Some of you may welcome this news with open arms; however, I hope there are at least a few of you that are disappointed by this post.
Yes, I have decided to hang ‘em up. This blog, while an incredibly wonderful way for me to express my thoughts/concerns regarding the current political environment, is also extremely time consuming. While I could continue on and provide a, frankly, half-assed representation of what I’ve written over the past 13 months, I think I owe it to myself and all of you more than that.
As a result of other creative/business opportunities that I am pursuing, I can no longer do that.
Now, with all of that said, I am not closing the book on this blog forever. I hope that down the road, my schedule will allow me to start the old girl up again and pick up where I left off.
In closing, I really want to thank all of you that have either read each and every post that I wrote or those that have only stopped by from time to time. I cannot tell you how much all of your support and kind words have meant to me over the past year. It is something that I appreciate so much and will never forget. I hope some of you either learned something or became more interested/active in politics as a result of reading.
That’s all for now folks. Until next time (hopefully), take care and be well.
I hate to admit this, but I find it to be an impossible fact to ignore.
We are losing the war.
No, I am not referring to the wars being fought in Iraq or Afghanistan. I’m not even referring to the War on Terror. No, we are losing a much larger war, a war where the stakes, literally, could not get any higher.
We are losing the existential war against radical Islam.
The fact that we are losing this war is extremely troubling to me; however, when you understand why we are losing, it makes the situation exponentially worse.
We are losing this war not because we are militarily outmatched; in fact, we have absolutely no rivals in regards to military might. We are not losing due to the fact that we are intellectually inferior, lacking in numbers or economically inadequate.
None of those factors are why we are losing this war. The reason we are losing is because we lack the will to win.
I believe this lack of will emanates from the Obama administration’s cowardice, naïveté and criminal misunderstanding of what is at stake in this war.
Want some examples? All you have to do is pick up a newspaper or watch the news to see what I’m talking about.
Example One:The Iranian Nuclear Crisis.
Iran is clearly developing nuclear weapons. They know it, we know it, the Israelis know it and the U.N. knows it.
While we do nothing, Iran is busy at work. They recently conducted war games to practice for a possible invasion that threatens their nuclear facilities. There are also plans to greatly increase their capacity to enrich uranium. They are also restarting a secret uranium enrichment site that has been inoperative for years.
In Washington, hands are being wrung.
Example Two: The Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Trial in New York.
While KSM has steadfastly refused to show any remorse for masterminding the 9/11 plot that directly killed 3,000 American citizens and launched the multi-front War on Terror, we are bending over backwards to ensure this terrorist gets a fair trial… in a U.S. civilian court no less.
Never mind the fact that he does not meet the criteria for an enemy combatant as outlined in the Geneva Convention, never mind that if released, he would go right back to plotting the deaths of untold numbers of Americans and never mind the fact that this trial will make him a martyr and source of inspiration for would-be Islamo-fascists, the real issue is the intelligence boon this trial presents to Al-Qaeda, The Taliban, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
First, like in any civilian case, the government will have to disclose huge amounts of evidence; evidence gained through highly sensitive intelligence procedures. This not only harms our future ability to gather intelligence, but it also places our intelligence operatives in harm’s way.
Secondly, the question of whether we can convict KSM is a legitimate one in my mind. He certainly wasn’t Mirandized when he was captured, so how much information can they use and how much will be thrown out?
On top of that, he now plans to plead not guilty to all charges (along with his four cohorts also being tried with him), after offering to plead guilty in front of a military tribunal only ten months ago.
Example Three: The War in Afghanistan.
Yes, President Obama has committed to sending more troops, but he failed to meet the requested amount given to him by his handpicked general. More importantly, his speech clearly communicated that he is more interested in pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan rather than winning the war. His arbitrary timeline to pull troops out more than illustrates that point. As troubling, the vagueness of his “plan” puts the entire mission in Afghanistan in serious jeopardy.
Example Four: The FortHood Massacre.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s horrific action was not the deed of a deranged man. He was calculating, composed and brutally efficient. He didn’t just wake up one day and decide that he had had enough with military life. Quite the contrary, he was fed up with what he perceived as sins against Islam, committed by the U.S. military and he planned to exact revenge for his religion.
In the hours and days that followed this travesty, I found it utterly appalling that so many members of the administration went out of their way to state that this was not an instance of Islamic terrorism. The sanctimonious platitudes offered up about Islam and the ignoring of the obvious was disgusting.
Additionally, how was this savagery received by the President? First, he was so concerned with the wellbeing of the soldiers stationed at Fort Hood that he had to give a “shoutout” to a member of his Native American constituency (this illustrates Obama’s sickening inability to break away from his perpetual campaigning) before he mentioned the killed and wounded. To me, this is his most vile performance to date. For a Commander-in-Chief to act that way when his soldiers are dead and dying is purely despicable.
All of these cases illustrate that the Islamo-fascists will do whatever it takes to win this war and we simply will not. We need to stop being the good guy. We need to stop worrying about what the international community will think of us if we get tough with these terrorists. We need to put the lives of honest and innocent Americans first rather than seeking social justice.
If we don’t, the lives of every American, yours and mine alike, may be at risk.
That’s all for now folks. Until next time, take care and be well.
Yes, Lurching Right turned 1 today. I wanted to take a moment and thank all of you for reading, leaving encouraging thoughts and your general support... they all mean very much to me.
For a good old stroll down memory lane, here’s the post that started it all…
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