Jeff – there is nothing wrong with your soul. It sounds like you are a true American producer: worthy of veneration and not worthy of the guilt that so-called intellectuals like Ward Churchill and so-called leaders like Bill Clinton have been so desperately trying to lay upon us with variants of “it’s America’s fault.”
We were once united around an idea – sovereign individual rights and a government limited by its constitution (almost) solely to protecting those rights. Today, with that idea no longer taught, practiced, or even recognized in the mainstream, we are becoming like every other nation – balkanized warring factions.
Sandra is half-right: a well-armed America will be a safe America – but only when our leaders recognize our right to exist for our own sake as innocent producers like Jeff – and our right to defend ourselves against those who, like Khomeini of Iran in 1976, declare “death to America.”
Until then, all of our bombs and troops are of no use. Our leaders must regain the morality necessary to drop those bombs and defend our right to live as producers – instead of air-dropping food and sacrificing our boys to nation building. Our leaders could start by reclaiming the oil wells which Americans built and paid for that were stolen by the Arabs….
Until then, we’re just a paper tiger – incapable of accomplishing even the most elementary action necessary for our continued existence: destroying our enemies’ will to fight.
