Do We Want Another Wake Up Call?
Big Dog at Big Dog's Weblog on Nov 25 2006 at 10:24 am | Filed under: Feature Article, Iraq, The War on Terror
Why is it that the United States requires a catastrophic event before it wakes up? There were plenty of people in this country in the early part of the last century who believed that we should ignore the war in Europe. It did not involve us and we should keep our noses out of it. Isolationism is what many people preferred. Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, and though the attack was based on economic reasons rather than any link to the ongoing war, we were still caught by surprise and many Americans died. Most of the dead were sailors from the Pearl harbor Naval Base and though today the death of military men makes people yawn as if it is not important, back then an attack on our military was a serious issue.
In 2001 an avowed enemy of America, one that had been attacking us for decades, launched a violent attack on this country. For the briefest moment people came together as a united country and vowed to get the people who had done this. Many politicians from the left abandoned their anything but war attitude and agreed that we needed to take out the animals who attacked us. Interestingly, during that period of time, they agreed with intelligence and agreed with attacking Iraq in support of the statements they had all made about Iraq as a threat. Those statements, made while Clinton was President, reaffirmed the danger that Hussein presented and that he truly possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction. Remember, these statements were all based on intelligence obtained from the Clinton Administration and to a person, the donks talked about how dangerous Hussein was. Their beliefs were given even more credence on 9/11.
Unfortunately, those who were targets on 9/11 (the Capitol was a target) have forgotten that we have enemies. They would be more committed had one of those planes hit the Capitol. At least, those responsible for giving us the attack in the first place would be the ones paying the price. It is likely that those in Congress were only solidly behind the effort at first because they were in fact a target. Now that there is air defense in place and DC is a virtual “no-fly” zone, they have little to worry about. Democrats live and die by polls so when their friends in the media were able to influence public opinion, they immediately jumped on the anti-war bandwagon.
Other Saturday Morning Fodder:
Ann Coulter at Townhall
Girl on the Right
Hot Air
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