THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VI, Issue # 33, February 16, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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LEFTWING LIBERALS IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE:
HOW THEY ARE ENDANGERING THE U.S.A.
By Christopher G. Adamo
Twenty-nine months have passed since the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Thankfully, nothing similar has since
occurred within the American homeland, and things have pretty much gotten back to normal. Yet, rather than rejoicing at the
present return to relative calm, many Americans choose, instead, to nurture a simmering resentment against the Bush
administration’s war on terrorism.
To fully comprehend the irony of the situation, it should be considered
against the backdrop of the last enemy incursion on this continent that
approached the enormity of 9-11. Twenty-nine months after Pearl Harbor, the
United States still faced another two years before victory would officially
be declared. And by that time, American casualties numbered not in the
hundreds, but in the hundreds of thousands.
In contrast, wars have been fought and won in two nations since 9-11,
admittedly resulting in over five hundred American casualties. But while
even one lost life constitutes a tragedy, the United States of America could
nonetheless continue to suffer losses at the same rate, and it would still
be six years before those numbers equaled the loss of life in Manhattan on
September 11.
Despite the efficiency with which American forces have routed one terrorist
cell after another throughout the world, and with apparent indifference to
the thoroughness with which the battle has been carried to the enemy’s front
(thus removing it from America’s cities), cynicism and resentment abound.
Worse yet, such sentiments are being shamelessly exploited by virtually
every Liberal candidate seeking election to government office this Fall. Something fundamental
has changed in this country since the end of the Second World War, and even
the national decline of morality cannot completely account for it.
With the advent of the Cold War, military posturing took on a completely
different character from what it had been previously. Even as terrible as
were the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, their impact was mostly regional.
Any international jockeying for supremacy, during the half-century following
Japan’s surrender, occurred under the ominous shadow of a largely
unrecognized battle for technological dominance being waged between the
United States and the Soviet Union. The nuclear stalemate between those two
powers virtually ensured that, ponderous though the ebb and flow of the Cold
War may have been, it occurred at a level far detached from the day-to-day
lives of the common people.
Thus an entire generation grew up believing it possessed solutions for all
the world’s problems, yet armed with nothing more than its own arrogance.
Never was it forced to face the consequences of its extreme naivete, nor
temper its advocacy of an unworkable utopia with reality. “Peace and love”
were incessantly preached as answers to aggressive militarism, with no
resulting risk to those who mindlessly promoted the notion of leaving the
country vulnerable to its foreign enemies.
But harsh reality should have shattered all of the “enlightened” theorizing
on September 11, 2001. Clearly, the terrorists of Al-Qa'ida proved beyond
question that they could slip beneath conventional methods of protection and
do great harm to Americans. Unfortunately, far too many Americans have
simply presumed that, in the absence of subsequent attacks, they can now
lapse back into their former state of blissful ignorance.
Worse yet, forces within this country’s borders, and even among the members of its
political class, have incessantly distorted the terror war to their own
political advantage, even if so doing poses further risks for the nation.
Shortly after September 11, U.S. House and Senate Democrats attempted to
generate controversy by suggesting that the Bush administration had
possessed sufficient intelligence to preempt the attacks, but for some dark
reason, failed to do so.
Now, in the aftermath of two highly successful military campaigns, both of
which routed governments with long track records of anti-American activity,
Liberals have reverted to condemning the President for using excessive force
against a power that they claim did not constitute an “imminent threat.”
This latest broadside against the President was epitomized by Al Gore’s
recent hysterical accusation that President Bush “betrayed America.”
Can anyone really doubt that Saddam Hussein, with his record of brutality,
genocide and support of international terrorism, posed a threat to
Americans, and that the entire world is better off without him?
It is Al Gore, John Kerry, and their cohorts among Leftwing Liberal Democrats who, by
their distortions of the truth, betray and thus imperil America. Heaven
forbid that this nation should wait until Al-Qa'ida, and those powers that
enabled it, unequivocally prove themselves to still be an “imminent threat.”
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Americaln Politics & Political Competition
American Government & the U.S. Presidency
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
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The Problem of Rogue States:
Iraq as a Case History
The Middle East & the Arabs
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.
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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