Seabee
01-15-2007, 07:49 PM
Before I get started this is an OPED piece and I realize that it is probably in the wrong forum. But so many posts, tonight, have started out with one topic and most have seemed to diverge on this one. I figured let's get it consolidated.
Many of the regular posters on this board have made coherent observations of the situation, that we as Americans, are in. Then there is the other group, the ones more concerned with finding shadows that do not exsist, running down the government because they might be doing something that is inconveniencing them, and finally the ones who sicken me the most, the people who are more worried about political gain and will use this war as a tool to furhter their goals.
We have long ago established that the government in this country is not perfect, we have a bloated Federal bureacracy, by American standards, massive spending, foreign competitors gaining on us, illegal immigrants out the wazoo, crime probelms in our inner cities, etc. I could go on and on, but there is one threat that will overshadow them all in a few years. It is one of survival against a people who look at us as the Devil, Satan incarnate. In no uncertain terms they have de-humanized every man, woman, and child in this country, by making us the visage of the universe's most vile and disgusting creature. Why? If we are sub-human in their eyes their is no guilt or responsibility for our wholesale slaughter. They would not be murdering children, they would be aleviating the peaceful Muslim realm of little Satans, how can that be bad if you are a Muslim.? It is time to come come to grips that this is the mentality we are up against, one of zealotry, religious facisim, murder, and every other evil your mind can possibly conjure.
To those here at home, yes we have social and economic problems. But, we have no more than we have had in the past, the only thing that has changed is the American populace. Everything that we are accustomed to is push button, we want what we want now. How does this effect our mindset on war? War is a long drawn out process of move counter move amd unlike most wars in the past, this is one of ideology. There are no definable borders, their is no precise enemy, we can be fighting anywhere at anytime. Nothing is certain in what we are facing. Unlike WW2, Vietnam, and wars in the past we had a face to associate the evil with. But in this new war we have many faces and many places. It is new, fluid and perhaps most disturbing, we can be fighting it right here on our own soil very easily. We must be patient in our expectations of victory, it will never be absolute, it will more than likely end when the blood bath is so wide spread that even they will no longer have the stomach to fight.
To the opportunists, you are the only creatures in this world that are more pugnacious than the enemy which we face. It is you who would look for chinks in the armor of our country to advance your own pathetic agenda. Whether it be the treatment of enemy combatants at Guantanamo, so called abuses at Abu Girab, idiotic observations that our government is out to get our civil liberties, or even the simple question of why are we fighting. In the final analysis we are in a war that will consume you too if we lose. Do those on the Left actually think they are doing the right thing for this country? Do the likes of George Soros, Michael Moore, John Kerry, and even misguided Al Gore, think that they know what's best or even care? The response is a simple "NO." They sit high in their ivory towers dispensing their so called moral justice while a horde is sneaking in to blow the tower up.
Finally the task of victory will not fall to the politicians, nor Hollywood, nor corporate America. It will be the ones it has always been, the people. It will be us who suffer the loses, it will be us who endure the hardships, it will be ours to bear the Cross. But like in the past we will destroy the tyranny and carry on smartly, and in God's name victory will be our's to earn, no one else.
Many of the regular posters on this board have made coherent observations of the situation, that we as Americans, are in. Then there is the other group, the ones more concerned with finding shadows that do not exsist, running down the government because they might be doing something that is inconveniencing them, and finally the ones who sicken me the most, the people who are more worried about political gain and will use this war as a tool to furhter their goals.
We have long ago established that the government in this country is not perfect, we have a bloated Federal bureacracy, by American standards, massive spending, foreign competitors gaining on us, illegal immigrants out the wazoo, crime probelms in our inner cities, etc. I could go on and on, but there is one threat that will overshadow them all in a few years. It is one of survival against a people who look at us as the Devil, Satan incarnate. In no uncertain terms they have de-humanized every man, woman, and child in this country, by making us the visage of the universe's most vile and disgusting creature. Why? If we are sub-human in their eyes their is no guilt or responsibility for our wholesale slaughter. They would not be murdering children, they would be aleviating the peaceful Muslim realm of little Satans, how can that be bad if you are a Muslim.? It is time to come come to grips that this is the mentality we are up against, one of zealotry, religious facisim, murder, and every other evil your mind can possibly conjure.
To those here at home, yes we have social and economic problems. But, we have no more than we have had in the past, the only thing that has changed is the American populace. Everything that we are accustomed to is push button, we want what we want now. How does this effect our mindset on war? War is a long drawn out process of move counter move amd unlike most wars in the past, this is one of ideology. There are no definable borders, their is no precise enemy, we can be fighting anywhere at anytime. Nothing is certain in what we are facing. Unlike WW2, Vietnam, and wars in the past we had a face to associate the evil with. But in this new war we have many faces and many places. It is new, fluid and perhaps most disturbing, we can be fighting it right here on our own soil very easily. We must be patient in our expectations of victory, it will never be absolute, it will more than likely end when the blood bath is so wide spread that even they will no longer have the stomach to fight.
To the opportunists, you are the only creatures in this world that are more pugnacious than the enemy which we face. It is you who would look for chinks in the armor of our country to advance your own pathetic agenda. Whether it be the treatment of enemy combatants at Guantanamo, so called abuses at Abu Girab, idiotic observations that our government is out to get our civil liberties, or even the simple question of why are we fighting. In the final analysis we are in a war that will consume you too if we lose. Do those on the Left actually think they are doing the right thing for this country? Do the likes of George Soros, Michael Moore, John Kerry, and even misguided Al Gore, think that they know what's best or even care? The response is a simple "NO." They sit high in their ivory towers dispensing their so called moral justice while a horde is sneaking in to blow the tower up.
Finally the task of victory will not fall to the politicians, nor Hollywood, nor corporate America. It will be the ones it has always been, the people. It will be us who suffer the loses, it will be us who endure the hardships, it will be ours to bear the Cross. But like in the past we will destroy the tyranny and carry on smartly, and in God's name victory will be our's to earn, no one else.