Monday, July 14, 2008

IT'S NOT THE SAME COUNTRY

I know everyone has a different opinion on the war and our current President. But, this article makes a lot of sense, and I hope you will take 2 minutes and read it and give it some thought. I have never seen the 'situation' expressed any better in words! Recently I was talking to a friend about the upcoming election and the candidates. As we ended our discussion he said 'the only decision you have to make is who you want sitting in that seat in the White House when - not if - when we get hit again and millions of American lives are put at risk!'


This is from : 'You ain't gonna like losing.' Author unknown.


President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq


Bush's mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father fought for in WWII. It is not.


Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was steeled by the hardship of that depression, but they still believed fervently in this country. They knew that the people had elected their leaders, so it was the people's duty to back those leaders.


Therefore, when the war broke out the people came together, rallied behind, and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for them or not or whether the war was going badly or not.


And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as great then as it is today. Often there were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had in the entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the President because it was their patriotic duty. Americans put aside their differences in WWII and worked together to win that war.


Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons around to gather scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort.


Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or condition trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their work to keep things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline to soap, to butter was imposed, yet there was very little complaining.


You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the President. Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile countries and complain to them about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the troops' morale. And a bunch even enlisted.


And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off with a Pledge of Allegiance, and with prayers for our country and our troops!


Back then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain weak spots in our cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum damage. No newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies.


A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had complained that German or Japanese soldiers were being 'tortured' by being forced to wear women's underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being scared by a dog or did not have air conditioning.

There were a lot of things different back then. We were not subjected to a constant bombardment of pornography, perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did not have legions of crack heads, dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our streets.

No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still the country that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve.


It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and the land of Oz. We did unite for a short while after 9/11, but our attitude changed when we found out that defending our country would require some sacrifices.


We are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatic Muslims. They believe that it is okay, even their duty, to kill anyone who will not convert to Islam. It has been estimated that about one third or over three hundred million Muslims are sympathetic to the terrorists cause... Hitler and Tojo combined did not have nearly that many potential recruits. So... We either win it - or lose it - and you ain't gonna like losing.


America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall.

2 comments:

  1. Maybe I should keep my nose out of this but I can't.

    The author is right that it is not the same country - it's not the same century.

    People then for the most part, had very little education, and knew very little about the world. They knew very little about the corruption and manipulations of governments. They trusted the people in power largely because they didn't know any better.

    Now, information - some of it bad - is available 24/7 in many different forms. We know that the leaders of our nations can be and are corrupted. They have a different agenda than what they let on. They do not trust us. They take a hell of a lot of our money (there was no income tax before the war) and spend it on things we find questionable.

    If the people are not behind what the government is doing, it's because the population is disillusioned and jaded. They have, since WWII, fought and did not win a very long, seemingly pointless war in Vietnam.

    The world is no longer made up of "us" and "them". While certain fanatical muslims want to take over and may scream for the death of infidels, the muslims down the street are friendly enough and haven't gone on any murdering rampages. It gets hard to hold on to a festering anger when there's conflicting information about the enemy. Some people aren't wired for absolute paranoia.

    If the government wants the support of the people, then the government has to earn their trust. The world isn't such a simple place any more.

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  2. Jeannie for President. Well spoken and very commonsensible. There are one or two rogue states that I'm worried about, Kentucky and I don't trust North Dakota-LOL.

    Propaganda and conspiracy theories will always rule.

    That's why I there that post up.

    Thanks as always fro dropping by!

    J

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