Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:11:45 AM
America is a nation weary of war fighting an undaunted enemy of religious zealots in a life and death struggle for the fate of the earth.
On November 4th, the 29th anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis when this war began, our war weary nation elected a President from the anti-war left over a war hero who ran on a platform of victory. Our enemies heaved a sigh of relief as eight strong years of George W. Bush would not be followed by John McCain a man with the courage, character and grit for patriotic wartime leadership.
This new leader, Barack Obama, is the first President born in the destructive Sixties when the radical anti-war movement began and anti-Americanism became the fad. Four months after his birth in Hawaii, the state where World War II began, we started military operations in South Vietnam the only war we ever lost or failed to win for lack of nerve.
Obama brings the promise of hope and change and a new way forward to a future of progress and peace. In an interview with the Arab media Obama extended a hand of peace and friendship to the Moslem world community and apologizing for America’s sins said he would listen to their grievances with open ears. But the enemy's determination to destroy us remains unchanged, and with America’s economy shrinking and a leftist at our helm he's more hopeful than ever of victory.
Obama lived in Moslem lands, has Moslem roots and bears an Arabic middle name and believes this gives him a decisive edge in making peace with Islam-a religion with a once great empire that terrified the earth. But the essential difference dividing us from Islam is non-negotiable and unbridgeable: it is one of earthly power, of restoring past glory, of redeeming a people from powerlessness, humiliation and dishonor, quite beyond the ability of any President to redress. Indeed, our enemies see themselves as the sword and saviors of Islam and will kill us by the millions turning the earth blood red to restore the past and make their religion powerful again. And however horrific the carnage and death, however great the disaster, world Islam would dance and revel in the streets rejoicing in the victory of tyranny; rejoicing in the dawn of a new dark age of servitude, poverty and misery.
THE MOSLEM CULT OF OBAMA?
Obama wants to plant his cult of personality in the midst of the Moslem world hoping to mesmerize its masses into loving him like his awestruck followers here at home. But Moslems already have such a cult revering the personality, teachings and example of the warrior-prophet Mohammed, the ideal man and ruler of men, second to none in their esteem for wisdom, justice and courage on the battlefield. The enemy is acting on the prophet’s vision of an empire spread by force and fear. How then can Obama compete with Mohammed for the hearts and minds of Moslems, as they are indoctrinated from cradle to grave with his teachings and conquering faith? It’s a naïve and thoughtless enterprise based on wishful thinking and doomed to fail.
As we finally defeated pan-Arab nationalism by toppling Saddam Hussein so there is no substitute for victory in our struggle with the pan-Islamic idea (the dream of a one world Moslem state) the vision that animates the mullahs, Al Qaida, the Saudi royal family, Hamas, the Moslem Brotherhood and Hezbollah. Those who fight us with politics must be defeated politically, and those who raise the sword to advance their wicked cause must be cut to pieces and physically destroyed.
CARTERISM AND OUR INORDINATE FEAR OF TERRORISM
Jimmy Carter believed that an inordinate fear of communism is what drove America into Vietnam. Obama believes that an inordinate fear of terrorism is what made us invade Iraq, and that global warming is a greater threat to our security than global jihad. Obama is a black Jimmy Carter the man who emboldened the Soviets to invade Afghanistan (causing the rise of Al Qaida) and Khomeine to make hostages of Americans in Tehran, the first bold act of Islamic jihad against our country.
We were warned by John McCain that Obama would be a second Jimmy Carter and three weeks in office is proving him right as we gather from his actions and the many ominous signs, that he‘s a soft-on-terror leader without the stomach, heart and head to fight and win this war. Just as events proved Jimmy Carter wrong, that our fear of international communism and the threat of Soviet Russia were anything but extreme so will the nation learn under Carter-like Obama that the threat of global jihad and the nuclear terror masters of Iran are existential and lethally real. Obama isn't responsible for America falling asleep; but to his lasting regret history will hold him accountable for his mistakes and missteps, for making the blunders that shock us back into reality as happened to Carter before him and the arch-appeaser Neville Chamberlain, the man who rightly earned the lasting contempt of history.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S AVATAR
Speaking of Neville Chamberlain, on March 17th of last year the legally blind David Paterson was sworn in as New York's first black governor. On the following day, the 139th anniversary of Neville Chamberlain's birth, Barack Obama gave his famous speech on race and Reverend Wright in Wright's birthplace of Philadephia. It was the blind symbolically following the blind: Paterson's physical blindness is emblematic of Obama's mental blindness especially on matters of war and peace, national security and diplomacy with enemies, matters where Chamberlain abysmally failed.
With America still at war in Iraq and battling Al Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan; with terrorist Iran extending its proxy empire and close to building the bomb; with tensions between Israel and Hamas ready to reignite and India amassing troops on Pakistan’s border, in short with the world in such peril we have a weak and gentle man at the helm who abhors wielding the sword, who wants to be a domestic President and not a wartime leader forging the way to victory, achieving peace through strength and bold decisive action.
Obama's naivety and staggering ignorance on facing these challenges is as dangerously deep as was the hapless British prime minister's whose tragic misjudgment of Hitler at Munich plunged mankind into history's deadliest war. Obama is Chamberlain's avatar: an incarnation of his fortitude, equanimity, self-control, poor judgment, appeasement mentality and all. Obama is a ticking Neville Chamberlain time bomb ready to explode with his utopian faith in diplomacy and well meaning plans for peace.
While I’m on the subject of Obama’s mental blindness there was an incident in Hawaii which gave us another ominous sign of his flawed judgment and ignorance on foreign affairs especially on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
THE HONOLULU BLACKOUT AND THE GAZA WAR
On December 26th, six days into the Obama familiy's Christmas vacation in Hawaii, Honolulu suffered a massive power outage that put the Obamas in the dark for 11 hours. This wouldn’t be of any interest but for the fact that four and a half hours into the blackout Israeli defense forces started Operation Cast Lead Israel’s secretly planned military campaign against missile firing Hamas murderers in Gaza. As Obama was physically in the dark when Israel struck the blackout is another of many ominous signs of the man's staggering ignorance, naivety and blindness especially on the racial, cultural and religious dynamics underlying the Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict. Indeed, this blindness was evident when Obama kept silent during the brief war and refused to join Bush in condemning Hamas, thus signaling his intention of playing the honest broker once in power. As the honest broker game was played to death by Bill Clinton, with Yassir Arafat in the end kicking Clinton in the groin and starting a war, returning to it is lunacy however well intentioned; for it will only serve to prolong the conflict and suffering of both sides, and keep any hope of a two state solution in the dark.
IN PRAISE OF BUSH AND CHENEY VERSES THE LAW PROFESSOR-IN-CHIEF WHO IS LOVED BY OUR ENEMIES
We are a nation at war with a fanatical enemy single-mindedly bent on our destruction, and given the chance he would kill us by the millions.There is no wishing, or willing, or hoping away this war; no appeasing, placating or softening the foe. Diplomacy with him is useless for there are no wrongs to be righted, no grievances to be redressed, no differences to be resolved, no common interests to be found that could form the bond of lasting peace. We are the one’s being injured, we are the one’s being wronged, it is we who are the aggrieved and have nothing to apologize for. As the enemy believes that his faith is supreme and destined by God for victory his differences with us can't be healed as the divide is too deep.
George Bush and Dick Cheney understood the enemy and were up to the challenge of fighting him. They invaded Iraq and overthrew the terror king Saddam who was turning his country into a mass production factory for the training, funding and arming of jihadi killers and suicide thugs (some with knowledge on the making and use of WMDs). And when Saddam was gone Iraq was turned into a death trap for jihadis where they came in droves to meet their end fighting us there instead of here in the homeland. Indeed, Bush and Cheney kept us safe for seven years against hair raising odds defying expectations of another mass attack and stopping several missions dead in their tracks, and for this they deserve the highest praise.
But now a radical leftist is at the helm, a lawyer-professor from Harvard not a dauntless warrior like George Bush and his stalwart VP. More the President of Harvard Law Review than the President of the United States this leftist lawyer-in-chief is approaching the dread struggle of fighting jihadism mainly from the legal point of view-as a lawyer not a warrior with a war to wage and win. To this law professor President the legalities of fighting this war are more important than the fighting, more important than the battle, more important than defeating the foe.
To Obama's leftist mind not to prosecute the war strictly by the law-whatever the cost in lives-demeans us to the level of the enemy-shaming our nation, ruining our brand, dragging the flag and constitution in the mud. 'What good is victory,' thinks the leftist Obama, 'if it means losing our morality and national soul? What will humanity think of us then? Image is everything! World opinion is all! Unless we are loved we have lost with the enemy triumphing in the end making us no better than him.' This is Carter's old strategy of fighting "fire with water" in confronting the enemy, a strategy that quickly vaporized.
With good reason a sick Dick Cheney, who (God forbid) may not have long to live, is sounding the alarm: our nation's security is in the hands of a fool. The fool who bungled his oath of office as a sign to us all that he's not up to the job of defending and protecting us. Unless Obama heeds his own advice and "puts childish things aside;" unless he quickly matures and finds the balls to be a wartime leader he'll be putting our nation at terrible risk and there'll be hell to pay for his folly.
THE RETURN OF PAPER TIGER AMERICA
America is seriously disconnected from reality with a leader who minimizes the danger we are in and widens the gap by the day. As weakness begets war its reality will return with a terrible vengeance with turmoil in the Middle East or new attacks on our shore. The 60s born Obama is the right man at this time to awaken our war weary nation by leading us into peril. People and leader are suited to each other for both are blind and fast asleep, ignorant of the enemy and the danger we are in. 9/11 is prelude and the years preceding that attack are mindlessly being restored by an administration staffed with Clinton insiders and Hillary at State, a woman with the veneer of strength masking a soft liberal core. It’s the 1990s all over again with Bill and Hillary playing the role of mentors-in-chief schooling Obama in the soft-on-terror politics of the past, when America was seen as a "paper tiger" for treating combatants as felons and weakly striking back. Yes, leader and people are fast asleep lulled into lethargy by Bush's success in keeping us safe, our economic woes and the absence of an alarming threat to scare us. But the menacing clouds are gathering strength ready to explode and we'll be shocked out of sleep by the scourge of Moslem terror at home or abroad before long.
TAKING HUMANITY HOSTAGE
It was no accident of history that Obama won election on the anniversary of the hostage crisis when the war with militant Islam began; for now the greatest challenge to our security and power, to Israel's existence and Mid-East peace, is coming from nuclear, fascist, apocalyptic Iran-the engine of radicalism in the region extolling terrorism, martyrdom and death about to build a nuclear bomb the ultimate weapon of death. The mullahs delight in killing, kidnapping and hostage taking, they invented suicide bombing and shed blood to please their God. And what they made us suffer years ago when seizing our embassy in Tehran they will do to the oil rich Middle East and humanity at large holding everyone hostage to nuclear blackmail and the threat of atomic war. "They want to devour the Arab world," warned a frightened Hosni Mubarak who foresees a nuclear Iran formenting revolutions throughout the region to topple moderate regimes. Who can fail to see the hunger in Ahmadinejad's lean face and beady fanatical eyes, an exterminating devil who became president of Iran on the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima.
These are the perils America is facing, the perils of a war weary nation weakening in its struggle against an implacable foe, the perils in the age of Barack Obama an era of coming tragedy, disaster and woe.