The Ents Have Gone To War

AmericanThinker ^ | September 21, 2009

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September 21, 2009

The Ents Have Gone To War

James Reynolds

In the Tolkien mythologies, the Ents are a race of human-like trees living deep in a primordial forest. Ancient, towering creatures, Ents move slowly and deliberately, requiring decades of contemplation before coming to a decision on matters great and small.

In the Middle Earth Trilogy, Ents are warned time and again of the danger they face at the hand of man, but it is not until they go to the edge of their forest and witness the destruction of their homeland that Ents rise up and defeat their foes.

For almost a decade Middle America has lived as Ents. Buffeted by the attacks of September 11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the housing crash of 2008, many of my countrymen had, by last autumn, turned inward, losing focus on the cost of freedom.

Overwhelmed by the rapid pace of political and social change beyond their shores, a large group of Americans --like the Ents -- just wanted to be left alone.

But change was in the air, and on November 5, 2009 Barack Obama was elected President of the United States on a nebulous promise of “hope and change.”

Fast forward to Monday, September 21, 2009: Nancy Pelosi is blubbering about “assassins,” Jimmy Carter is whining about “color,” John Stewart is screaming at the reporters of America as to why two kids scooped them on the ACORN story. And then along comes Bertha Lewis.

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