Author: Jon Basil Utley

Phyllis Schlafly was a giant of the conservative movement. And she opposed America’s recent wars. An early fighter, who started up with opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution, died at 92 years old.

I knew her for 30 years and she had known my mother, Freda Utley, before that. Much is written about her including nearly a full page in the New York Times. But very little is reported about her opposition to America’s recent, disastrous wars.

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Here is an excerpt from George P. Shultz’s book, Learning from Experience, due this fall from Hoover Institution Press.

“They will be more effective if they are mostly Arab boots. The challenge is to develop a force in the region that, in coordination with us, can be impactful. An unusual potential coalition is possible: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel, plus Iraqi Kurds and others with help from traditional European allies”

There is no such force and never will be!

Fact is Saudi and UAE don’t trust their own people with weapons – Saudis even prefer to hire South American mercenaries to fight for them in Yemen. Saudi kings most fear their own army and instead depend upon a smaller National Guard with tribal loyalty to the king to keep their own people down.

Egypt’s army is infiltrated with Islamists and fully, fully occupied in escalating fighting with them inside Egypt. And the Kurds, they’re not fighting for America, rather their interest is in expanding territory for a new homeland.

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Glenn Beck is leading an evangelical delegation to Israel (reports The Washington Post) with letters of commendation from Texas Gov. Rick Perry and evangelist John Hagee, leader of Christians United For Israel. The group was described by my article, The Strangest Alliance in History and in journalist Max Blumenthal’s video of their Washington meeting, where former House Speaker Tom Delay described how he “lives for the Second Coming.”

My article describes how the Christian Zionist Texans invented God’s “Dual Covenant” to promise Jews a sort of Christian like parallel heaven after he (soon) destroys most human life on earth. This because the evangelicals dream of and send millions of dollars to promote an early Second Coming, whereby God will kill, with great brutality, and then send to Hell, every human being on earth except for those who convert to born again Christianity. These then get a free pass to heaven with no Day of Judgment, sort of like Muslims claim for those who die in battle.

And they argue that Muslims are led by crazy fanatics!