“The complacency of fools will destroy them.”

I had the blessing of a rare phone call from my brave brother fighting in Iraq last night; and his comments about the things going on over there moved me to anger when I think about how uninformed the world as well as the American people are when it comes to forming their opinions of our presence in the middle east, and the job our brave soldiers do on a daily basis.

It angers me when the media, knowing that the majority of the population doesn't have a soldier in the family to inform them otherwise, decides to report whatever they please concerning the war; regardless of whether or not it is fact-based.

It angers me that pompous politicians like Harry Reid make comments about the war from their comfortable seats on Capitol Hill, without ever bothering to dig deep and get the facts.

It angers me when people like Barack Obama, who has somehow managed to squeeze a gigantic following in this campaign out of his mere 143 day record in the Senate, go over there to Iraq, SEE that our troops are performing at superhuman levels and are making the surge work (the evidence of which is shown in the greatly decreased violence in most Iraqi provinces, the decrease in troop casualties, and an end to virtually most ORGANIZED terror activities!) and yet they come back to the states and LIE about it so they get a better public opinion...

Well folks, it's not about getting a good opinion from the uninformed American public and the WORLD; to be quite honest, I don't care if the world hates us at all. Let them hate! It is their loss. We are doing the right thing by defending our freedoms and annihilating the threats to freedom for others.

Let's take a trip back in time and remind ourselves of the countries (Excuse me if this sounds egotistical, but it is most certainly true.) that would not exist as sovereign nations today had it not been for American efforts and sacrifice; even if those countries have forgotten this and "imploded" on their own.

If it wasn't for the U.S.:
Most of Europe would be speaking German
China and/or Japan would control most of Asia and the Pacific Island countries
The middle East would be completely and totally overrun by the (thankfully) late Hussein, the current threat, Ahmadinejad, and a handful of other radical groups.
The list goes on! I could spend all day on the different conflicts in which we have participated in defending a country's sovereignty, freedoms, and rights.

Back in 2001 OUR freedoms were threatened, and the world tells us that WE are wrong for fighting for OUR safety? It is absolutely ridiculous. I have had the opportunity to live abroad, and host students from around the world in my home, and I find it AMAZING that some of these people from countries that WE defended; countries that WE helped pull away from the evil grasps of fascism, radicalism, marxism, socialism, extremism and communism, have the GALL to stand up and say that they dislike (even at times HATE) the U.S. and its leaders for going into two countries that openly aided, harbored, and FUNDED terrorists who carried out the gruesome 9/11 attacks on our nation. I'd say over 3,000 people dead is reason enough to FIGHT BACK. I wanna say "What business, if any, is it of the ignorant anti-American crowd?"

Call us the world police; go right ahead. If no one else will STAND UP FOR FREEDOM anywhere and everywhere, why shouldn't the U.S. use its resources to help defend that freedom of the oppressed people and in turn secure the safety of future generations of Americans? I want to share here in this blog a piece written by an American. It is a piece reflecting a variation of a speech that General Patton supposedly gave; a speech portrayed in the movie. This piece, however, reflects modern times and fits the issues perfectly.

"...."Now I want you to remember that this war on terror as well as our presence in the Middle East, is necessary and inevitable. To those who can’t understand that, they need to spend more time on the History Channel, and LESS time in the dang chat rooms. In this time of nuclear weaponry, we cannot afford to WAIT for the fight to come to US. You NEED to understand that. This political correctness stuff’s a bunch of crap. This generation is so stinkin' spoiled and lazy, they wouldn’t know a REAL threat to their freedom, until it interrupted the power source to their X-Box, and killed a half a million people! “The complacency of fools will destroy them.” That’s written in the Bible. My God, I really wonder where we’d be today if some of our current members of congress were residing during World War II."

Contemplate that.