Needed Time

The New Year is approaching. It will bring a continued bitter reality of strife and disunion at home, fear and enmity abroad, and too many drastic extremes of nature and human absurdity.

What can we do to turn things around, to settle into the traces together and pull things out of the deep mire? How should we respond to rescue our national future?

As a people, we are not prepared for hardship. Despite a great deal of clamor, we do not have what it will take to prevail against a relentless enemy already millions strong. If you are shocked, or offended at that bald statement, you have just proven the point.

We seem to just tune out these masses of angry young men burning with rage, hurling curses. Totally immersed in salacious humor and arousing fantasies from a cornucopia of media offerings, just channel surfing while restless legions enroll in the jihadist fronts worldwide.

How arrogant and idiotic, how cavalier we seem, as our entire way of life is now at risk. We just love celebrities, especially those who deploy their wit and talent exclusively against our own. Craven and smug, we the public place no boundary on gleeful ridicule of anything American, our traditions, our values, our history, our motives and aims.

Unforgivably, journalism panders to the distorted censorship of our enemies, doing nothing to build unity or confidence among us. Incapable of responding to feedback, these corrosive gatekeepers respond with attack and rationalization. They cannot reform or face up to their lapses.

The media machine brays at top volume, relentlessly blaring every strategic detail, ginning up hostility and exacerbating every policy dispute, every gaffe. We are indifferent to officials and politicos who pilfer and blazon vital strategic information, and we refuse to sanction or even shun these quislings. Americans behave as if engaged in a smug little game, unaware that the game is Russian Roulette.

Revolutionary violence flares in street rampages, brutal jihad is organized for urban guerilla warfare and terror campaigns. Hot zones erupt across continents, boiling over in Paris, Baghdad, Gaza, Beirut, into Asia the Balkans. The actors have confidence, clear knowledge of the goal and no hesitation as to their rightness in the cause of decapitating Western democracy. They are completing the deconstruction of our culture and we cannot admit to this reality.

Many, perhaps some of the best among us, remain sluggishly mired in 20th Century modes of response. The situation is dire. Our choices narrow to the point of ending all choice. We have come to the place of fight, surrender, or die, with all outcomes involving sacrifice and heartbreak.

There is no peace process now save the peace of the grave. Only death awaits. We will see the final defeat of the jihadist revolutionary movement. More likely, we will see the ruin of moderate regimes and the end of civilized life wherever the fires of global jihad are unleashed in this war against the modern world.

Do you feel ready to lay down your life for liberty today, or even to stand up for what is good in our country? And yet, do you find that it is remarkably difficult to name the mortal threat that we face, to call things as they are, not as we wish they were? Do you believe that some change in our tone, some diplomatic compromise, concessions or favorable terms could be brokered to the irate and determined army of killers? Surrender this vain fantasy.

In clear language and in ruthless action our enemy has said they are not seeking to gain something from us. They are at war because they want us dead. They want to tear down our borders, reach us where we live and drive a stake through our hearts. Their dream is to raise the black flag above our cities and towns.

What part of “Death to America” have you failed to understand?