Posted on 05/04/2009 4:49:33 AM PDT by IrishMike
The moppets now in charge don't "get it." Singing "Kumbaya" with our enemies on a mountaintop somewhere is their dream. Their faith in the inherent goodness of humanity is boundless. They believe that if you are really, really nice to Evil incarnate, somehow it will reward you. If only you talk, talk, talk out your earthly differences, laying out your moral scruples to evil-doers, we'll all dance into the golden sunset singing "Kumbaya."
(Loose translation of the old spiritual, "Come on, Lord.")
Or . . . on mountaintop singing (all together now!) lyrics of that revamped 70s Coca-Cola ad jingle:
I'd like to build the world a home And furnish it with love Grow apple trees and honey bees And snow-white turtle doves.
"They" are today's wide-eyed cultural babies. Mostly from the greatly indulged Generation "Y," they are also known as Millennials (born post-1980). Oldsters join in their naïve exuberance. They'd confront evil by being nicey, nicey to all who, given the chance, would kill us. Beheading as the method of choice, but cowardly suicide bombings will do. No way singing "Kumbaya" for these folks. Just chants of "Death to America."
Willingly ignorant about history, they are not much into geography, either. Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein calls them "The Dumbest Generation" in his book of the same title. They are the blank slates, gullible, insular, much into self-centered personal electronics. (My December review of Dr. Bauerlein's book is here, "Jay Leno & The Dumb Milennials.")
Dreamers! Today's baby class hint that fanatical Muslim extremists mean well. After all, theirs is a peaceful religion, isn't it? Little kid-like Americans, thinking (hoping for?) the best, seem not to recognize acts of sheer terrorism stem from an inbred hate, envy and resentment of the freedom-loving peoples and the United States. It's imprinted in terrorists' gene pool. Inbred. Fanned by "torture" memos and Michael Moore's films such as Fahrenheit 911, still packing them in in Mideast cinemas.
Endangering our national security seems a sport, a bloodsport. Editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post, routinely compromise our nation's security. Why such traitorous acts? Scoop of the day? No, it's more than that:
It's politics. Raw partisanship. These are do-good lefties with a clear and present agenda: "Get" those twin devils, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Vilify them. Paint Amerika as mean, in order to redeem it. Editors and reporters today, babies nearly all, seem not to give a rat's ass about protecting our nation from our enemies' next big attack, a death toll to eclipse 9/11 numbers.
Mainstream media rip at the nation's defenses by publishing leaks from fellow travelers — and now, overtly, on Infant-in-Chief Obama's orders. They seek to smear the previous administration. Bring it to heel. (Yes, We Can!) So the campaign of '08 continues. Now it turns wickedly, to prosecute, perhaps, with show trials, as if some two-bit banana republic, Attorney General Eric Holder in the role of Torquemada.
Whoa! Guess who kept the nation safe from further attacks after 9/11? Yes, those same thankless folks, including CIAers, who are now vilified by the country's Left, clamoring for lawyerly prosecution, who kept our nation safe. Some gratitude, eh? So it's upside-down world, in William Butler Yeats's poetic vision:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold… The worst are full of passionate intensity.
Meanwhile, we veterans (me, of Vietnam) are now set up by a left-leaning bureaucracy (Dept. of Homeland Security, of ALL people) as a suspect group of domestic terrorists. Nope, it doesn't get more grossly insulting than that, the ingratitude of the Far Left, toward those who protected their asses physically. Rough men with guns we were.
Babies likely did not serve in the military. They did not put their lives on the line for their country, or on hold to rejoin civilians. DHS dunce Janet Napolitano, one of the kids who doesn't "get it," should hang her head in shame for targeting us GIs.
Babies' newly chosen leader, Kid Obama, is their water-walker, their Messiah. Even while releasing classified secrets to our enemies, now joined by file photos to be used as hate-propaganda and recruitment tools, the rest of the babies support him, say the polls. Lord knows why; it is a phenomenon that transcends logic. But then, he is the whirling dervish. Such activity suggests accomplishment. It is the opposite.
Millennials and their clueless kinfolk exist in a see-no-evil, cocoon-like world of I-pods, Facebook and MySpace. Juveniles forever? Probably never met a payroll. Never served in the military, same as cool-to-the-military Obama. They give no thought to geopolitics or to winning a war – oops, a "foreign contingency." (Orwell rules!)
Their geopolitical dream sequence lies in that 70's Coke ad jingle:
I'd like to see the world for once All standing hand in hand And hear them echo through the hills, Ah, peace throughout the land.
If only our sworn, bloodthirsty enemies could be made to understand of Good Intentions, there'd be "peace throughout the land." Of course, the pathway to hell is a largely uncharted destination. (See also, Munich.)
A few examples of the American infants' ethos:
– They seek safety and "security" from failed decision-making. Can't pay the mortgage on that overpriced McMansion? Easy. Turn to Uncle Sam. Company going belly up? Bailout. Can't afford (!) health insurance? Turn up sick at an ER, same as illegal immigrants. Taxpayers will pay, the suckers.
– They vote charlatans and hypocrites into public office. Falling for clever campaign slogans, often couched in terms of envious class warfare, dim-witted Millennials and their ideological kin fall for promises. Politicians play them like a symphony orchestra. Media joins in the chorus.
– They take solace in the comforting verbs, "insure" and "ensure." They seek "guarantees." Big Government is their "Pie In the Sky Insurance Company." When they don't get their way, or recompense, they blame the nearest capitalist villain — banks, preferably biggies, and Big Oil, except when prices drop below $2 per gallon. But their biggest bogeyman is "Wall Street," also the whipping boy of their leader, the infant-in-chief.
– They believe in entitlements. Someone else will pay. They demand, insist on, "guarantees" their grandfathers never imagined, battling unspeakable evil in World War II. And their fathers, fighting for liberty in Korea, in South Vietnam, in Iraq, now in Afghanistan, did not demand "guarantees" for protecting our liberties. It was a duty, you see, to honor our country. Semper fi!
– They do not realize consequences of voting in clowns. Maybe it is socialism they seek, a Big Nanny to take care of them, cradle to grave. Voting to open up the public treasury, to get their way, sounds way "cool." ("Awesome?") Works until the wealth runs out.
Will the grown-ups step forward? Will a dose of reality, perhaps the next terrorists' attack, shake them out of their booties? Will sober, realistic minds, not out to politicize everything, not to prosecute predecessors, come to the rescue of our country, verily, verily, to save this republic from the folly of the babies now in charge?
Stay tuned. A bumpy road ahead promises to be a helluva trip.
Well, babies make sense, given that he is the result of a miraculous misconception!
Babies are in charge? Quick! Abort them! LOL.
It isn’t that they honestly believe that Iran and other nations will lay down their swords. They just don’t care to lead, fight, or “judge”.
Jimmy Carter saw no threat from the Soviet Union or Global Communism. He’s STILL okay with Communism and Islamic tyranny. He’s an old fool.
Very few conservatives can comprehend liberals well enough to define them. This guy gets it wrong. Liberals don't believe that Iran is evil. Yeah, yeah, their government is bad, but so is ours and we aren't evil, so Iran isn't evil either.
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