Posted by
Bullpen on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:07:11 PM
The other night I was watching television with my roommate and something shocking happened to me. I found myself *gulp* defending John McCain. Why, you ask? I saw Barack Obama giving his victory speech and challenging John McCain on national security. Now, I don't think McCain is especially good on national security. His immigration and Guantanamo Bay policies are a reflection of that. But Obama is by far the least qualified person to take on McCain on these issues. In the end, McCain looks like he will be the person with the best judgment on security on the November ballot.
For too long our nation was ruled by those who would rather live on their knees than die on their feet. Patrick Henry, they must have thought, could never have dreamed of what our warfare would look like.
Barack Obama advocates leaving Iraq immediately. He doesn't seem to understand the threat that our nation faces and the consequences that come with cutting and running. Perhaps the timing and/or the execution of the war is wrong, but that doesn't change that we are there now. I don't want a 46 year old teenager as our Commander-In-Chief.
I find it astounding that these anti-war people who claim to be so selfless and giving to other human beings forget that the Iraqi people are human beings. They were constantly under siege by terrorists before the surge and we are being told we should leave? Why are these people not worth fighting for? When did freedom stop being our cause? Last time I checked, they were just as human as the rest of us. Perhaps these people who were opposed to the war think we should have avoided fighting World War II in Europe. After all, it was Japan that attacked us.
To say that there were no terrorists in Iraq before we went in is completely wrong. Their government WAS a terrorist organization. The brutality and genocides that occurred under Saddam Hussein's 30 year reign . To say we weren't greeted as liberators is revisionist history to everyone who saw the statue that stood over the Iraqi people for so long fall to the cheering crowd surrounding it.
We cannot afford to appease those who breed the ideology of terrorism. We cannot give understanding to those who film themselves brutally decapitating journalists. We cannot concede anything to those who will not give their own concessions. We cannot surrender to those who are obsessed with total victory.
This is not fear-mongering. It is the truth, and we cannot afford to lose sight of it because it may be unpleasant. This is greater than ourselves.
In this election, we must realize that every generation before us had a calling that was greater than themselves. They stood up to communism, fascism, imperialism, and nazism. Their calling was liberty. They were called to answer the challenge of their time.
Terrorism is different than any threat we have ever faced before. It knows no bounds or borders. There is no Mutually Assured Destruction. We cannot ignore the challenge of our time. We must ensure that future generations of Americans will inherit our shining city on a hill that shall forever be the ''land of the free, and the home of the brave.'