I have been writing about the black swan events that would happen and affect all of us. Most have ignored my admonitions and some have ridiculed them. Well, the big black swan landed in Paris last night and it is 9-11 all over again. While far fewer died, the impact is as great.  In the words of the Pope today, WWIII is underway. We are now, and have been for several years, engaged in a world war with radical Islam, even though Obama refuses to even utter the words Islam. How can we effectively fight an enemy the president refuses to even acknowledge exists. Maybe it is because he is why we are at this point now. His weakness and his lack of a real foreign policy and defense policy has lead the world into WWIII. Create a vacuum, and the really bad guys will flow in. That is exactly what happened.

 

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