I've read far and wide today, nothing much to say, it's all been said. So much noise generated from so little substance as the Congress trots out it's 9/11 dog and pony show. We are in the fight of our lives and half of us think the other is the enemy. Big Sigh.
Then Baldilocks, via Da Commissar, pointed me to Laughing Wolf, who cut through the partisan chatter with a simple sentence:
"The fact that cannot be ignored in all of this is that we are at war."
The thought occured to me that a goodly portion of the Left and most of the old media do not believe that it is so. They believe George Bush is at war.
The Wolf continues:
The question before us is simple: What do we do now? The answers are not simple ones, nor are they easy. There are three basic answers and they entail risk, heartache, destruction, and more. One of them leads to peace and prosperity in the shortest time, but with a high cost. One leads eventually to peace and prosperity, but comes at an even higher cost. The final one leads to the fall of civilization as we know it, and the highest cost of all.
Go read the entire piece The War: What Happens Now and ask yourself which choice will Kerry will make? Bush has already chosen.
The corrosive, non-productive campaign rhetoric becomes irrelevent when viewed through the lens of war, in fact the election itself is peripheral, the war will continue no matter who is elected. Our enemies lie in wait for the next opportunity to exploit our free society. Oh, it will come, that is the one thing of which we may be sure. Another attack will not gain them the advantage they seek, it will be their destruction. Eventually the Left will be forced by events to stand and fight. Our enemies have misread or are ignorant of our history.
"The thought occured to me that a goodly portion of the Left and most of the old media do not believe that it is so."
The Left and Old Media believe that they're at war allright. With us.
Posted by: Ironbear at March 29, 2004 04:00 AM