I love people...I really do!  As a Christian I have had many respectful and kind interactions and debates with Muslims (here in my country of the United States and elsewhere).  However, there are groups of Muslims who want me dead because I am an "infidel," and they have proven that with numerous bloody attacks going all the way back to 1990. In America our Constitution was created out a Christian world-view and teaches free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and freedom of the press.  Islam teaches none of those things, and in fact is completely incompatible with a Constitutional Republic.  What do we do in America (peacefully and legally) about the legitimate threat of Islam to our freedom and way of life?  

All tyrants fall.  It may take a while, but all tyrants fall.  I will never forget how I felt in the late 1980s and early 1990s watching the disintegration of the evil empire of the Soviet Union.  We couldn't understand it at the time because no one really believed that we could actually defeat and put out of business this communist giant.  But it happened...and it all culminated on Christmas Day, 1991.

I left off the last podcast without mentioning the casualties of the Vietnam War (both for North and South Vietnam and the United States), so I wanted to mention that plus the ecological disaster (Agent Orange).  I remember well this time period: how we all just wanted to forget about the Vietnam War, how we mistreated our vets, how Jimmy Carter almost single handedly destroyed our economy, our military, and let the Soviets and Islamic fundamentalists run rampant.  Then we elected Ronald Reagan...and we saw hope that our economy could turn around, we would rebuild our military, and we could actually roll back communism.  (This was back in the day when most Americans were not idiots and we knew communism was evil.)  We were not prepared, however, for just how much communism would be rolled back world wide as a result of Reagan's presidency.  

The United States had the Vietnam War won by 1971.  What happened so that the communist North Vietnam won just four years later?  And what happened to Vietnam's neighbors at the same time?  How did Vietnam change from the time of their victory in 1975?  

The Cold War was not so cold in Southeast Asia for the twenty years of the 1950s through the 1970s.  Hundreds of thousands of people perished in a civil war and a war of ideologies.  What prompted America to enter into this area of the world where it had no real vital interests, other than trying to stop the spread of communism?  What were the events leading up to it, and how did the United States handle its involvement through the early 1970s?  Listen in to Dr. J give his take on this awful chapter in our nation's (and Vietnam's) history.  In the next podcast Dr. J will wrap up our America's involvement in Vietnam, as well as a follow up to what happened in southeast Asia after the US left.  

A unique aspect of the tension between the Communist Soviet Union and the Free World of the United States and its Western Allies was the competition in space.  Who would be the first nation to land a man on the moon?  The Soviets definitely had a good lead in rocket technology and scored many impressive accomplishments.  But it wasn't long before Americans would catch up.  What was it like to be a witness to this amazing chapter in world history?  I look back now and count myself so blessed that I actually watched in real time some of mankind's greatest achievements.

It is often called "The Forgotten War", or "The Coldest War."  The Korean War was the first open shooting war between Communist forces and the forces of the Free World.  It was eventually a stand-off, and today we still have the brutal regime of North Korea occupying the northern half of the Korean peninsula, while the free Republic of Korea occupies the southern half.  How did we get here?  Listen in to today's podcast!

Did you know that NO full length feature film has ever been done on George Washington?  WHY?  I have no idea.  However, Angel Studios is really on a roll these days.  They have produced a really good movie about the life of George Washington before the American War for Independence.  This is a pretty good movie...I would actually watch it again.  And your children (probably age 12 and up) should watch it too.  No profanity or sexual content, but some graphic violence in the battle scenes.   Way to go Angel Studios with another movie about a real hero we would do well to imitate!  

Happy Independence Day everyone!  I hope you all have a great day celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States of America.  As we take stock of our great country, I thought it would be good to compare the ideas, values, and accomplishments of our founding with the stated goals of a major political party in the US today:  The Democrat (Socialist) Party.   

The aftermath of World War 2 is what we call "the Cold War"...a war between the Soviet Union and communism versus the Western nations (the US, Great Britain, etc.) and capitalism/political freedom.  The march of communism in China begins in the early 20th century and progresses into a victory for Mao Zedong in 1949.  The defeated armies of the Nationalists (under Chiang Kai-shek) flee to Taiwan and establish their competing government.  This story continues today with the communists in China wanting to eliminate the free Chinese on Taiwan and absorb them into their totalitarian control.  So...in a sense the Cold War continues in the standoff between today's Communist China and the free China of Taiwan.