Posted by
bob's my uncle on Friday, September 11, 2009 1:31:10 PM
Today we mark the 8th anniversary of that day which has changed America, forever.
To those who have taken upon themselves to serve this country in the capacity of defending against this amorphous enemy, I salute you, and I thank you. My gratitude to you for keeping me, my family, and this country safe and secure for these 8 years cannot be expressed in words.
Soon after that fateful day, our president, George W. Bush, said, "You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists." That statement still rings with truth to me today. In that statement is a basic understanding of the ongoing struggle of good against evil. It is an understanding of the evil that continues and grows and festers to this day; evil that will be there tomorrow, next month, next year, no matter who is elected to any office in this country. That is why we MUST fight on.
Sadly, many of my countrymen have forgotten, or discounted the meaning of those words on that day. They misunderstand, even disbelieve the evil that is in the hearts of those who perpetrated those attacks. Can such evil exist? Oh, yes, it most certainly does. Believe it or not, it exists in the very nature of men. Examples of such evil are legion. Men who have sought to subdue and control others by fear, force and mass killing. Their designs on us remain. That is why we MUST fight on.
The Islamists who carried out the attacks on 9/11, fight us, not to win independence from us, nor to retaliate against some wrong we have done. They may claim that is the reason, but their writings and internal communications reveal a desire to conquer, subdue, and to rule over us. They wish to Islamicise the West. They wish to turn us into them or kill us. They hate our freedom, our customs, our prosperity, and our Christian religion. If you do not want to give up your American way of life, nor bow toward Mecca five times a day, you must conclude that they are evil. That is why we MUST fight on.
Their success may not occur in this generation, nor in the next. But if we do not fight on against their agression, they will surely, one day succeed. Weakness invites agression. Currently, we have made ourselves weaker by granting rights and privileges to our enemies the likes of which none has ever had. We have pulled our punches and chastised ourselves for pursuing the enemy too agressively. In doing so, we make it that much harder for the men and women in uniform to protect us from further attack.
But, even so, we MUST fight on.
Take this day, and remember what happened eight years ago. Remember how you felt and the determination and resolve that brought us together as a nation. We were one against a common enemy on that day. That fact has not changed, though most have forgotten or returned to their slumber. The enemy still has his resolve. We must find ours once again. We MUST fight on.