Paris reaction

Answering commenter Amartel at the end of the previous post, Obama: I'm Not Interested in "American Leadership or America Winning. 

[Instead] go on the offensive, shaming everyone who questions them, dithering over semantics and optics, and continuing merrily on doubling and tripling down on the same failed policies that got us to this point in the first place.

Two articles discuss similar views.

It's too late to save France by Rick Moran on PJ Media

The French you would expect to defend France have given up. They justify evil by entertaining the idea that French society has let down the terrorist by being insufficiently inclusive. They are frozen in doubt and cannot summon the courage or the energy to fight back. Similar to Hitler walking though France because the nation was similarly traumatized by WWI they lost the energy to acknowledge the threat straight on and protect themselves.

The piece is contradicted in the first  comment by the godfather of PJ Media. Simon believes the cite and the samples provided do not represent France, that the rest of the nation is not like that. 

Why the Paris Massacre Will Have Limited Impact on Danielpipes.org.

Pipes describes France as divided by the governed who tend to move right incrementally with each Islamic terror related incident and a ruling elite that moves left incrementally with each incident. The more right the people, the more left the leaders. So the citizens see such policies as increased immigration even as they grieve over loss and rage for concrete defensive action. That dynamic balances and so nothing happens. Pipes concludes, eventually things change through elections but weakened and decades too late.

We noticed that too. Comments here are rife with the same ideas.

There are a lot of things to look at all at once, chief among them our state of mind.

The collective psychological state can be characterized by schizophrenia on a national scale and on international scale such that disallows straightforward war with radical Islam by coalition and sustained to its defeat. France as a nation is psychologically schizophrenic and the United States is psychologically schizophrenic neither nation can be trusted as partner even among themselves in matters of sustained war. Both are unreliable partners for war because both are politically schizophrenic.

Addressing Methadras who follows Armatel in the previous post.

Not a single person is to be trusted in this very long thread of comments on Twitter to an MSNBC article about French Interior Minister saying directly to expect the "dissolution of mosques where hate is preached" The discussion is dragged into the weeds immediately in different directions. What about this, what about that, who decides what is hate, what about when that power is used against you? What about Christians? What about the crusades? Look at all the red-necks, there sure is a lot of hate. As a person who's served, as an atheist, as homosexual, as a person of color who has experienced... Within seconds all this and tons more of the same, these are not the people trusted to initiate, participate, cooperate, sustain war. One's other half is not trusted. One's twin is not trusted. Not one bit, and the feelings being mutual rule out sustained war to success.

Because of this, war cannot be straightforward. Damn, ALL dressed up to the nines and no place to go. It must be otherwise.

Expect mosques to be surveilled intensely without admitting it. Not so much proper services, rather, activities after services. The same with certain neighborhoods.  Electronic surveillance will penetrate even to game consoles. A lot of pin-prick arrests in the night. A lot of things will happen, speech laws will change.



The Left will adjust incrementally even more tautologically left as Obama already has @POTUS Rejecting refugees is not American. It's not who we are. (video), and hours ago, "We must not close our hearts to Syrian refugees." Liberally and reliably flipping to the obvious extreme opposite of the immediate emergency at hand and under discussion for position and for inspection and for introspection, and stay there planted firmly as signpost. Signs of schizophrenia.

Not in the mood to be told who we are or reminded of own history. Vetting immigrants is who we are, and on this Obama is not trusted. We do not trust ourselves. He'll say we have a strong vetting system in place and he will be answered that he is not trusted. Thus schizophrenia. And he's already pulled us into the weeds to discuss ancillary concern and off the discussion of how war is fought far less how war is won, no, our psychological state allows only pinpricks under cover of night without discussion because our national discussions look like the comments section to any related MSNBC article such as the one linked, nothing but weeds. The national discussion will be which freedoms we're willing to cede regarding this type of self-surveillance, such as codes that are virtually impenetrable for everyday messaging, backdoors even on gaming devices, high tech surveillance of mosques and neighborhoods, meta data, data sweeping, all that traded with undeclared war amounting to how much military assets a president is willing to  assemble here and there and for how long a term in place of straight up declared resolutely and sustained war to the end. Sustained all forces all in full on war is not possible for a shattered personality, nor coalitions with other mental patients, only brilliant outbursts possible along with built in and extended covert programs run by governments themselves collectively wildly schizophrenic.