Thursday, December 22, 2005

America Not Ready to Fight a War... Any War!



Do you really care that the NSA (No Such Agency!) was eavesdropping on international phone calls and e-mail?

Or, are you, like me, upset more that there is a leak within the NSA, or possibly within the Congress or, their congressional aids.


Americans of my generation understand that America is at war and, sometimes, drastic steps must be taken.

You know, I watch Americans going about their daily chores completely unaware that their country is in a war for its life. It is amazing, and simply astounding, to see Americans acting as zombies in the face of a global conflagration which could sweep America, as we know it, off the globe at any moment.

I must tell you, I will be very happy when the “Baby Boomers” age out and the generation behind them begins to assert it’s leadership. The Baby Boomers, for the most part, have been stuck in the sixties for their entire lives and have been mentally damaged by their dreams of nirvana and pacified by mental pictures of daisies sticking out of the barrels of military rifles.

Complete idiocy!

And, these people, Dear Reader, are running our government, our universities, our major religious denominations, and, of course, the Main-Stream Media! Is there any question as to how we got into the sorry mess we find ourselves in today?

My generation… spawned by the Greatest Generation… has produced another generation off Americans who have been taught, throughout their youth, just how self-centered the Baby Boomer generation is. They have been taught to take responsibility for their actions, and they have been taught they owe a debt to this country they can never repay, but are obligated to make a continuous attempt. They are connected to America as no generation has been since their grandfathers and grandmothers.

Many of the forthcoming generation are products of Baby Boomer parents and have personal experience, oftimes embarrassing, of just how disconnected with reality their parents are.

America is not ready to fight a war. I mean, mentally. Our leaders are such vacuous, empty suits, that we have no real, meaningful, national leadership. It’s like having a terrific college basketball team and no bench! You worry, constantly, that the other team will notice... and take advantage. Well, in America’s case the other team has noticed and they are taking advantage of the weak bench. When Congressman and Senators are so shallow as to suggest America flee the battlefield with an enemy dead set on eradicating us, then the weakness of America’s “bench” is obvious to the world. I mean, talk about a weak bench! Consider those sitting upon it: Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton, Reid, Boxer, Pelosi, Feingold, Spector, and let us not forget… John McCain and, even the Senator from my home state of South Carolina, Lindsey Graham. That is not a bench; it’s the “disabled list”!

Now, add to these problems a Central Intelligence Agency, which is fatally flawed and dysfunctional to the point of being a laughing stock. And, a State Department so filled with political hacks, with their allegiance pledged to the Democrat Party, who work feverishly to sidetrack any iniatives the Bush Administration asks them to implement, and we have a formula for utter disaster.

Soon after the Christmas holidays I expect a move by the Democrats to impeach President Bush. It will not succeed, but they know this already. They simply want to make it even more difficult for the Bush Administration to govern. I would remind the Democrats that should President Bush step down, for whatever reason, Dick Cheney would become President! The Vice-President does not suffer fools lightly and that, alone, should send icy cramps to clench the intestines of Congressional Democrats.

There are no more “Greats” in our Congress, indeed, in our government. We have a Congress of second stringers, lightweights, who seem to think they are in Congress to accrue power for themselves at the expense of everyone else, including their fellow Americans.

We have a Military, the likes of which, the world has never seen. But, again the bench is weak. Our Armed Forces need to be as much as four times it’s current size. We are allowing anarchy to creep up on this country from all sides.

Currently, we need to "see to" the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Cuba, all within what we used to call our “Sphere of Influence”. The same with Iran. If we can’t nutralize the “mad mullahs” of Iran, we will be at war with them within a matter of months. We will win, but it will take our attention off those pip-squeak, tin pot dictators, Chavez and Morales in South America. Plus, we need to be positioning ourselves to see that the next “Presidente” of Cuba is a freedom-loving democrat rather than a freedom-hating communist.

Unfortunately, the current Congress of the US is simply not capable of handling the real problems of governing the premier nation on the earth. they are simply "in over their heads"!


The two parties in Congress remind me of two Bantam roosters circling each other as they prepare for a fight. One's scared... and the other is glad of it! We truly have a pitiful national legislature. If the current Congress is not the weakest Congress this nation has ever had, it certainly ranks second to whichever was! Until we amend the Constitution to allow for "Congressional Term Limits" this problem will only get worse. We need a serious "housecleaning" in the Halls of Congress.

Granted, this is not a pretty picture to paint of our government as we approach the end of the old year and the beginning of another. But, unfortunately, this is the state in which we find ourselves today, in America.

Here endth the lesson for today!

Longstreet

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh as far as Bush stepping down if Cheney was in he is so old and frail a good debate or argument should send him into a heart attack.

Anonymous said...

"Our leaders are such vacuous, empty suits, that we have no real, meaningful, national leadership."

Glad to see we agree about George W. Bush's background here.

"Currently, we need to "see to" the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Cuba, all within what we used to call our “Sphere of Influence”."

Yeah, who cares about "democracy" and "freedom" and letting sovereign nations determine their own destinies?

"Unfortunately, the current Congress of the US is simply not capable of handling the real problems of governing the premier nation on the earth. they are simply "in over their heads"!"

Agreed. The Republican-led Congress has been a absolute disgrace.

"We need a serious "housecleaning" in the Halls of Congress."

Agreed again. The Democrats should make some serious gains next year.

Anonymous said...

It is so difficult to understand the Left's bitterness toward America. It is even more difficult to understand their lack of comprehension of the REAL world and the evil which exist for the sole purpose of destroying America. It is so very troubling. Their inability to see that they are allowing themselves to be used to inflict harm on their fellow Americans is just overwhelming.

My fellow Ameicans on the left, your anger is blinding you to the threat to your freedom which exists in the form of Islamic Terrorists. You must be blinded, for I cannot believe you would allow yourselves to be used in such a way as to assist America's enemies. But that is what you are doing. Your anger will not allow you to hear the pleas from your fellow Americans to cease and desist you destructive ways.

If you continue on your current course, you have no hope of making any gains in the 2006 elections. None. The American electorate is furious at your delayi ng and obsfuscating ways in the US Congress. Your leaders are making no contributions for winning the war, improvinmg the American economic system, reducing our need for foreign oil, etc. They only delay and obfuscate while offering no programs of their own, offering no solutions of their own. Your once great party has been taken over by America haters who are concerned with nothing other than their own advancement. The mainstram media, which is almost entirely run by your party, has you so fooled with your own propaganda that you have come to believe the stories they print, and broadcast, that you are winning and America is ready to return you to power. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tne TRUTH is you are turning the American people against you more and more everyday. The myth that you are the party which loves everybody, tolerates everybody, seeks equality for everybody has been exploded and the American public can now see you for what you really are. Far from being impressed and drawn to your cause, they are repulsed and sickened by your hypocritical facade.

I sincerely hope you can regain your self control and your dignity and throw your party's leaders out and resusitate your once great democrat party. It was once a worthy opponent. Now, your are your own worse enemy. America is worse off because of it.

Anonymous said...

"It is so difficult to understand the Left's bitterness toward America. It is even more difficult to understand their lack of comprehension of the REAL world and the evil which exist for the sole purpose of destroying America. Their inability to see that they are allowing themselves to be used to inflict harm on their fellow Americans is just overwhelming."

Dazzle us with your expertise: please explain in detail, with specific examples, how the left is "being used" to "inflict harm" on America.

"My fellow Ameicans on the left, your anger is blinding you to the threat to your freedom which exists in the form of Islamic Terrorists. You must be blinded, for I cannot believe you would allow yourselves to be used in such a way as to assist America's enemies. But that is what you are doing."

Please explain yourself. Instead of just blindly repeating right-wing propaganda like a defective Stepford Wife, explain how exactly the left is "being used to assist America's enemies". I want actual, specific examples here.

"The mainstram media, which is almost entirely run by your party..."

(Cough, cough!) Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Limbaugh/Hannity/Savage/etc., The New York Post, The Drudge Report, Coulter/Malkin/Ingraham/Krauthammer/Will/Buchanan, etc. etc. etc.

Anonymous said...

Yes the right never did care for freedom of the pres or free speach (unless it says how great the republicans are). We do not hate America, we hate republicans, not so much the average guy who is just dooped by the evil at the center of the G.O.P. The mass of facists and ex-nazis. The average joe just finds it easier to follow their flag waiving antics than to actually stop and think. Even in Nazi Germany the first things Hitler did was break up labor unions and get the masses displaying patriotic symbols and singled out groups for the mass to hate (jews, Gays, gypsies) our Republican party just has (Liberals, Media, Muslims, and Gays). Before you fire back, Think about it!