Angry Americans?

The Left has its priorities all wrong. That's the best I can say for them. The media would have us believe that everyone in the country is “angry." We’re angry at Bush, angry with the economy, angry with the war, angry, angry, angry. I don't know, I’m not running into that many people who are seething with blind rage. To be sure, the media perpetually comes across to me as somewhat prissy and sardonic, but the everyday person I encounter in the real world hardly seems consumed with anger, as the media seems to be saying. In fact, the economy is rolling along quite well, unemployment continues to drop and the price of gas is likewise falling; especially encouraging is the discovery this week of a major source of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that some say will boost our oil reserves by over 50%. And who would deny that we’re experiencing major successes in the war on terror? Our allies have arrested of a host of terrorists in the U.K. and Demark in the past several weeks, proving that the intelligence tools like phone surveillance are actually working. Over the past few days, hundreds of Taliban militants have been killed in intense fighting in Afghanistan; the coalition there is performing marvelously. In Iraq, the long-feared Zarqawi is now buried in an unmarked graved, consigned to everlasting oblivion. In addition, the number-two al-Qaida leader in Iraq was recently captured, along with a good number of his advisors, who appear willing to talk to Iraqi officials and reveal secrets as to their operation in that country, perhaps in the hope that they will be given some degree of leniency when punishment is meted out. What we’re doing is working. It’s hard to argue with results. If we’re going to speak in terms of anger, lets direct it toward those who deserve it, with 9-11 fresh in our collective memory.

The recent video appearance of American-turned al-Qaida-henchman Adam Yehiye Gadahn provides us another opportunity to reflect on the high stakes of our struggle against Islamic extremism. Some analysts see the latest ploy utilized by al-Qaida of using an American member of the group as an attempt to water the so-called “home-grown” terrorist cells already germinating in American soil. There may be more to their agenda than a friendly invite for Americans to join the merry bandwagon of Islam. Indeed, this latest attempt may be a façade for prodding hidden cells in the US to follow the tactics of their brethren in the U.K. At present, Britain is struggling severely with the removal of multiple cells from within that have been implicated in horrendous plots to blow up passenger jets en route to the U.S. Like weeds that infiltrate and burrow firmly in fertile soil, these Muslim groups take full advantage of the freedoms Western societies provide to scheme and whisper in dark corners and execute their havoc on innocent civilians, deemed heathens and infidels. Will Americans wake-up and wrestle this all-important issue from the grips of squabbling, angry politicians who lust after lost power? Will Americans reject the venomous aspersions vomited forth from politicians who seek to paint the president as the prime threat to our cherished liberties, even over the very terrorists he is pursuing? How long until America finds itself in the same perilous predicament as Europe, bewitched by narcissism and overrun by a swelling Muslim population? Now is the time for vigilance. No doubt there are already those plotting from within our very destruction. Is this the time for Americans, duped into feeling misdirected anger toward Bush, to hand a significant portion of the reigns of power over to a Party earnestly invested in America’s capitulation and humiliation? We are engaged in a decisive battle against a real enemy. I am certain of one thing with regard to the current president; he clearly understands the gravity of the threat we face and is willing to take a firm stance against it, regardless of world opinion. Simply put, Democrats cannot be trusted with national security. From Vietnam to the Cold-War, the Bay of Pigs to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Democrats have proven astonishingly feckless and impotent when entrusted with our nation’s defense. They cringed when Reagan thundered against the “Evil Empire” and shuddered in horror as Bush lambasted the “Axis of Evil.” They are comfortable and eager to magnify our nation’s stains and stoke the flames of national anger for their own political purpose, but are ever-reluctant, in principle, to project their criticism outward to the real threat and the true enemy outside our borders.