Posted on 11/02/2004 3:01:07 PM PST by mrustow
That the world changed on 911 has become one of those true cliches that some people mouth unconsciously, and others mouth insincerely. But the world did change that day.
Americans speak much less commonly of 311 as a day the world changed, but it did. March 11, 2004 was the day of the train bombings in Madrid that killed 192 people. After 911, we learned that the old European powers were not our allies, and would gladly see us destroyed by Islamic terrorism. (For reasons which I have earlier discussed, I do not count the British as Europeans, even though it is ultimately due to the unpopular, gritty stand by Tony Blair, that the Brits stand with us at all.) In the wake of 311, we learned that much of Europe would not even defend itself against Islamic terror, but sought for themselves instead a "separate peace" with Al Qaeda -- over America's dead body.
Just before 311, I wasn't going to vote for president. Earlier, I had even considered voting for a third party that stood for protecting America's borders and respected the Constitution. Then I decided that I would not vote against my commander-in-chief in wartime.
I figured Bush would win, but wanted to make his victory close enough so that he would get the message that his habit of spending money like a drunken Democrat, his duplicity on affirmative action, and his desire to grant amnesty to as many as 14 million illegal aliens while abolishing America's borders were unacceptable.
Even Bush's prosecution of the War on Terror left much to be desired. He kept a racist, Democrat, Clinton-holdover as Secretary of Transportation, Norm Mineta, who ordered airport security screeners to harass white octogenarians while ignoring young, Arab males. We needed the racial profiling of young Arab men, but instead got the racial profiling of old whites! In one particularly egregious case that Vin Suprynowicz wrote on, screeners threatened to refuse to let an 86-year-old man board his flight, unless he surrendered "a curious little metal cross."
The old man was former South Dakota governor Joe Foss (1915-2003), may he rest in peace. The piece of metal was something he'd received from Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt as a World War II U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot, for shooting down 26 Japanese war planes. Something called the Medal of Honor.
Norm Mineta is still angry about the white federal officer who confiscated his baseball bat, when the Mineta family was placed in an internment camp during World War II, and is still trying to get even with the dead officer for it.
All those particulars weighed against Bush in my mind. But after 311, things got simpler. All considerations reduced to the question, Do I want John Kerry to lead the War on Terror? The answer was, no.
I asked other questions, and also answered them in the negative. Did I want as president a man who would prostrate himself before our enemies France and Germany, while stabbing our allies the UK and Israel in the back? Did I want a president who would cede American sovereignty to the UN and sign international treaties which would not only betray America's sovereignty, but harm her materially?
To return to the matter of Israel: The fact that the President supports Israel is a plus in my eyes. Paleoconservative Paul Craig Roberts, white nationalist Sam Francis, and some of their allies have tried to demonize Israel and those who support her, making the ludicrous claim that Israel is somehow the big winner of the War in Iraq. And for years, followers of Pat Buchanan have demanded that Jews "prove" their loyalty to America by sacrificing Israel. As if Jews sacrificing their fellow Jews would impress anti-Semites!
It is no more incumbent upon an American Jew to show his devotion to America by sacrificing Israel, than in the event of terrorists seeking to blow up Vatican City, it would be incumbent on an American Catholic to sacrifice the seat of world Catholicism.
I made my decision, before even getting to the matters of Kerry's flip-flops; of his getting purple hearts in Vietnam for wounds that were inadvertently self-inflicted (and which, as Bob Dole noted, since they never required his hospitalization, weren't legitimate wounds to begin with), and then using those purple hearts to get shipped out after a mere four months "in country"; and of then slandering America's fighting men and doing propaganda work for the North Vietnamese communists.
And as the election drew closer, I got angry. The socialist mainstream media were running "October surprises" on practically a monthly basis. Media fraud was making the election a toss-up, and Democrats sought to steal the election yet again, through the most aggressively organized voter fraud machine -- including the registration of thousands of felons and aliens -- ever.
George Bush is an Evangelical neoconservative. (I realize that this will rankle those for whom "neoconservative" is merely a euphemism for "Jew." Good; let them be rankled.) I don't like neoconservatism, but unless you are willing to take yourself out of an election, you don't necessarily get to vote for someone whose positions you really like. I just can't risk leaving the prosecution of the War on Terror to John Kerry for the next four years.
9/11/2001 is NOT a cliche for me.
This whole business about reinstating the draft has been a Democrat plot (originally from race-baiting Harlem Cong. Charlie Rangel who actually did serve in Korea.). But I think we do need to bring back the draft. Because only a tiny sliver of America's young (and not-so-young) men are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, much of America has been able to act as thought we weren't at war. People from too many walks of life are able to think of warfare as something for "losers." And one of the reasons that warfare has become so expensive, is that we pay the all-volunteer military many times more in wages and benefits than we paid conscripts.
Because I said to.
you gave me a nice laugh.
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