America, Where Are You?

[Mayberry]

OK, break time's over. As Popeye said, "That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!"


Politicians think the average American is an idiot. Unfortunately, I think they’re right. The proof is laid before us every night on television, and throughout the printed media. The general population seems to be more concerned with the latest on Anna Nichole Smith and Britney Spears than with the state of our country and our government. Meanwhile, we’re being invaded by illegal aliens, dilly dallying around in Iraq, sending our jobs overseas, fretting over “global warming�, and allowing foreigners to dictate American policy. Enough already. America was once proud and strong, and we need to find our way back to that state.
Our so-called “representatives� in government need to wake up and smell the manure. If we continue down the road we are on, we’ll all be speaking Chinese, or suffering under Sharia Law. Neither is a pleasant option. It’s time to regain our national identity, pride, and strength before it’s too late.
First of all, it’s time to show the world we mean business. Remove the politicians from war, and let our Generals and Admirals do their jobs. Had we done this in the first place, the war in Iraq would have ended years ago. We have but one Commander in Chief. If Congress wishes to end the war, then step up and pull the funding. Otherwise, shut your mouths and let the military do their jobs. They know what needs to be done, let them do it, free from restrictive “rules of engagement�. We also need to help the Brits rescue their captured sailors, and show Iran that they can’t mess with America or her allies and get away with it. Like it or not, these radical Muslims only respond to one thing. Show them who’s in charge. War is not pleasant, nor should it be. And since we are already engaged in war, we need to fight like we mean it, show no mercy, and take no prisoners. That is the only way to show these terrorist cowards that we mean business and we won’t tolerate their kind. Ronald Reagan knew how to deal with these people. Let’s end this his way, quickly, victorious, once and for all.
To all politicians: Some of us do have a memory. We know what you’ve said or done in the past, or we know how to find out. You all need to grow up, take responsibility for your actions, and start acting like Statesmen, not Jerry Springer Show rejects. You’re finger pointing, mud slinging, name calling, tattle tailing 10 year olds. You’re an embarrassment to yourselves, your families, and your country. Own up to your past. Drop the partisanship. We are all in the same boat, and we need unity. Realize that you are not going to get everything your way, and work together towards a common goal. That’s what you were elected to do, and frankly, very few of you are doing it.
Stop allowing foreign governments and special interest groups to dictate American policy. We have to take care of our own interests, which are winning the War on Terror as a whole, securing our borders, stopping the invasion of illegal aliens, eliminating the Federal and trade deficits, and fixing what’s wrong with our country, which is quite a lot. We’ve got a lot of work to do, and there are too many obstacles in the way. Some feelings may be hurt along the way, but such is life. They’ll get over it. The world seems to hate America anyway, so what have we got to lose? We’ve got everything to gain.
We need to withdraw from that noodle spined, so called organization called the United Nations. They are a complete waste of our time and our money. The UN has done absolutely nothing of consequence. Their idea of punishment is sanctions and sternly written letters, which Iran and the like shrug off without much notice. The UN has undermined the security of all Western nations with it’s lack of action, and downright pandering to the enemy. They are completely incompetent, and irrelevant.
This country needs to return to the idea of being the great “melting pot�. Hyphenated Americans should decide which half they wish to be, and either blend in, or move out. Politicians pandering to “minority groups� have done more to fuel the divisiveness in this country than all other acts combined and multiplied by ten. We need to proclaim English as the official language in America, and absolutely require that any and all immigrants be fluent and literate in English. There again, somebody’s feelings may get hurt, but if they want to be an American bad enough, they’ll get over it. Unity is what made America strong before, and we need unity now more than ever. English is the tie that binds, folks.
Finally, we need to stop the wholesale feminization of this country and fast. We have become a bunch of lily livered wusses. The bleeding hearts have all but castrated this great nation, and that’s the reason that the radicals think the time is ripe for our destruction, and rightfully so. What happened to the can do, pioneering spirit that founded this nation? We looked adversity in the eye, then spit in it. Have we become so lazy and ignorant that we are no longer willing or able to do what it takes? Sadly it appears so. We have become apathetic towards the country as a whole, only looking out for ourselves or our “ own kind�. We’re Americans! Together we are the strongest nation in the world, a force to be reckoned with. We are wealthy, we’ve got among the highest standards of living in the free world, and we can do anything we put our minds to. Don’t feel guilty about it. Take pride in it! Give thanks for having been born in the land of the free, wave your flag proudly, shake your fists at our enemies, ignore our detractors, and do what America has always done best. There is room for compassion, but not to the point of self destruction. We’ve got to realize that we can’t save the entire world, nor should we try. We were once the example the rest of the world looked up to, because we were powerful and successful. Now we are looked down on because we are weak. You don’t gain respect by bowing to everyone, and if we are not worthy of respect, then we are doomed to failure, and 9/11 was just the beginning of that failure. Nature favors survival of the fittest.

[lily]

You make good points, Mayberry but........I don't think we're as weak as you think we are. IMO we are more divided than at any other period in time that I've ever seen in my life.

[ticbeast]

Beautiful. Just one thing I noticed:

"We have become apathetic towards the country as a whole, only looking out for ourselves or our “ own kind�. We’re Americans! Together we are the strongest nation in the world, a force to be reckoned with. We are wealthy, we’ve got among the highest standards of living in the free world, and we can do anything we put our minds to. Don’t feel guilty about it. Take pride in it!"

Love for people shouldn't stop at our boarders. Sure, we should take pride in our nation, take care of our people, but we can't just forget about the rest of the world. It is because we are powerful and because we are wealthy that we should continue to aid oppressed peoples and poor nations.

Other than that, very impressive writing.

[Mayberry]

Other than that, very impressive writing. Thanks, Tic. Love for people shouldn't stop at our boarders. Sure, we should take pride in our nation, take care of our people, but we can't just forget about the rest of the world. It is because we are powerful and because we are wealthy that we should continue to aid oppressed peoples and poor nations.
I didn't mean to say we should forget the rest of the world, I meant that we need to pause and take care of our own problems first. Then we'd be in a much better position to help someone else. I don't think we're as weak as you think we are. Maybe, Lily. But we're definitely not as strong as we've been in the past. We defeated far superior enemies in WWII, on their turf, with inferior equipment, because we had the drive that is sorely lacking now.

[AlonzoMourning23]

Actually, I think we defeated them because we had greater manpower and production capacity.

[Mayberry]

True, but for most of the war, we had far inferior tanks, aircraft, and weaponry. We also had the logistical disadvantage of having to ship all this across the globe, and being split in two different theaters. Huge problems to overcome.

[Buck Laser]

OK, break time's over. As Popeye said, "That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!"
Finally, we need to stop the wholesale feminization of this country and fast. We have become a bunch of lily livered wusses. The bleeding hearts have all but castrated this great nation, and that’s the reason that the radicals think the time is ripe for our destruction, and rightfully so. What happened to the can do, pioneering spirit that founded this nation? We looked adversity in the eye, then spit in it.

I tried once before to object to this portion of your diatribe, Craig, and it was sent to "Fool's Paradise." I fear the same thing will happen again, but I'll keep on trying.

"Feminization of America" is bullshit, pure and simple. I'm guessing you believe that John Wayne was the IDEAL AMERICAN, and that anyone less macho isn't really worthy of being called an American.

I've always tried to follow this guy, Jesus of Nazareth, and he had a lot of stuff about turning the other cheek, blessing those who curse you, and giving your coat to those who'd take your shirt. Oh, and there was that business about "turning the other cheek." Is that what you mean by feminization? I'm really interested in an answer, because in some other threads, you've put a good bit of emphasis on your own Christian faith, and I'm just getting a little confused.

Is it lily-livered or wussy of me to ask you to explain?

[Mayberry]

Is that what you mean by feminization? What I mean is that we used to do what needed to be done, no questions asked. Now we're pussy-footing around. We're tip toeing through Iraq and Afganistan instead of kicking arse and taking names. Muslim radicals aren't going to respond to diplomacy. We've got to take them out. Also there is all this "self esteem" crap nowadays. Kids play tee ball and nobody keeps score. "We're all winners". Phooey! Somebody wins, somebody loses. That's life, and not teaching our kids that fact is just setting them up for a fall. We're shown all these whimpering, sobbing men on TV nowadays. When things get rough, someone has to stand strong, and that someone is the man of the house. And by the way, John Wayne was a great American. So you can call it bullshit, but do you know why 9/11 happened? Because we got soft, that's why. Had we done some profiling, questioned why Arabs were taking flight school but skipping the landing part, and not worried about "offending" anyone, maybe the attack wouldn't have happened. Which brings up another point. No one shows the film from that day, because it's "too disturbing". Damn right it is, and that's exactly why it needs to be shown! We need to remember, we need to get pissed off again, and we need to open up the gates of hell and send all these terrorists straight down. So I hope I've answered your question Buck, and Jesus ain't got a damn thing to do with it, unless you want to read that "eye for an eye" part again. Had they left us alone, I'd have no problem with the bastards who attacked us, but they opened up this can of worms.

[lily]

Is that what you mean by feminization? What I mean is that we used to do what needed to be done, no questions asked. Now we're pussy-footing around. We're tip toeing through Iraq and Afganistan instead of kicking arse and taking names.

I disagree.......what we are doing is all the work. Also ifÂ*Â*you want to kick ass and take names, then stop tying the hands of the soldiers and let them do what they do best. Stop lollygagging around. Pick a side, you know it's going to happen sooner or later.......just pick a damned side and tell them and let them do the job and come home.

Musl Kids play tee ball and nobody keeps score. "We're all winners". Phooey! Somebody wins, somebody loses. That's life, and not teaching our kids that fact is just setting them up for a fall.

Agreed

So you can call it bullshit, but do you know why 9/11 happened? Because we got soft, that's why. Had we done some profiling, questioned why Arabs were taking flight school but skipping the landing part, and not worried about "offending" anyone, maybe the attack wouldn't have happened. Which brings up another point.

Profiling had nothing to do with it. The warning was given and ignored.

No one shows the film from that day, because it's "too disturbing". Damn right it is, and that's exactly why it needs to be shown! We need to remember,

The film is shown plenty......and once a year all day. What they are not showing is the bodies falling out the windows and sorry....no one needs to see that out of respect for the dead.

[Mayberry]

Also if you want to kick ass and take names, then stop tying the hands of the soldiers and let them do what they do best. Stop lollygagging around. Pick a side, you know it's going to happen sooner or later.......just pick a damned side and tell them and let them do the job and come home That's what I've been trying to say!! Lily, I wish they would untie the soldiers' hands and let them end this, quickly, and unconditionally. The warning was given and ignored.
Exactly. We became so fat, lazy and "sensitive" that we couldn't even concieve something like that happening to us. Oh, we're so nice, nobody would want to hurt us. And we are lapsing right back into that state. The film is shown plenty I don't see it, and once a year isn't enough.

[AlonzoMourning23]

That's what I've been trying to say!! Lily, I wish they would untie the soldiers' hands and let them end this, quickly, and unconditionally.

Because that worked in Gaza, Chechnya, Afganistan....... Oh wait, it didn't.

And in Iraq, which areas are safer, the british run ones or the u.s. run ones?

[lily]

Zo........I know I'm going to get blasted on this....but when was the last time we won a war? WW2. We are not going to win this civil war. The only way out is to finally come out and say who we want in power and get it over with. If you don't think there is already a plan on who they want in power, then I've got a car to sell you.

[AlonzoMourning23]

Just out of curiosity, how many resistance movements did the nazi's defeat? They went all out, to the point of wiping out villages, and they were unsuccesful.

Unless you can get the local population to stop supporting resistance movements, and make them due so out of actual opposition to those groups, you're not going to win this war.

[lily]

That's true......but I think we've gone way past winning the hearts and minds, into get the hell out and leave us alone.

[AlonzoMourning23]

But if you leave then you're left with one of three results.
A. Somehow the Iraq governments holds together and tackles the resistance groups and forms a functioning state.
B. The Iraqi government ends up like Saddam, but this time more supportive of militia groups such as Sadr who may aid groups such as Hezbollah.
C. You have a failed state, one in which would be a disaster both for the Iraqi's and for the international community due to the terrorism threat.

[Buck Laser]

Is that what you mean by feminization? What I mean is that we used to do what needed to be done, no questions asked. Now we're pussy-footing around. We're tip toeing through Iraq and Afganistan instead of kicking arse and taking names.

Craig, I have to say that you sound a lot like a dittohead with these comments. I've spent a fair amount of time in my life studying the history of war, and how kings, generals, popes and tyrants handled it. What you seem to be looking for is total war, which was practiced for the first time on a global scale during WW2, when both the Axis and the Allies did it.

Dropping a nuke may make a satisfying boom, and provide a very satisfying end to a frustrating situation, but most grownups realize that you have to be responsible for ALL the consequences of doing something like that. A movie star can do that. But when a president does that, he brings down the consequences of all history on himself and his country for all time

Truman did it, and he seems to have turned out to be right. So far. But if an all-out nuclear war breaks out at some point in the future, no matter how long after WW2, Truman will have to bear some responsibility for it.

Our war against Iraq was ill-conceived and based on multiple lies Bush told the world and the American people. He got us into a war that can't be won except by dropping a nuke. Are you willing to accept the consequences of dropping a nuke? I'm not.

[lily]

......and we'll never know until we stop holding their hand. It's been 5 years, Zo and things are worse than they were 4 years ago. If we want to keep our soldiers in, then give them a job and be done with it. Shoving this down their throat isn't working. We should have gotten a clue, when they couldn't even tear down the statue themselves. This war can be won, but not under this administration, with this strategy...if you even want to call it a strategy.

[AlonzoMourning23]

Holding their hand? We hand them a country in the midst of a civil war. They have to start from nothing. And civil wars take years. Americans are simply too impatient. Here's an interesting piece I found on them:

Taking the national level first, one clear cost of civil war is a reduction in economic growth. Using a conservative estimate, one year of conflict reduces a country's growth rate by 2.2%. Since, on average, each civil conflict lasts for seven years, the economy will be 15% smaller at the end of the war than if the war had not taken place. During the post-war recovery, even though the economy on average grows at an annual rate of more than 1% above the norm, it will take roughly ten years to return to its pre-war growth rates (that is, 17 years after the conflict started). 21 years after the start of the original war, the GDP has returned to the level it would have achieved if no war had occurred. The total economic cost, expressed as a present value at the start of the war (using a 5% discount rate), is 105% of the GDP at that point. This seems to be a fairly conservative estimate, as a more detailed analysis shows the actual figure to lie in the range 41-305% (90% confidence limits).


http://www.inwent.org/ef-texte/military/collier.htm

You can't give them a job and be down with it, there isn't one to give them. The use of heavy handed tactics is what is killing us. Countries like the british used much less brute force and it showed. They require less protection from enemies, they have better relationships with the local iraqi's, and their areas have less turmoil likely due to that.

The only thing I wonder is if americans are capable of behaving in that way?

[lily]

You can't give them a job and be down with it, there isn't one to give them. The use of heavy handed tactics is what is killing us. Countries like the british used much less brute force and it showed. They require less protection from enemies, they have better relationships with the local iraqi's, and their areas have less turmoil likely due to that.

The only thing I wonder is if americans are capable of behaving in that way?


ZO.....I think we're on the same page, but different paragraphs on this.

[Labrocca]

I disagree.......what we are doing is all the work. Also if you want to kick ass and take names, then stop tying the hands of the soldiers and let them do what they do best. Stop lollygagging around. Pick a side, you know it's going to happen sooner or later.......just pick a damned side and tell them and let them do the job and come home.

You can blame the failure of vietnam, hollywood, and the liberal media (including blogs) for our continued failure. We can't kick ass anymore because war is hell and if shown in that light on CNN the war will lose it's supporters and fast. As stated..we are a nation of wussies now. However I don't agree that Reagan was ass-kicker. He used economic and political posturing to win the cold-war. We outmatched them by overwhelming them with pawns. Heck even the war in Afghanistan (for the USSR) was a part of their downfall...now we are in the same type of quagmire fighting the same type of "freedom fighters" in Iraq.

[Mayberry]

The use of heavy handed tactics is what is killing us. Heavy handed? Heavy handed would have been bombing them back to the stone age. We are tip toeing around trying to pick them off one by one, without hurting or God forbid, offending any one else. In Germany during WWII, we carpet bombed the Nazis into submission. Granted the circumstances in Iraq are quite different, and the enemy is fewer in number and quite elusive. The solution, I believe, is to install an enormous troop surge, flush the enemy out into the open, then blow them away. Of course, this would require support, and a backbone from the UN, which will never happen. So the next best thing to do is, seal the borders tightly, give fair warning to the population, then turn the place to rubble, as we did in Germany.

[AlonzoMourning23]

So the next best thing to do is, seal the borders tightly, give fair warning to the population, then turn the place to rubble, as we did in Germany.

Ah yes, refugee camps filled with vengeful people. Gee, didn't Israel try that?

Maybe try what the nazi's did? For everyone american killed we kill 100 Iraqi's?

Throughout the occupation, the Germans applied a ruthless retaliation policy in an attempt to destroy resistance. As the Polish resistance grew bolder in 1943 after the German defeat at Stalingrad, German reprisal efforts escalated. The Germans destroyed dozens of villages, killing men, women, and children. Public executions by hanging or shooting in Warsaw and other cities occurred daily. During the war the Germans destroyed at least 300 villages in Poland.
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/poles.htmv

Or then again, we could just do what they do in Chechnya, that'll surely work.

[Mayberry]

Well Zo, you've got it all figured out now, don't you? So what is your solution? As is typical from the left, all you seem to be able to do is to find fault with someone's plans or ideas, without offering any alternative of your own. So what is it Zo? What's your great plan to end the war in Iraq victoriously, and in the shortest time possible? And what does the Nazi quote have to do with any of this? Are you suggesting that Al Queda will burn every town they retreat through? I seriously doubt it, they don't have the numbers to pull it off.

[AlonzoMourning23]

There's no short term exit strategy that will work. I've said repeatedly, the best thing to do is to stop using heavy handed tactics and use more cooperation. American casualties will increase in the short term, but in the long term you will increase the likelihood of willing cooperation since you're not pissing off every other Iraqi you encounter. At the same time increase the amount of training of Iraqi soldiers in not only warfare, but also conduct, how to treat prisoners etc.

And what does the Nazi quote have to do with any of this? Are you suggesting that Al Queda will burn every town they retreat through? I seriously doubt it, they don't have the numbers to pull it off.


The nazi's tried to destroy those who challenged them, but it didn't work.

As is typical from the left, all you seem to be able to do is to find fault with someone's plans or ideas, without offering any alternative of your own.

It's also typical of the right to just want to blow everything up whatever the situation is.

[Mayberry]

I've said repeatedly, the best thing to do is to stop using heavy handed tactics and use more cooperation. And there lies the fatal flaw in your way of thinking. You can't cooperate with people who aren't willing to cooperate. What part of "death to infedels" can't you get a grip on? These insurgents won't stop, won't rest until they've killed every last one of us, you and me included, that is unless you are a Muslim Zo (and before you say it, I don't care a hill of beans if you are or not, though it would explain a lot). The only way to stop them is elimination. Period.

[AlonzoMourning23]

And the fatal flaw in your thinking is you fail to realize that people become these radicals, it's not innate and it's not the population as a whole. Though destroying Iraq could make it pretty close, since refugees never seem too happy about their situation.

[Mayberry]

Nobody said Iraq need be destroyed, hence the reason I would call for a massive escalation in troop levels to flush the enemy out into the open. It is the lack of support from the UN Jellyfish that makes destruction become more necessary, destruction that would be rebuilt by us at any rate.

[AlonzoMourning23]

Iraq doesn't need to be destroyed, but the u.n. makes it necessary? And how exactly is rebuilding Iraq completely going to put us in a better position? Either financially or militarily?

I'm surprised by the amount of americans who think a bomb is a cureall for the worlds problems.

[Mayberry]

Iraq doesn't need to be destroyed, but the u.n. makes it necessary? We don't have enough soldiers to seal the borders and flush out al queda. Need some help here, folks. But the pea brains of the UN can't seem to figure that out. And how exactly is rebuilding Iraq completely going to put us in a better position? Either financially or militarily?
Both. We would have a strong ally in the region, in addition to Isreal, which would keep Iran at bay. And financially, stability in the region would eliminate (some of) the excuses for the oil traders to crank up prices. And I'm sure a non-OPEC producer in the area wouldn't hurt either. It's called competition, a wonderful thing. Iraq would prosper, and we'd get lower oil prices, a win-win situation.

[AlonzoMourning23]

Both. We would have a strong ally in the region, in addition to Isreal, which would keep Iran at bay.

That is so absurd it's laughable. You completely destroy a country and you think they're going to be a strong ally?

That's the best thing I've heard all week.

[Mayberry]

Zo, you're just reading what you want into my posts. I'm not going to waste any more time with you.

[AlonzoMourning23]

Are you claiming that we can destroy Iraq, rebuild it, and somehow end up with Iraq as a strong ally?

[lily]

Mayberry wrote:

Nobody said Iraq need be destroyed, hence the reason I would call for a
massive escalation in troop levels to flush the enemy out into the open. It
is the lack of support from the UN Jellyfish that makes destruction become
more necessary, destruction that would be rebuilt by us at any rate.

Bush did have some good ideas when going into the war. Having the Iraqis stand up. We don't need a surge of Americans going in and doing the same thing that was done before....we need those Iraqi troops that have been being "trained" now for 5 years to be doing this. There is no needÂ*Â*for Americans to be busting down doors, making more enemies by not knowing the customs,Â*Â*the language, the difference between sects or anything else to do with this country.


We don't have enough soldiers to seal the borders and flush out al queda.
Need some help here, folks. But the pea brains of the UN can't seem to
figure that out.

We had help......remember the coalition of the willing? They promised certain amounts of time. They fulfilled their part of the bargain.

Both. We would have a strong ally in the region, in addition to Isreal,
which would keep Iran at bay. And financially, stability in the region would
eliminate (some of) the excuses for the oil traders to crank up prices. And
I'm sure a non-OPEC producer in the area wouldn't hurt either. It's called
competition, a wonderful thing. Iraq would prosper, and we'd get lower oil
prices, a win-win situation.

Well, if the Iraqis were rebuilding their country from the begining, instead of hiring foreigners to take the jobs that they have been doing just fine up until now, their economy might be somewhat on the right track by now. I know if I was an engineer, electrician, bricklayer what ever......if I saw my job going to some foreigner (at triple the pay) and the insurgets were the only ones hiring and I had a family to feed, I'd be standing in line.

[lily]

You can blame the failure of vietnam, hollywood, and the liberal media (including blogs) for our continued failure. We can't kick ass anymore because war is hell and if shown in that light on CNN the war will lose it's supporters and fast. Â*

Yep it's everyone's fault but the CIC.........but when he's questioned, we're told he's the decider and he will decide.

[Truth_and_Power]

If you took the politicians out of the Iraq war, there would be no iraq war to begin with. If you want the special interests to stop dominating politics, you are going to want to press for federally funded elections so that VOTES are what counts instead of CHECKS. I don't think the current system is what the founding fathers meant by Checks and (checking account) Balances.

[Mayberry]

If you took the politicians out of the Iraq war, there would be no iraq war to begin with. You're probably right on that one. you are going to want to press for federally funded elections so that VOTES are what counts instead of CHECKS. Sounds good to me! I don't think the current system is what the founding fathers meant by Checks and (checking account) Balances. I'd dare say they're not just rolling over in their graves, they're spinning 3000 RPM. It was not supposed to be "By the Corporations, of the Corporations, and for the Corporations". You could insert "Special Interest Groups" in there as well.

[namguy]

OK, break time's over. As Popeye said, "That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!"


Politicians think the average American is an idiot. Unfortunately, I think they’re right. The proof is laid before us every night on television, and throughout the printed media. The general population seems to be more concerned with the latest on Anna Nichole Smith and Britney Spears than with the state of our country and our government. Meanwhile, we’re being invaded by illegal aliens, dilly dallying around in Iraq, sending our jobs overseas, fretting over “global warming�, and allowing foreigners to dictate American policy. Enough already. America was once proud and strong, and we need to find our way back to that state.
Our so-called “representatives� in government need to wake up and smell the manure. If we continue down the road we are on, we’ll all be speaking Chinese, or suffering under Sharia Law. Neither is a pleasant option. It’s time to regain our national identity, pride, and strength before it’s too late.
First of all, it’s time to show the world we mean business. Remove the politicians from war, and let our Generals and Admirals do their jobs. Had we done this in the first place, the war in Iraq would have ended years ago. We have but one Commander in Chief. If Congress wishes to end the war, then step up and pull the funding. Otherwise, shut your mouths and let the military do their jobs. They know what needs to be done, let them do it, free from restrictive “rules of engagement�. We also need to help the Brits rescue their captured sailors, and show Iran that they can’t mess with America or her allies and get away with it. Like it or not, these radical Muslims only respond to one thing. Show them who’s in charge. War is not pleasant, nor should it be. And since we are already engaged in war, we need to fight like we mean it, show no mercy, and take no prisoners. That is the only way to show these terrorist cowards that we mean business and we won’t tolerate their kind. Ronald Reagan knew how to deal with these people. Let’s end this his way, quickly, victorious, once and for all.
To all politicians: Some of us do have a memory. We know what you’ve said or done in the past, or we know how to find out. You all need to grow up, take responsibility for your actions, and start acting like Statesmen, not Jerry Springer Show rejects. You’re finger pointing, mud slinging, name calling, tattle tailing 10 year olds. You’re an embarrassment to yourselves, your families, and your country. Own up to your past. Drop the partisanship. We are all in the same boat, and we need unity. Realize that you are not going to get everything your way, and work together towards a common goal. That’s what you were elected to do, and frankly, very few of you are doing it.
Stop allowing foreign governments and special interest groups to dictate American policy. We have to take care of our own interests, which are winning the War on Terror as a whole, securing our borders, stopping the invasion of illegal aliens, eliminating the Federal and trade deficits, and fixing what’s wrong with our country, which is quite a lot. We’ve got a lot of work to do, and there are too many obstacles in the way. Some feelings may be hurt along the way, but such is life. They’ll get over it. The world seems to hate America anyway, so what have we got to lose? We’ve got everything to gain.
We need to withdraw from that noodle spined, so called organization called the United Nations. They are a complete waste of our time and our money. The UN has done absolutely nothing of consequence. Their idea of punishment is sanctions and sternly written letters, which Iran and the like shrug off without much notice. The UN has undermined the security of all Western nations with it’s lack of action, and downright pandering to the enemy. They are completely incompetent, and irrelevant.
This country needs to return to the idea of being the great “melting pot�. Hyphenated Americans should decide which half they wish to be, and either blend in, or move out. Politicians pandering to “minority groups� have done more to fuel the divisiveness in this country than all other acts combined and multiplied by ten. We need to proclaim English as the official language in America, and absolutely require that any and all immigrants be fluent and literate in English. There again, somebody’s feelings may get hurt, but if they want to be an American bad enough, they’ll get over it. Unity is what made America strong before, and we need unity now more than ever. English is the tie that binds, folks.
Finally, we need to stop the wholesale feminization of this country and fast. We have become a bunch of lily livered wusses. The bleeding hearts have all but castrated this great nation, and that’s the reason that the radicals think the time is ripe for our destruction, and rightfully so. What happened to the can do, pioneering spirit that founded this nation? We looked adversity in the eye, then spit in it. Have we become so lazy and ignorant that we are no longer willing or able to do what it takes? Sadly it appears so. We have become apathetic towards the country as a whole, only looking out for ourselves or our “ own kind�. We’re Americans! Together we are the strongest nation in the world, a force to be reckoned with. We are wealthy, we’ve got among the highest standards of living in the free world, and we can do anything we put our minds to. Don’t feel guilty about it. Take pride in it! Give thanks for having been born in the land of the free, wave your flag proudly, shake your fists at our enemies, ignore our detractors, and do what America has always done best. There is room for compassion, but not to the point of self destruction. We’ve got to realize that we can’t save the entire world, nor should we try. We were once the example the rest of the world looked up to, because we were powerful and successful. Now we are looked down on because we are weak. You don’t gain respect by bowing to everyone, and if we are not worthy of respect, then we are doomed to failure, and 9/11 was just the beginning of that failure. Nature favors survival of the fittest.