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University A Conservative Harvest: September 2006

Thursday, September 21, 2006

A Boston Tea Party …(Treated As Equals)

If you weren’t convinced before, you certainly should be now, the world has gone off the deep end. In the past week or so we have had speeches made by the Pope, the President of the United States, the President of Iran, and the President of Venezuela. Pope Benedict, George Bush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Hugo Chavez each have given their views on the issue of our time. Reaction and acceptance of what each had to say has varied. It is in this variation where one can find proof that the world is teetering on the brink of the abyss.

The Pope spoke about any true religion needing to be about peace and not terror. His words caused outrage in the Muslim world with some Muslim leaders demanding his death. President Bush discussed the need for all people of the world to live under democracy and not dictatorship. Ahmadinejad and Chavez came to this country as members of the United Nations and spewed their propaganda. They ridiculed and demeaned our President. The three Presidents were treated as intellectual equals in the news. Chavez was invited to speak in Harlem and Brian Williams interviewed Ahmadinijad on NBC Nightly News.

When the Pope spoke we did not see other Christian faiths come to his defense. The world demands his apology while none is demanded from the Iranian leader. When the President spoke we saw continued Democratic politicking about the war. When Chavez and Ahmadinejad, both supporters of terrorism, spoke we did not hear a national outcry. One hundred years ago such slander towards a U. S. President would have had us go to war but in today’s world only some of us were disgusted. Way to many agree with Ahmadinejad and Chavez and believe our President is the enemy. What does that say about us as Americans? A man is voted to the Presidency in two elections and the losers are so disgusted they allow foreign leaders to call him the devil on our soil without outrage. Our news agencies interview the “wachos of fascism” with reverence. They ask them provocative questions and expect deep answers not realizing how embarrassing it is to even give credence to such individuals.

I really believe if Hitler were still alive our news media would want to interview him and would treat him with respect rather than with utter disdain. American citizens today applauded Hugo Chavez as he promised them free fuel. Who cares if he bashes OUR President, this countries President, they would rather have the free stuff. People lose their minds over free stuff. If you want proof just go to a Red Hawks game and watch the adults go crazy when Hawkeye is offering free small boxes of cereal. No one has any class anymore. There should have been protests all over the country against allowing Ahmadinejad and Chavez to even enter this country. Christians throughout the world should have stood beside the Pope for the truth he spoke. The United States President, the President of the country that provides the most relief and aid to the entire world, should be expected to be treated with respect regardless of political party.

The time has come for the United Nations to move. It does not belong here anymore. It has become irrelevant. The world has lost its way because of institutions like this. You know the world is upside down when America, the place everyone would prefer to live, is thought of as the problem and countries with leaders like Ahmadinejad are given justification. The past few weeks have provided a great picture of the state of the world. It isn’t very pretty. The Pope, the U.S. President, and two clowns treated as equals in America. Amazing!

Sunday, September 10, 2006

A Boston Tea Party …(Themselves to Blame)

In sports there is a saying that if you lose you more than likely deserved to lose. As we now are under sixty days before the November elections, if Republicans lose control of the House and/or Senate they probably deserve too. The Republican strategy for the upcoming campaign season seems to be to stress how important Iraq is on the war on terror. While I certainly agree with this argument it is because of the poor way Republicans have made this argument over the last couple years they now are on verge of defeat.

The predicament the Republicans are in can be placed squarely at the feet of the President. I know it is sacrilegious to place any blame on our trusty leader but their ain’t no kool-aid drunk by this guy. Polls show most Americans do not feel the war in Iraq is central to the war on terror. They don’t believe so because this President and his administration have failed miserably at providing such a link in a consistent, point-blank manner. We are in a politically correct world and the war has been operated in the same politically correct way. When President Bush said, “You are either with us or against us,” I figured maybe he would not fall into this trap but he has. In the last two weeks he has began to define the war as us against Islamafascism, which is being criticized as being insensitive. It is this writer’s thoughts that such a definition is only about FOUR to FIVE years to late.

It should be obvious why most Americans don’t feel a connection to this war. They have not been asked too. Other than our soldiers, Americans have not been asked to make any difficult sacrifices unless you count delays at the airport. If you are told to go about your daily lives as if nothing has changed how then can you take any ownership in a war that defines our future? We have been told our lives need not change. We are told to travel and spend like normal. However, war is not normal. War is hard. If you don’t sense any hardship then you will never identify with the adversity that needs to be overcome for victory.

Republicans put themselves in this situation. The easy way out is to blame the Democrats for continually being negative about the war on terror. Americans remain detached from this war because Republicans refused to be blunt and direct regardless of Democratic carping. They are behind in the last quarter. If they lose they only have themselves to blame. Their failure to engage Americans in this war may leave us with a Democratic House and/or Senate. Some defeats are definitely more costly than others.