My previous post set a general theme. Let’s continue with a few questions that have been rattling around in my cranium after that post:

• Why does the Republican Leadership (?) keep sticking their hand out to help Liberals and Democrats?
• Why does the entire party let swindlers like the Gang of 14 get away with their slick and destructive tactics?
• What is it that makes Republicans in charge allow speeches on the floor support the rights of terrorists - rights that only apply to citizens of the United States of America?
• What’s the deal with making every effort to hide the fact that it really is amnesty, and we out here are not idiots, so stop bending over?
• Where did Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan happen to go?
• How did we end up with such lily-livered sap-suckers in the Republican party!?

Let’s be honest, the “Gang of 14″ are actually Liberals and should have to register as such.

It’s October again and you can hear the talking heads portending the Republican loss of the Senate and House. Fox News, of all places, and our local CBS or ABC News stations (even our independent Channel 2) have been spinning the trouncing of the Republicans this season. The baseless attacks that are allowed to be waged can make anyone launch their cookies! Where is the counter-offensive? Am I smokin’ crack here expecting some form of strength coming from the “Party of Lincoln”?

Or, maybe the new way of winning is keeping your message safe and middle of the road to keep your seat … ??? If that is the new way of maintaining power, then why have the Republicans been losing ground? For me, I see some very glaring examples of a lack of leadership: soft on their political opponents, immigration issues and laws, handling terrorists and prosecuting the Global War on Terror (GWOT), and listening to the United Nations. In every one of these cases there is an influence that has made Republicans they way they are today. Let me take a moment and use my last posts chronological look at Presidential show of power to answer your, as well as my own, questions and concerns.

This country has a long and proud history of taking it to their opponents. The reason that the rest of the world doesn’t like us is because when we go “all in”, there is nothing left but a US victory. It is hard to imagine what it must feel like to be handed a defeat such as those proffered by the United States Military. A sound victory is only achieved when the whole, and that means everyone, is working together to a common goal - going “all in”. Taking the fight to the enemy used to be the standard of the Republican party as we were always the first to stand up to defend Old Glory! And I might add, 100 years ago, that even used to be the Democrat party! But Democrat Presidents in the last five decades have been fostering a simplistic and myopic approach to how the United States deals with her enemy combatants, and leaving us all to less than stellar victories if not completely disastrous outcomes.

When we need to handle our combatants, and how we extract information from those combatants, we are the ones that think before we act. Think back, when the British were attacking us during our revolution, as well as during the War of 1812, do you HONESTLY believe we did not extract information from our combatants? AND, just remember, our people (US MILITARY and SECRET SERVICE) were extracting information from our VERY CLOSE BROTHERS of only 10-50 years past. We do not engage in acts that come anywhere close to how, say, the Islamofascists handle their captives. We use manipulation and psychological tactics to get information, they just chop off the head of their captive and put the whole thing on TV. The United States would never go to that extreme, and pundits and leaders are doing us all a disservice by alluding to such a thing - just to win an election.

Fast forward from the War of 1812 to the last five decades. You can see that how we, the United States of America, handle all threats and foreign aggression can affect situations happening in the very near future. The “information age” has propelled the entire world into a nearly instantaneous cause and effect maelstrom. The fact that we have been projecting a cyclic “force then weakness” approach to world affairs, anyone outside our borders has got to be scratching their heads, in real time! You’d think “the clapper” was plugged in to this country somewhere - clap on, clap off, clap on, clap off! It is this on-again off-again type of leadership that has brought about a cataclysmic effect so few had seen coming.

In my last post, I provided the backdrop to how al-Qa’ida has been able to wage such an effective campaign and strike us at home. The plan was building for a very long time, born from a few Presidents overwhelmed by their own “governing law of inaction”. After Ronald Reagan left office, we really left the door open to those wishing to harm us. And September 11th, 2001, all came about because the Democrat run House and Senate forced the Bush Administration (George H.W. Bush) to pull out of Iraq and Kuwait - oh, and to raise taxes, a HUGE No-No from a Republican worth his salt. I believe that those actions alone emboldened Islamofascists to say, “Hey, we can win against these guys if we put pressure on Democrats and the media! With those two snakes wrapped together, striking out on a daily basis, the American people will just lay down and take it!”

Once Clinton stepped in, it was a brand new day - for Islamofascists.

You see, the “Gang of 14″ have it all wrong. If we continue to follow the example of so many failed Democrat Presidents, the enemies of the United States of America will have a clear shot at our flank. In a world where force is the only moderator, and be honest with yourself this is a self-evident truth, why would anyone step into the fray armed for a pillow fight?

First, show them you mean business and bring your force to bear. Second, by and through leadership, bring compassion and structure to support growth. Finally, keep your word and honor this new friendship by staying by their side, even when things look grim and all just might be lost.

When has the United States Military EVER slacked off when things looked grim?!

Iwo Jima, Bataan, Valley Forge, Midway, Lexington, and Tarawa.

We’ll never stop fighting to keep Old Glory flying free!!!

If only those in Washington DC had the same, mettle …

UPDATE: Wow, hadn’t read Investor’s Business Daily in some time. Found this article with the same thread as this post - different take is the Editor utilizes Democrat Presidents at the outset whereas I posit all Democrat Presidents were “governed by the law of inaction”.

Thanks Cao for the OTBP there at Cao’s Blog!

TAGS: Fix4RSO, Milblog, Military, Patriotism, GWOT, StandTo!

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