2003 Soap Box Archives

When The Troops Come Home 04/07/03

To say that I am proud of our Armed Forces would be a gross
understatement. Not only have they performed successfully, they have
performed honorably. Their gentle handling of the Iraqi civilian
population is something unparalleled in war.

Our forces have taken extreme caution to keep from hurting civilians
sometimes at their own peril.

These young men and women should come home to ticker tape parades and
adulation.

I believe that history will prove just how important this war was.

Some people say that this war will inflame the Middle East and make the
terrorists more determined, but I believe that it will give them
something to think about.

I think that the U.S.A. has been perceived as cowardly by the nations
of the Middle East for a long time. They didn’t believe that we had
the resolve to defend ourselves against terrorism. They didn’t think
that the United States had the stomach to fight a war. When they
listened to our major media they perceived us as a nation of pacifists
and cowards. They didn’t look beyond the veneer of antiwar rallies and
Hollywood hubbub to the true heart of America which has been clouded
over by liberal media and perceived political correctness. The United
States of America is not a politically correct nation. I know that a
lot of the people in positions of mass media power and entertainment
celebrity would have the world think so, but the simple truth is that
we are not.

We may as well wake up to the fact that the terrorists were going to
come whether we went into Iraq or not. Destroying Iraq’s capability to
be one of them is just a step in the right direction.

If you notice we haven’t heard from Muamar Khaddafi since President
Reagan called his hand.

If we give into the terrorists and let them shape our national policy
in any way, there will be hell to pay once they learn that we will bend
to their threats they’ll never let up on us.

Not every nation in the Middle East is ruled by a depraved monster like
Saddam Hussein who is willing to sacrifice thousands of people in a
hopeless battle. They have enough sense to know that an out and out
war with the U.S.A. is a losing proposition. They don’t want to see
their countries in ruins like Iraq.

America should and has been diplomatic and patient. We have tried to
operate through the auspices of the United Nations. We have tried to
put together a coalition of nations who wanted to confront terrorism.

But the time finally comes when words are empty and diplomacy is
exhausted. A time for action.

We should stop now and then and remember where we were and what we were
doing on September 11, 2001 when we got the awful news about The Trade
Towers. We should relive the images of those planes flying into the
buildings and remember how we felt as we wondered just how many
innocent lives had been lost.

The Jews coined the phrase concerning the Holocaust, “Never Again.”

I think it would be a good phrase for us to adopt concerning September
11th. “Never Again.”

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

©Copyright The Charlie Daniels Band