Monday.....Miscellaneous.....We Are Americans, If You Please

Do the American people know the extent of the crisis they are in? Lets consider the crisis itself. We watch the carnage in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan but a desensitization has occurred. What we see seems almost surreal, but it can happen here as it did before. This past week British intelligence agencies warned that they are expecting an attack in the beginning of the new year. Our intelligence agencies followed that up with information that communications traffic indicates that attacks on our soil may be immanent. The financial collapse of last year was followed by the amassing of a debt that we have not come to grips with, and we are currently being warned that there are new bubbles forming that could dwarf 2008, yet satisfaction with the rising Dow is obscuring this and a rising tyranny in our government. The powers of our Constitution are currently being usurped and we are experiencing an attempted Socialist takeover. The future of our children is in jeopardy. Part of the polarization that has ruined any unity we might have had before is evident here for many will testify to the dangers we face but others seem to be oblivious to the potential devastation ahead, and even many conservatives neatly schedule their tirades between sports events. The horror of September 11, 2001 remains; passengers watching the twin towers coming closer and closer, screams in the cabin, jumpers from 100 floors up and firefighters and police officers running up stairs only to have millions of pounds of concrete and steel collapse upon them. The failed jetliner bombing of Christmas day was only the latest of an increasing number of individual terrorist attacks and other plots that were detected in time. Yet some are more concerned with freeing detainees from Gitmo than protecting our own citizens. No, we are in a war and will be devastated by that war if we do not wake up. Having said that; forgive my own absurdity in analysis here but there was a song from a Disney animated children's movie, Lady And the Tramp I believe, in which I would like to paraphrase a part of its lyrics. Our message to the world should be We are Americans, if you please. We are Americans, if you don't please. We deserve a humbling but that is our business and not Europe's, nor Asia's. We should not have to go to any country or people and plead forgiveness when they would either have banners of a swastika or flags with a hammer and sickle dotting their landscape if not for this nation, nor should we join with or emulate the strategies of European countries that are losing the war on infiltration and intimidation. The terrorist's timing better be perfect for if it is not they may meet a people out of American history books, for many of those now wasting time wondering who will win the Super Bowl, still have the determination of December 8th, 1941 running through their veins. Until proven otherwise, Americans may bend until our shores are breached when that bend becomes a bow, as President George Bush demonstrated. The trend towards globalization needs to be reversed immediately. China wants us to buy its exports and to prove financial stability for their investments but its government is not a friend to us nor to its own people. Moderation in the liberties we enjoy is wise. Moderation in defending those liberties is not. We need to inform moderate Republicans running for office that we are not in a moderate crisis, we are not going to moderately defend our country, we don't moderately respect the sacrifices of our military nor those who came before us and most of all, we will no more moderately honor the benefactor of our blessings nor moderately acknowledge His goodness and wisdom for He is the only one who can sustain us and the only one whose forgiveness we should covet.