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Well this post has been delayed for far too long. I haven't lived in San Antonio for over a year and I am certainly no longer a sailor. It's been a busy year which hasn't allowed me much time for writing. My future posts will be on my new blog, Right of Center. I hope to see you all there.

The Neo Con Blogger(TM): GO/Flag Officers Conf on Iraq @ Ft. Carson, CO

The Neo Con Blogger(TM): GO/Flag Officers Conf on Iraq @ Ft. Carson, CO

"Come to Baghdad! Where Everyday Is The Fourth of July!"

So the news this morning indicates that President Bush is visiting Baghdad as I write this. Apparently, the whole Camp David meeting was just a ruse. I know that liberals must be disappointed. Many of them seemed to be convinced that the meeting was a political ploy designed to frame what they view as certain defeat as a victory. Victory is truly offensive to most liberals. You see, victory seems to imply that we're better than our enemy, and we can't be better than our enemy unless our enemies are Christian white men.

I wonder if Democrats demand defeat out of habit left over from the sixties, or if they're simply trying to emulate the French. I'll leave that for others to figure out. All I know is that every time liberals get on television or the internet and call for withdrawal from Iraq, or say they're ashamed of America, it raises our enemies morale. Every time that Democrats call for an investigation of our troops or say that our Army is responsible for the destruction and death of countless innocents it convinces our opponent that their cause is righteous.

The enemy should believe that they can not possibly win, because we are unified as a country, and we will not rest until they are defeated. They should believe that we will fight to the last man, woman, and child against evil. They should believe that we understand the correctness and righteousness of our cause, and that we are committed to seeing it through.

The Democrats love getting on television, denouncing America and the war effort, with words that would have gotten them locked up during any other war in American history, and then complaining about their oppression by the Republicans. You can't support the troops and raise our enemies morale at the same time. Put yourself in the shoes of the insurgents for just one moment. (For you America haters this should be pretty easy.) If you believe that Democrats will force a pull out from Iraq within a matter of months wouldn't you want to go on fighting?

I don't think that most ordinary Democrats truly hate this country. They simply don't realize the evil they do by so publicly voicing their views. I have to believe this, because to believe otherwise would mean that a large portion of the electorate is guilty of treason. I'd love to explain this to them but we seem to be way beyond the point where we have civil discussions. Most message boards seem to go something like this:

Joe Liberal: George Bush is a lying, cheating NAZI who is retarded. Ann Coulter is a man, and Dick Cheney is pulling the strings behind the scenes. The war is about oil, but the white trash, ignorant, so called Christians down in Texas are too stupid to realize it.

Johnny Conservative: After eight years of Bill Clinton you sure have nerve calling Bush a liar.

Joe Liberal: Shut your pie hole Nazi troll.

This is what passes for a discourse in this country. Liberals are particularly guilty of it but I've known Conservatives to do it too. When are we going to realize that if we lose in Iraq it's not the Republicans or Democrats that lose, it's all of us? The enemy does not ask what our party affiliation is before launching an attack on us. In their eyes we all bleed red, white, and blue.

((By the way the title of the post is a reference to a skit from an old HBO show, "Not Necessarily the News".))

The Morality of War

The morality of the war in Iraq is a subject that has been written about by far more eloquent writers than me. Most of these writers are leftists who conclude that the war on Iraq is immoral, because it was fought for immoral reasons. These writers rarely mention, what, if any, are moral reasons for fighting a war.

War, by definition is a brutal act that is not pleasant for anyone involved. Contrary to popular belief, those people who have fought in wars are the ones who hate it the most. They hate it, but this does not mean that they are opposed to it. I hate working out, but that doesn't mean that it's not good for me. On the contrary, sometimes those activities that we hate the most are necessary to strengthen our health as individuals, and also as a society. Still war is a pill that is particularly difficult to swallow.

Clausewitz wrote that war is "diplomacy by other means". Like diplomacy its sole purpose is to advance the national interest. Therefore one can only conclude that if any war is moral, the only wrong war is one that does not in fact further the national interest. Traditionally wars have been fought over resources, territory, or to ensure ones security. This last argument has been cited by liberals as the only morally justifiable war.

Let's get two things straight. First off I do believe that we are fighting in Iraq to preserve and enhance our own security. Second, I do not believe that this is the only morally justifiable reason for war. At least, I don't believe it in the way that liberals mean it. Liberals would have us believe that a war fought for...I don't know...oil....would be inherently immoral. Would it be more moral to have people freeze to death in the winter, or starve because food can not be harvested and delivered to market? This is an extreme case obviously, but let's just put the question out there for a minute.

What about a war fought to remove Adolf Hitler for example? If your country has not been directly attacked is it acceptable to fight for the interests of another nation-state? According to the above mentioned reasons for moral war, neither the United States nor England would have been morally justified in declaring war on Germany in World War II.

Historical revisionism tells us that nearly every war the United States has engaged in was immoral. This is no surprise since these same people also tell us that the United States is an immoral nation. Perhaps that's the real difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives look at a country exceedingly swimming in immorality, but still believe it to be good. Liberals begin with the premise that the country is immoral, and then go on to look for evidence of their opinion. They find that evidence every where.

According to liberals no action that the United States undertakes is moral, because our country was founded on immorality. They'll cite our treatment of Native-Americans, or African-Americans, or Japanese-Americans, and if this fails they'll resort to citing our puritan origins, while simultaneously denying that we're a Christian nation. I think it is our Christian origin that offends liberal sensibilities the most. You see to liberals, Christianity does not mean salvation and love, but rather murder and hypocricy. If you are a liberal you can not be a Christian, because then any failure on your part would make you a hypocrite, and this is the worst sin in the church of liberalism. It's better to be an unrepentant murderer than a repentent Christian adulterer, because at least the murderer never professed that murder was wrong.

It's not the war that bothers liberals. It's the fact that they do not believe that we're capable of good. We're not capable of nobility. We're not capable of victory. In liberal logic, if we failed to act to prevent genocide in Rwanda, then we got no credit for stopping ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and Bosnia. You see, the latter two actions just make us hypocrites (and rascists) for failing to intervene in an African country while intervening in a European one.

No, hypocricy can not be tolerated. Liberals loved Bill Clinton because they never expected morality from him and he met their expectations. They hate George Bush, because in Christianity they expect divinity and they find humanity. They take the people in glass houses metaphor to heart, and they're constantly on the lookout for anyone with a stone in their hand.

I used to be one of those people that believed Christianity demanded perfection. What I didn't realize at the time was that salvation will not prevent us from sinning. It's through salvation that we are forgiven. I like the Conservative world view a lot more. I like the Conservative America. In Conservative America, this country is still a shining city on a hill. We are still the greatest, most powerful, most free country on the face of the earth. We are still capable of great things, great victories. We are a great people regardless of where we came from, or what we believe. We are blessed by God, but inherently aware of our fallability. We struggle to do the right thing, and sometimes we stumble along the way, but we remain strong. Self loathing never drove a man to do great things. Defeatists never led a country to victory.

The Anti Lib

Ann Coulter released her new book yesterday, entitled "Godless, The Church of Liberalism", and in doing so pissed off the entire left wing establishment. This, in and of itself, indicates that she's doing something right in my book. From a quick look at technorati, it apperas that according to the left Coulter is something like Jack the Ripper and Adolf Hitler all rolled into one. Why such dislike for this woman? My theory is that it's because she doesn't care about liberals feelings.

Liberals are all about feelings. They were taught early on that words hurt, and that therefore one should be careful not to offend others. Of course this is only true if the person you're offending is a Liberal. If they're Conservative then it's open season. Liberals hate Coulter because she's not politically correct and she's unapologetic about it.

The ironic part is that the very thing that has the Liberals all up in arms is Coulter's chapter about Liberals getting all wound up anytime a Conservative attacks one of their sacred cows. She predicted this very controversy, and now the Left is making her point for her. What the Left doesn't seem to realize is that their outrage is only effective if the target of said outrage actually cares what they think. The more Conservative the target is, the less they care. Ann Coulter is pretty far to the right, so I really don't think she's losing sleep over this issue.

The left believes that Coulter's comments will drive people away from the Republicans. I don't believe that. Anyone that was outraged by anything in this book was already on the left side of the gallery. All Coulter does is piss off the Democrats, and in doing so remind us why we're Republicans to begin with. I wonder why I never see 200 blogs calling Michael Moore a cunt, or a fag. Ann Coulter has been called both over the last 24 hours. Like I said, I really don't think she cares, I just find it funny that the self profesed party of feminism and homosexuality reduces a woman to either her genitalia, or results to calling her a homosexual as a slur.

Happy Memorial Day!

This being Memorial Day weekend, I've heard the phrase in the title uttered several times today. I just listened to a news report about how people are "celebrating" Memorial Day. I wonder if people have any comprehension anymore about what holidays were intended for.

This day was intended to remember those Americans who gave their lives in the military service of this country. Instead we "celebrate" with long hot dogs, picnics, and sales at our local car dealership. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed in actions since this nation was born. Hundreds of thousands who performed the ultimate sacrifice so that we could be free. Hundreds of thousands who had dreams that went unfullfilled. Hundreds of thousands who were robbed of their summers.

Is it too much to ask that while we're out enjoying our hot dogs this weekend we take a few moments to remember them? Let's remember that whatever you think of our current war, the likelihood is that today someone is giving his life for your freedom. If that's too much to ask then I hope you choke on your hot dog.