Today, Americans in uniform, unarmed and preparing for DOD ordered deployments were murdered on American soil where they thought they were safe. Their killer was a US Army doctor of Psychiatry and a Major in rank. The Doctor had received orders to Iraq. He was apparently a recent convert to the religion of Islam.
Most of us will recall that prior to D-day in the Iraq invasion, an American soldier threw hand grenades into a tent of officers and killed several of them. His religion was Muslim.
President Bush and President Obama have and continue to refer to Islam as a Religion of Peace.
Yet even the most casual observer of the differences between Islam and Christianity would not describe them as Peaceful. Past history is rife with examples of war between these religions(as would Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, and/or any local religion that was not Islam!
I ask you Americans, what does it take to convince you that Islam is at WAR(undeclared) with America and non-Islamic cultures? The “Death” of about 3000 innocent noncombatant humans in New York City on 11 September, 2001? The death of 241 humans(mostly US Marines) in Lebanon during president Reagan`s administration? The death of Americans in barracks in Saudi Arabia, The death of sailors on a US destroyer, USS Cole? The death of a US Marine Lt/Col by hanging(on duty w State Dept....), the death of American citizens on a cruise ship captured by Islamo-radicalists, the death of American citizens by sniper fire on the East Coast of the USA by Muslims, and, as an afterthought, the attempt on American deaths during the Clinton administration on the same buildings they destroyed by American airliner collisions, years later?
We are watching and experiencing a beginning of a wonderful response by “AMERICAN EXCEPTUALISM” as the result of the last presidential election and subsequent proposal/actions.
We the People, don`t like what our government is proposing. We are rolling up our sleeves and doing what is necessary to demonstrate that. It. is. working! Unlike a 30 or 60 minute TV program, it will not be so simply adjusted and/or resolved....
WE are on the right track, which is what our ancestors would agree. EXCEPT for ONE thing.
Like our delay in realizing what Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, until they demonstrated how late we were....had in mind for all civilization, we correctly responded and industrialized/mobilized and smothered them both with our *unknown to the world* capacities!
That capacity still exists! It runs in the veins of Americans---and is from our ancestors!
I do not agree that the Greatest Generation was identified by Mr. Brokow. The capacity is alive and still maintains and still stands superior to barbaric intentions!!!!!
KISP and our HEADMISTRESS and her husband JR are classic examples! Who can imagine them domesticated to a philosophy that they would never believe?
*I* perceive those of us on this wonderful Blog as really the true examples of citizens of the American Republic; historically past and historically present. We will endure and solve the mis-election of president Obama. We will make America strong again and announce to all planetary threats that their efforts, particularly those religious, shall not come to pass....
I have come to know, one way or another, all of you. It is this knowledge that provides me comfort, for SondraK`s commenters(...not to mention her own strong logic(s)...) is proof extraordinaire that “....we ain`t as stoopid as we look...”
I remain your baffled, yet happily pleased, obedient servant,
Colonel Jerry
