I can’t believe this is happening in the USA where these soldiers fought so badly to protect the freedom the country has conquered. Syria is not our battle. Ukraine is not our battle.
This is our battle!
I couldn’t agree more!!
We need to house and help the homeless of America!!!
America first!!! It’s never made any sense to me why we send billions everywhere else and let our own vets live like this. We wouldn’t have a country without men like this. But This battle doesn’t have the payoff that the others do for our politicians. Truth. Pray for truth to prevail. May we take care of our own. Save this country and its people. America First is coming!!!
We owe our soldiers, they gave you the freedom to hate them if you want to (and are evil). We need to help them. They need us and if it weren’t for them, we wouldn’t be where we are right now.
We spend 100s of billions of dollars around the world while Americans, especially veterans, are suffering. Veterans have been forgotten by the corrupt administration, but the cavalry’s coming. I just purchased warm gloves, hats, thermal shirts, thermal socks, raisins , nuts , beef jerky , string cheese and McDonald’s gift cards for the week. There are homeless vets at stop signs and I’ll be giving them out on my drive to work. Our city leaders like to give millions to worthless projects (photo op) but not a dime to those barely surviving on the streets.
What fascinates me the most is how the left was completely anti war wanting to fix problems at home first until Obama and Clinton activated the uniparty neocons plans and inverted the entire political spectrum.
War increases stock prices for the money grubbing Elite Deep States. At the moment, Congress is trying to block the efforts of installing the team to get the job done. In order to win that battle, we need to first win this battle.
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Maui is our battle. West North Carolina And Helene victims that are living in tents is our battle. Homelessness is our battle. Mental illness in this country is our battle. Illegal drug import and usage is our battle. The list goes on… Our battle is against the Perpetual War Machine of the Deep State.The #WNC hurricane victims should be grateful to simply have survived, because they’re sure not getting any help from FEMA, not when there’s even one illegal person who lacks a luxury hotel room.
Somewhat, but the violent hatred being unleashed by liberals is not going to stop in them.
We have imported too many and allowed the educational funding by Qatar to put us in huge jeopardy. One way or another we will be involved.
No Vet should ever have to find themselves in this situation unless he/she suffered great physical or mental damage they cannot self-repair. AFTER THE WARS END AND THE deaths COUNTED, these are also another type of casualty of any post-war period.
And we need to reverse the protected status of Syrians!!!
Stop them from coming!!
Syria is the tinder for the coming fire, but there’s nothing the west can add to or subtract from to make the situation better. What America needs to do is insulate itself as much as possible from coming events, but first and foremost get it’s house in order. The Lord is near.
Thirty years ago, on 5 December 1994, at a ceremony in Budapest, Ukraine joined Belarus and Kazakhstan in giving up their nuclear arsenals in return for security guarantees from the United States, the UK, France, China and Russia. The battle for your spiritual and physical well-being is real, and it starts with recognizing an unknown enemy.Yourself. Many men face internal struggles without realizing a war is being waged for their souls.
Ukraine is important, Syria is not. Ukraine supplies a lot of the world’s Grain. Take away the grain supply prices go through the roof and other nations Starve. We also need to repair ties with Saudi Arabia ( oil) Every middle east conflict can affect our country ( duh)
Even as I type this, in Syria, the Taliban and Islam are committing, horrific murders, and rapes of women..The world will look the other way..It is the reality of our species.. One day, it will come here and the world will look the other way.
This attack on Damascus was a planned event by the Biden Admin to cause chaos. DoD strike packages, which take weeks to plan, helped the Islamic terrorist cement his position there. Now DJT has to deal with yet another Biden/Austin screwup. But it’s Cheney Inc. Compounding selling weapons to both sides while hiding behind the US – they are cancerous.
I guarantee that the new leaders in Syria will be worse for this nation’s interests than the last one. We should make this world war stop.
Bring on the G.O.A.T 
Pelosi’s knives are out for AOC as she works to destroy her plan Syria is against, has been against Israel and us, as are much of the ME “countries”.
And I’ve seen a video of Sen. Graham told Ukrainian principles in the past (before the war) that we (USA) would be with them and we are to the tune of many billions in weapons and money tree giveaways, kickbacks.
All while good men, women, children on both sides die in war.We are in all kinds of wars both internal and external. Time for everyone to stop only focusing on feathering our nests and fight, fight, fight the good fight with MAGA MAHA and finally put a halt with accountability to the internal/external atrocities and treason gangs. Not any unavoidable war of will and resolve should go unaddressed… economic, spiritual, moral, judicial, intel, law enforcement, borders, enemy infiltration, crimes… and so on and so forth…While international conflicts are debated, the real battle for many is right here, in our own communities.
This wouldn’t be our battle if we would just stop invading other countries and fomenting civil wars all over the world. Take care of our vets that need us and stop making more of them.
It’s heartbreaking to see our veterans in this situation. We need to prioritize and address the needs of those who’ve served our country before focusing on conflicts abroad.
We should be ashamed of ourselves – maybe not personally responsible but this should have been fixed as a Country after Vietnam…. and it wasn’t. Veterans like this one remind us of the silent sacrifices made by those who served. Perhaps our ‘battles’ should include securing the welfare of those who’ve fought for us. 
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Hurricane Helene may have destroyed homes, but it couldn’t destroy hope. Here’s how gratitude transforms even the toughest storms. Try this next time it’s hard to be grateful:
We need to remember what we have -Gratitude isn’t about ignoring pain; it’s about focusing on what remains. -Take time to meditate on blessings, even in difficult circumstances. -Practice giving thanks in all circumstances, as outlined in Philippians 4:8. Have you ever faced a challenge that taught you the power of gratitude?
Gratitude isn’t about avoiding the hard stuff, but finding strength in what’s left.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Four score and seven years from now, the mystic chords of memory may recall the way Donald Trump compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, lauded him one day and lambasted him the next. It is altogether fitting and proper that our descendants would examine why the 45th president, who hopes to be the 47th, keeps mentioning the 16th.
“This is Donald Trump, hopefully your favorite president of all time, better than Lincoln, better than Washington,” Trump said in a video introducing “Trump digital trading cards” in December 2022, shortly after announcing his third run for the presidency.
The Republican has often raised the Great Emancipator’s name and compared himself or others to him — he’s been treated worse than Lincoln, he’s done more for Blacks than anyone since Lincoln, and so on. It has become a recurring refrain in Trump’s unique brand of oratory, the meandering stream of random cultural references, dire warnings about the dangers of electing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, personal grievances and self-promoting stories that he’s come to describe as “the weave.”
“What the hell is wrong with our country? Look, we used to have the greatest — Abraham Lincoln,” he said. “Now look at this stuff. Can you believe what we’re doing? She’s so bad.”
Later that same week, a Tennessee 10-year-old called into “Fox and Friends” to ask who Trump’s favorite president was when he was little. Trump mentioned GOP exemplar Ronald Reagan, even though he was in his 30s when Reagan was first inaugurated in 1981. He then pivoted to Lincoln, but tempered his praise with some belated second-guessing about the war that broke out six weeks after Lincoln’s first inauguration.
“Lincoln was probably a great president, although I’ve always said why wasn’t that settled?” said Trump, who has repeatedly claimed that had he remained at the helm, the wars in Ukraine and Israel would never have happened. “You know, I’m a guy that — it doesn’t make sense. We had a Civil War.”
Trump has more in common with Lincoln than you might think
This summer’s Republican National Convention was full of references to Abraham Lincoln, which is no surprise, given that Donald Trump likes to compare himself to the 16th president.
It’s a comparison that aggravates Trump’s critics, who don’t like to see the man they consider the nation’s worst chief executive linked with the man widely regarded as the best.
This may make those critics’ heads explode, but there are some fascinating parallels between the two presidents, as well as some contrasts.
For starters, they share the same political party. Lincoln was the first Republican president. Trump is the 19th.
Both men were long-shot candidates. In 1860, Lincoln, like Trump, defeated a field of better-connected rivals to capture the Republican nomination and win the general election.
Both men came to office with little or no government experience. Lincoln had served only four terms in the Illinois legislature and one term in Congress. Trump had spent zero time in government.
Trump, on the other hand, had far more executive experience. Before his presidency, Lincoln ran a two-man law firm with a reputation for disorganization. He often stored important papers in his hat, and in the corner of his Springfield, Ill., office sat a stack of documents labeled: “When you can’t find it anywhere else, look in this.”
Both men experienced harsh reactions to their elections. In 1860, secessionists wore ribbons with slogans such as “Resistance to Lincoln is Obedience to God.” Resistance — sound familiar?
Lincoln governed during the most divided era in our nation’s history. Trump is governing in perhaps the most acrimonious period since.
Both presidencies have been times of extreme media partisanship. In Lincoln’s day, newspapers were closely aligned with the Democratic or Republican parties, and it showed in their reporting.
In 1863, for example, after the Gettysburg Address, the Democratic Chicago Times proclaimed that “the cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances” of Lincoln’s speech. The Springfield Republican, in Massachusetts, called it “a perfect gem, deep in feeling, compact in thought and expression.”
Lincoln, like Trump, was furiously attacked in the media. Newspapers called him a demon, a buffoon, a miserable failure, a disgrace to the nation. “The man who votes for Lincoln now is a traitor,” one Wisconsin paper asserted when he ran for reelection in 1864. You can imagine what Southern newspapers wrote.
Trump returns the media’s fire almost daily, but his assaults have been a war of words. Lincoln’s counterattacks could be more aggressive. His administration believed some opposition newspapers fueled treason.
During the Civil War, federal authorities sometimes harassed or closed antiwar newspapers, and even arrested editors. Lincoln did not order the suppressions, but he rarely objected.
Lincoln, like Trump, developed ingenious end runs around the press to communicate directly with the people. He managed to get letters and speeches widely published so voters would know his thoughts and words. Trump has done the same with rallies, 90-minute press conferences, and his tweets.
The Washington political establishment viewed Lincoln, like Trump, with wariness and outright hostility. He was considered a rube from the prairies, clearly out of his depth. Mary Lincoln, like Melania Trump, was snubbed by many in the nation’s capital.
Trump is somewhat of a street fighter. His instinct, when hit, is to hit back twice as hard. In his younger days, Lincoln also was a scrapper. He once defended a colleague from an unruly audience by threatening to break heads with a stone pitcher. On another occasion, he came close to dueling a political rival with broadswords.
With age, he became more conciliatory. As president, he sometimes cooled off by writing blistering letters and then filing them away without mailing them. No tweeting for Lincoln.
Lincoln, of course, was a wartime president. Trump and his allies consider themselves engaged in a kind of soft war on at least two fronts: first, against “the swamp,” an entrenched Washington elite, and second, against a hard-left insurgency that aims to radically transform the country.
In both cases, Trump’s supporters believe he is defending the nation’s founding principles. His opponents strenuously disagree.
That, perhaps, is the area of comparison with Lincoln that matters most.
Lincoln was fiercely dedicated to our founding principles, especially those in the Declaration of Independence, his favorite founding document — that we are all created equal, and we all have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He knew that as long as we stick to our founding principles, America can be a great nation.
In the end, history judge’s presidents largely on the defense of those principles. That is one reason we admire Lincoln so much. He defended them to the end.
If any president, from any party, wants to be compared to Lincoln, let it be for that.
John Cribb is an author who has written about subjects ranging from history to education. During the Reagan administration, he served at the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A Lincoln scholar, his latest novel, “Old Abe,” was released in September.
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