2004 Soap Box Archives

Opportunity 04/12/04

I don’t know how many times I woke up last night thinking about our troops in Iraq and the danger they are in. I would say a prayer and drift back off only to wake up again a little later to do the same thing.

A lot of people think that by going into Iraq we have motivated the terrorists in the Middle East. In my book it’s not so much a question of motivation as it is a matter of opportunity.

Provocation is not the point here and motivation abounds in the radical Islamic world as self serving old butchers and mad dog clerics promise young men who blow themselves up for their cause instant paradise and eternal sexual gratification with their own herd of virgins.

These young men are raised to hate the West and everything in it from earliest childhood. Anything Jewish or Christian is viewed
as evil and something to be destroyed.

The very things which we hold dear are repugnant to them. Here we cherish our women, put them on pedestals and they work alongside us in the market place enjoying equal rights and opportunities.

Their women are covered from head to foot as if they were something to be ashamed of and under strict Shari law can be executed for adultery and even lesser offenses.

They are taught to blame their troubles on the free world while they are herded around like a bunch of sheep by mullahs and cruel despots.

They believe that anybody different is evil and that the whole world should be under the rule of radical Islam.

The people we are fighting in Iraq are not partisan patriots defending their country. A lot of them are not even from Iraq. They are pouring into the country from Syria and there are Chechens, Iranians and Palastinians, all coming to Iraq to kill the hated Americans and do not represent the will of most of the Iraqis.

They desperately fear a democracy in Iraq. A true democracy where there is freedom to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of movement and where women are treated as equals.

They hate us for what we are and in truth very few of them ever get to really know what we are. They believe what they are told by radicals and power brokers.

The time has come to take off the gloves in Iraq and use whatever means necessary to get the job done and bring our troops home. That is going to entail some pretty drastic measures and it is not going to be pretty.

It’s time to close the Syrian and Iranian borders, encircle the trouble spots and root out the bad guys, it’s time to realize that Iraq is not the only enemy in the Middle East.

The people know that the only way they can win is to discourage the will of the American people. I’m sure they love to hear about anti-war protests and sniping between the political parties.

It’s also time for the American people to take off the gloves.
Regardless of what we think of the war, regardless of whether you believe in weapons of mass destruction, regardless of what you think of President Bush, we need to come together and get this war over with and then settle our differences. We can fuss and argue as much as we want to after we bring our troops home.

But in the meantime let’s all put our differences aside and just be Americans.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels