Winning the War--Post 9/11
Contributed by Shane Briscoe
I have been out of pocket and off the blog for a while dealing with some personal problems, but I couldn't let the anniversary of 9/11 pass without commenting about why I have such strong feelings for fighting and winning the War on Terror and such disdain for the leftists and Democrats who are undermining it.
Five years ago this morning, someone came into my office and told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center and asked me to turn on my TV. I did and shortly thereafter watched as the second plane hit the second tower. I recognized the United colors immediately, and a chill went down my spine; you see, my eldest daughter Julie is a flight attendant for United and at the time was stationed in Newark. I immediately called her cell phone and got... voice mail. I had company issues to deal with--informing our employees, meeting with other members of management to discuss whether to shut down the office for the day (we didn't) -- so I called Julie's husband and told him to get to a TV, call Julie and keep on calling till he reached her, then call me back. It took several anxious, prayerful hours to learn that Julie was okay, grounded on the West Coast. It was only later that we realized Julie had been a crew member of United Flight 93 all that summer until being transferred to another route two weeks prior to 9/11. That was the airliner on which the passengers stood up to the terrorists, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
I and my family know full well just how close to the bone this war is. These Islamofascists will kill anybody to achieve their ends, starting with Americans and Israelis. None of us, none of our families, is safe. We have to win this war if we wish to continue to exist, not just as a nation, but as living individuals.
I don't think we are pursuing the war with all the seriousness and ruthlessness it deserves for such a monumental life and death struggle. America's left and virtually the entire Democrat Party view this war as little more than a springboard for getting back in power. Therefore, they will do anything and everything they can to undermine this president, undermine our military and undermine the hearts and minds of the American people in order to better position themselves to recapture Congress and the White House. They are despicable and I have no tolerance for them whatsoever. If I had it in my power, I would find a way to strip them of citizenship and cast them off our shores. As it is, I tell the dissenters, "I hope you and your family are killed by terrorists." That rattles them and shocks them and moves them to say, "What a terrible thing to wish upon a fellow human being!" To which I reply, "That is exactly what you are wishing upon me and my family, so it only seems fair that you suffer that fate first."
There are a lot of lies circulating around America these days, not to mention around the world. Willful fabrications such as the "Bush Lied, Thousands Died" line that the left and the Democrats sling with impunity. Lies such as the great canard, "I support the troops but not the war." Anybody with half a brain knows that such a sentiment is absolute B.S. If you doubt me, look at all the slips among leftist cowards holding high elective office--people such as Senators Kerry and Durbin and Congressman Murtha--comparing American soldiers to Genghis Khan and Nazis and convicting them of war crimes before an investigation is even under way. They do not support the troops any more than they support the war. They are craven liars and cowards, unfit to lick the boots of the lowest ranking infantryman. I am disgusted with our country for ever having elected such dishonorable excuses for human beings and disgusted with the people who follow them.
I am disgusted with our so-called allies, the French, the Germans and yes, even much of the British people, who will turn tail and run as soon as Tony Blair is out of office. I am disgusted with our new "friends" the Russians and our would-be "friends" the Chinese for using the rise of Islamofascism as a lever against the United States, even though they dig their own graves in doing so, for the Islamofascist menace poses a threat to them as well as to us. I am disgusted with the Saudi pigs who accept our protection, yet are completely intolerant of our religions and our customs and who fund and educate in the ways of evil current and future terrorists. I am disgusted with Muslims in general, who speak from both sides of their mouths and practice a religion whose very teachings promote violence and intolerance. I am disgusted with the news media, who now view themselves as citizens of the word instead of Americans, maintaining what they call "objectivity" that is throughly biased against our nation and toward those who would murder us. I am disgusted with Israel, which snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Lebanon recently, and with the United States for bowing to international pressure instead of openly joining Israel in stamping out not just Hezbollah, but Syria and Iran as well. I am disgusted with the United Nations, the world's most useless organization, where a bunch of Third World dictators call the shots, and we help pay for their anti-American, anti-Israeli activities. And I am pretty disgusted with this president, who started off on the right foot but allowed the liars on the left free rein in defining his administration in the most negative of terms, to the point we have now reached, where the Party of the Big Lie now stands a good chance of recapturing at least one house of Congress and eventually even the presidency. I am disgusted with American secular leftist Jews, approximately 80 percent of whom are allied with the Democrats and the anti-Israeli crowd, who refuse to see the parallels between today and 1938 and appear all to willing to get into line in front of the gas chamber barely 60 years after their parents' and grandparents' generations were almost exterminated. And I am disgusted with the American people, who are so obsessed with short-term gratification and creature comforts that they blame their own country for fighting back against animals who want to kill us all.
I think we need to take the gloves off. We should torture, maim and kill anybody who takes up the Islamofascist cause. We should make their sponsor states and their families pay for their evil deeds. We should use some of the billions of dollars in weaponry people like me have gladly paid their taxes for, including nuclear weapons, if necessary, in order to beat the enemy into a bloody pulp and force their unconditional surrender. And we should excise once and for all the political correctness that has us searching American grandmothers instead of Middle Eastern men of terrorist age and that prevents us from carpet bombing insurgent havens such as Fallujah or nuclear facilities and government infrastructure in Iran out of existence.
In short, we need to soundly defeat this enemy and force a reformation to his religion while we still possess superior weapons and while all one-billion Muslims in the world are not openly against us. Peace through strength is the the only option. Out-terrorizing the terrorists and their supporters is the only strategy that makes any sense.
Our lives, our futures, our country and Western Civilization itself are at risk. If we remain weak and decadent, we will all perish. Evil will win. A light will go out in the world. If we fight to win, with everything at our disposal--EVERYTHING--we will vanquish our evil foe. There are no in-betweens, no compromises, no shades of gray at stake here. Everything is in stark black and white. Our anger should be white hot, our resolve unshakable and our application of force overwhelming.
That is the only lesson of 9/11.
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