Time for an American Jihad!

[Ransom]

An American Jihad? We can't even get an American Pope.

[Cigar]

Dr. Keith Ablow: Let's Invade Everywhere for the Sake of Democracy!




Values
It’s time for an “American jihad”
By Dr. Keith Ablow | Published October 28, 2014



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An American jihad would reawaken in American citizens the certain knowledge that our Constitution is a sacred document that better defines and preserves the liberty and autonomy of human beings than the charter of any other nation on earth.

The Constitution, along with the miracle of our nation's founding and the providential history of America fighting and winning war after war against oppressive regimes, proves our manifest destiny not only to preserve our borders and safety and national character at home, but to spread around the world our love of individual freedom and insist on its reflection in every government.

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We would accept the fact that an American jihad could mean boots on the ground in many places in the world where human rights are being denigrated and horrors are unfolding. Because wherever leaders and movements appear that seek to trample upon the human spirit, we have a God-given right to intervene — because we have been to the mountaintop of freedom, and we have seen the Promised Land spanning the globe.

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We the People of the United States are good and we are right. And we need the spirit of an American jihad to properly invite, intensify and focus our intentions to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution here at home, and to seek to spread its principles abroad.



Source: www foxnews com/opinion/2014/10/28/its-time-for-american-jihad/


Apparently, Keith has been "psychiatrin' " too hard and has lost touch with the last decade or so of life in the USA. Seemingly, he has learned nothing about invading countries and attempting to convert said countries to democracy. Strangely too, in the his piece, France, Sweden and Germany are not nearly democratic enough for Dr. Ablow.

Of course, the USA has the greatest democracy that the world has ever seen. That clearly goes without saying.

However, is the world willing to admit this? One might wonder just how the world sees the USA's exceptional democracy.

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As it turns out, there is an organization that has attempted to study the functioning of democracies and governments worldwide. This group is the Democracy Ranking Association (Förderung von Demokratiequalität) and is based in Vienna, Austria.

One may see their staff here:

http://democracyranking.org/wordpress/?page_id=8 .

One may read about their methodology here:

The Democracy Ranking relies on the following conceptual formula for quality of democracy:

Quality of Democracy = (freedom & other characteristics of the political system) & (performance of the non-political dimensions).

Concept and method: The Democracy Ranking model refers to one political dimension and five non-political dimensions, which are: (1) gender (socio-economic and educational gender equality); (2) economy (economic system); (3) knowledge (knowledge-based information society, research and education); (4) health (health status and health system); (5) environment (environmental sustainability). To every dimension different indicators are assigned, therefore the dimensions behave as indicator-based. All indicators are transformed to a value range of “1” to “100”, where “1” represents the weakest (poorest) and “100” the strongest (best) value. For every individual Democracy Ranking release, the used indicators are being specifically (and again) re-transformed to the value range from “1” to “100”. Therefore, when results of different Democracy Rankings are compared, scores can deviate, only the ranking positions stay constant.

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Comprehensive gender dimension: Because gender indicators with a political orientation are assigned to the political dimension, the political dimension already contains gender information. Out of an interest of wanting to know what a possible ranking pattern of a broader gender dimension might be, the Democracy Ranking calculates a “comprehensive gender dimension” (a so-called seventh dimension). The ranking scores of that comprehensive gender dimension are also documented, however, they do not impact the aggregated ranking of the Democracy Ranking. The comprehensive gender dimension is based as an aggregation on the following indicators with the following weight measures (see also Comprehensive Scoreboards in the Ranking Excel Files): Global Gender Gap Report 20%; Political Rights (Freedom House) 15%; Civil Liberties (Freedom House) 15%; life expectancy at birth, female (years) 16.67%; labor force, female (% of total labor force) 8.33%; and unemployment, female (% of female labor force) 8.33%. All the other indicators are weighted equally with 4.17%: primary education, pupils (% female); school enrollment, secondary, female (% gross); school enrollment, secondary, female (% net); school enrollment, tertiary, female (% gross).

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http://democracyranking.org/wordpress/?page_id=590

[pjohns]

The Tea Party is the American Jihad ... and there isn't any half-ass language or subliminal messaging that can change what they are and what they've done.

First, you dragged President Obama into the discussion.

Then, you dragged the Tea Party into the discussion.

I think the usual term for that is trolling...

[pjohns]

Yes [I "believe that it is any more acceptable to use the term, 'neocon Jew,' than it would be to use the (odious!) 'N' word to describe African-Americans."

Well, at least we know where you stand: Slandering African-Americans is entirely unacceptable, but slandering Jews is, well, not so much so...

[Common]

Weve been waging an American Jihad since the revolutionary war and everyone since.

[Mister D]

Well, at least we know where you stand: Slandering African-Americans is entirely unacceptable, but slandering Jews is, well, not so much so...

I always made it clear where I stand and if you feel it's "slander" report it. Otherwise, stop crying about it.

[silvereyes]

An American Jihad? We can't even get an American Pope.

Dumb. There's only one Pope.

[pjohns]

I always made it clear where I stand and if you feel it's "slander" report it. Otherwise, stop crying about it.

Oh, I am not "crying" at all.

But it is evident that you feel that some groups (e.g. Jews) are less entitled to basic respect and civility than other groups are (e.g. African-Americans)...

[Mister D]

Oh, I am not "crying" at all.

But it is evident that you feel that some groups (e.g. Jews) are less entitled to basic respect and civility than other groups are (e.g. African-Americans)...

He's not crying. Proceeds to cry.

Get over it.

[pjohns]

He's not crying. Proceeds to cry.

Much more accurately, I have "[p]roceed[ed] to" call you out as regarding your blatant double standard.

But you evidently cannot handle that...