We Want Our COWBOY Back!!!

Mount up, George! We Want Our “COWBOY” Back!

Another voice crying in the wilderness! I don’t feel quite as alone as I did! Check out "Aussie Thule", over at:

http://aussiethule.blogspot.com/2006/07/starting-useful-conversation.html

Read what she has to say about our sudden lack of strong leadeship from the Oval Office:

“In the end, I would say that what we are talking about is a crisis of leadership. If there is an end to what Time magazine calls Bush's "cowboy diplomacy", then those of us who want to see a more muscular foreign policy can only say -- give us back the cowboy! We liked him when he said: "Bring it on!" We long for the George Bush who faced down a disapproving world and announced without apology that you are either with us or against us in the war on terror. The George Bush who stood atop the rubble of the Twin Towers and proclaimed that the world would soon hear from us. America deserves nothing less than the last full measure of devotion in the cause of the protection of its precious freedoms and its form of government. We proudly stand behind those who stand up to lead unafraid and unbowed by the brickbats of opposition, insult and calumny.”

I wanted to stand, cheer, and toss my hat into the air! Sadly, I don’t have a hat, but I did stand… and cheer!

Read “Aussiegirl’s” full article at the site address above. If you’re a conservative you’ll want to link to her site. Her posts are so illustrative of the conservative feeling toward the state of affairs in the US Government today they’re more than just worth your time. They are a necessity!

I’m an old codger. When I was born FDR was President. So, I have seen ‘em all since. I have also tasted the different flavors of the government over the decades, too. I’ve watched the country win wars against Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union (Cold War), fight to a tie against North Korea and Red China, fail miserably in Viet Nam, beat the living daylights out of Saddam’s Republican Guards in Iraq one, and, now, I see our military restored to their leashes, in "Iraq Two", as they were in the only loss we have suffered, Viet Nam.

We are terrible “Nation Builders”. I think it stems from the fact that we have enjoyed our form of democracy for so long that we just automatically expect EVERYONE to want to have a democratic form of government. Well, in reality, that ain’t so!

As we are about to learn again, you cannot bestow freedom upon a people. That must want it so badly, they are willing to fight and die for it. They must invest their blood in it. That’s not happening in Iraq. We’re winning their freedom for them… and making a gift of it to them. That's dreadfully wrong. It will backfire as soon as we leave the country.

Either we are going to have to admit, to ourselves, that trying to build a democratic nation in Iraq is an abysmal failure, or, we have to prepare to be there for five or six decades to force freedom upon them for at least two generations! Even then, I suspect there will be a slide back into dictatorship.

We have arrived at a point in the “Iraqi mess” at which we have to face some hard truths and make some painful decisions. As an American, I never envisaged going into Iraq and conquering it, de-throning their leader, and then building a democracy. No! I envisaged going into Iraq, dethroning the leader, destroying their implements of war, and their war-making government… and leaving. I did not see then, nor do I see now, any benefit to be derived from remaining there, when it appears the attempt at building a democratic government, supported by the people of Iraq, is a mirage.

Now, if the US intends to build, and maintain, a huge military complex, in Iraq, as a forward base in the Middle East, I can supoort that. We are going to continue to go back and forth, to put down brush fire wars in the Middle East, for many decades to come. So having a forward base in Iraq is important and justified. But, we must be prepared to fight, constantly, for it. For it will be very much like unto “Fort Apache”!

Now, all this rambling leads me back to the point at hand. To do all this we must have a leader, a strong leader, who will “damn the torpedoes, and full steam ahead”! Anyone less strong willed would be "bull dozed" by the American Left and the Media, which is simply a part of the American Left.

And that, Dear Reader, is why we desperately need the “Cowboy” back.

Aussiegirl is correct. Conservatives want, and need a strong leader. Give us a strong leader and we will follow. Give us a weak leader and we will NOT follow.

Conservatives are strong willed and energetic. Give us a leader and we will storm the gates of Hell itself.

But, we need that leader.

Time to “mount up” again, George!

Longstreet