Today is the 6th anniversary of the absolute worst attack to ever occur on the soil of the Sovereign United States of America. At no other time in history has any nation, power, army or individual ever assaulted our homeland so successfully; even Pearl Harbor pales in comparison with the psychological and sociological effect this has had upon the psyche of the American people. Let alone the toll in life and money.
For the first year or so afterwards, I was full of pride with how we dealt with the situation. For the first time in my life that I could recall clearly; partisanship and bickering held no place in the hearts of our people. Everyone was one. There were no hyphenated Americans; just Americans - wrothful, sorrowful and aware. When the call for invasion was issued, and ratified almost unanimously by both houses of Congress, I breathed a sigh of relief. At last we would deal with the Middle East as they have dealt with the rest of the world for the past 1400 years. First Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Iran! The Jacksonian in me chortled with glee that we would finally stick it to regimes that have been threatening to annihilate us and our way of life for the past 30-40 years.
But then, as in previous conflicts, we started to tear ourselves apart.
We let our politicians dictate wartime strategy and policy to our military. Fat, aging men, most of whom haven't even served in the National Guard, let alone active duty, telling the most professional army in the world how to do their jobs led to the current situation that is Iraq. Politics kept our Armed Forces' hands tied with absurd Rules of Engagement so they couldn't do their job effectively. A horribly biased, anti-war media began spinning every victory as a defeat, every accidental civilian death as a massacre, and began shilling for the Islamofascists of Hamas, Fatah, Hizbollah, and even Iran, by printing falsehoods and exaggerations given to them by said animals, explicitly for the purpose of turning Americans against the war.
And it has worked. The blinders have been pulled over almost half of our country's collective eyes by a traitorous media, a traitorous selection of representatives, and the "progressive regressives" of the far Left, which has the lips of almost the entire Democratic party firmly attached to its chapped red Communist ass.
We have the far Left to thank for the PC state of our nation, where it is considered racist to merely point out that all those crazy people in the Middle East with the turbans and the like who are threatening to either kill us, force us to accept their backwards and evil religion, or accept the yoke of dhimmitude, and pay a jizya (tax) in order to merely exist, really mean it.
They really do want Islam to dominate the world, and have been waging a jihad against the West in order to do so for the past 1400 years. Once, they conquered half to three quarters of Europe through bloody conquest. Now, they are doing the same through immigration and soft Jihad. They attack the laws and utilize our tolerant Western values against us in order to set us up for a tremendous fall.
The Left snuggles on up with members of one of the most intolerant, bigoted faiths on the planet to date, simply because the Islamofascists hate America as much as they do. That is what is baffling. The Left screams from the mountaintops in warning of the vast Right Wing Christian Conservative Conspiracy, while supporting (most actively and vehemently) a people who make our most hardcore Conservatives look like heavy metal rock stars on a 3 week cocaine and hooker bender. They prop up horrible, dictatorial regimes with their praise and financial support, as well as their legitimization of them, that would, if they had their way, line almost every member of the far Left up against the wall and have them shot at the very least (if not hung, or beheaded).
At this rate, I fear that only another 9/11, on the same scale or greater, will suffice to finally rouse our country from its dangerous and fitful slumber. We have forgotten the lessons of 9/11/01.
Shame on us. We need to dig deep, and find that reserve of pride and patriotism that we possessed in WWII. We are facing the same Nazi style ideology, painted with the face of religious extremism, which makes it even more dangerous. We value our culture far less than they value theirs, yet ours is far superior in every way. If we want to keep our culture as our own, we need to fight to maintain it.
Make no mistake; this is a clash of civilizations between the Dar-al-Harb (World of War) and the Dar-al-Islam (World of Islam). There can be no peace with religious extremists who are willing to strap bombs onto their own children and send them off to blow themselves up, utterly convinced of the rightness of their cause. Any such overtures reinforce the image of our weakness in their mind, whether or not we think of it as weakness.
It's time to say NO. No more giving in to the outrageous demands placed on the West by the Muslim ummah. No retreat. No surrender. No dhimmitude. No jizya.
Never forget those who tragically lost their lives 6 years ago today. Don't let their lost lives be in vain.