This is very powerful, and sadly, very true.
Everyone
has a different opinion on the war, and our current President. But, this
article makes a lot of sense, and I hope you will read it and give it some
thought.
What
a difference 60 years makes..!!!
'You
ain't gonna like losing.' Author unknown.
President
Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But the mistake was not his
decision to go to war in Iraq .
Bush's
mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father fought
for in WWII. It is not.
Back
then, they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was steeled by
the hardship of that depression, but they still believed fervently in this
country. They knew that the people had elected their leaders, so it was th e
people's duty to back those leaders.
Therefore,
when the war broke out the people came together, rallied behind, and stuck with
their leaders, whether they had voted for them or not or whether the war was
going badly or not.
And
war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as great then as it is today.
Often there were more casualties in one day in WWII than we have had in the
entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people stuck with the President
because it was their patriotic duty as Americans to put aside their differences
in WWII and work together to win that war.
Everyone from every strata of
society, from young to old pitched in. Small children pulled little wagons
around to gather scrap metal for the war effort. Grade school students saved
their pennies to buy stamps for war bonds to help the effort.
Men
who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or condition, trying their
best to join the military. Women doubled their work to keep things going at
home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline to soap and butter was
imposed, yet there was very little complaining.
You
never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the President.
Interestingly enough in those days there were no fat cat actors and entertainers
who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators of hostile countries and complain
to them about our President. Instead, they made upbeat films and entertained our
troops to help the troops' morale. And a bunch even enlisted.
And
imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off with a Pledge of
Allegiance, and with prayers for our country and our troops!
Back
then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain weak spots in our cities
where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum damage. No newspaper would
have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies.
A
newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had complained that
German or Japanese soldiers were being 'tortured' by being forced to wear
women's underwear, being subjected to interrogation by a woman, being
scared by a dog or that they did not have air conditioning.
There
were a lot of things different back then. We were not subjected to a constant
bombardment of pornography, perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We
did not have legions of crackheads, dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our
streets
No,
President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He made t he
mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of our fathers.
He believed that this was still the country that our fathers fought so dearly to
preserve.
It
is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and the
land of Oz. We did unite for a short while after 9/11, but our attitude changed
when we found out that defending our country would require some sacrifices.
We
are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatic Muslims. They believe that it is
okay, even their duty, to kill anyone who will not convert to Islam. It
has been estimated that about one third or over three hundred million Muslims
that are sympathetic to the terrorists cause ...Hitler and Tojo combined did not
have nearly that many potential recruits.
So...we
either win it - or lose it - and you ain't gonna like losing.
America
is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall.