Sensual Hedonism, AKA What is Destroying America

Today’s topic is one that could be taken directly from the pulpit of a plethora of pulpits across America but it needs to be said. Sensual hedonism, overindulgence, and instant self gratification are wreaking havoc in our nation. There is an old song which seems to be our cultural anthem which essentially goes “I want it like that and I want it right now.” Many of our social problems including obesity, adultery, divorce, pornography, pre marital sex, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, alcoholism, violent crimes, theft, fraud, and identity theft is all caused by our society’s problematic addiction to instant self gratification.

Now if you don’t think our sensual hedonism is a problem then I encourage you to watch television (not cable, just basic broadcast television), browse the internet, and/or shop at Wal-Mart. On TV you will see skankish women talking shamelessly about all the sex partners they’ve had while selling medicines for penile enlargement pills. During prime time you will shows such as Desperate Housewives where people throw off the traditional norms of marriage -love and respect for the other person- and replace them with overt sexuality. Listen to the music of today, Rap, Rock and Roll, Country, alternative etc and you will be bombarded with messages of lust, license, rage, and general hedonism. Women and men are being portrayed by the culture masters in Hollywood as sex objects and vehicles for pleasure.

The websites, other than Myspace (which pedophiles and rapists find very useful for their hedonistic acts which have victimized so many) and Facebook (which is trying way too much to be Myspace lite) and other social networking sites, which draw the most views per page are pornography sites. Harlequin romance novels – face it ladies who read them- are nothing but porn without the pictures and quite amazingly many churches sell these in their book stores. Our culture is inundated with vice and self gratification and we are pounded with it from all directions including the internet, radio and music, television, and the movie theatre. Sadly, however, hedonism is not confined to the realm of mass media which can be shut out and ignored, no our hedonism and greed shapes policy, theology, philosophy, and much of our news headlines.

A place where hedonism is becoming more and more pervasive is the church house. Too many churches embrace the prosperity doctrine (essentially give minister X hundreds of dollars and Jeebus makes you a millionaire glory be and hallelujah), now do not get me wrong I believe the Lord does prosper his people and tithing is essential (not so much because you should expect things in return, but because it is commanded). Lest you say, “but I don’t go to a prosperity doctrine church so I don’t hear a hedonistic gospel” I advise you to consider the fact that way too many churches teach a feel good acceptable doctrine. I am not against churches teaching you to have joy in Jesus, and nor am I saying the church should teach rapture and/or Hell, fire, and brimstone every Sunday, but I am saying too many churches are teaching a cost free form of Christianity where you say a formula sinner’s prayer and glory be you have a fire insurance policy keep going on doing exactly what you did before uninterrupted. While salvation is free, there is indeed a cost of discipleship and while I cannot call out someone who claims to be born again, I will say it looks rather suspicious if you aver to accept Christ as savior and there is no change. There are too many churches, and they are growing ever popular, where there are miracles, healing circles, tounges, prophecy, up tempo movement, and yet sound doctrine is not being taught. Do not get me wrong, I believe in a miracle working God and that spiritual gifts (tounges, prophecy, healing by the laying on of hands, and casting out demons) are for today, but too often the pentacostal churches go to overflowing congregations because people are seeking the miracles and the gifts which are free, but are less than interested in the one who does the miracles and dispenses with the gifts. People are flocking churches (especially Pentecostal ones) to see a show, do some calisthenics, and watch pastors preach much ado about nothing. The gospel is obscured by the circus acts such as the amazing woman who stammers like a baby, the man who sounds like he is having . . . . well . . . . a sexual act, the woman who moos like a cow, barks like a dog, or wails like a banshe. Do not get me wrong the Holy Spirit is still alive, but too often I get the impression that people are trying to draw attention to themselves far more than the Holy Spirit. Bottom line is that the church is now where people go for a one hour feel good experience, but where they do not seek change. Far too many churches no longer equip people for spiritual warfare and help them with their physical and spiritual needs. The church has become a place where one goes to act like a holy fool for an hour on sunday before going back to the carnal old man -that Ephesians chapter Four says we are supposed to die to daily- Monday through Saturday.

Sensual hedonism has also latched onto the Federal Government and how it shapes policy. We are in Iraq because Bush wanted to make a boat load of money for his wealthy friends and because of this 1.3 million Iraqis have died and so have 4000 Americans. Sensual hedonism has led to Enron, the bank failures, adjustable rate mortgages, credit card debt, and the many scandals of the Bush administration. The fruits of the spirit, seen in the fifth chapter of Galatians, would have warded off many of the crises that this country has faced in the past decade.

On a more local level one only need go to Wal-Mart to see hedonism face to face. You will hear the Subway commercial that says “indulge yourself,” and if you worked maintenance there for any time frame you would go “oh please do not indulge yourself.” You will see the children not getting their toys (these kids are 4 or 5 at the oldest) and proceeding to tell their mother (s) to F*** off. There is no discipline, no patience, no self control, no peace, no joy or compassion left in the United States and it will be our downfall. Much as it was the downfall of The Soviet Union, Qing China, The French Aristocracy, the Romanovs, the Weimar Republic, Rome, Athens, Persia, Mongolia, Israel, Babylon and the list goes on and on and on. We are not special in the eyes of God. We are not selected by God- historically only Israel is given any such promise- and we are not his chosen people or generation. If we do not repent and turn from our wickedness and our hedonism then we will join the ever growing ash heap of history.

The Opening Moves in the World Endgame?

Hello out there, the disinterested cynic here. War between Israel and Iran is looming and it looks like it could be sooner rather than later. According to CBN News, I know I know that fake news show looks a lot like Joe Goebbels’ outfit, Israel is plotting on . . . . well . . . . uh . . . . canceling Iran’s nuclear program in a time frame that stretches from shortly after the November Elections to shortly after the inauguration of the new president. According to the ministry of Christofascist propaganda:

JERUSALEM, Israel – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced last week an attack on Iran’s nuclear program would endanger the entire world. Medvedev’s comment is just the latest barometer of what’s at stake in today’s volatile Middle East.

Collision Course

Russian tanks rumbled through Georgia in its most aggressive military action since the end of the Cold War.

Meanwhile Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues his rants and threats to eliminate the Jewish state of Israel.

Numerous reports indicate Israel is preparing for a military strike on Iran’s nuclear plants.

These forces are all part of today’s Middle East landscape, forces that well might be on a collision course.

“In Israel, people having in the back of their mind past traumas, especially the Holocaust are truly afraid that the minute Ahmadinejad lays hands on a nuclear weapon, he will drop it on Israelis heads,” said Ronen Bergman, an Israeli investigative journalist and author of “The Secret War With Iran.”

He says Iran is Israel’s number one concern.

“Since 2002, since General Meir Dagan was appointed Mossad General Director, the Israeli foreign intelligence service is basically working on one issue and one issue alone and this issue is Iran,” he said.

October Surprise

Many analysts believe Israel won’t tolerate a nuclear Iran, but don’t expect an immediate response.

The last thing Israeli leaders want is to be part of an “October Surprise” before the U.S. elections. But they also know that the window to stop Iran from going nuclear may soon be closed.

“Mossad estimates of what they term as the first nuclear device is at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010,” Bergman said.

Whatever the estimate of when Iran can produce nuclear weapons, some suspect an Israeli military strike might take place after the U.S. presidential election and before the inauguration of the new President.

Bergman is one analyst who expects a strike at a later date – after the inauguration.

“At present time, if things continue as they are, I think we should expect a very tense, though quiet days in the Middle East,” he said.

Questions that Linger

Regardless of the time frame, a number of unanswered questions hang over the Middle East: Will Israel attack Iran? Will the U.S. attack as well, or assist Israel militarily? And if an attack is launched, what will be the consequences? What would Russia do?

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/446008.aspx

Now here is where this thing gets downright scary. We have sold the Israelis 1000 bunker busters obstinantly to hit Hezbollah and Hamas arsenals in Gaza and the West Bank, but one has to bear in mind that conventional weapons already in the Israeli arsenal could take these out,no these are to attack Iran and lest you think I am making this stuff up here is what the AP had to say about this:

JERUSALEM – The U.S. plans to sell Israel 1,000 buster-bunker bombs which Israeli military experts said Monday could provide a powerful new weapon against underground arsenals in Lebanon or Gaza.

The experts said they doubted, however, that the bombs could be used to deliver a crippling blow against Iran’s nuclear program.

In announcing the proposed $77 million deal, which still needs Congressional approval, the U.S. Defense Department said the sale of the Boeing GBU-39 smart bombs would be consistent with the U.S. interest of assisting Israel “to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability.” The Pentagon issued a release on the planned sale on Sept. 9.

Because it is a precision weapon that generates far less collateral damage than heavier munitions, “this bomb is going to be the general-purpose bomb of the next generation,” said Yiftah Shapir, a military analyst at Tel Aviv’s Institute of National Security Studies. He said possible targets would include “Katyusha launchers in Lebanon or Qassam (rocket) launchers in Gaza.”

Shlomo Brom, the Israeli military’s former chief of strategic planning, noted an increasing tendency to place weapons underground.

In Israel’s 2006 war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrilla group, “one of our problems had been that they put many of the rocket launchers in bunkers and fortifications underground ,” Brom said.

One hardened target the military went after in that war was the bunker of Hezbollah chief Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli security officials have said. Nasrallah survived the fighting, but has been in hiding since the war.

Past U.S. sales of bunker-buster bombs to Israel have been construed as a veiled threat against Iran’s nuclear program.

But Brom and Shapir said they did not think they would be used against Iran, where key nuclear facilities such as the uranium enrichment plant at Nantanz are buried deep and hardened by yards of concrete.

“You would need something a lot heavier,” he said. The GBU-39 can penetrate 6 feet of concrete, and “6 feet is not enough,” he said.

Despite a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, Israel and many in the United States still believe Iran’s nuclear program is geared toward developing weapons. Iran insists the program is only for producing electricity.

Israel hopes Iran can be induced through sanctions and diplomacy to scale back its nuclear ambitions, but has not ruled out a military strike.

The GBU-39 is “a weapon Israel needs for general purposes,” said Shapir, who questioned Israel’s capability to deal a blow to Iran’s nuclear program. “But attaching this thing to an attack on Iran is propaganda, in my view.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_bunker_busters

Now if Israel’s plans to take out Iran’s nuclear program and our selling Israel the weapons needed to do the job are not bad enough lets talk about recent developments in Georgia. It seems that NATO is planning to place fighter planes in Georgia officially for the purposes of fending off future Russian aggression. However, according to Russiatoday.com those planes would be used for operations against Iran.

‘U.S. may use Georgian air bases to strike at Iran’
The U.S. military could have plans to use Georgian air bases to launch air strikes against Iran, according to Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. He pointed out that Georgia would be the perfect base for a potential U.S. operation in Iran.

Speaking in Brussels, Dmitry Rogozin said:

“What NATO is doing now in Georgia is restoring its ability to monitor its airspace, in other words restoring the whole locator system and an anti-missile defence system which were destroyed by Russian artillery. Now these systems are being restored as soon as possible. We have unconfirmed information that American ships under cover of himanitarian aid have delivered all the equipment necessary for the restoration of these systems.

He noted that there it is impossible that these preparations are designed for Georgia’s protection against Russia, since the war in the Caucasus is over and all the security measures in South Ossetia and Abkhazia are being pursued.

“It’s done for logistic support of some air operations either of the Alliance as a whole or of the United States in particular in this region. The swift reconstruction of the airfields and all the systems proves that some air operation is being planned against another country which is located not far from Georgia. What country could it be? Which country is in the spotlight now? Of course it’s Iran, there are no other countries,” the envoy said.

Rogozin also added that if a U.S. military operation against Iran goes ahead, he would have “pity for Georgia, because Iran is certain to defend itself.”

Rogozin called for the U.S. to support Russia’s effort to engage Iran in international dialogue. According to him, threatening and pressuring Iran only “gives Teheran more arguments in favour of building some sort of weapons of mass destruction”.

Iran has been in a state of diplomatic conflict with leading world powers over its nuclear programme. The state government argues that it needs enriched uranium for the peaceful generation of electricity. However, Western analysts argue that the program is geared toward weapon production.

The US hasn’t denied that a military option exists to deal with the Iranian issue. This has spawned numerous theories on how and when the US could attack Iran. To read RT’s report on the issue follow the link.

Nevertheless, David Wurmser, a former key national security adviser to UN Vice President Dick Cheney, has said that President Bush is highly unlikely to take any military action against Iran before he leaves office.

“Two things have to be in place for there to be an attack – and that time has run out, and that diplomacy has run out,” Wursner said in Brussels after a day-long meeting on nuclear nonproliferation. “The feeling to a large extent now is that diplomacy is working, that there is a trend in the regime toward moderation, that pressure is building on the regime.”

The Islamic Republic is currently under three sets of relatively minor UN sanctions. However, the government denies a possibility of folding its nuclear programme.

Iran’s nuclear programme

The Iranian government insists that it is functioning fully in accordance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Treaty’s terms state that a country is allowed to enrich its own fuel to a level suitable for civil nuclear power. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly stressed that the country will not break its NTP obligations. He argues that international pressures on the country amount to bullying.

The UN’s Security Council is concerned that the same technology used to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes can be used to produce nuclear warheads. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has pointed out that there are two outstanding issues with Iran’s nuclear porgramme. Primarily, Iran has not explicitly clarified its position in relation to studies into nuclear armament. Moreover, it has not allowed extra inspections into all of the enrichment facilities. Nevertheless, there have been no confirmed reports of Iran enriching weapons-grade uranium. U.S. intelligence reports have stated that the possibility of Iran reaching a sufficient level of technology to make a nuclear weapon even by late 2009 is “highly unlikely”.

Ahmadinejad has called the UN’s demand to inspect all of the country’s enrichment facilities “illegitimate”. Time and time again Iran announced that it would not yield to international pressures and its peaceful programme of uranium enrichment would remain unchanged.

Fact file

On September 15, Iran’s air force and units of its missile defence force began military exercises across half the country. The scenario of the war games will see the use of spy planes to collect intelligence on enemy moves. Next, the army is tasked with repulsing a missile attack on Iranian ‘objects and systems’. In the final phase of the drill, the army of the Islamic Republic practises destroying the ‘most vulnerable areas of enemy territory’.

Two months before the exercises began Tehran tested new domestically-made missiles, among them an upgraded version of the ‘Shekhab-3’ rocket. That missile is capable of reaching Israel and the Persian Gulf, where U.S. military bases are located. The range of the new rocket is more than 2,000km. The distance between Iran and Georgia is about 1,000km.

http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/30579

Now America’s involvement in Georgia makes perfect sense, first we take a desire for war against Iran. Second we want our war without Russian intervention. Third we want to pound Iran from all sides. So with all this in mind we goad our ally Mikheil Saakashvili to commit genocide in South Ossetia and Abkhazia knowing full well that Russia will come to the defense of people who are ethnic Russians, and as soon as Russia comes to the defense of their peace keepers and nationals our government instantaneously get the media to shape popular support against them and the Bush administration denounces Russia and sends an “aid” package (read: weapons) to Georgia. Under the pretext of defending Georgia’s territorial integrity the American government gets to put advanced military technology against Iran and with this Iran is encircles on the north (Georgia and Turkey), the West (Iraq), the East (Afghanistan) and the south (the fleet in the Gulf).

The planes we will be placing in Georgia in the very near future are there for a duel purpose. The first is to bully and intimidate Russia, remember when Bush says bullying and intimidation are unacceptable in the twenty first century he is referring to every other nation besides the United States, and the second is for strategic positioning against Iran. What makes this situation so dire is that I really doubt that Russia -especially with their current government in power- will take all this lying down. Russia, because of our meddling in their affairs during the South Ossetian Conflict, is now looking to play the old Cold War ploy of tit for tat. This is evidenced by their increased support for Cuba, their selling of several billions of dollars worth of weapons to Chavez and sending their navy and some strategic bombers to Caracas, their ever increasing ties to China, North Korea, and Medvedev’s recent statements of support for Iran as well as Russia’s increased military and research investments in Iran. The Russians have proven that it is unwise to toy with them and it is almost as foolish to mess with Iran.

The following is the absolute worst, and therefore very likely course of events should we get Israel to bomb Iran. First, Israel takes out Iran’s nuclear reactors. In response Iran calls on Russia to remember their alliance and Iran fires its missiles at Saudi oil fields and our fleet and kills many people. Russia responds by striking Israel. Israel asks America for help and so our fighters and bombers in Georgia, Ukraine, and the Baltic strike targets in Russia. This results in the Russians retaliating by striking back at our airforce bases. In the absolute worst case scenario America and Russia are wiped out in a nuclear catastrophe. Lets hope not, but I fear that our recent actions against Russia and Iran may have opened Pandora’s box and there is no hope of closing it.

What gives with the Pot Shots at the Church?

Tonight’s discussion is one near and dear to my heart and it seeks the question of why does the world take so many pot shots at the Church? As you may have guessed I read a lot of left leaning message boards and read liberal type blogs and while I agree with them on an awful lot it really bothers me how caustically many of them regard the body of Christ. Now I realize that in 2000 years the Church -and by this I refer to both Catholics and Protestants has made its share of mistakes, but in terms of doctrine I do not understand what people’s problem with Christianity is.

These attacks on the church take various forms, a blog called the Edge recently did a story about why people vote Republican and while it did make many spot on observations the writer of that piece, one Jonathan Haidt, could not help himself and went out to try to show that Christians are somewhat less intelligent than the general population. Now while some Christian groups -to their great detriment- do not value or support education I think it is fundamentally wrong to call followers of Christ uneducated or unintelligent. Because I believe in letting people speak for themselves here is the link to the article in question:http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge256.html#haidt

Then there is an increasingly popular film, you can easily find it on Google videos, called Zeitgeist. It is a three part film which in order disputes the existence of Christ, talks about the government coverup on 9/11, and talks somewhat antiSemitically about how Jewish bankers run the world. This film not only goes after the divinity of Christ, but the very existence of Christ. It is incredibly popular and this is quite tragic because while this film is somewhat accurate about the origins of the Iraq War and raises interesting questions about 9/11 it is aimed to attack at the very heart of the Christian faith. Sadly, Zeitgeist is hardly alone in its ambitions and while it is somewhat obscure most Americans have at least heard of, read, or watched The Divinci Code which does nothing but bash Christians -especially Catholics- and Christ from the start.

The tragedy is compounded by the existence of two internet projects where it seeks soldiers and veterans who have rejected God and high school students who have rejected God. Now to me as a Christian and a historian this is somewhat alarming because once the religion that founds a civilization is undermined the decline and collapse of the culture that adhered to it is not far behind. We have seen this theme repeated over and over and over again in Egypt, Sparta, Athens, Rome, and even to an extent Japan and the Soviet Union.

Now I am not saying people should not take pot shots at the church because that is what skeptics do, but I find it very odious when the mainstream media spends time doing nothing but attacking Christianity. The Catholic Church has received the brunt of this wave of persecution, but the attacks on the faith have been seen on increasing levels against many protestant groups. Now when the Church makes a mistake it should seek to correct the faux pas, but to continuously lambast the church makes me a bit nauseas.

Its Going to Get Nuclear in Here

No this post is not about anything that George Bush has done, its about the series of events that hastened the end of the Second World War. Before I begin the meat of this post let me put out a minor disclaimer (Nuclear war is a horrible option that nobody can win, My sympathies go to all civilians who died at the dawn of the nuclear age and I really hope that nobody ever resorts to nuclear weapons again. I think these weapons are too powerful and along with war itself should be outlawed at the earliest possible moment) This public service announcement has been brought to you by the proprietorship of Inoculation Against Idiocy.

Now we resume our regularly scheduled post.

On August 6, 1945 the world entered the nuclear age as Hiroshima was bombed with the “little boy” atomic bomb and two days later Nagasaki was bombed with “fat man”. In 1945 the United States was in its fourth year of war against the Empire of Japan. By May, 1945 the war against Germany had drawn to a successful conclusion. Japan, however, remained dangerous. Although the allied actions from 1942 to summer, 1945 had proved Japan would not win the war, there was still no proof that Japan would lose the war anytime in the immediate future. The Japanese population was still firmly supportive of the war, suicide forces were being mustered, weapons were being stashed, and Japan was being converted into a vast fortress to thwart a vast allied invasion. The question to be asked is what choices did the allies have to force the hand of the Japanese Military government.

Invasion:
“Operation Downfall” was to consist of two seperate invasions. Operation Olympic in November, 1945 was to take the south Island of Kyushu and Operation Coronet was to attack Tokyo Bay directly. The Americans expected a minimum of 500,000 fatalities and between one and two million wounded. The Japanese government was showing propaganda films to their women saying American troops would rape the women and eat the children, and many women were contemplating sepuku and the murder of their children to protect them from this horror. BTW, if you think this threat was taken lightly then I suggest you watch footage from Saipan, Taipan, and the Okinawa operations. You will see women clutching their children and tossing themselves off the high cliffs and drowning in the surrounding seas. Conservative estimates are 10 million women and children would have committed suicide in the aftermath of the invasion. Then there were the men, the male population was to be given poison tip bamboo spears and regular army units were to operate suicide devises all throughout the invasion sphere. Considering that the Japanese truly did fight to the death more than anyone else this is at least 10 million more deaths. So you have 20 million dead Japanese and probably around one million dead allies. I’m not sure but since the Soviets had already gotten involved in Manchuria Stalin would have insisted on involvement in Japan and because the Soviets were far more brutal than us we are talking ten to twenty million more Japanese casualties and probably 2 to 3 million more Soviet casualties. So invasion is conservatively going to cost 10 to 20 million Japanese and 500 thousand to a million allied service men. Add in the Soviets if they get involved its 2 million + allied casualties and 20 to 40 million Japanese dead. This my friends is a nightmare of demographic proportions. Japan might have very well ceased to exist.

Bomb Japanese Cities to 100% total ruin and destruction. C
Curtis LeMay sought to study firestorms and how to best destroy the flimsy wooden architecture of Japan to combust entire cities. He sought to cause temperature inversions which would cause things that would not ordinarily burn to combust. He would have added to the power of Twentieth, tenth and ninth air forces the fifteenth air force from Europe and these forces would do round the clock bombing of each city in Japan until it was 100% leveled to rubble. BTW, this would have led to millions more Japanese civilian casualties and the loss of several thousand American air crew members. Again unacceptable civilian casualties and servicemen casualties. Oh and if you think that the a-bomb total was high (80,000 in both cities combined by ) the bomb itself-not counting some 40,000 who died later of radiation poisoning- then I direct your attention to the Tokyo Firestorm which, using completely conventional munitions, killed 120,000 in one night. The moral threshold had been passed well before the A-Bomb decision.

Blockade and Starve Japan to Surrender:
This results in famine, starvation, increased support for the government. It also turns Japan into a hermit -north korea like- state, and because the Japanese were working on wonder weapons of their own -don’t believe me watch the mundane specials on the history channel. The Japanese were also working on their own atomic bomb and had planes with the range to reach the west coast of the United States. This would have meant a couple hundred thousand American civilian deaths, thousands of soldiers dying because of Suicide attacks and millions of Japanese dying by famine. This is not an option for too many Americans die. Plus there is the chance Stalin gets impatient with the Americans and concludes a separate peace to get an ally against his next foe -The United States. This is just a horrible scenario.

A-Bomb:
The world’s first Nuclear option. In this scheme you scare Stalin -yes he knows about the bomb from his spy scientists and the NKVD is feverishly working on developing a Russian bomb- into playing ball in the post war environment. This, however is a minor reason, the major reasons for the bomb are to shorten the war and save several million American and Japanese lives. I mean which is more immoral killing 10 to 20 million Japanese and losing 500,000 to a million allied troops, or killing 60-100 thousand Japanese and endangering a couple of aircrews? Plus the A-bomb did not even in itself end the Japanese war effort. The official minutes from the Japanese high command on August 6 stated literally “by the way the Americans seem to have an especially powerful new bomb”. No, it took two such bombs in less than 72 hours to end the Japanese efforts because the Japanese wondered just how many of these bombs did the Americans have. It was this factor primarily that forced the Japanese to raise the white flag. Millions are alive today on both sides because of the decision to drop the bomb.

Other positive outcomes of the bomb. Nuclear weapons have become- with the exception of those in Al Qaeda and such groups seeking the bomb for destructive purposes – a defensive weapon. Nobody wants to use the bomb because of the moral problems associated with it because of what happened over Japan in August, 1945. Nobody wants to say they just killed at tens of thousands of civilians. The bomb I hope is never used, and because of the horror of Hiroshima I should think nobody would actually venture to use it.

WWII: What they did not teach you in High School

The darkest secrets about World War Two are ones that many are just now waking up to. Iosif Stalin in many ways initiated the world war. Here’s how. In the aftermath of the 1917 October Revolution the Soviet government realized a fundamental error regarding Marxist dogma had been made. They saw that Russia was a peasant driven economy and not an industrial economy and because of this the revolution had started in the wrong place. In 1919 KOMINTERN was established by Grigor Zinoviev to foment international revolution. In the 1920 Russo/Polish War -one of those things they don’t show on the history channel- The KOMINTERN did succeed in causing strikes in France, Germany, and Britain that delayed the arrival of supplies to the Poles. As a result a force commanded by Trotsky and another led by Tukhachevsky nearly seized warsaw before being driven off by Pilsudski’s Polish army. Lenin had seen the future and realized that by foreign operations he could move the revolution to the places that it was supposed to start in.

During the 1920s there was a factioning of ideas, especially after the March 1924 death of Lenin. Trotsky and Zinoviev felt the Soviet Union should train groups in geurilla tactics and start small scale insurgencies that would spark revolutions across the globe. Trotsky and Zinoviev lost their heads because of this after Stalin seized power. Stalin also had a plan, no it wasn’t to stay isolated and establish a model socialist state. No it was to make the USSR the vangaurd of the World Socialist Movement, and his premise was to make arm Russia to fight a modern war and then advance the world revolution on the bayonets of the Red Army. In 1928 Marshal Tukhachevsky and the Red Army high command wrote a document convincing Stalin of this that was titled “The Future War”. (BTW you can see this document at the War College in Ft. Leavenworth, KS) This in depth study analyzed WWI and the Civil War and concluded that the next war that would begin the world revolution would be an ultramodern war fought with airplanes, mechanized armies, artillery, and would be Apocolyptic in nature. He felt that only severe discipline- as seen in the purges- would glue the socialist state together while westen capitalist states collpased. It is no coincidence that the Five Year Plans started in 1928. Why? Because Russia had no solid heavy industrial base to make weaponry, also they had to urbanize and so they used collectivization and forced famine to draw workers to the city. The Second Five year plan was to actually build the weapons the Red Army would use in the future war. In 1933 Great Britain had 500 tanks, France had 400, and the Germans, US and all other nations in the west had less than 500 combined. The goals of the second five year plan was to produce 5,000 tanks a year. Also during this time glider schools were introduced, germans and Russians learned tank Strategy and air combat. In fact before Hitler outlawed cooperative training in 1935-36 the Russians and Germans had a farewell dinner. The Russian commanders would be dead by 1939 and the German officers would be launching blitzkrieg which they learned in Russia.

Now here’s where it gets interesting in 1939 the Russians and Germans inked a non aggression pact that gave the Russians pieces of Romania, all of the baltic states, the eastern half of Poland and space. Stalin killed his generals under the false belief that if you arm your troops sufficiently you can personally direct the combat efforts. Furthermore, he killed the high command of the Red Army because in the showdown to come he wanted to ensure absolute loyalty in his army and so he weeded out Generals even suspected of being disloyal. It needs to be noted that in 1938 and 1939 the Russians weren’t completely destroyed. In Finland the purges showed their full effect as communications, intellegence, logistics, training, and command structures were wiped out and Russia only beat Finland after a bloody war by swamping the Finns with numbers. In Mongolia at Khalkin-Gol, part of the Special Far Eastern Military District, The Russians obliterated the Japanese. The Russians had a modern army with KV-1 tanks, early models of the T-34 and a modern airforce with planes that outclassed the Japanese Kwantung Army. The Japanese were crushed by Zhukov’s forces so badly that they inked a nonaggression pact out of fear. If you don’t believe me than consider this. In the 1930s and 1940s the Japanese military was ran by two clans. One ran the Navy and the other ran the Army. The Army plan was the northern strategy to attack Siberia and get much needed oil. At Khalkin Gol this was rejected after the Russians opened a can of whoopass on the Japanese. They then turned to the Southern Strategy to attack European colonies and strike the American naval forces at Pearl Harbor to knock the US out of the war. Also as for the December 7 attacks the Soviets were aware of the Jap aims on Pearl Harbor in November of 1941 and because they knew the Japanese were too weak to fight both the US and USSR simultaneously Stalin was able to free up several hundred thousand troops in Siberia for operations outside Moscow.

Now Back to the War in Europe. There is a great deal of evidence that Stalin was planning to either attack Germany first, or use a German invasion as the impetus for launching the Conquest or “liberation of Europe”. In January, 1941the Red Army wargamed an invasion of the Soviet Union to see if they could withstand a German invasion. Zhukov’s blue force- playing the German forces- broke through the Soviet two lines of defense and took Moscow. He warned Stalin of this and Stalin told him to shut up. Now why are the two lines of defense important? The answer is that the Germans were supposed to attack the first line of defense, get bogged down, and then the Second line of Defense was to take the offensive. BTW this did eventually work in the operations of 1943 and 1944, especially Kursk, when the Red Army’s high command had gained competency in planning and organization but in the critical first months of the war the Germans stormed over the first echelon of defense and into the 2nd line of defense of the debrained Red Army. So here’s the question, did Stalin know the Germans were going to attack? The answer is yes. Schulz Boyzen an operative high up in the German High command- The Luftwaffe- had told Stalin what divisions, what date, what direction, and the complete details of Barbarossa in May, 1941. Stalin replied by telling him and other Red Orchestra-Stalin’s spy ring- to literally go **** your mother. Stalin did nothing, or did he. Again the answer is a resounding yes. See he did not want to tip off Hitler of the plans for attack and he did not want Hitler to know of the impending plan Stalin had developed. So how do we know the Russians were preparing to attack?

This paragraph will answer that question. In the 1930s at Frunze Academy and other Officer academies officers were told that to launch a suprise and sudden attack on your enemy you move your air and land forces into forward positions near his frontier. In the post-Stalin era, Stalin and the Red Army was blamed for initial defeat because they foolishly deployed armour and aircraft to close to the frontier. More proof of this is that on their way through western Russia, Wehrmacht officers wrote how something was wrong with the Soviet defenses. Russian aircraft were at forward airfields, Soviet tanks were in staging grounds, nothing was dug in, but it looked like they were planning an offensive war. Bottom line is that the Russians were planning to either attack the Germans first, or were going to make everything nice and legal by drawing the Germans in and then pouncing on them so that they could look justified in the eyes of the world. It is clear that Stalin from 1928 was planning to initiate WWII, and that in 1941 he knew the German invasion was coming and did little to stop it because he was planning the first blow.