TJ reminds me of the peace activists during the Vietnam War, the ones who turned public sentiment against our soldiers who were giving their lives to help a hapless country maintain freedom. In the end, the activists won, and the people of Vietnam came under communist rule. So many young men gave their lives for nothing. We had the might to ensure a victorious end to that war, helping the South Vietnamese direct their own destiny, but politics and protestors robbed them of that chance.
Now we have been attacked on our own soil and the modern day peace activists want us to wait for another attack before we react.
There are probably FReepers who have sons and daughters already in the conflict to defeat the Taliban and Al Quaeda fighters, and yet there are posters here who would jeopardize their lives by posting propaganda which weakens our will.
My son will probably be in a hot spot before the year is out, and I will pray for his safety, but also pray that his mission is successful. We are at war. They are coming for us. We need to find out who they are, where they train, who gives them money and who harbors them and take them out before they amass the weaponry to kill thousands more innocent civilians.
One of the worst things the Clinton presidency brought us was an international humiliation. Our allies learned that we couldn’t be trusted. Those countries that we helped rebuild after WWII learned that they can ridicule us and defy us in the UN because we are a nation of softies who will put up with a leader who was above the law. We let him get away with monstrous attacks on our constitution because of 401k’s and our personal comfort.
Now we have a leader who understands that the world is different, and something has to be done, to protect us and to protect all those western civilization countries who so smuggly defy our request for help.
We need to eliminate the threat. We need to act as one. Unless we do, we won’t get the support from our former allies that we may need. We are sending our young men and women over to fight a terror this world has never known before. Don’t make them do this without our full support.
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