It’s Probably Nothing – small dead animals

Rex;

The West has had some peace since the last great war, almost 70 years of it now. And we have had with that peace an astounding march of technological and material progress. Both tend to make people forgetful of worse times. It renders them careless of the foundations upon which peace is first secured and then maintained, and nourishes the delusion they are exempt from the horrors and perils that have been a constant in human affairs.

h/t maz2

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Forgetful of worse times? How can people forget what they have never had? Just a quibble, the piece is dead on.

“How can people forget what they have never had?” Very profound, exactly right.

July 26, 2014: Walter Russel Mead @ The American Interest:
As Libya Implodes, “Smart Diplomacy” Becoming a Punch Line

The United States is pulling embassy staff out of Tripoli, and has issued a travel advisory that nicely outlines what a nightmare Libya has become. If Obama were a Republican, the press coverage of this stinking corpse of a policy flub would be quite different.

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But luckily for Team Obama, the mainstream press would rather die than subject liberal Democrats to the critiques it reserves for the GOP. So instead, as Libya writhes in agony, reputations and careers move on. The news is so bad, and the President’s foreign policy is collapsing on so many fronts, that it is impossible to keep the story off the front pages. “Smart diplomacy” has become a punch line, and the dream Team Obama had of making Democrats the go-to national security party is as dead as the passenger pigeon. But what the press can do for the White House it still, with some honorable exceptions, labors to accomplish: it will, when it must, report the dots. But it will try not to connect them, and it will do what it can to let all the people involved in the Libya debacle move on to the next and higher stage of their careers.

Just another quibble, but I disagree with you and John.
Pretty sure Rex assumes his readership, and the some of the masses have studied ‘history’…it is implied that we have forgotten history.
Rex is right on as he parallels Bible prophecy.

Afghanistan and Iraq are tending now (and in Iraq’s case, is already there) to a condition more threatening than when the vast effort here in the West to confront terrorism began.
Rex nails it;
The meddling of inept western ‘leaders’ has made the situation worse.

“The Jewish State’s defence for its military response isn’t: “They started it!” It is: “They won’t stop.””
George Jonas

Rex writes, “…there is no voice that articulates the dangers potentially present, no leadership that has the reach of the globe that inspires.”
The First World War had Lord Grey, and the Second World War had Winston Churchill. Today we have only the Prime Ministers of Canada and Austrailia that realize the danger of Ukraine.
No leader anywhere publicly talks about the danger that the current war with Islam presents.
Now they all assume that another rousing chorus of kumbaya will keep the dogs of war at bay. Putin and the new Caliph think otherwise.

Taliban poised to retake southern province of Kandahar, an event that pretty much nullifies everything the US, Canada and the rest of NATO did in Afghanistan for 13 years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

There is something that Canada did in Afghanistan for thirteen years that won’t be nullified by the Taliban retaking Kandahar. Canada sent its Army to battle. And the Army learned again to win battles – something it had not been employed to do for generations.

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