THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VI, Issue # 58, March 22, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
PERSEVERANCE: THE KEY TO WINNING THE WAR ON TERROR
By Christopher G. Adamo
Given the insipid nature of today’s political and social climate, it is hard to imagine the motivation of a man like Patrick Henry to utter
his famous proclamation: “Give me liberty or give me death.” Such a rallying cry would, in modern discourse, likely be greeted with
skepticism and insinuations of extremism or fanaticism.
For all of the historic splendor, heroism, and sacrifice attributed to it, the American Revolution lasted barely a decade. Yet even that
duration would be regarded as insufferably long by the standards of twenty-first century America. Had the present mindset prevailed
at this nation’s founding, Washington, and perhaps the entire Continental Congress, might well have had to face incessant
accusations that they had “vastly overblown the threats” posed by the Redcoats.
Thus, the America of the “me generation,” being so altered from its heritage, is primed to commence a long but nearly inescapable
descent towards eventual servitude. And Europe’s likely fate is no better. In the initial aftermath of 9-11, the people of this country
and its allies, in heightened awareness of the threat posed by militant Islam, rallied to calls for the unity and resolve necessary to
confront it. Unfortunately, it is becoming apparent that those initial responses, heartfelt and exuberant though they may have been,
came from people who had no comprehension of the cost that must be incurred, if they are to back their words with action.
Thirty months after the World Trade Center was destroyed, the bombings in Spain yielded an entirely different result. Though
millions took to the streets of Madrid in a show of support for the victims, the elections that immediately followed indicated nothing
less than complete capitulation to the agenda of the Islamists. If so large a segment of the civilized world is not capable of
maintaining its commitment for a mere two and a half years, what can possibly remain intact against an onslaught that may last thirty
years or more? And the grim history of militant Islamic expansionism has been measured not in years or decades, but in centuries.
It is all but inevitable that further strikes will shortly ensue and continue until such time as they are either repulsed, or the intended
targets concede absolute victory to the aggressors. Nations such as France, nations that have been openly critical of the United
States, are finding out that the danger to their own homeland is inexorably growing. The next target of the terrorists will be chosen
strictly for its political value to the terrorists (and Spain’s elections greatly increased the “value” of all potential targets).
If France remains untouched in the short term, while other nations that supported the U.S.A. are brought down as was Spain, the
most profound effect on the French will be to have their fate sealed for lack of any remaining allies. In the end, their pacifism in the
face of encroaching Islamism will do nothing to vindicate them in the eyes of the aggressors. Their “guilt,” as well as our own, is
founded in the simple fact that the government of France is not officially Muslim.
From the very day of the World Trade Center attacks, high-level government officials in the U.S.A. have diligently sought to
portray the conflict as anything but a “religious war.” This they have done for two reasons. First, they rightly endeavored to
prevent backlash against innocent, law-abiding Muslims living in this country. But a secondary concern was the avoidance of
confrontation with what can only be regarded as the advance armies of Islamists living here, who have set their sights on
Europe and America.
Unfortunately, those high-level officials are simply wrong. Statements from the terrorists, made in the aftermath of the
horrendous carnage in Madrid, inarguably prove as much.
Afghanistan and Iraq were not the entirety of that element of Islam currently threatening America. Nor is that threat likely to
simply evaporate because, in the relative tranquility that has temporarily returned to the domestic scene since 9-11, many
people have simply chosen to believe that it no longer exists.
The people of America cannot afford to elect a president in November whose guiding philosophy is one of appeasement.
However imperfectly the War on Terror may have been conducted thus far, it is, nevertheless, a war from which America
cannot retreat. Any attempt to do so will only guarantee its return to our shores. And we have no place to run.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Terrorism & U.S. Homeland Security
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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