Mr. Carpenter
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America the Gutless?
I’m not really sure when it happened, I’m not even really sure how it happened, but the fact of the matter is that it has happened, America has become, by and far, gutless. I know that’s a pretty harsh thing to say today, especially with so many of out finest and bravest spilling their blood and their youth in the soil of foreign countries all over the world fighting terrorism. Pick up any newspaper, listen to any of the broadcast news reports on television or the radio and all we see and hear are people lining up far and wide screaming at the top of their lungs for an end to the GWOT, that it’s not worth it, that the only reason we were attacked in the first place is because of our own “meddling” in the affairs of others, on and on and on.
Perhaps it was the lessons of WWII that “taught” these people that the cost of warfare, for any reason is simply too high. We were led into WWII by FDR because, not unlike 9-11, we were viciously attacked without warning by an enemy that believed we had somehow “wronged” them. The Greatest Generation went off to war, and in less than 4 years they defeated two of the worlds “Superpowers” as well as several lesser ones, but the cost was high, very high. As a result of WWII we took on such a large amount of financial debt that some say that we’re still paying for it, but more importantly we paid an even higher cost in human lives and suffering with the death or injury of over 1.6 million of our own citizens.
Less than a decade after WWII, we again sent our best and brightest off to fight in some distant land, this time to a place called Korea, this time led by FDR’s former Vice President, Harry S. Truman. This time however is was starkly different. Perhaps it was because Korea didn’t actually attack us, perhaps it was because Congress didn’t actually declare War on Korea like they had on Japan, perhaps it was because the people here at home weren’t forced to make the sacrifices that they had during WWII, or perhaps it was because the wounds of WWII were still very fresh in peoples minds, but public support for our men fighting on the frozen ground of Korea wasn’t nearly as fervent as it had been for their fathers and older brothers less than a decade before. To compound the problem, while our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines were fighting and dying in Korea, President Truman was setting the stage for out next, and perhaps most divisive, “Police Action” in yet another far off land that most people had never heard of; Vietnam.
Just over 10 years after the “cease fire” in Korea, once again our bravest and finest were officially sent off, en mass, to fight, and once again many in the country couldn’t find the intestinal fortitude to support them fully and unconditionally. Vietnam quickly became an anathema for America with the nation fully divided between those who supported not only the troops, but also the mission, and those who honestly felt that there was nothing in that fetid little strip of land in SE Asia worth the first drop of American blood. The former group were mostly those who had served in WWII and Korea, and their children who were taught that it didn’t really matter if you understood it or not but when your country called, you answered. The latter group were primarily the children or orphans of those veterans, and understandably the widows of fallen fighting men of both previous wars who questioned why, once again, it was necessary for us to send our bravest and finest off to fight in some distant land for a people who they had never heard of, who had never done anything to us, or simply weren’t deserving of our help, and whose attitude was that it was their problem, let them deal with it. Worse yet, when we finally did finish our mission in Vietnam and came home victorious in 1973, the gutless wonders couldn’t accept the fact that we’d actually won, despite their protestations, they invented the lie that we somehow ‘lost’, and they still tell that same lie to this day!
Now, here we are, in the early years of the 21st Century, and once again we find out troops in harms way, in foreign lands, fighting and dying for a cause that, if you believe the alphabet soup news organizations, the vast majority of Americans find to be without merit. They parrot the words of Usama Bin Laden, the very mastermind behind the attack on 9-11 as reasons why we shouldn’t be in Afghanistan and Iraq. They once again openly attack our Commander In Chief, call him a liar, and demand his impeachment, yet they ignore the fact that it was his predecessor, and his 8 years of irresponsibility that led directly to the attacks of 9-11. Where are the calls for charges to be filed against Bill Clinton for criminal culpability in the attacks of 9-11? No, they won’t do that, they’d much rather defile the memory and sacrifices of their own sons and daughters and call them folly. They claim that we, the United States of America, are the root cause of all of the ills of the world and want us to tuck tail and run from an enemy that in 7 years has inflicted fewer casualties than almost any one day’s fighting in WWII, and they call themselves patriots. These “Americans” are what many of my generation call “gutless wonders”, they have no morals, they have no intestinal fortitude, they have no knowledge of the true causes of terrorism, and can’t be bothered to research it because it’s so much easier to believe the talking heads on the idiot box. They refuse to acknowledge that there are people out there in the world who would gladly kill them and their entire families in the name of their religion if they were given half a chance, and rail against those who are willingly spilling their blood to prevent that very thing from happening, …again.
Were the consequences to not only our nation, but to it’s people (including the gutless wonders) so abhorrent to me, I would say stop the fighting and bring the troops home now, but not because I agree with the traitors in our midst, but so that we would again be attacked and hopefully our enemy would strike in the middle of a “victory rally” for all of the gutless wonders that actively seek our failure as a nation in order to remove them and the plague of defeatism that they carry from our country. A wise man once said that “Dissent is Patriotism”, but the difference is that the dissent he was referring to didn’t include intentionally trying to harm your own nation, or the thoughtless betrayal of that nation on the alter of ‘peace at any cost’.