Posted by
Richard on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:24:00 PM
What Does It Take?
TBCC OP-ED
October 18, 2006
Sadly after I finished writing the below I thought of the scarcrow from the Wizard of Oz
During the last couple of days we have seen the President sign into law the Terror Trail Bill, which pretty much gives legal rights that all Americans have to foreign terrorists and combatants.
We have witnessed a travesty of justice wherein a known terrorist sympathizers and avowed traitor gets a slap on a wrist from a judge.
And finally we read in the NY Post that the military is infected with Political Correctness.
How in the world are we going to defeat the enemies of this nation if we cannot defeat those forces that tie one hand behind our backs when fighting a war? How cane we win when the ACLU is more concerned with the rights of those that would kill us than those of us that would be killed? What can be done about a nation that gently treats those that would betray this country and harshly admonishes those of us that would die to defend it?
What does it take to get the idea across that we are in a war? Will it someday come down to fighting the Islamo-facists in the streets of our own cities? Will we have to wait for the day when our families are attacked in this country time and again?
I honestly fear for this nation, for there are people that live within our borders that seem to subscribe to the old “better red than dead” theory. It appears to this writer that to those that think that way the lives of these elites are more valuable than the very freedom that protects them from harm. They just cannot seem to fathom that should this war be lost that they will be amongst the first to go. At best they might be allowed to live a life of servitude.
I am sick and tired of this nonsense. War is a nasty business period! The forces that tie our hands are responsible for untold deaths to our brave military.
If I might digress just a bit. I live in the NYC area and during the years that crime was out of control those same people that now expect us to fight a death free war were in control of NYC. The hands of the police were continually tied. When more sensible minds came to power the crime rate dropped drastically because it was realized by the criminal element that they were no longer get a slap on the wrist; there would be a price to pay.
Such thinking is now desperately needed today. Most Americans “get it” only a very few do not, but it is they that are hindering and preventing the US from winning.
Rich
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