So the election fires are cooking and both parties are throwing kerosene on the hot coals. Here we are amidst a war crucial to our very survival and the two parties are bickering back and forth. One is saying, “stay the course.” The other is chanting a whole slew of slogans that can pretty much be summed up in the phrase, ‘anything but success.’
To curb any queasy thoughts you readers might have about another anti-war republican, I say this; victory is enough plan for me. Are we all so foolish to forget that the war is not about waiting out the pain of young American blood as long as we can stand it? This war is about changing the face of the Middle East away from a place murky in its own stench of hate and vile by cultural upbringing.
When freedom truly takes hold of a society, the society will eventually change. After all, one can look at the racial problems America faced and comment that it took nearly two hundred years for our great fathers to throw off the chains of oppression not only from our government but also from ourselves. Society in the Middle East is largely racist; Shiite against Sunni is clearly a prevalent racial problem in Iraq. It will take time, perhaps far more time than most of us will be around. But to say it is not worth it is to negate the sacrifices of everyone who has ever fought, argued or died for freedom.
The President has iterated time and again, yet we never hear it repeated. Stay the course does not mean keep walking in circles hoping the path will change itself. Stay the course means we will not surrender to tyranny. We will fight and we will adapt our techniques until we win. Some may wish we could find those techniques faster but I believe in our military.
I have adapted a paragraph from a Winston Churchill speech, from WW2 to War Against Radical Islam, that hopefully will provide inspiration for all who read it.
And now it has come to us to stand alone in the breach and face the worst that the radicals might and enmity can do. Bearing ourselves humbly before God, but conscious that we serve an unfolding purpose, we are ready to defend our native land against the invasion by which it is threatened. We are fighting by ourselves, alone; but we are not fighting for ourselves, alone. Here in this strong city of refuge which enshrines the title-deeds of human progress and is of deep consequence to Christian civilization: here girt about by the seas and oceans where the Navy reigns: shielded from above by the prowess and devotion of our airmen-we await undismayed the impending assault. Perhaps it will come tonight. Perhaps it will come next week. Perhaps it will never come. We must show ourselves equally capable of meeting a sudden violent shock or-what is perhaps a harder test-a prolonged vigil. But be the ordeal sharp or long or both we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parley. We may show mercy-we shall ask for none.
I return to my previous statement. Victory is enough a plan for me. Freedom depends on it. Life thrives on it. However long and hard and costly it may be victory cannot be substituted with anything less.
