What Is At Stake As Frivolity Rules
As Anna Nicole is buried today, and Leno makes jokes about JetBlue or rats at KFC… it is important to remember what is really important in our world today: Our way of life is threatened by a worldwide Islamic extremist movement.
Too many of us these days are too willing to wish that 9/11 never happened…. or to invent the reasons and facts about why and how it happened. We want the world to be the way it was on September 10, 2001. But that world was a false one since the War on America had already been declared by Islamic radicals over two decades earlier. Our people and our government just didn’t face the facts until the Towers fell.
So in our understandable effort to go back to the days we perceived as “simpler” or “safer”… I’d like to remind all of us that “The Price of Freedom is High.”
Last week, as Congress postured over President Bush’s plan to increase troop strength in Iraq, I asked an Army sergeant who I ran into about his views on the issue. His answer was simple and straight to the point: The price of freedom is high.
The sergeant, home from his second tour in Iraq, said, “There is a price to freedom, sir, and I have seen it paid. Americans have forgotten what brought us to this place.”
What “brought us to this place” was not a rush to judgment nor a president who lied. It was, plain and simple, terror brought to our doorstep. It was the intelligence estimates of Russia, France, Great Britain, Israel, Germany and the Clinton administration that decided Saddam Hussein was a growing threat.
To be sure, the situation in Iraq is difficult and, without a doubt, mistakes have been made in the strategy and execution of this war. But mistakes in war planning should not make Americans lose sight of the overall strategic goal in the global war on terror; just ask that Army sergeant.
While congressional leaders push each other out of the way to get to cameras, that action has an unintended effect: Their constituents are swayed by this lack of support. Worse, insurgents in Iraq and terrorists in Afghanistan hang on every word. Every comment about withdrawal emboldens our enemy, especially when it comes from those in high places. Every congressional call for withdrawal is gleefully greeted by the bomb-makers fueling the insurgency. Al-Qaeda is emboldened by the words of those wanting to turn this struggle of our generation into a squabble for political advantage.
As our leaders bicker, Rome burns. America cannot take its eye off our most important goal: killing those radicals who want to kill us. The world is a dangerous place, and unless our enemies are destroyed, the world reserved for our children and grand- children may become annihilated. The stakes are that high. Americans must redouble their efforts in Iraq, no matter the adversity.
The Army sergeant, those who volunteered to wear the uniform with him, our children and our future as the land of the free depend on our ability to rise to a challenge as our fathers did before us and confront the evil of our time.
So as you watch an untalented, drugged up plastic person being buried on live TV today…. I thought it was important to remember what the real stakes in our REAL WORLD are all about.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Pingback by Politics: 2008 HQ » Blog Archive » What Is At Stake As Frivolity Rules — March 2, 2007 @ 9:28 am - March 2, 2007
I’ve thrown in the following $.02 before, and I will probably live to throw it in again:
(1) If we lose in Iraq, it won’t be because of any mistakes that have been made (real or imagined). It will be because of (a) the determination and depth of evil of the Islamists, combined with (b) our home-front lack of determination.
(2) The problem in Iraq has never been with the number of troops, but with the ROE (rules of engagement) they’ve been restricted under. Most of all, until this year (2007), ROE that said they couldn’t engage or capture the increasingly brazen agents of Iran, who were causing too many of our troops’ deaths in Iraq.
Comment by Calarato — March 2, 2007 @ 9:33 am - March 2, 2007
Here here Bruce.
I’ve been reading your blog for a couple weeks now, and find your articles very insightful. A far cry from the typical blather.
Thanks!
Comment by DJFelix — March 2, 2007 @ 9:42 am - March 2, 2007
So as you watch an untalented, drugged up plastic person being buried on live TV today…. I thought it was important to remember what the real stakes in our REAL WORLD are all about.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
God help us from the TV blinded masses that have no inkling of what is instore for America if we do not defeat the filth that is the cult of islam.
Burce, you are doing a superb job and this straight American thanks you………
God bless America, Israel, England, Canada, Australia, Darfur, Puerto Rico and our Fighting Forces across the world, to keeps us safe and Free and destroy our enemies.
The Texican.
God Family America and Freedom the only choice at any cost.
Live free or die free…….
Comment by The Texican. — March 2, 2007 @ 11:00 am - March 2, 2007
Web Reconnaissance for 03/02/2007…
A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention….
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Trackbacked by The Thunder Run – Web Reconnaissance for 03/02/2007
A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Comment by David M — March 2, 2007 @ 11:11 am - March 2, 2007
#4 – Hey Texican, ND30, TGC and all the rest of my fellow Lone Star State GP pals:
Happy Texas Independence Day!
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 2, 2007 @ 11:48 am - March 2, 2007
Bruce,
Thanks a bunch…We don’t here this enough and while it’s good that that gal is finally being buried, nothing will really matter when were all dead anyway…Thanks and Praise to all our men and women in the field…Godspeed to you all!
Comment by Adrienne — March 2, 2007 @ 3:38 pm - March 2, 2007
There is only one Independence Day: July the 4th.
Comment by vaara — March 2, 2007 @ 11:41 pm - March 2, 2007
#9 – Ah, the token “in-your-face” comment from vaaaaaaaaaara.
Look here: Texas is the only state to be admitted to the Union as a separate nation. As such, we fly our state flag next to the US flag, not below it. We were admitted via treaty, which means we called our own shots.
So get your facts straight, lower-caser. March 2, 1836 is (thanks to the TEXAS Delcaration of Independence from Mexico) our independence day. Deal with it.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 3, 2007 @ 12:31 am - March 3, 2007
#7
Ooh! I forgot. Remembered Go Texas Day though.
Thanks Bruce!
Comment by ThatGayConservative — March 3, 2007 @ 6:12 am - March 3, 2007
How telling that none of our “progressives” that troll here are brave enough to comment.
I guess we know which world THEY live in, don’t we?
Comment by Bruce (GayPatriot) — March 3, 2007 @ 10:35 am - March 3, 2007
#10 – so what you’re saying is that your loyalties are divided.
Hmm. Isn’t there a word for that? Seven words, starts with “T”.
Comment by vaara — March 3, 2007 @ 9:44 pm - March 3, 2007
#13
You just keep sinking into a deeper pit of dumb.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — March 4, 2007 @ 1:42 am - March 4, 2007
Sorry Peter. It may not have taken a treaty to admit California, but we were also formally an independent nation before choosing admission to the Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Republic
Comment by Calarato — March 4, 2007 @ 1:56 pm - March 4, 2007
#15 – Point taken, Cal. Thanks for the clarification.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 4, 2007 @ 8:16 pm - March 4, 2007
#13 – Keep up that reading comprehension class, vaaaaaaaaaaara. You may just one day be able to participate at an adult level.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 4, 2007 @ 8:27 pm - March 4, 2007
Wasn’t Anna Nicole Smith from Texas?
You must be so proud.
Comment by vaara — March 4, 2007 @ 8:29 pm - March 4, 2007
#18 – So was LBJ, vaaaaaaaaaaara. Your point, please?
And while we’re at it, from which state are YOU ashamed to hail from? I bet it’s somewhere up North…
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 5, 2007 @ 11:03 am - March 5, 2007