I had this funny feeling that a change was coming over me last night when I read an article in US News by Harold Evans concerning how we should respond to the bombings in Britain. As I was cutting the article out so I can send it to all of my friends and relatives, I suddenly realized that it wasn't important to send this stuff anymore. It's was like everyone on my list is a believer in that we have no choice but to stand our ground in this fight. We can not afford to give the killers an inch or they will take a mile. The people that I have on my e-mail group that I send political articles, believe that we are in this war for the long haul and that it might not be over with in our life time. That is, a "thirty years war", like the British fought back in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They called it the 'twenty years war' fighting the French and Spanish.
Our past history is one that should be enough to carry us into this conflict in good stead, given out actions in the second world war. I believe that Korea and Vietnam are not good examples of how we stand up to killers and totalitarian countries. Our military could have made us proud in those conflicts, as they always did in the past, but our government at the time was one of isolationism, socialistic liberal pack of hand wringing Marxist that worked over time to bring us to a horrible defeat by surrendering our army and our national pride. As they say, 'no guts, no glory'. The team of Johnson and MacNamera did us in. Nixon tried to stay the course but the left would have none of it! Surrender was the only answer.
Clinton proved that the left were still with us during his eight years as president - it didn't seem to matter what the situation was, he was always ready to withdraw from any conflict that might show the united States had some legitimate reason to fight for a principle of national security for our selves and the rights and freedoms that this country was founded on hundreds of years ago, for others.
Doesn't it come down to just how important is it to have pride in our country and what it really stands for. Do we really believe that we have an obligation to help others gain all of the freedoms that we have when they are placing their very lives on the line fighting totalitarian governments and their terrorist friends.
How many times can be bend our knees and retreat to our shores before the enemies of freedom and human rights land on our citizens again as they did in September 2001. For eight years we did nothing to stop them when they killed our citizens by the hundreds around the globe.
Now President Bush is taking the fight to them and with good success, but all we hear for the liberal Democratic left is that we must surrender or national security and heritage and hope that the killers, when they come to our shores again, and they will, will treat us with respect when they cut our throats.
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