Is there really a war on terror. Are our elected leaders really capable of fighting a war on terror. At the end of the day we are either at war, or we are not at war. I don't think there is a status of 'kinda at war', although we have definately done a good job of showing what it is if it existed. If we are not at war, we talk, discuss, debate, and play nice all we want to try to achieve a mutual understanding at some compromised middle ground. If we are at war, we win.
Liberalism would have us treat these terrorist with the respect they deserve and use discussion and debate to win over their friendship. Unfortunately we have become too soft as a nation and have no stomach for the pain of war anymore. Our sense of patriotism and duty has become watered down. WWII has been largely forgotten and left unmentioned when trying to draw from history in an effort to help guide us in the present. What was done to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor was unfortunate, probably even atrocious when you look at it in the rear view mirror. But after Pearl Harbor we as a nation said collectively “Oh Hell No! Your ass is mine.” And it was a tough several years of rationing, families torn apart, bad news, death, and loss of loved ones. I have heard the stories from my parents and grandparents who lived it here and overseas. But we as a country had mettle. And we had moxie. And we had men like Gen. Patton, MacArthur, Eisenhower, etc. And we stood behind what was necessary in the face of war.
War is hell. That wasn’t said the first time just because it sounded good, it is true. Our country has no stomach for war anymore. The speed for which the anger over 9/11/2001 was dismissed is proof of that. 60 years ago there would have been a collective shout of hell no and we would have kicked somebody’s ass. Today it is easier to forget how mad we were. It is less painful to forget than the hurt caused by the loss of our good soldiers lives. Well, our enemy has a stomach for war. They live at war constantly. Without war, they wouldn’t know what to do. It has become a way of life. We can call off this war (if that is what you want to call it anyway) and try to play nice, or we can declare a real war and win it, collateral damage and all. Because war is hell and people die. Sometimes the innocent have to pay the ultimate price. We will never know how much longer WWII would have continued if 10’s of thousands hadn’t died when two bombs were dropped in Japan 60+ years ago. After the first bomb, even Japan wasn’t willing to surrender. It took two. Do you really think our enemies can be had through conversation. I could go on for days. I wish we had some people with the balls to do one of two things. Fight a war and win it (because we can win it), or pull back, become the isolationist country we were in the 30’s and wait for another Pearl Harbor to wake a sleeping giant. Oh, wait, they tried that on 9/11/2001. The giant may be in a coma.
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