The Dilemma of the War We Shrink from Facing

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 11/20/08 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

In previous posts I have been trying to come to grips with the dilemma of an Obama Presidency, the problems the country faces that need a coming together to solve, and the bitterness the left has engendered in me after eight years of trying to destroy President Bush and now Sarah Palin. Just as fanatic Islamists declared war on us, and we did not know it, the left has declared war on conservatives. We are just waking up to that fact, and the ground rules that they have set are that there are no ground rules.

Throughout all my adult years, and especially after serving as an officer in the Army Reserve, I have speculated that, if my President ever called on me, my answer would be, “Yes Sir”. That’s gone now. The eight-year long campaign of lies, smears and attempts to undermine Bush cannot now be set aside.

[raptor29]

Well, this was all pretty obvious back during the Clinton Administration. The left had clearly declared war on America during that phase and it’s only worse now. The question is, when does our side begin to get aggressive? And not with words, but with deeds. Given the current state of the court systems, the media, the various entitlement bureacracies and government in general, it no longer makes sense to ‘make our arguments’ and ‘try to change people’s minds’. We’re not quite there yet, but our side will soon figure out that our response to this must have a ‘force’ element to it.

[oldbill]

Don’t worry - a lot of people will be bailing out of the military under Obama, rather than be sent to a war where winning is not an option.

[sport]

The left, a/k/aas the Democrat Party and their propganda arm,a/k/a the alphabet “news” organizations declared war on Conservatives and those who believed in the values this Country was founded on many years ago.

They now have their ducks in a row to begin the final push.

This Nation will not surivive ,as a Representative Republic under the free enterprise system under a Democrat Congress with a Democrat President.

[beejaa]

However...when I first graduated from college in 1972, I was predictably left-wing (more or less social democratic, although I never joined a political group), despised the military (a popular attitude among college students at that time) and firmly believed in socialized medicine. I’m now conservative. Big government programs are not the answer. People should be able to run their own lives. Forcing people to serve the state does not inculcate virtue.

People can and do change over time. When the college kids graduate and join the real world, some of them will change their views, although I don’t know what percentage of them will do so.