Choosing Between The Red Pill Or The Blue
Over the last several years we have digested every major political / geo-political event that has come down the pike. So when you step back and put it all in perspective....what, if anything have we learned from it all?
I really wish we had begun this exercise in news and opinion sharing earlier than we did. I wish I could have documented the prevailing opinions on the redneck street immediately after the attacks of 9-11, so I could gauge more accurately how much our expectations for victory have risen or declined since then.
Speaking for myself, I know I was expecting a long battle of wills, but I was also expecting a lot of pretentious limitations we had imposed upon ourselves since WW2 to be cast aside now that the HOMELAND had been attacked.
I kept thinking that we were on our way to permanently adjusting the attitudes of our two-bit non-state religiously motivated enemies, but that decisive battle never emerged.
And then the reality of our overall situation was hammered home last November. We no longer appeared to have the combined will or unity to win against such a religiously devoted enemy. That can-do American spirit our ancestors had harnessed to bully their way to prosperity and control of the continent seems to exist now only in a constantly dwindling number of Americans' veins. I am not suggesting we dont have some fine warriors out there fighting our battles for us, we certainly do, and they have the finest equipment a nation can provide for them. But superior tactics and firepower does not a victory make. Strategy matters.
The main thing I have learned since we started to engage our enemies in direct combat is that the only insurmountable obstacle to victory definitely resides at home. Thats pretty obvious by now isn't it?
I sometimes get on the military brass's ass for not adapting to this bloodthirsty non-Geneva compliant enemy's methods. And yes, its awful pretentious of me to second guess their learned order of battle. The modern book on insurgency suggests that a harsh response against their supportive civilian populace is exactly what this enemy is attempting to provoke. Theoretically, and to some degree historically, that would only strengthen his recruitment efforts, and time ultimately is on his side. The general consensus is that they're not even trying to defeat us militarily, they are just chopping away at our will to fight, by denying us measurable success, and choreographing their actions to coincide with the fluctuations in our internal divisiveness we call election cycles. But you have to go all the way back to the Philippines war to find an example of where the US military has successfully defeated an insurgency, and we were playing by a totally different book in that war. We did punish the civilian populace, put entire regions in concentration camps to cut them off from the insurgents....and it did work.
But you cant blame the military for using the wrong book this time, as they are doing everything we will allow them to do. The real blame lies upon the American people, and more specifically their proxies, our elected officials and the diplomats they have appointed. They in turn have for the most part become too compromised by the agenda pushing media and the powerful financiers of the political process. The criteria for being electable in America today pretty much assures we will have no better quality representative in the future than we do now, it just a question of which side of the ideological aisle gets to pretend they are doing something positive, and which side gets to disrupt everything the side in power does for the duration of the cycle, so they can use that failure to their political advantage in the next election. But by the same token you still have to hold the people who continue to re-elect representatives that have shown a pattern of putting their partisan interests ahead of the nation's interest responsible for continuing to support their elected official despite their treasonous actions. Whoever those people are that keep sending the Kennedys, Kerrys, and Murthas back to DC certainly deserve at least as much blame as politicians themselves do.
So basically, I have concluded that there is no way we are ever going to win another sustained war overseas as long has our political process works in our enemy's favor. As long as the reward for obstructing our war efforts is a landslide victory at the ballot box, our soldiers will never be able to unleash their full potential on the battlefield. And we are never going to be able to get our elected officials to come together to look after America's best interests.
Which brings me around finally to my point.
What are we going to do about it?After years of Republican control do you still think
they have the answers to our problems? I am not even going to insult your intelligence by asking you if you think the Democrats have an effective plan. Its more than obvious they dont have a clue on how to deal with an enemy as devoted to victory as this one is. The Republican are certainly more willing to unleash our warriors on theirs', but yet they are just about as unwilling as the Democrats to sustain a long campaign and just as unwilling to name our true enemy....a violent religious ideology thriving in a corrupt failed culture. They are both watching the polls, and the last poll, the only one that really counted, rewarded the spineless obstructionists with power. Do you think that someday that is going to change, and they are going to start working together for the benefit of the nation as a whole?
I just want to know how many of you still think this is all gonna work out fine? That somehow, someday we are going to convince the bad guys to stop attacking us, if we just continue to go down the same path we have been on since 9-11. What have we accomplished to date? Have we slowed the tide of Islamic extremism? Or has our current strategy left us tied down trying to force Democracy upon a particular group of corrupt sectarian hate-mongers that were falsely billed as the most likely candidates for which Democracy and Freedom could take hold, while our Islamic enemies have flanked us? By keeping us pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were free to concentrate on spreading their influence in Lebanon, Palestine, and Somalia, knowing that our political paralysis would keep us from overtly interfering with their assault.
What has the "tough" foreign policy team of Bush, Rice, and Bolton actually accomplished in the areas of rolling back the progress our axis of evil enemies have made in acquiring and now stockpiling Nuclear weapons? Have they given any firm commitment to making sure Iran and North Korea are non-Nuclear before they leave office, or are they looking to mask their diplomatic failures behind some meaningless sanctions for the remainder of their terms, then hand the problem off again to another Administration. If so do you expect that administration will deal with it any more effectively, or if they are not planning to kick the problem down the road, what are they waiting for? When was the last time you heard Condi or Bolton even mentioning either problem? Shouldn't they both be raising hell in the diplomatic dog & pony show on a daily basis? And shouldn't we be laying some ultimatums and time tables down publicly for them to meet or face involuntary disarmament? Why is it considered appeasement when the Democrats fail to convince our enemies to stand down but somehow not when the "tough" party refuses to do it?
What I am really trying to broach here is what SHOULD we do, when it becomes painfully obvious that our political process is simply not up to the task of protecting us any longer, and there appears to be no solution on the horizon. I am coming to believe, based on what I have seen during this so-called war, that there is no solution to be found at the ballot box. Our democratic process is no longer conducive to victory if the battle is sustained for more than a couple election cycles. Too many of my fellow Americans either have no regard for the dangers we face in the 21st century, as long as it does not interrupt Oprah, or they actually think the Pelosi / Murtha crowd has a more effective plan.
And the demographic trends for the American electorate suggests that this situation is going to get worse every election cycle from here on out. Its not really a good idea in the first place for the electorate as a whole to even have a voice in whether or not a nation secures its borders, but its entirely asinine to let the children of illegal aliens vote for whoever promises to give their parents amnesty for having successfully broken our laws for a specified period of time. Those people care more about keeping the door open for their relatives remaining in Mexico than they do about whether or not a terrorist sneaks a dirty bomb down those same cross border trail. But our political system has rewarded the children of illegal aliens with enough political clout to determine who gets to lead our nation, and 3 out of 4 of the children born in California over the next 25 years are going to join their ranks. These folks have studied the flaws in our political system and have exploited the loopholes in our laws long enough that now they are in a position to have those laws rewritten however they want. Our political system has forced us to voluntarily stand aside and let our culture be displaced. The invading culture has found a way to use our compassion and morality to get their foot in the door, and now they can brazenly rub our noses in it, and there's nothing we can do if we are not willing to go to extra-judicial lengths on a large scale.
I have argued in the past that America's divisiveness would be overcome the instant another major attack on our shores occurs, especially one that forced an interruption to our comfortably way of life. Such as taking out our ports or energy / oil refinement infrastructure. If we were sitting in cold houses with no electricity, no gas in the car, no food on our supermarket shelves, would we then wipe our potential pool of enemies off the face of the earth, or would we, not knowing exactly where to target for our revenge, be forced to focus our attention on competing with each other for the then remaining sustenance? How long would it take for that struggle to divide itself along ethnic lines? Once law enforcement is outnumbered and outgunned, who are you going to turn to?
But what if that external catalyst never comes? Or we refuse to address the threat until it becomes too great to deal with? Are we going to just sit back and watch the Republic transform itself into a feeble caricature of its once powerful self. Are we going to let activist judges destroy us one incremental decision at a time? Are we going to sacrifice the education of our children on the alter of political correctness? At what point, if ever, will we decide that the future of our nation needs to be taken out of the Politician's and Judge's hands? How long do we let them keep screwing up our nation before we do something about it?
Are we, as individuals, prepared to take the blue pill of complacency, close our minds to the decline, and just maximize our remaining years here to enjoying the trappings of freedom and prosperity, and resign ourselves to not being able to alter the course of our nation when our faith in the ballot box has proven to be a counter-productive mirage, or are enough of us willing to swallow the red pill of nationalistic action and realize that if we want America to remain the prosperous, secure, and powerful nation our ancestors built out of the wilderness we are going to have to risk poverty and imprisonment to re-secure it, just as our founders did. Who will stand up and take our destiny away from the political class that is currently failing us?
Believe me, I dont take revolution lightly. I know how bloody it can be. I enjoy having my comfort and security, I wouldn't cast them aside lightly. I am in no physical or financial shape to be a front-line revolutionary at this time, and there probably never will be a good time. I dont want to get in a shootout with the local and federal authorities if there are not more than enough individuals on my side in my foxhole to win the gun battle.
I am sure nobody here wants to go out and start the revolution by being the first person to put a bullet in a liberal's head. But what if others initiated the hostilities? What if an growing underground movement in America started targeting our under-performing political leadership, Islamic Clergy, Activist Judges, etc, and disrupting the status quo enough to shake the foundations of our divided union? What if large scale ethnic and ideological battles started breaking out in several major US cities simultaneously? Would you participate in and support such an activity if it was already underway and its goal was advertised to be a restoration of the republic to its core values and a realignment of the political process to one more conducive to
victory survival in the war on Islamic terror?
I bet there has never been a revolution anywhere where the majority of the populace was directly involved in the bloodletting. It does not take a majority, it just take enough that law enforcement can not contain it. I am sure most Americans would bunker down and hope the hostilities bypassed them. All it really takes is enough active participants to overpower whatever force chooses to defend the current leadership. Or even a very small group could target enough key infrastructure to disrupt an already divided populace enough to provoke a wider conflict. AQ's playbook in Iraq for instance.
Although I cant elaborate at this time, I am not as convinced thats such a far fetched scenario today as I was this time yesterday. And it is kind of illogical to think that we here in America are immune from any further violent political upheaval, and that our situation is never subject to further change. Just like its illogical to think that America's time as a superpower is eternal. We may be comfortable now, but how sustainable is this prosperity if we are no longer willing to take the risks necessary to maintain the advantages that our ancestors were willing to risk bloodshed on American soil to obtain?
You dont have to answer any of these questions today here at this blog, but you might want to be considering your options in the real world in case the decision is forced upon you in the near future. If you have to choose between actively defending our current political leadership with your life, or risking the same to force a necessary fundamental shift in the way we choose our leaders in the future, and if remaining neutral and safe on the sidelines is no longer an option, you're gonna need to know which horse to bet on, and change has a better track record than stagnation.
