2006 Soap Box Archives

Crossroads Part One

In my opinion the nation that I love with all my heart is facing some mega
critical issues in the immediate future. The people who make policy for
America will be charged with making extremely tough and at times not so
popular decisions.

The day for grandstanding, poll driven politics has long past and if our
leaders don't take their collective heads out of the sand and overcome the
tunnel vision of yellow dog partisan politics America could well be weakened
past the point of surviving as we know it.

I am intentionally posting this after the election so nobody can accuse me
of political favoritism, of blaming all of America's problems on one
political party, because that is certainly not the case. In fact I want to
leave politics and personalities out of this series and talk about what, in
my opinion, are the all important, crucial problems facing our nation.

I will be writing a series of articles over the next few weeks while
addressing these issues and will address one or more of them in each of my
columns.

The War in Iraq:

Anybody who thinks that whoever is elected is going to suddenly pull the
troops out of Iraq had best think again. Even the most radical critic of the
war hopefully has enough gray matter to know that an immediate withdrawal would allow the entire Persian Gulf to be dominated by the crazies in Iran. If we pulled out cold turkey the takeover would happen very quickly. There would be nobody to keep them out.

Which would mean that Iran would control the flow of oil, decide production
and allocation and I think that any rational person can see the castrophic
results of that.

Iran's soon coming nuclear bomb:

The very thought of Iran having a deliverable nuclear warhead should terrify
every free person on the face of the earth. In fact, it is unthinkable.

But so far all we've done is put this volatile and unacceptable situation in
the inept, corrupt, impotent, bungling and American hating hands of the
United Nations which means that exactly nothing will happen, not next year,
not in the next fifty years and certainly not before the Iranians are
holding the planet hostage or very possibly firing off a missile at Israel
and we don't even want to think about the ramifications of that.

Now is the time to act. The Iranians are getting bolder with each passing
day and thumbing their noses at the western world. The lid to Pandora's Box is about to spring open. Now is the time for action. After the bombs start exploding it's way too late.

It¹s time for Washington to stop resembling a kindergarten and to start
dealing with the danger facing America and the free world.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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