America is under relentless attack by an adversary determined to subjugate or kill every last one of us. Yet our leaders are in complete denial, refusing to acknowledge what is transpiring, and committed to not fighting back.
The Fort Hood massacre by the most recent Jihadist attacker didn't bother to conceal his commitment to the Islamist cause before commencing his murderous assault any more than did his Muslim predecessors on September 11, 2001. All of them and their many others coreligionist attackers justifiably counted on the ineptness and unwillingness of our government to interfere with their plans . . . and thus to continue to fail -- and to fail spectacularly -- in the protection of American citizens. None of these killers was the least bit stealthy and all could, and would have been thwarted by any one of a number of government agencies had those agencies not been uniformly inept and totally lacking in any semblance of vigilance.
No matter that providing such protection is the overriding rationale for the existence of government. It is more than slightly ironic that even though our government continues to fail in discharging this first and foremost obligation, and to ruin, at great expense, everything it touches, it continues to expand its authority over, and to divert its attention to secondary and even trivial matters.
No matter that providing such protection is the overriding rationale for the existence of government. It is more than slightly ironic that even though our government continues to fail in discharging this first and foremost obligation, and to ruin, at great expense, everything it touches, it continues to expand its authority over, and to divert its attention to secondary and even trivial matters.
Consider a president who instantly labels as stupid the actions of a police officer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, even though he admits knowing little about the incident he was addressing, but warns against any rush to judgment about a massacre perpetrated on an Army base by a heavily armed murderous Muslim screaming "Allahu Akbar."
Consider too an Army chief of staff who responds to the deaths or 13 individuals and the wounding of 30 others at Fort Hood by repeatedly stating that it would be an even greater tragedy if "diversity" were to be a casualty of this most recent outrage. Nor is this an isolated example of our failed leadership -- it was not long ago that the chief of naval operations stated that "diversity" was the Navy's primary mission. Can't help but wonder where the lives and well being of those serving under them are in the list of priorities of these commanders.
Perhaps it is that I am old, out-of-date, cantankerous, and funny or odd, but, begging your pardon, I continue to hold to the view that prevailed in the long gone days of my youthful military service: Protecting and defending the Constitution, the nation and the American people, and defeating our enemies is and always must be the supreme and overriding mission of our armed services and their leaders . . . up to and including the Army's chief of staff, the chief of naval operations, and the commander in chief.
Instead, all of our current crop of posturing and pretentious pseudo leaders, with the aid and cheerleading support of our mostly mindless media, are paralyzed by political correctness. Such self indulging conceits ensure that we in the future will suffer more such attacks.
Instead, all of our current crop of posturing and pretentious pseudo leaders, with the aid and cheerleading support of our mostly mindless media, are paralyzed by political correctness. Such self indulging conceits ensure that we in the future will suffer more such attacks.
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