America Not Ready to Fight a War... Any War!

Do you really care that the NSA (No Such Agency!) was eavesdropping on international phone calls and e-mail?

Or, are you, like me, upset more that there is a leak within the NSA, or possibly within the Congress or, their congressional aids.

Americans of my generation understand that America is at war and, sometimes, drastic steps must be taken.

You know, I watch Americans going about their daily chores completely unaware that their country is in a war for its life. It is amazing, and simply astounding, to see Americans acting as zombies in the face of a global conflagration which could sweep America, as we know it, off the globe at any moment.

I must tell you, I will be very happy when the “Baby Boomers” age out and the generation behind them begins to assert it’s leadership. The Baby Boomers, for the most part, have been stuck in the sixties for their entire lives and have been mentally damaged by their dreams of nirvana and pacified by mental pictures of daisies sticking out of the barrels of military rifles.

Complete idiocy!

And, these people, Dear Reader, are running our government, our universities, our major religious denominations, and, of course, the Main-Stream Media! Is there any question as to how we got into the sorry mess we find ourselves in today?

My generation… spawned by the Greatest Generation… has produced another generation off Americans who have been taught, throughout their youth, just how self-centered the Baby Boomer generation is. They have been taught to take responsibility for their actions, and they have been taught they owe a debt to this country they can never repay, but are obligated to make a continuous attempt. They are connected to America as no generation has been since their grandfathers and grandmothers.

Many of the forthcoming generation are products of Baby Boomer parents and have personal experience, oftimes embarrassing, of just how disconnected with reality their parents are.

America is not ready to fight a war. I mean, mentally. Our leaders are such vacuous, empty suits, that we have no real, meaningful, national leadership. It’s like having a terrific college basketball team and no bench! You worry, constantly, that the other team will notice... and take advantage. Well, in America’s case the other team has noticed and they are taking advantage of the weak bench. When Congressman and Senators are so shallow as to suggest America flee the battlefield with an enemy dead set on eradicating us, then the weakness of America’s “bench” is obvious to the world. I mean, talk about a weak bench! Consider those sitting upon it: Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton, Reid, Boxer, Pelosi, Feingold, Spector, and let us not forget… John McCain and, even the Senator from my home state of South Carolina, Lindsey Graham. That is not a bench; it’s the “disabled list”!

Now, add to these problems a Central Intelligence Agency, which is fatally flawed and dysfunctional to the point of being a laughing stock. And, a State Department so filled with political hacks, with their allegiance pledged to the Democrat Party, who work feverishly to sidetrack any iniatives the Bush Administration asks them to implement, and we have a formula for utter disaster.

Soon after the Christmas holidays I expect a move by the Democrats to impeach President Bush. It will not succeed, but they know this already. They simply want to make it even more difficult for the Bush Administration to govern. I would remind the Democrats that should President Bush step down, for whatever reason, Dick Cheney would become President! The Vice-President does not suffer fools lightly and that, alone, should send icy cramps to clench the intestines of Congressional Democrats.

There are no more “Greats” in our Congress, indeed, in our government. We have a Congress of second stringers, lightweights, who seem to think they are in Congress to accrue power for themselves at the expense of everyone else, including their fellow Americans.

We have a Military, the likes of which, the world has never seen. But, again the bench is weak. Our Armed Forces need to be as much as four times it’s current size. We are allowing anarchy to creep up on this country from all sides.

Currently, we need to "see to" the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Cuba, all within what we used to call our “Sphere of Influence”. The same with Iran. If we can’t nutralize the “mad mullahs” of Iran, we will be at war with them within a matter of months. We will win, but it will take our attention off those pip-squeak, tin pot dictators, Chavez and Morales in South America. Plus, we need to be positioning ourselves to see that the next “Presidente” of Cuba is a freedom-loving democrat rather than a freedom-hating communist.

Unfortunately, the current Congress of the US is simply not capable of handling the real problems of governing the premier nation on the earth. they are simply "in over their heads"!

The two parties in Congress remind me of two Bantam roosters circling each other as they prepare for a fight. One's scared... and the other is glad of it! We truly have a pitiful national legislature. If the current Congress is not the weakest Congress this nation has ever had, it certainly ranks second to whichever was! Until we amend the Constitution to allow for "Congressional Term Limits" this problem will only get worse. We need a serious "housecleaning" in the Halls of Congress.

Granted, this is not a pretty picture to paint of our government as we approach the end of the old year and the beginning of another. But, unfortunately, this is the state in which we find ourselves today, in America.

Here endth the lesson for today!

Longstreet