A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall ...By Victor Davis Hanson

[mystery-ak]

 A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall
World events seem relatively calm, but repeated appeasement has built up pressure across the globe, and someone has to be there when crisis erupts.
By Victor Davis Hanson — September 22, 2016

This summer, President Obama was often golfing. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were promising to let the world be. The end of summer seemed sleepy, the world relatively calm.

The summer of 1914 in Europe also seemed quiet. But on July 28, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip with help from his accomplices, fellow Serbian separatists. That isolated act sparked World War I.

In the summer of 1939, most observers thought Adolf Hitler was finally through with his serial bullying. Appeasement supposedly had satiated his once enormous territorial appetites. But on September 1, Nazi Germany unexpectedly invaded Poland and touched off World War II, which consumed some 60 million lives.

Wars often seem to come out of nowhere, as unlikely events ignite long-simmering disputes into global conflagrations.

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[andy58-in-nh]

As always, VDH presents the unvarnished truth. Too many people these days have their fingers in their ears and their eyes willfully closed to what is coming, but such behavior is an artifact of human nature, and repeats itself cyclically.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The fomenting by Obama of hatred of Americans against Americans like we have witnessed in Ferguson, and now on the world stage in Charlotte, makes it a ripe time for outsiders to take on the US.

The military has been 'womanized', and way too many Americans have been turned into having hands out rather than lending a hand.

And we have representatives in Congress who do not wish to make the hard choices to better the long-term, but rather do what they can to protect the short-term and their positions of power.

[Bigun]

As always, VDH presents the unvarnished truth. Too many people these days have their fingers in their ears and their eyes willfully closed to what is coming, but such behavior is an artifact of human nature, and repeats itself cyclically.

Well said!  And OH so true!

[Fishrrman]

Isailed wrote above:
"The fomenting by Obama of hatred of Americans against Americans like we have witnessed in Ferguson, and now on the world stage in Charlotte, makes it a ripe time for outsiders to take on the US.
The military has been 'womanized', and way too many Americans have been turned into having hands out rather than lending a hand."

As the military has become "womanized", our nation seems to be in the process of becoming "Weimarized".

Ripe for internal collapse or takeover.

Excellent piece by Mr. Hanson.

[Sanguine]

Chilling.   And, probably correct.

[r9etb]

The fomenting by Obama of hatred of Americans against Americans like we have witnessed in Ferguson, and now on the world stage in Charlotte, makes it a ripe time for outsiders to take on the US.

And it's becoming clear to all.  At long last, Obama's Jimmy Carter moment has arrived.

[skeeter]

As always, VDH presents the unvarnished truth. Too many people these days have their fingers in their ears and their eyes willfully closed to what is coming, but such behavior is an artifact of human nature, and repeats itself cyclically.

I won't bother posting it again but Rudyard Kipling nailed it in a poem over a hundred years ago and its never been more true than now.

[Sanguine]

I won't bother posting it again but Rudyard Kipling nailed it in a poem over a hundred years ago and its never been more true than now.

The Gods of the Copybook Page?

[Joe Wooten]

The Gods of the Copybook Page?

Yep.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Globalism and social media have pushed the world to the brink. The US increasingly resembles a South American dystopia.

We all see it happening but what is the solution?

[r9etb]

We all see it happening but what is the solution?

Survive as best we can.... Seriously, we're headed toward a time of crisis.

[Sanguine]

Survive as best we can.... Seriously, we're headed toward a time of crisis.

Yeah, I wish there was some kind of big, bold, courageous move we could make that would turn things around, but I think you're right - survive as best we can.  At least we have the advantage of seeing the storm coming.  It will be a surprise to most.

[r9etb]

At least we have the advantage of seeing the storm coming.  It will be a surprise to most.

As always, when an empire falls.  Those in charge are focused on trivialities and self-gratification -- which explains our politics, media, legal system, and financial system.

[skeeter]

The Gods of the Copybook Page?

Copybook Headings, yes.

[andy58-in-nh]

I won't bother posting it again but Rudyard Kipling nailed it in a poem over a hundred years ago and its never been more true than now.

From "The Gods of the Copybook Headings":

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!