24 Hours Apart – The Second Civil War

The peaceful transfer of power in this country was indeed thankfully just that. Unfortunately though, it has been anything but polite or even the slightest bit classy. The rapper horror, the boos, the nasty silent welcome of a President that kept us safe since 9/11 – sadly, we have come to expect this kind of incivility from too many members of the no-shame, no-apology, no-manners bunch.

This behavior causes me to believe we are in the midst of a type of second civil war in this country. Maybe it’s a bit of a bomb throwing moniker, so choose another name – but there’s no denying that it’s a nasty war of minds, attached to mouths that spew nasty words, pumped by hearts filled with hate. The war’s small arms fire are the childish run-of-the-mill ‘Buck Fushers’ – with its big guns being judicial radicalism, tyrannical political correctness, moral relativism, and blame America first-ism.

The biased media and Hollywood celebs can spin it all they want; this is not a time of joy for this nation. It is a time of mistrust, miscommunication and mean spirited jousts. There is a divide that is ever widening.

Bill O’Reilly addresses half this battle and calls it a culture war. He is right. The culture war is on; the struggle against the moral equivalent anti-preachers whose sophomoric eye rolling disdain of ANY type of Judeo/Christian value mocks the rest of us. However, it is only part of the Left’s attempt to destroy everything moral and political that it does not deem “progressive”.

Besides culture, the other major theatre in this second civil war is the basic difference on how we view our enemies, and it can be boiled down to two distinctly different views of this enemy. Simply put; there is the Sept 10th mindset, and the Sept 11th. There are those who think it’s September 10th and those who have seen the horror of the following day and have adjusted accordingly. There are the misguided who don’t understand our enemy, and the folks who do and know what needs to be done. The party in D.C. for the new President will soon fade, and then we all know what’s going to take its place. We see it already in the new president’s sweeping executive orders pandering to those who would rather pull the covers over their heads than face the truth of our real enemies.

Does it come down to selfishness? I think it does. We are so insulated from the realities of our enemies as we watch our Super Bowl, pick our kids up at school, go out for a great meal, or watch “Red Eye” at God knows what hour in the morning, we forget there’s a group of fanatics waiting for the right moment to take all of that away – with a bang. We are not guaranteed PEACE AND HARMONY. We have to work for it, by working at it.

This misguided motions by the President to boy scout our intelligence services and dull our badly needed covert spears shows he and his party pretend to live in that September 10th world. Covert ops is a dirty business. You don’t get info on bad people from the local boy scouts troops. You get it from characters that crawl around with the ones that want to kill us all. (Deal with that Hollywood.)

10 second pause for a PM:

Dear Mr. President,

I respect you as a man, and you are my President. I just think you are a September 10th kind of guy. Please move your political clock 24 hours ahead. Consider the advance of this clock “America Savings Time.” Most of all sir, please understand your enemy.

I’ll close with this:

Notice I said “sir” and “please.” I did not make fun of the way he talks, the way he looks, make up stories about his family, or declare him not to be “my” (that selfish thing again) President. Let’s deal with the facts and realities of our world, and learn to fight together the best we can as Americans. To bury your head in the sand, or pretend that enemy combatants are U.S citizens, or keep blaming and shaming our military and intelligence services makes us all so much less safe.