What I'd like to know is if we have crossed a line where Americans are no longer able to fight a protracted war.
Maybe Osama was right. Perhaps we are too soft and will give up if the fight is too bloody.
I have come to believe that a Republican president cannot lead us into war because the Democrats and their media friends will try every treasonous trick in the book to see that we do not win lest Republicans prove to be effective at defending the country.
Perhaps a Democrat can lead us successfully into war if only because the Left will not try everything to destroy him/her however I don't trust any Democrat (except maybe Zell Miller) to fight a war without caving to political correctness and expediency. If they had the will to fight, they wouldn't be leading the Democrat Party.
I say, in jest, that the Democrats' response to terrorism would be to offer them Alabama, Mississippi and Utah as a gesture of peace. After all, as Charlie Rangel points out, Democrats have no use for them. The Democrat answer to conflict is always capitulation in return for empty promises - that is, unless they are fighting Republicans.
So, we may be seeing the end of our Republic - one that cannot fight for itself with a Republican in charge and one that will not fight for itself with a Democrat in charge.
But just tonight I was watching The Day After on TV for the first time since I saw it's original airing as a college student in 1983. For those of you who don't remember, it was a made-for-TV movie about the effects of a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
I remember then how it was billed as a major television event. Virtually everybody I knew watched it that night. There were discussion groups after the movie aired, and commentary from just about every political pundit. And, of course, it was a thinly veiled attack on Ronald Reagan and his policy of rebuilding our nuclear deterrence.
There was no internet, no talk radio, no new media of any type to present an opposing view. The DBM was monolithic in it's support of the movie and it's opposition to Reagan. Yet somehow, Reagan still made his case to the American people and prevailed in 1984.
It gives me hope that it's still possible to defeat the Democrats and the DBM and win this war.