War on Terror: Do We Need To Mobilize?

Peace and freedom ^ | September 28, 2006 | John E. Carey

[John Carey]

The United States never mobilized to fight the war against terror. That means our full industrial might, our full economic might, and the focus of many of our government departments is not thoroughly embracing the war effort.

Additionally, some other issues like human rights and democracy in Southeast Asia may be suffering.

Since September 11, 2001, many great changes have helped transform America to fight the war on terror, as we have noted, as recently as on the anniversary of 9/11 in The Washington Times: “Since September 11, the damaged section of the Pentagon has been rebuilt, a plan is in place in New York….By carrying the battle to the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan, with our professional military forces and not our women and children and other innocents, we, as a nation, have already achieved a significant advantage over the enemy…..We reformed our government and created the Department of Homeland Security. We energized and reformed our intelligence services and created the director of national intelligence (John Negroponte) above the Central Intelligence Agency director.

[Mike Darancette]

Maybe we will when we can admit who the enemy really is.

[diverteach]

"War on Terror: Do We Need To Mobilize?"

First our leaders need to STOP with the political correctness and recognize that ISLAM is the enemy and it NOT a religion of peace.

Secondly, STOP THE APPEASEMENT DAMMIT! It only makes them bolder.

Third, do all we can to ensure that the RATS NEVER get control of ANYTHING.

Fourth, "F" the UN and go after the head of the snake and nuke Irans nuclear facilities already and get some spec ops guys in there to take out Imanutjobonjihad.

[diverteach]

PS, SEAL THE FRICKIN' BORDERS

[sageb1]

While some dems push for a draft...

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Yep.

[randomhero97]

Longtime reader, first post. I don't think the average American gets it yet that we are in a war for the survival of western civilization. I think it is going to have to get much worse before everyone wakes up. By then it might be to late.

[MikefromOhio]

Maybe on September 12th of 2001 I would have said yes.

But 5 years later, we are winning BOTH fronts of the WOT, our intel services are less hindered than they were, our military is strong and will only continue to get stronger, and our will isn't anywhere near being broken.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[diverteach]

Unfortunately I beleive your absolutely correct.

BTW, nice to see you out from the shadows.

[John Carey]

Welcome. Grat post. You might be right too!

[sageb1]

Unfortunately, you're preachin' to the choir, but you probably know that.

Welcome to FR.

[SkyPilot]

This nation has never taken the war against Islam (and that is what it really is) seriously.

Active duty military are on their second or third 365 day deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Many Reserve and Guard units are sharing an equal burden. Some Army officers who retired have been called back to active duty.

Most Americans are oblivious to the sacrifices of the military. The tears cried by wives, children, and parents echo only within military families.

99% of Americans see this war from the sidelines.

There should have been a draft after 9-11. We are fighting an enemy as hostile as the Nazis with one arm tied behind our backs.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

John, I am sorry but I got bored about half way through your dissertation and stopped reading. If I quit too soon and you covered it later, forgive me. However, from reading the comments of others you don't seem to have covered this.

The elephant in the room is the Democrat Party and the rest of the left, the MSM, the unions (government and private) and the educational system who are propagandizing for the other side. That is why there is no consensus or mobilization.

Wake up and fight the real enemy, the ones here at home, the ones that lost the Vietnam war. Stop looking for the enemy out there, they are here.

[BlazingArizona]

War on Terror: Do We Need To Mobilize?

Actually, we need to "Arcoize" - drill our domestic energy sources to the maximum.

[leadpenny]

In politics, as in life, you usually don't get a 'do over,' but when an attack comes that makes 9-11 look like a dress rehearsal, the presidency will probably rethink the idea of mobilizing America. It won't happen in the meantime.

[malia]

bump

[leadpenny]

"There should have been a draft after 9-11."

You can't say that on FR, but you're right.

And, thank god for our women warriors, the draft that didn't happen should have included women.

[pawdoggie]

War on Terror: Do We Need To Mobilize?

Contrary to Democrat (and John McCain) revisionist history, the President said early on that the War on Terror was going to be a "long war". President Bush knew intuitively that the American people have no patience for a long war, something that Bin Laden factored into the equation when he triggered the 9/11 plot. That's why, I believe, the President resisted calls to "mobilize" the population, as many conservatives and even liberals (like Tommy Friedman) recommended. In so doing, he unwittingly walked down the same path as Lyndon Johnson, who started the national debt on its ever-upward spiral in order to provide "guns and butter", so that the public would not grow war weary and abandon the effort in Vietnam. The problem is that (perhaps because of the Vietnam experience, or the relatively bloodless campaigns of the Reagan and Bush '41 years) the electorate is not sufficiently happy with its "butter" to overlook the fact that we have not yet achieved final victory in either Iraq or the War on Terror.

That having been said, however, I believe that the public would have reached the current level of frustration with the progress in the War on Terror even sooner if we had tightened our belts, sacrificed economic expansion for the cause, and "mobilized" the entire nation to fight a (relatively) few rabid dogs who have proven much more elusive than a credible conventional enemy force might have done.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

It will have to get much worse before the general population takes the war seriously.

And by worse, I mean as bad as the Israelis have it on a day to day basis. Bombs going off on crowded buses, restaurants being blown sky high during holidays and the like. Until the jihadis start hitting people on a regular basis, it'll be too easy to pass off the war as "someone else's problem".

[vimto]

If you substitute 'British' for 'American' in your post it still rings true.


regards!