Posted on 11/11/2006 12:37:46 AM PST by JohnHuang2
OK.
For the last several weeks in this space, I've tried to engage my fellow entertainers and the strident politicians and all the loud and angry critics of our commander in chief and our military leaders, asking them, "If, as you keep declaring, war is not the answer what, then, is your answer?"
I guess we're about to find out.
We're just starting to fill that gaping, hideous hole where the World Trade Center was, and where 3,000 fellow Americans perished on the 11th of September 2001. The families of the passengers of American Airlines Flight 93 are still struggling to get on with their lives without their brave loved ones. So are the families of those who were slaughtered in the assaults on the USS Cole and the Marine compound in Lebanon.
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We may not want war to be "the answer," but try convincing Osama bin Laden and the crazed zealots who tried to destroy the Twin Towers the first time in 1993; tell it to those mad men and women who were on the brink of blasting 10 packed jetliners out of the sky as they arrived from London over American cities, one couple of them having filled the baby bottle of their 6-month-old child with liquid explosive; maybe Nancy Pelosi can convince the Islamic terrorists who beheaded Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl that they shouldn't do things like that, that they should "give peace a chance."
I really, really hope so.
But I'm doubtful.
It seems painfully obvious to me that the years of pre-meditation and "embedding" in our unsuspecting communities, the absolute dedication of the al-Qaida terrorists as they took and held jobs, trained to fly our planes and coordinated the worst attack on American soil since the Revolution, all this gives every evidence that we are at war, and we have been for years now. Have I misread something? Am I just being pessimistic or unnecessarily suspicious?
Almost all of our newly elected representatives and senators campaigned against our military involvement in Iraq, demanding that we announce an end to the fighting and bring our soldiers home. They declared most emphatically that we "should never have been there," that the war was mismanaged and was badly damaging our reputation in the rest of the world, especially in the rapidly growing Muslim populations. Their confectionery dialogue worked its magic on a desperate citizenry, so eager to wish away the ominous facts and get on with our normal existence. After all, nobody wants war, and it's just human nature (especially if you've already and always led a charmed, privileged life) to want to put the unpleasant past away and resume busy, self-absorbed, peaceful lives. To growing numbers of Americans, 9-11 seems long ago and nothing like that has happened since, has it? So, what then? Let's give peace a chance?
The House of Representatives and, sadly, the Senate are now under the control of those who railed against the president and our military for taking the battle against religious terrorism to the Middle East, its birthplace and training ground, serving notice that America will not tolerate assaults on our soil and that we will pursue our attackers and make them pay a fearful price. Many of the "new guys" not only want to get our troops out of Iraq, regardless of the consequences to the Iraqi people who affirmed hopes for their future by voting by the millions, but they also oppose telephonic surveillance of suspected terrorist enemies, who are most certainly at work plotting the next 9-11s and likely far worse catastrophes.
Their sugary promises sounded so good, and though they couldn't be specific in any way, they made millions of Americans sure there was a 'better way." And now, with our lives and the very existence of America on the line, they have the chance to produce. Let's all hope and pray that this new Congress will actually find some alternative to a bold and frontal assault on those who are committed to our destruction.
Having said these things, I add my congratulations and a personal salute to the voters who took their duties and privileges seriously. A slim majority replaced many of those who supported our troops and leadership with new voices who swear they can come up with a better plan.
But, to our everlasting shame, there are 20 or 30 million eligible, even registered voters who couldn't be bothered, who stayed home or went to movies or decided their votes wouldn't matter. Our future was in their hands, and they sat out the election. In Iraq, some 12 million people literally risked their lives to vote, proudly brandishing their purple thumbs afterwards. And close to 200,000 young American men and women voluntarily risked and over 2,000 gave their very lives to bring democracy to Iraq and defend ours back home. We can be deeply disgusted with these non-voters here, and immeasurably proud of our young soldiers who are still representing and exemplifying our character and purpose to an Islamic region that still has never tasted our liberties.
And so, our democratic process, our divided citizenry, may have moved us all out of the frying pan
and into the fire. I prayed for the leaders who've just been voted out of office; I resolve that I'll pray for their replacements even more fervently.
If it is any indication, George McGovern, 1972 Democratic presidential candidate and author of a recent book "Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now," which calls for troops to be out by June 30, is flying to Washington this week to meet with Democrat party leaders in Congress.
" this practice is but one of a multitude of strategies Islam is employing in their war upon the entire non-Muslim world."
Saw this lady on C-span, her story fits.
She said go find out who owns your local Muslim building from the title place, it is public information, and turn them into the FBI, so they can be watched.
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev092706a.cfm
Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
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Date: September 27, 2006
Quote here;
"Brigitte Gabriel lost her childhood to militant Islam. In 1975 she was ten years old and living in Lebanon when militant Muslims from throughout the Middle East poured into her country and declared jihad against Lebanese Christians."
Her web site:
http://americancongressfortruth.com/
Quote here;
"I am a victim of the Lebanese civil war, which was the first front in the worldwide Jihad of militant Islam against the only Christian country in the Middle East. My familys home was shelled and destroyed leaving me wounded. I lived underground in a bomb shelter from age 10 to 17 without electricity and very little food. I had to crawl under sniper bullets to a spring to fetch water for my elderly parents. I was betrayed by my country, rescued by my enemy Israel, the Jewish State that is under attack for its existence today."
What will Pelosi do when women from these countries beg for help?
I agree. The "nuke them all" crowd who call Pres. Bush a liberal for cooperating with moderate Muslims have their heads in the sand.
Of course they are killing those heretics. Islam isn't about family,friends and country. It is about converting the world to Islam or making the Infidels subject to it. You are not doing that if you are more interested in worldly things like a job, vacations health insurance , personal appearance, retirement,education for your kids etc.
Worse yet for these so called moderate Muslims is they were born into the faith and have adopted the Infidel lifestyle, or are drifting in that direction. Muslim Fundamentalist are fighting and dying to kill us Infidels while the moderates sit on their hands,or become our useful idiots and collaborate with us.
So killing them along with us Infidels is not a problem for the fundamentalists. But they need them for now, just like the bears and deer need the trees in the forest for cover. - tom
You can be ashamed of that all you want, Pat - but I voted and I'm not gonna play that game of internalizing the "shame" of others. For all I know, those who didn't vote had no clue of who to vote for or against - in which case, why mourn their avoiding injecting even more ignorance into the polls than will be there anyway?
"Especially since they fooled so many voters with "pro gun, anti abortion, goodoleboy" freshmen candidates."
This is how the democrats won this mid-term. They used stealth tactics on their constituents. Voters thought they voted for Reagan Democrat types.
Thank you, Pat Boone.
At least there is ONE person in the entertainment industry who gets it. God Bless You.
"Therefore, anyone concluding the Republicans lost because they didn't move to the center is dead wrong.
Republicans lost because they didn't govern like Conservatives."
Instead, they acted like globalists--caring only about power and money.
It's 3-4 days and the creatures are already crawling out from under their rocks, and they are saying exactly the same things as they were in 1994 until that election. The country doesn't want that, didn't want it in 1994 and wants it even less now.
btt
As much as it pains me, my position is toward all Muslims.
Well sorry but I can't encourage you in that department.
Sadly, we abandoned the philosophies that brought us to the world stage, economically, socially, militarily, spiritually.
You are right that not governing like conservatives was a contibution to the Repulican loss.
What I question is your comment about Republicans acting like globalists and caring about "power and money"
I might think you are a liberal for that comment. Bubba, put NAFTA through. And I seem to think Mr. Reid cares about a good real estate deal, no matter how crooked it may be. Mr. Kennedy sure cared about power and money when Mary Joe laid dead under water in his car, Mr. Kennedy cared about power when he approached the Russians to stab Reagan in the back.
I could list these things all day. But lets just make sure we all know the Dems will lie to get power and money on a daily basis. They sure did prior to Nov 7th
The evidence is to the contrary: there are people out there who really want to kill us, and really want to impose "Islamic peace" (e.g.- submission) upon the entire world. Islam looks at the degenerate Europpeans and San Francisco Democrats and correctly percieves that these people will not resist them - these remain testosterone-free zones. As for the whole bit being a GWB conspiracy, oh that it were so!
The truth is that it is immature and self-indulgent to believe "Daddy" controls everything - the threat from Islam is no joke, nor is the potential threat from an increasingly assertive China or a rearming Russia.
The Demonicrats are about to make a serious problem potentially fatal (but don't worry, Leahy will protect the civil rights of the terrorists). The "one world" they strive to achieve will end up being a the world of Dhimmitude.
The divine irony is that the leftist poofters will be the first to be put to death by the Islamofascists...
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