12/1: The problem with this war is that no one understands what war has changed to and is anymore. Every country in the world knows that you can’t go nation to nation, bomb to bomb with the USA. You may hurt us, but, we’ll kill you.
So, based on this 21st century, modern-day war against what’s called “Islamic Fascism” - it is partially the Crusades revisited - and since there is a new, developing definition of war as we will truly come to know it ... we must continue to inform ourselves within that new definition of the ultimate defining moment of this battle for our lives. That, of course, is the big picture that was and is the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon on 9/11. The media, maybe the government, political correctness, somebody is not letting us see the big picture any more.
And the old slogan is no longer “how easy we forget.” The slogan is “how easily we let ourselves forget.” I’m not talking about whether the government duped us into war. I’m not talking about whether the war has been and is being run right. I’m not talking about we gotta set a timetable for a troop withdrawal. I’m talking about how easily we let ourselves forget, on a mass media basis, what started this whole thing.
We pride ourselves on being “ride ‘em cowboy” for a while, that is until we want the bull to stop bucking, and it won’t. The war we’re in is no 8-second rodeo ride. So, we have to remember why we saddled up onto the bucking bronco. But, we’d rather get off (without getting bucked off for the sake of image) as fast as we can and then let the rodeo clowns and their bronco busters get the bull out of the ring.
We’ve forgotten. The truth often hurts. Americans don’t like to acknowledge hurt. But our enemy does. That antagonist right now is educating, through the media, technology and personal teachings, his family, friends, and children (the fighters of the future) that we are an enemy that is determined to destroy them.
We must inform our own of the same from our view of how it all came down. What biggie started it all.
To get this accomplished, I urge everyone to communicate to your congressman, to your local media, to your president, to your family, friends and children that we as Americans in a wartime situation need to see the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon and the devastation incurred, therefore, on a daily basis.
How easily we allow ourselves to forget. How easily that forgetfulness weakens and divides us in the actuality of going to and being at war. Every TV outlet in America and associates abroad should program at least one moment in their day (prime time) to show the images for a brief 15-to-30 second “commercial” like reminder of what we should be buying for the future of our country and that is attitude. The attitude that we all had on the day of and days after 9/11.
The enemy loves our lack of attitudinal resolve. The enemy loves our lack of unity based on the fact that they - not we - they have created and do perpetuate the “divided we fall” part of the old slogan.
People, we need to remind ourselves of what they did and can still do to us. We need to put the downing of the twin towers in print, on radio, on TV and into our mental iPod of a brain and program it all to random shuffle so that the images pop up and become the reminder that we should never hide what happened. We should never forget ... that’s the only way we can make them regret that they ever decided to make America their battle ground.
Beyond the war in Iraq, we here in America need to fight for the right to remember why - let’s see it again and again - so we never forget! And that’s just me.