I had to turn my car around on Wilshire Boulevard this weekend
because of the anti-war peace marches. Fair enough. If only we
could get that type of turnout for the match up of Dumb and Dumber
for the California governor election. Yet, it got me thinking. I
absolutely could not believe so many people have taken such an
ignorant stance on foreign policy after Sept. 11, 2001.
How can any person in this country subscribe to the belief
Saddam Hussein is not developing a nuclear weapon, which he will
either give to terrorists or give to his agents to plant at our
doorstep? How can anyone believe it is not in our best interest to
stop him before he attacks us just as he attacked Iran, Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia, Israel and his own people? We are presented with a
fundamental choice. We can listen to the treason lobby of Baghdad
from David Bonior (D-Mich) and Rep. Jim McDermott, (D-Wash) who
choose to question our president from the enemy’s soil, or we
can listen to history.
History shows us that the United Nations will not and cannot
face this problem. The United Nations is as weak-kneed as the
professors who signed the advertisement in the Daily Bruin saying
that everyone loses when we go to war. Saddam Hussein has tricked
the world for 11 long years, yet some of our professors and a few
of our congressmen want to rationalize the reasons we should not
stand up to this evil dictator.
The United Nations does not make our national security
decisions, and for good reason. If we look at the composition of
the United Nations, we will find a majority of dictators, and a
minority of democracies. Why do we submit to and wait for dictators
on a global scale, when we proclaim freedom on a national scale?
The U.N. permanent Security Council members (France and Russia) are
tied to current illegal oil contracts in Iraq, and they are
trembling in fear we will not give them their oil contracts if we
attack Iraq. So who is it that feels we should wait until we have a
smoking gun against Hussein? To those who feel we don’t have
enough evidence after 11 years of trickery and deception, I give
you the words of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who said
that the only smoking gun is one that has already gone off.
Who will march in Westwood if the peaceniks are wrong? Who will
proclaim they will not “fight for oil” if Hussein gets
his coveted nuclear weapon? Who doubts Hussein will use his nuclear
weapon? The answer is no one. The time to take a stand against evil
is now. The time to ignore the “wisdom” of so many
anti-American lecturers is now.
The consequences of inaction are greater than the consequences
of action. Each of our freedoms is threatened when we go to war,
and this time it will be no different. This time we will liberate a
people, democratize a nation, and revolutionize a region. To those
who say we are being unilateral, you are absolutely wrong, and you
are ignoring the truth. We have the full support of Britain
(Europe’s premier military and financial power), Turkey,
Australia, Israel, Kuwait and Jordan.
Our soldiers may die, and some of our military sons and
daughters may not come home. However, we know that our enemy has
not been conquered, and our generation has been called to preserve
our cherished democracy. So how about we have a rally, make some
pretty signs, and show our military men and women that we support
them in their endeavor to free us from fear. I’ll print up
some applications, and we’ll make it an equal employment
opportunity. The treason lobby and the ignorant need not apply.