Post by dgriffin on Sept 11, 2009 22:52:48 GMT -5
September 11 has been a bittersweet day for my wife and I since 2001. It is our wedding anniversary, but of course today also marks the 8th year since terrorists destroyed thousands of lives in New York City, and in airplanes there and in a field in Pennsylvania. "Terrorists" is media cop-out. I should say Muslims, those who follow the precepts of Mohammed. It was Muslims who murdered thousands, killing them far from the battlefield in the most cowardly way possible. Muslim cowards killed almost three thousands mothers and fathers and children as they were going about the legitimate business of their daily lives.
Had I been President and able to accomplish it, I would have laid waste to the Middle East. I'm sorry if that offends people, but it's the way I feel. I would have been wrong in doing so. I would have murdered tens of thousands of human beings and been judged badly for it by historians as well as God himself. But I would have sent a clear and resounding message to Muslim cowards not to f*ck with us.
Maybe I would have not been able to really do it. Not me, mild mannered Dave. But each year, I think I might have. Because to not do so has been weakness. To not do so marks the United States for more terrorism. Someday it will come. While our leaders argue about inconsequentials and our population goes shopping. While our politicians use any means to emasculate each other and with it our protections and our freedoms. While our borders are transgressed, not by people who are all bad, but by hundreds of thousands who should be working out their religious idiocies somewhere else in the world. Religions that accomplish nothing more than women being terrorized by men who have been terrorized by stronger men claiming God's terror. A trait which in truth, He has never had, except in the meager minds of small men.
In a way it is our fault. We have allowed the dregs of the world's cultures to intimidate us. Instead of leading us through the night to fight for our survival, many of our politicians have simply taken advantage of our distress to add to their own power. They've advised us we need to talk, to be more understanding.
The United States of America did not reach a point where its citizens have been able to enjoy health and prosperity by continually apologizing for ourselves over 200 years, to "old Europe" or to puppet dictators or to thugs who would be Kings. We got here by keeping our guns clean, staying vigilant and getting rid of problems before they got larger. That's the way it works in a real world. But today we have all but banished the men who would kill for us, as crazy as some of them were. George Patton comes to mind. And instead we fret over whether it is "sporting" to threaten a terrorist's family while we're trying to stop the next 9/11.
I go to bed tonight happy that I haven't murdered anyone. That I won't be strapping dynamite on my chest and wiping out an entire family celebrating their children's wedding because "God" thinks it's the right thing to do. Nor will I be ordering a massive bombing campaign in the morning. I'm happy there is still enough of our military left to man the gates. But I go to bed worried. I go to bed wondering if we have elected enough murderers to protect us.
