To Protect The Nation from Enemies, Domestic and Abroad
We continue to watch in earnest at the ongoing drama of the current election process. John McCain has now locked up the Republican nomination for President while Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton continue to fight it out for the Democrats. I had a friend call me the other day to discuss the election and began to tell me how in awe she was of Barrac Obama’s “promises” to change the nation and she felt she would vote for him.
When I asked her about Mr. McCain, her response was probably what most in this nation feel: “Barrack cares more about the economy than McCain does; he will put money in our pocket. McCain is so old and Barrack is just so young and vibrant.” She held a very high disdain for Mrs. Clinton because of what she perceived as both Clinton and McCain being part of the old establishment in Washington and the nation wanting radical and total change in our political atmosphere.
As I heard these words I could not help but pause a bit and think to myself, “is this what electing a President has come to - what they can do to put money in our pocket?” I asked her point blank, “well what good will that money in your pocket do if we are invaded by a foreign power or wind up being destroyed by Islamic terrorism?” The phone went silent as she didn’t have an answer. I also told her point blank that while I don’t agree with every single position Mr. McCain holds I felt he was the most qualified of the three candidates to protect the nation at all costs and be the strongest commander in chief. I reminded her that any President’s NUMBER ONE job is hand down and without debate to protect the American people from all threats domestic and abroad.
It is NOT a President’s job to put money in people’s pocket and make government a socialist outpost to control people’s lives and tell them how they spend their own money and tax us into oblivion to pay for every social program under the sun. The Democratic Party has long been the party that has produced this view that government, not individuals, knows best how to run people’s lives. If either of the Democrats get elected I can assure you this so-called perception that our economy is bad will be more than just a perception if taxes are raised and money is taken from some to pay the bills of others. The economy is shaking right now because of more than just economics; it’s shaking because God is dealing our nation right now as well as choices many citizens have made as well as financial institutions. That is another subject for another blog another time.
My friend and I disagree on whom we will vote for this coming November but she did tell me before she left the phone that I had caused her to think a bit more about her choice and that she had not thought about the national security issue as much as she probably should have. That phone call gave me pause to write this blog today concerning about what is really important in this upcoming election.
People hate President Bush because they feel like he has in many people’s opinion done a horrible job running the nation for 8 years. Well, let this writer just stand alone in the wilderness and tell those who think such that President Bush has fulfilled the NUMBER ONE job requirement of what a good President should do - PROTECT the American people and in my book that makes him a Presiden worthy of our respect instead of the snearing and mumuring of a nation with a short memory of what took place on our soil in 2001.
September 11, 2001 was not George Bush’s fault as some morons believe. President Bush did not cause the Islamic hatred of America across the world as some morons believe. President Bush did not cause the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 232 individuals as some morons believe. President Bush is not the cause America’s standing in the world has went down in the minds of many on the world stage. America has had to do what it had to do to protect itself from enemies seeking her destruction without a thought for the cost of human life-women, children and innocent babies included. Hamas went into a Jewish seminary and killed 8 young men last week as a terrorist act that should have gotten more attention than it did. The Jewish seminary was NOT a military target - it was a seminary - yet terrorists saw fit to shed the blood of innocent students.
President Bush’s two biggest mistakes in this writer’s mind has been his quickness to embrace the Saudis as friends and his pressure on Israel to sit down and negotiate with those willing to destroy the Jewish state and push Israel into the sea in hopes of some peace plan that would not last 48 hours even if it was signed. President Bush’s decision to go into Iraq has been met with great debate as it should have. Only time will tell the end result but had President Bush not acted and Sadaam Hussein had plunged the Middle East into a regional war then the same people screaming about the error of his decision to invade would have been screaming asking why he did’t act. He has been in a no-win place since the day he took office to be frank.
Iraq was a haven for a ruthless dictator and as former CIA Director George Tenent clearly stated in recent interviews and his book “At the Center of the Storm,” was also a haven for terrorists. Whether those terrorists had ties to Al-Quaeda is not the issue. A terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist no matter the label. Of course if an individual without a brain only wants to bash the President then that little fact goes quietly into the night without thougt.
It is my opinion that had not Iraq been dealt with in 2003, then the war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 would have taken on another element that would have meant disaster for even greater numbers of people, not just in the region, but the world.
Iraq’s neigbor Iran has never been nor will it ever be a friend to America. We can thank the weak kneed Carter administration of the late 1970s for producing the Iran we see today - a Middle East power on the brink of obtaining nuclear weapons with an ideology that declares it wants both the destruction of Israel and the United States. Had Carter dealt with Iran sternly in 1979 instead of letting this Islamic nation dictate to us the terms of release of our hostages who knows what the landscape in the Middle East would have been.
Islam drives Iran’s ideology as it does the ideology of the entire Middle East. Neighbor, this hellish religion is NO friend to America or Israel and if given a free hand to spread it’s violence across the world unchecked by a weak American President - male or female - Islam will eventually bring its sword to America once again.
My friend mentioned to me how prosperous and peaceful the nation was during Mr. Clinton’s eight years in office and how we’ve been in such turmoil it seemed since President Bush took office in 2001. I reminded her that the events of 9-11-2001, events by the way President Bush I’m sure did not dream would take place 9 months into his presidency when he took office, were being planned the day after the events of February 1993 when the first World Trade Center was bombed. In 1998 the U.S. Cole was attacked and in 1999 our embassy in Kenya bombed - WITHOUT ANY RESPONSE FROM THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION to confront Islamic barbarism.
But boy we were prosperous and peaceful on the surface weren’t we? That was the CNN factor of how the nation perceived things instead of the reality that our enemies were plotting our destruction as they are at this very moment.
These enemies of America can only be defeated by a President who understands the scope of the dangers we face and has the moral courage to not listen to the CNN Gallup polls on how an American-hating press corp want to run the nation but do what is best for the protection of the American people. I believe John McCain is that man. He is not perfect and as stated I do not agree with all his views. But when it comes down to the number one issue in this President race then McCain IS the man in this race who has my support and prayers. If we get the national security issue wrong, the other issues of economy, immigration and taxes will not matter.
Then again in a nation where temporal trapping have become our god, these things again do not enter into the thoughts of most.
As I close this blog, let me remind the reader of this as I reminded my friend. All the money in the world will not save one from eternity. Man is destined to die one day and there is a life hereafter awaiting ALL, with no exceptions. You can have a million dollars in the bank when that moment comes but let this writer assure you - not one penny of that money is following you into the next life - whether that life is in heaven or in hell.
With that same idea in mind, all the money in the world and the greatest economy in the world will not protect America from enemies who want to destroy us. The empty promises of change and better days ahead from what the Dems view as “failed” policies of George Bush only resonate in the nation right now because we as a nation have become so self-absorbed and selfish in our view of life that we no longer care about eternal things nor about coming to grips with the world in which we live, but we have staked our lives on temporal ones that can be gone in a second. We live in a world that is, not in a world that Barrack Obama and Hiliary Clinton hopes it will be should they get elected. We need to pray for our nation that it experience revival and experience revival fast. God bless.
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