THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 230, November 30, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AMERICA'S "PLAY STATION" GENERATION
WILL NOT ENDURE
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT -- THE MESSAGE IT IS TRUMPETING & THE IMPACT THAT THE MESSAGE IS
HAVING ON THE WILL OF THE U.S.A. TO PREVAIL IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR: ELECTORAL POLITICS, LIBERAL
LEFTIST PROPAGANDA, & EROSION OF THE MORAL & SPIRITUAL COMPONENT OF AMERICA'S STRENGTH -- COURAGE &
RESOLVE TO PREVAIL AGAINST OUR ENEMIES IN THE TERROR WAR ARE BEING LEACHED FROM THE SOULS OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE -- AMERICA IS INCREASINGLY ACCEPTING THE NOTION OF A "CUT & RUN" RESPONSE TO ISLAMIC
TERRORISM & ITS SPONSORS -- AMERICA'S ENEMIES ARE INCREASINGLY EMBOLDENED TO ACTIVELY UNDERMINE
AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
FULL STORY:
America is increasingly accepting the notion of a “cut and run” response to
Islamic terrorism. Post-election talk on Capitol Hill, from both sides of
the aisle, focuses ever more on the notion that America ought to simply
accept the “futility” of the Iraq situation and sound “retreat.” It has been
done before, and the country survived, so why not now?
In certain respects, America did indeed back away from its frontal
opposition to World Communism when it pulled out of Southeast Asia in 1972. And,
while that action was followed by genocide in Vietnam and Cambodia, those
Leftists who had caterwauled incessantly over the dozens of Vietnamese who
had been killed in My Lai, suddenly reverted to absolute indifference over
the millions who were slaughtered in Southeast Asia after America had abandoned
the people in that region.
Moreover, the waving of the white flag across the Pacific was not followed
by North Vietnamese tanks rolling through the streets of America, purges of American
anti-Communist “dissidents,” or the establishment of a Gulag on our soil.
So, in the eyes of the anti-war protestors, nothing bad came from the
defeat.
In truth, this nation kept up its valiant fight against Soviet-led World Communism,
though it had to do so on a different front. And, within a generation of the
Vietnam debacle, the Soviet Union collapsed in the face of Ronald Reagan’s resolve,
and much of the danger the USSR posed to the United States substantially faded.
Unfortunately, those on the political Left took the absolutely wrong message from the
events, as they invariably do. Since the advances and retreats of the Cold
War unfolded in a theater that was far removed from the common citizen,
Leftwing Liberals were afforded the luxury to bask in their ignorance. Thus, they
naively presumed that their fawning “peacenik” philosophies had won the day.
Far from such sophomoric and simple-minded postulating, the harsh truth is
as it always was. America will prevail, or it will fall, based on its
strength. And, as was the case in Vietnam, where a wholly capable military
was betrayed by cowardice from inside the Beltway, the moral and spiritual
component of the nation’s strength is ultimately the determining factor in
the nation’s success or failure.
Since the dark days of Vietnam, America’s military capabilities have only
increased. Yet concurrently, other events within the culture of the nation
have opened a grim possibility. Although, from a purely military and
logistical standpoint, America is far more able to fight and prevail in a war,
while sustaining far fewer casualties among its own forces, the public at
large no longer has the “stomach” needed to do so.
The courage and resolve among the nation’s citizenry, so necessary to
underwrite a military venture and remain committed to it until its
completion, have apparently been leached from the souls of the American
people. In vain hope that they can simply conjure up a false sense of
security and thereafter live free of danger, Americans are now unwilling to
consider the looming possibility of more attacks by the Islamists, other terrorists, or
rogue political regimes.
Worse yet, a significant portion of the American population appears to be staunchly
committed to remaining in such a state of denial at virtually any cost.
September 11, 2001, should have been the only “wake up call” the nation ever
needed. From that point forward, the single national response ought to have
been an iron will to overcome any who had participated in the horror, and
all who might aid and abet a sequel to the event.
Unfortunately, the message being trumpeted by America’s Leftists has been
heard, loud and clear, throughout the world. Reaction to it is as ominous as
it is predictable. America’s overt enemies, such as Iranian “President”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, are increasingly
emboldened to actively undermine American interests, and ever more
belligerent in their antagonism toward us.
Far from presenting a united front to our enemies, and thus persuading even
the marginally rational among them that they would decisively lose in a
military engagement, the constant laments from Liberals, who only see
America’s shortcomings, has taken its toll. The result is an America with a
broken morale and growing pessimism. This message has not been lost on those
who seek our demise.
In response to the mid-term elections of 2006, America’s enemies throughout the
world have been reinvigorated and are voicing their commitment to drive this
nation into oblivion. The fronts on which we face hostility are many. Across
three continents, one unavoidable simmering cauldron after another has begun
to boil.
Through their meddling, self-serving Liberal Leftist politicians have further
constrained America to wage the terror war within the perverse framework of
“political correctness.” Thus, they have shown our adversaries that, as a
nation, we are indeed weak, and, moreover, that weakness can be exploited.
Yet, this is not a weakness of armament, but a weakness of the soul.
Much of the world is, at present, either too cowardly to admit that a clash
of civilizations is going on, or has concluded that collusion with Islamists
and states ruled by thugs is the most pragmatic approach to the danger they
pose. It is certainly easier to denigrate America while it carries the torch
of freedom, with no fear of reprisal, than it is to stand firm against the
tides of militant Islam, which will most certainly reap a backlash of hate
and violence.
Yet, despite any futile hopes of clinging briefly to its past comfort and
indifference, no such option exists for this country. Regardless of their
recent electoral gains, those who would cower from the fray cannot be
allowed to set policy. An America that increasingly bends to the wishes of
an effeminized culture, and is afraid to mete out whatever is necessary upon
its enemies to achieve victory, is an America that will ultimately bear the
scars of battle inflicted on itself in defeat.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
International Politics & World Disorder:
War & Peace in the Real World
Page Two
Page One
Communism: Longterm Enemy of the U.S.A.
The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
Page Two
Page One
The Problem of Rogue States:
Iraq as a Case History
U.S. National Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
The Middle East & the Problem of Iran
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
Page Three
Page Two
Page One
Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
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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