A POLITICAL ATHEIST
I am a failed Democrat. I lost my faith when George W. Bush, running on empty,. defeated two Democrats in a row. Now I am adrift without a political party.
I tried hooking up with the activist organization MoveOn. At meetings across the country, 100,000 people came up with the three top issues for the elections in 2006 and, especially, 2008. What a lame list: universal health care, reform of the political system, energy independence. And this from people who actually read a newspaper now and then or follow TV news. What can we expect from uninformed voters?
Sure they're all important issues, especially the last one. But life or death of the republic? No way. That honor goes to fighting terrorism. Anyone who forgets that is not going to be around long enough to pull his head out of the sand.
We can clean up the U.S. political process and give everyone free medical care, but if the Islamic terrorists blow up the world we won't live to enjoy them.
No matter how many imams claim Islam is a "peace-loving religion," the facts show otherwise. Muslims are at the center of all the rage exploding across the globe: Bosnia, Darfu, Israel, Iraq, Spain, Britain, Canada. They can't have what the West has--freedom-- so they want to make everyone as miserable as they are. They come to Western countries as refugees and then use violence to force their barbaric way of life on others.The only ace they're holding is the Middle East oil card. So sure, let's go for energy independence. Any thing that dries up their money stream is good. But let's not lose sight of the larger prize: getting rid of the terrorist threat. That will take all the smarts America has and the political will to carry through until the terrorists are crushed.
Does this mean I support Bush's failed approach in Iraq? Of course not. I still remember his administration promising us at the start of the war that Iraq's oil revenues would pay for the country's reconstruction. So far the bill to the American taxpayer is $370 billion and counting. You can buy a lot of health care for that.
As for spying on Americans' phone conversations, he's snooping in all the wrong places. We need more "profiling," not less. Let's make the lives of terrorists in U.S. cells so unbearable they crawl back to whatever nation spawned them. And let's keep our eye on the goal: ridding the world of the terrorist murderers. What U.S. political party is ready to deliver that agenda?
I am a failed Democrat. I lost my faith when George W. Bush, running on empty,. defeated two Democrats in a row. Now I am adrift without a political party.
I tried hooking up with the activist organization MoveOn. At meetings across the country, 100,000 people came up with the three top issues for the elections in 2006 and, especially, 2008. What a lame list: universal health care, reform of the political system, energy independence. And this from people who actually read a newspaper now and then or follow TV news. What can we expect from uninformed voters?
Sure they're all important issues, especially the last one. But life or death of the republic? No way. That honor goes to fighting terrorism. Anyone who forgets that is not going to be around long enough to pull his head out of the sand.
We can clean up the U.S. political process and give everyone free medical care, but if the Islamic terrorists blow up the world we won't live to enjoy them.
No matter how many imams claim Islam is a "peace-loving religion," the facts show otherwise. Muslims are at the center of all the rage exploding across the globe: Bosnia, Darfu, Israel, Iraq, Spain, Britain, Canada. They can't have what the West has--freedom-- so they want to make everyone as miserable as they are. They come to Western countries as refugees and then use violence to force their barbaric way of life on others.The only ace they're holding is the Middle East oil card. So sure, let's go for energy independence. Any thing that dries up their money stream is good. But let's not lose sight of the larger prize: getting rid of the terrorist threat. That will take all the smarts America has and the political will to carry through until the terrorists are crushed.
Does this mean I support Bush's failed approach in Iraq? Of course not. I still remember his administration promising us at the start of the war that Iraq's oil revenues would pay for the country's reconstruction. So far the bill to the American taxpayer is $370 billion and counting. You can buy a lot of health care for that.
As for spying on Americans' phone conversations, he's snooping in all the wrong places. We need more "profiling," not less. Let's make the lives of terrorists in U.S. cells so unbearable they crawl back to whatever nation spawned them. And let's keep our eye on the goal: ridding the world of the terrorist murderers. What U.S. political party is ready to deliver that agenda?
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