Embarrassing President Will Not Make Us Safe

Ed Koch nails it!

Over the last few years I have written of my fears that we Americans, as a people, have lost our will to fight for our freedom.

We have come to expect that wars can be fought without casualties, even the relatively modest casualties we have suffered in Iraq. During World War Two, more Americans were killed or wounded on Iwo Jima in one month than have fallen in Iraq in almost four years. Of course, every military death and severe injury is a tragedy. Nevertheless, former Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that our army in Iraq is "about broken," which appalled and frightened me. Added to those two disturbing dangers to our national security is a new and third factor: denial of a military threat to our armed forces. Such a denial allows us to avoid addressing the threat with an appropriate military response.

We are not at war with Iran, but Iran seems to be at war with us. In the last year we have suffered at least 170 American military deaths in Iraq and 640 American soldiers have been injured as a result of Iranian manufactured and supplied explosives supplied to Iraqi insurgents and terrorists.

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Koch has some excellent points. The irrational spleen spewed by these people has me seriously concerned about the future of American politics. They are beyond the merely divisive. They are almost anarchic.

I have never seen a generation of self-hating and self-deluded Americans as I am seeing now. Every argument entails bashing not only Bush & the republicans, but christians and even moderate democrats.