The Defense of our Nation

In the defense of our nation, a pres­i­dent must be a clear-eyed real­ist. There are lim­its to the smiles and scowls of diplo­macy. Armies and mis­siles are not stopped by stiff notes of con­dem­na­tion. They are held in check by strength and pur­pose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush

Unfor­tu­nately, I don’t think our cur­rent pres­i­dent real­izes this.  He is nei­ther clear-eyed, nor a real­ist.  He con­tin­ues to use diplo­macy as though it’s the be-all, end-all of all argu­ments.  He wants to reduce our nuclear deter­rent, while other nations strive to increase theirs.  He wants to essen­tially cut our defense appro­pri­a­tions.  He is con­sis­tently weak­en­ing us, and he has obfus­cated our pur­pose as a nation — not only in for­eign pol­icy, but in domes­tic issues as well.

We The Peo­ple need to wake up and real­ize what is hap­pen­ing to our coun­try.  Every day we see the vit­riol and hatred increase, not only from the left, but from the fringes of the polit­i­cal right also.   And now it seems as though the fringe left and fringe right are turn­ing on them­selves as well.  What will it take for this coun­try to come together, as we did after 9/11?  Will it take another ter­ror­ist attack, or will it take some­thing worse (i.e., rev­o­lu­tion)?  I pray to God not.

I just con­tinue to see the moral decline of this coun­try, and it sad­dens me.  This is not the coun­try I remem­ber from my child­hood, and it’s cer­tainly not the one from Sep­tem­ber 2001.  We were united.  We all suf­fered — even those of us who didn’t have any imme­di­ate fam­ily or friends to die in the ter­ri­ble attacks of that day.  I saw a patri­o­tism and a love for God and coun­try like I had never seen before.  What happened?

If things do not improve soon, I truly see a rev­o­lu­tion or civil out­burst hap­pen­ing soon — cer­tainly not as wide­spread and dev­as­tat­ing as our Civil War, but still dra­matic in its own right.  We’ve already seen what hap­pens when peo­ple are upset with tuition increases.  What do you think will hap­pen when the peo­ple of this coun­try finally get tired of the con­tin­u­ous “tax and spend” com­ing from Wash­ing­ton?  I fore­see it being far, far worse.

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