Pearl Harbor and Modern American Society

As I have stated before on The Liberty Sphere, modern Americans by and large are not worthy to tie the shoes of the brave men and women who fought in WWII. I stand by that assessment on this day in which we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor 65 years ago, which launched America's involvement in the war.

On Sept. 11, 2001 America was once again attacked, this time on our own soil in a civilian rather than a military area. Thus, 9/11 is actually worse, much worse, than the attack we suffered at Pearl Harbor.

Yet note the stark difference in the way America responded.

In the 1940s America amassed an army of soldiers that became the envy of the entire world. The entire country was united in the effort, which lasted for years. At the height of the war Americans suffered 8000 casualties per month as contrasted to the 50 or so per month we suffer in Iraq. Citizens made sacrifices. EVERYONE had a personal investment in our winning that war.

Today, Americans are demonstrating how far we have descended into the abyss of cowardice, pacifism, and near-treasonous ideology. Not only have we lost our resolve to see a mission through until it ends in victory, but we elect turncoats to control Congress in the middle of wartime. Murtha, Conyers, Pelosi, and company have all made comments that would have resulted in their being drawn and quartered in the Press during WWII. Today they are hailed as heroes.

Imagine if FDR had been urged by people in his own party to open up talks with Hitler or Japan while our servicemen and women were being slaughtered? Imagine FDR's Secretary of Defense going to Berlin, touring Auschwitz, and sitting down at the table to negotiate only 4 million Jewish exterminations rather than 7 million. How many, would you say, would be an acceptable number?

Yet today Democrats insist that we negotiate with terrorists. How many lives lost to terrorism are acceptable? The Baker gang wants Israel to give up the Golan Heights to lure Syria to the table. Can you imagine ANYONE in the U.S. Congress in 1943 suggesting that France should give up Paris to Hitler as long as he leaves London alone?

What about sitting down at the negotiation table with Japan and telling them they can have Hawaii if they promise not to attack San Francisco?

The fact that such things were so foreign to the thinking of Americans during WWII is a stark indictment on modern American society. When a nation rises so high, as we did during WWII, it has a long, long way to fall.

We have fallen almost to the point of no return.

Not only did Americans succeed in electing to office a gang of collectivist pacifists who think the notion of an American victory in Iraq is despicable, but we also elected to Congress a Muslim Democrat who is obviously no more loyal to the U.S. Constitution than Al Qaida. He wants to be sworn into office with his hand on the Quoran, which specifically states that Muslims are forbidden from swearing allegiance to anything other than Allah.

Thus, when it comes to his service to his country, the Constitution will always take a back seat to the Quoran. This puts him in lockstep with the very people who are killing Americans overseas. Yet where is the outcry against him? Where are the demands that he not be allowed to take office?

Make no mistake, our brave servicemen and women who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan have done a magnificent job. They would make our forefathers proud. They deposed a barbarian dictator. Iraq had its very first democratic elections in its history. Much good has been accomplished that you never hear in the media. A handful of insurgents are causing the ruckus in a 20-mile radius of Baghdad. Yet our politically correct media, along with their comrades at arms in the Democrat party, have hamstrung our efforts at every single point. They have turned public opinion against the effort.

And this brings me back to my original point. American society, not our troops, has changed. We have no backbone, no courage, no tenacity, no patience to see it through. Our troops are to be praised. Our citizens are not worthy to tie their shoes or the shoes of the WWII vets...at least not until we make it clear to our politicians we demand to win and nothing less.

The battle-cry, 'throw the bums out,' can surely be resurrected in a fury in 2008.