THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 108, June 21, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE TERROR WAR & THE DISLOYAL POLITICAL OPPOSITION:
GENERAL BENEDICT ARNOLD WAS ALSO A "WAR HERO"
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICAN PARTISAN POLITICS, LEFTWING LIBERALISM, ISLAMISM, & THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM: THE
AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT AS A DISLOYAL FIFTH COLUMN IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD BEING WAGED BY THE ISLAMISTS
AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HIGH TIME TO SPEAK THE UNDILUTED TRUTH ABOUT CONGRESSMAN JOHN MURTHA,
SENATOR JOHN KERRY, & ANY OF THEIR UNPATRIOTIC, LEFTIST COHORTS ON CAPITOL HILL WHO CONTINUALLY STRIVE
TO DEMORALIZE AMERICANS IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM BY DEMANDING UNCONDITIONAL RETREAT -- HIGH TIME TO
EXPOSE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AS SELF-SEEKING, POWER-HUNGRY POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS READY & WILLING TO
UNDERMINE & SEVERELY DAMAGE THE NATIONAL SECURITY & VITAL INTERESTS OF THE U.S.A. IN ORDER TO WEAKEN THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY & BUSH PRESIDENCY & IMPROVE THE DEMOCRATS' CHANCES OF WINNING FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL &
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS -- THE DRIVE TO WIN FEDERAL ELECTIONS & PUT THE U.S. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT UNDER
THE CONTROL OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, POLITICALLY EMPOWERING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT THE EXPENSE OF
ENDANGERING THE WELL-BEING & SURVIVAL OF THE AMERICAN NATION
FULL STORY:
It is long past time to speak the undiluted truth in response to Congressman
John Murtha (Democrat - Pennsylvania), Senator John Kerry (Democrat - Massachusetts) and any of their cohorts on
Capitol Hill who continually strive to demoralize Americans in the War on
Terror by demanding unconditional retreat. They are not “patriotic,” nor are
they voices of the “loyal opposition,” for they can be neither patriotic nor
loyal when “carrying the water” for the mortal enemies of America.
A reality check is once again in order, since the realities of the past five
years have been completely abandoned by the political Left. America was attacked, on
its own soil, by militant Islamists, who obsessively seek annihilation of the U.S.A. and its people.
Thousands of innocent people were indiscriminately and brutally slaughtered
in a matter of minutes.
The attack was wholly unprovoked, unless one accepts the enemy’s premise
that refusal to be converted to Islam, or an alliance with another nation
that similarly refuses to do so, constitutes “provocation.”
Hence, America’s only option is either to accept the enemy’s terms of
unconditional surrender or go on the offense against that enemy. This was true
in the wake of the attacks, as well as during the decade leading up to them.
Unfortunately, the Clinton administration ignored this truth and attempted a
third wholly untenable “alternative,” which was to simply ignore the problem,
with the hope that it would go away. In retrospect, the consequences of that
choice are indistinguishable from “surrender.”
Honest Liberals would own up to the fact that American inaction during the
1990s left the nation vulnerable, and thus allowed those attacks to be
successfully carried out. But then again, “honest Liberals” would not be
Liberal.
So, rather than admitting to their unwitting complicity with America’s
enemies, they grudgingly waved flags and rooted for the nation in the
immediate aftermath of the attacks while emotions were running high. They
astutely perceived that any other response would not be tolerated.
But they quickly reverted back to their anti-American screed the moment they
suspected that the tide of public opinion might be changing, and that they
might have an opening to seize the moral and philosophical “high ground.”
Having vacillated continually on the terror war issue for the past five
years, they saw their electoral fortunes ebb. Now, in a desperate effort to
reclaim dominant status inside the Beltway that they believe to be
inherently theirs, they are again on the attack. But their attack is no less
directed at the heartland of America than are the attacks of the Islamists.
Every whisper of wrongful action by the U.S. military is greeted with a mix
of jubilation and enthusiastic condemnation by Leftists on Capitol Hill and
the nightly news. Concurrently, the upbeat stories of progress and
improvement in the stability of post-Hussein Iraq invariably generate
skepticism and disparagement.
The President’s recent visit to Iraq, itself a great milestone on the road
to total victory in that theater of the terror war, was nonetheless demeaned
in every possible manner by the Liberal establishment.
Just as al Zarqawi’s memos and communications indicated that the tone inside
al-Qa'ida is getting desperate in the face of imminent defeat, so does the
derisive reaction from the Left to every bit of good news out of Iraq prove
that Liberals are becoming similarly desperate.
Their loyalties plainly do not lie with the well being of this nation. Nor
can they legitimately claim any noble or patriotic motivation for continuing
their campaign of declaring doom and defeat for this country.
For those on the Left, every contest is solely determined only from the
perspective of political gain or loss to the cause of Liberalism. And, time
and again, the proponents of this sordid political strategy have proven
themselves to be wholly indifferent to any negative consequences reaped by
the nation or its military. Such behavior does not fit any definition of
“loyalty.”
Moreover, it is indefensible to assert that, owing to their veteran status,
all criticism of anti-war mouthpieces like John Kerry or John Murtha, and the
political class they represent, should be censored.
Although these are among the best examples Liberals are able to present as
“war heroes,” any actual heroic deeds that might have been perpetrated by
Kerry and Murtha occurred more than three decades ago. And, particularly in
Kerry’s case, the validity of such deeds is extremely dubious.
Military commendations and service awards are ultimately meant as tribute to
the events of a particular period in time. Often, they represent a single
episode in the life of the recipient. They were never intended as a license
of lifetime immunity from criticism for any and every outlandish behavior on
the part of the bearer, including de facto collaboration with the enemy
Kerry and Murtha’s strategically disastrous demands that America cut and run
from the terrorist insurgency at a time when it is desperately attempting to
rally its dwindling forces, belie something that is hardly less than a dark
alliance between the terrorists and the American Left.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
American Politics & Political Competition
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
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THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL SITUATION &
AMERICA'S ENEMY IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
Page Three
Page Two
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
Page Two
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The Problem of Rogue States:
Iraq as a Case History
National Strategy for Victory in Iraq
War & Peace in the Real World
Page Two
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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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