Posted by
Arnie on Monday, January 08, 2007 3:26:59 PM
911? The event that changed America. The event that woke some of us out of a slumber. The horrendous event of premeditated murder of innocent civilians on our soil, right here in our own backyard. That was 5+ years ago, and how have we changed as a nation? What has changed?
Sure our military went in and temporarily defeated the enemy in Afghanistan, and removed a murderous Islamic dictator in Iraq, and the battle goes on. Before that day in September, what did we know as a country about Al-Quaeda, or about radical Muslim groups. Not much. The FBI and the CIA knew, and some members of congress knew, the White House knew about this organization of terrorists who had previously made attacks upon American interests abroad and right here. The WTC was previously bombed in 1993. In 1988, a New York bound flight exploded in mid air killing 259. A US embassy destroyed in 1983. In Tehran, radicals attacked our embassy and took 66 hostages, later they were all released. There were other attacks I did not mention, but this should have been enough to stir some sort of retaliation that had lasting effect to suppress further attacks. Since 911, the world wide attacks on freedom loving societies have increased, and The President has tried to make clear that we are at war against an enemy called radical Islamic fascists.
What else have the America public become aware of since that day in 2001? The huge unmanageable illegal immigration migration from Spanish speaking countries to our south into virtually every town across the country. What was known before 2001? Or, a better question, what was made public before 2001? Did we hear the estimated numbers? Sure, we all knew by just observing the scene around us that there "seemed" to be a lot of Mexicans working at those dirty jobs. But, were we really aware of how large the problem had become? Not I. Nope. Did not hear it. Did not see those reports. Could you have estimated that there were double digit millions of illegal aliens living and working in the shadows and nobody was doing anything to stem this tide.
Now here we are in 2007, and these two problems continue to escalate. The so-called war against terror continues to expand. There has been some very positive results of our military actions, but there still remains that old BUT. There is more to do. It is no way near being over. There are too many 'expert' voices deciding what action to take to determinant a closure, if a closure is possible. The invasion from the south continues to boost the numbers of illegal aliens living and working while hiding from the ICE, and INS, and DHS, while conflicting voices conflict on the best approach to settle the sticky political problem.
Government moves slowly, and most of the time we welcome and delight in their inaction, and certainly we do not want the feds to rush it and make a premature or an impulsive decision to drop bombs, or grant wholesale amnesty just to quiet the critics and/or satisfy the special interests. But, golly gee whiz, it sure is hard to wait while these things escalate as they have been. So, perhaps now IS the time.
These two, if not stopped, could be the demise of western values as we have known.