Although this story is ''American'' and Red White and Blue to it's
core, it also reflects very strongly upon the animal protection folks who simply do the
'politically correct' things in lieu of what is right when fighting the animal
overpopulation and abuse issues. It sickens me. I am by no means a radical. I simply
recognize that our past 25 years and Billions of dollars, we have all but lost this battle
due to sweet, gentle, soft spoken political correctness. Nobody in the animal protection
game realizes what it means to the animals for us to loose. 90% of those in animal
protection are taking their own individual paths and working alone. This can only be won
with a united front. One of the best quotes in this article are as follows:
"I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political
Correctness and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful,
honorable war. None of those words apply to battle. Get them out of your head. Some have
gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost seems
they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they are
disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that
conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and ;weakening, it concerns
our friends, and it does great damage to our cause."
This is quite long, but gives yourself 5 minutes to read and digest what
this man is talking about. After all the political rhetoric and all the religious wailing,
this is what we as Americans are faced with.
This is purported to have been written by a retired attorney, to his sons, May 19, 2004.
Dear Tom, Kevin, Kirby and Ted,
As your father, I believe I owe it to you to share some thoughts on the present world
situation. We have over the years discussed a lot of important things, like going to
college, jobs and so forth. But this really takes precedence over any of those
discussions. I hope this might give you a longer term perspective that fewer and fewer of
my generation are left to speak to.
To be sure you understand that this is not politically flavored, I will tell you that
since Franklin D. Roosevelt, up to and including our present President, I have without exception, supported our presidents on all matters of international conflict.
That's eight presidents ( 5 Republican & 4 Democrat ) during the cold war (1945 -
1991); President Clinton's strikes on Bosnia (1995) and on Iraq (1998). So be sure you
read this as completely non-political or otherwise you will miss the point.
Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it. The
deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who
think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.
First, let's examine a few basics:
1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September 11th, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is
since 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, ;with the following attacks on us:
Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979
Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983
Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983
Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988
First New York World Trade Center attack 1993
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996
Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998
Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000
New York World Trade Center 2001
Pentagon 2001
(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks
worldwide.)
2. Why were we attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during the
administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush
1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Re publicans or Democrats as there were
no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford
or Carter.
4. Who were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.
5. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.
6. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not the point. Most of the Germans were Christian, a
peaceful religion and Hitler was Christian, but that didn't stop the war that killed 6
million Jews. (See http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm).
He killed almost as many Christians that got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of
taking over the world.
Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but &g t;kill all in
the way - their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The point here is that
the peaceful Muslims are no protection for us from the Muslim leaders that are fanatically
bent on doing - by their own pronouncements - killing all of us infidels.
I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice was shut up or die?
7. So who are we at war with?
There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim
terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can
well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who
you are fighting.
So with that background, now to the two major questions:
1. Can we lose this war?
2. What does losing really mean?
If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions.
We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can
lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What
does losing mean? It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means
hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post
Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get. What losing really means is:
We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but
rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had
just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against
us over the past
18 years. The plan was clearly to terrorist attack us until we were neutered and sub
missive to them.
We would, of course, have no future support from other nations for fear of reprisals and
for the reason that they would see we are impotent and cannot help them.
They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly
easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right
or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim
terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they
want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished.
The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light
and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't resist the
Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France. Fr ance is
already 20% Muslim and fading fast.
If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we
know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us if they were threatened by the
Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else? The Muslims fully know what
is riding on this war and therefore are completely committed to winning at any cost. We
better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.
Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the
costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put
100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to
win.
So, how can we lose the war? Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by
imploding. That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their
purpose and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are
united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is no way
that we can win.
Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death
seriousness of this situation.
President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years
of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking
this thing seriously? This is war.
For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become
accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or
we will most certainly lose all of them permanently. And don't worry that it is a
slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII and immediately restored
them after the victory and, in fact, added many more since then.
Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely
assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness and all of our civil rights
during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to
war. Get them out of your head.
Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it
almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't
because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means.
Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and
;weakening, it concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause.
Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the
treatment of some prisoners of war perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We have
recently had an issue involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war by a small
group of our military police.
These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off
buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering
their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein. And just a few years ago these
same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason.
They are also the same type enemy fighters who recently were burning Americans and
dragging their charred corpses through the street s of Iraq. And still more recently the
same type enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of
the beheading of an American prisoner they held.
Compare this with some of our press and politicians who, for several days, have thought
and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -
not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading
them, but "humiliating" them. Can this be for real? The politicians and pundits
have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the
complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are
fighting, the life and death struggle we are in, and the disastrous results of losing this
war, nothing can.
To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this ;prisoner issue makes us
look totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world. Neither we, nor any other
country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of
our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they absolutely
oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists
have been pushing us for many years.
Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill ALL infidels. That translates into
all non-Muslims - not just in the United States, but throughout the world. We are the last
bastion of defense.
We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant'. That charge is valid in at
least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and
smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with
both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world. We can't.
If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free
country in the World will survive if we are defeated. And finally, name any Muslim
countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom
of religion, freedom of the Press, equal rights for anyone - let alone everyone, equal
status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that
contributes to the good of the World.
This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be
equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is,
the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read.
If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France
in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population of
France and continue to encroach little by little on the established French traditions. The
French will be fighting among themselves over what should or should not be done, which
will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound
eerily familiar?
Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military
force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically
correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide,
that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are
in power. They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start
brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever
stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?
I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no
way that we can lose. I believe that after the election, the factions in our country will
begin to focus on the critical situation we are in and will unite to save our country. It
is your future we are talking about. Do whatever you can to preserve it.
Love,
Dad |