Pollster Frank Lunz was on Bill Bennett's Morning in America today, and made what I thought was one of the best points to date regarding Iraq and the war on terror in general. Lunz commented that the American people want to have both a guns AND butter economy, that we want to pursue a war without any of the inconveniences that normally go along with it. Americans seem oblivious to the fact that we are at war, seemingly chalking up the deaths in Iraq to some harebrained adventure and completely forgetting that we face an enemy that would just as soon kill every man, woman and child in America as look at them. At least when facing the Soviet Union we had the security of mutually assured destruction to keep the carnage in check. Not so with radical Islam, a religion that is perfectly content with losing their own lives to take a few infidels with them.
America needs to wake up NOW and remember why we are fighting and the cost of losing. Retreating from Vietnam condemned the Vietnamese people to decades of subjugation, but outside of wounding our pride didn't directly impact America. The cost of retreating from the conflict we face today is 9/11 after 9/11. I have said it before, this fight will go on until one side or the other is no longer able to fight. It may require that we sacrifice, that we go without some of the numerous creature comforts we are accustomed to. I would rather take my shoes off before boarding a plane than have it crashed into a building with my shoes intact.
This enemy is no less a threat, and perhaps more so, than Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. If that generation of American's could sacrifice so much, we can as well to ensure that our children grow up in a world devoid of terrorism.
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