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2009
Soap Box Archives World Police I took a trip several years ago to Kosovo to entertain the troops who were stationed there as a multinational peacekeeping force. In a conversation with the base commander he talked about a riot between two factions of the local population that turned ugly enough to call out troops to squelch it. Unfortunately, about the only troops to answer the call were the Americans and the Poles. He said the French wouldn't even come out of their compound. This is a microcosm of what is happening on the international scene in the present day. Our true allies are few and far between. England, Australia and Canada have been faithful friends, but most of the rest of the world won't even support a UN resolution much less go to war. Once proud and powerful, NATO has basically become an empty shell with many of its members unwilling and, in some cases, unable to fulfill their pledge to consider an attack on a member nation an attack on itself. So many of the European nation's forces have not seen combat action in decades. Even the ones who are sent to Iraq or Afghanistan are there for ancillary duties and not to carry guns, and as a result have little or no battle skills. They are soft and unfit to actually get involved in a real shooting war. Spain was so intimidated by the terrorist train attack a few years ago that they are afraid to breath through their noses and have opened themselves up to be dominated by whatever evil forces that choose to terrify them. France's new president seems to be the most pro-American leader that country has had in a long time, but that does not translate into troops on the ground to help with our two wars. So what that means is that most of the rest of the free world wants America to be the global police, to tackle al Qaeda and all the rest of the world terrorists by ourselves, our true allies notwithstanding. Terrorism is not just America's problem, but most of the rest of the world wants to treat it as if it was. They hide behind their pacifism and political correctness while American troops fight their enemies for them. Mark my words; France's huge and growing Muslim population will explode on to the streets of Paris one of these days. In fact they did it a few years ago, but not in the overwhelming way it will in the days to come. The same thing can be said of England and most of the rest of the European countries. Muslims don't believe in abortion or homosexuality and where they go their numbers increase exponentially compared to their supposedly "enlightened" host nations who murder millions of babies every year These countries want to pacify the enemy in hopes that they will just go away. Well that's just not going to happen and I'm afraid that by the time most of the world wakes up it will be too late. The radical Islamic cause has not lost one ounce of it's deadly energy and no matter what pansy, milksop name the Obama administration chooses to call it, they are a deadly force, totally dedicated to the destruction of everything the Western world holds dear. It's time the rest of the world stopped depending on America to do their fighting for them. It's time we got a little nationalistic ourselves and started looking out for American interests. Kosovo is a European problem; they should deal with it. Serbia was a European problem; they should have dealt with it. North Korea is not an exclusive American problem. They threaten much of the world more than they threaten us, and now they're a hair's-breadth away from being able to attach a nuclear warhead to the missile system they tested this weekend, while our president speaks in Prague about eliminating nuclear weapons. To paraphrase an old saying, if nuclear weapons are outlawed, only outlaw regimes run by crazy dictators who hate America will have nuclear weapons. And terrorism is definitely not just America's problem, that's so obvious that I won't even go into it. America is not the world's policeman and the sooner we and the rest of the world understand that, the better off we'll be. What do you think? Pray for our troops God Bless America Charlie Daniels
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