month to 10,000 people.

SFI has more than 10,000 affiliates--8 million according to one claim.

So split that $416,666.67 among, say, one million people. You don't get much per person when you divide $416,666.67 among a million people. Now, in this scenario, let's say that more and more people are getting $5,000.00 and higher checks. This is per month.

Remember, this is happening within $416,666.67. So, the more people we get, making more than $5,000.00, the less remains to be dividing among the rest. No matter the breakdown, SFI pays out an average of $416,666.67 a month in this scenario.

What if SFI affiliates managed to easily achieve six figure incomes?

Say 10,000 SFI affiliates drew $4,000.00 monthly. SFI would have to disburse $40,000,000.00 a month just for payroll. Since they imply that you could make six figures, double that $4,000.00 monthly number.

In order to remain with the $416,666.67 a month figure, less people will have to get paid.

If people are making six figures with SFI, they'll be breaking SFI's bank. SFI would have to disburse over 80 million dollars each month to back their claims.

Realistically, they won't be able to afford that. They'd have no choice but to adjust their compensation fees:

http://www.businessprogramreviews.com/sixfigureincome.html

The link's dead. But it contained an article where someone saw his compensation go from $2,700.00 to $230.00 a month. He ended up killing his girlfriend before committing suicide in jail.

Here is another reality -- you can't gain affiliates in your MLM downline forever.

Sooner or later, you'll run out of people to recruit. Once you reach that limit, the market is completely saturated. The whole system falls apart. The majority loses out and a small minority at the top make out like bandits.

What business, in its right mind, would saturate the market with its own stores? What company would set its stores up to compete against each other at each other's expense? Employers, or people looking for independent contractors, hire just enough, then stop.

Here's how the SFI MLM scam takes place.

Each EA is a customer. SFI rewards EA's for being repeat customers. If you stop buying, you lose your EA status. SFI promotes you to leader status if you bring more repeat customers in. In this case, anybody in your down-line, that achieves EA status, is a repeat customer that you captured for SFI.

The real objective is to get people to remain Executive Affiliates status or higher. These people are SFI's repeat customers.

When SFI rewards an Executive Affiliate, by promoting them to one of the leadership positions, they're not doing it for their leadership abilities. SFI is rewarding them for bringing more repeat customers in.

SFI is one big MLM scam. It's designed to fool people into doing a couple things.

First, it fools them into thinking that they're "running a business." In reality, these people are SFI's repeat customers. Second, SFI tricks people into marketing for them in order to bring more customers in.

Not only are SFI affiliates buying from SFI, they're saving SFI on marketing costs.

It's like having people do all your marketing legwork, to include marketing expenses, just so that they could remain your customer.