Posted by
Flicker on Sunday, August 17, 2008 5:51:38 PM
It’s not Stockholm syndrome. It’s not fear of success. It’s not early dementia. But I feel more comfortable now that Russia has invaded Georgia. I feel safer. I am the product of the cold war, James Bond and Viet Nam. Godless communists are easily understood by me. Hollywood liberals are not. Why would anyone deliberately tie the hands of those officers tasked with fighting terrorist aggression? Why would every single complaint about an imperfect world with imperfect leaders and hypnotizable citizenry be laid at the feet of Bush 43, Chaney and Halliburton. Hatred for Bush is now an indefinable, unspeakable miasma of malignant cluelessness. Reason has been rejected in favor of poetic imagery: Lied, Died, Fried – chicken that is: obesity, trans-fats. The United States have gone from protecting that world from Communism to turning on itself like a mad reptile, to hungry to stop gnashing its teeth even after it realizes that it is biting it’s own tail.
The boundlessly energetic American people now have no enemy; so they root through their closets to find a mite to neurotically rail against: trans-fat, homophobia, teenage chastity, home schooling, germy handshakes, red meat, bicycle babies without full body armor, tornados and hurricanes malignantly turned toward American population centers by big, bad American corporations.
Never mind lead paint and melamine imported from China and fed to our children and our pets. Never mind incarcerating pedophiles. Never mind the threats of both drug-driven Mexican Insurgency and nuclear- armed Mohammedan Insurgency across unprotected borders. Never mind treating immigrants who sneak into this country illegally and live on welfare, Medicaid, food stamps and subsidized housing while their children join gangs and murder, rape and sell drugs.
Never mind that we the US have oil to pump but instead we rely on foreign, terrorist-funding, oil. Never mind that the world is starving as we turn corn into oil. Never mind the religious genocide in Somalia and the suicidal crash-and-burn of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Never mind selling out the US to serve a larger, dimmer, more decadent regime, whether it is the UN, the EU or the North American Union.
We, like a schizophrenic amoeba, have turned ourselves inside out and are digesting ourselves. Sure there are problems with the US; not big problems: ‘big’ is relative. But the Big Problems are national access to energy, sovereignty, justice in our courts, protecting the innocent and punishing the criminal, and insulating religion and morals from the government rather than the other way around.
The Russians have perpetrated a horrific act of violence against the Georgians. And now the Georgians are enduring a truly exitential threat. We need to help in any way we can: diplomatic, economic, material aid and military support. We have done this many times before and we should do it again as often as necessary.
But at least now I can recognize the world again. And I can sleep better knowing that the world is what I thought it was. And the world can see it for what it is: a dangerous place; a place where vigilance is required and where leaders and citizens of the free world alike must stand to defend truth, justice and… yes, the American Way.