Iran: Do The Math
By Erik Rush
April 2, 2007
"President Truman Incinerates 200,000 Japanese!"
Remember that headline? No? If you don't, it's not because you're too young to remember; it's because no such headline was ever written.
I won't go into the whole Truman was a Democrat thing, because Democrat politicians then were a completely different animal than what we have in America today. But isn't it interesting how America's use of nuclear weapons -- which definitively ended World War II -- is always referred to as having been done by "the United States" rather than Truman or the Democrat Party.
Not to say that I'd have handled it differently -- but why is it, then that George W. Bush and the Republicans (almost sounds like a 'Fifties pop group, doesn't it?) are effectively held personally responsible by the opposition for every untimely event that has transpired during the Iraq war? Yes, many a reader will already know the answer to this and related questions.
First, of course, we're not actually at war; that's just something GWB made up, you see. No declaration was ever made by Congress -- forget hat one needs another nation upon which war can be declared in such a case, and we didn't have that because no one has ever faced a nationless, vagabond jihadist army. No troops massed on the battlefield for days or weeks making each other terribly nervous before the first salvos ensued.
Then, there's the fact that we're this heavy-handed imperialist superpower that's had its heel in the neck of everyone else for so long that we don't have the right to defend ourselves when attacked, and Bush has sent American troops to completely random (or exploitable) nations simply because some guys flew a few planes into buildings.
Come to think of it, GWB could have set that one up too. Oil, vendetta, Halliburton... I can almost hear Jon Lovitz doing his Pathological Liar character on Saturday Night Live: "Yeah... that's the ticket!"
While all of this is going on, however, the known world still looks for America to single-handedly prevent or remedy everything from tsunamis to African civil wars and epidemics.
Well, which is it? The nauseatingly hypocritical American far Left, global socialists and the tin-plated dictators of the Third World can't have it both ways.
The American public needs to become aware -- on a scale similar to that which existed during WWII -- that the enemy not only exists, but exists within as well as from without. The uncertainty that has been generated since September 11, 2001, our unrealistic expectations concerning this unprecedented conflict (which includes but is by no means limited to Iraq) and insane conspiracy theories fall at the feet of far-Left propagandists in the media and among our politicians. Some of the latter currently hold a majority in Congress because the minds of Americans were poisoned, their spirits stultified and their characters enfeebled by immature, self-seeking, arrogant men and women.
Our enemies, from the jihadists to those dwelling in the nations which support them are cowards. Their proclivity for anonymous attacks, kidnappings and "symbolic" murder are the marks of an inferior culture. The Japanese and the Germans, as ruthless as they were during WWII, possessed far more honor.
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