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2009
Soap Box Archives By Any Other Name We've all heard the line so elegantly written by William Shakespeare, "A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet" which in cowboy logic vernacular would go something like, "You can call a pile of cow manure a box of chocolates but, don't try eating of them." In the school of political correctness seems you can change the basic makeup of a thing or a situation by using different terminology to describe them, and in my humble opinion, that is tantamount to the aforementioned pile of cow manure. There is a move afoot now to stop calling terrorists, Islamic terrorists or Islamic fanatics. Well, somebody please tell me what we are supposed to call these people? Should we call them "the nice guys in the Middle East who want to kill us all," "the freedom fighters who murdered over three thousand America citizens one day in September," or maybe "the overzealous folks who cut people's heads off?" I saw a guy named Deepak Chopra on TV a while back speaking in the wake of the slaughter in Mumbai, India telling the world that we should stop using the phrase, "The War On Terror." Well folks, that attitude is totally unacceptable to me. I know that all the Muslims in the world are not violent, murderous fanatics who want to kill as many innocent people as they can and be transported to some supposed paradise to while away the eons with 70 or so virgins. But I will tell you this, while all Muslims are not terrorists, almost all of the terrorists operating in the world are Muslims and no amount of politically correct semantics is going to change that fact. The dictionary says that terror is the use of fear to intimidate people and there it is pure and simple. The use of terror so intimidated the people of Spain that it affected their national elections. The use of terror has changed the world forever. Why do we go through layers and layers of airport security, why do we have to take our shoes off, and why can't you even carry a bottle of spring water through airport check points. Why can't you even get into a high-rise office building in New York anymore without going through a metal detector? Is there anybody out there who is actually fool enough to think that the war on terror doesn't exist, are people going to feel safer if we stop calling it the war on terror and stop calling the people who carry it out terrorists? Let's just be honest folks, is the use of simple semantics going to change anything other than to show a bunch of murdering hoodlums just what a bunch of lily-livered, milksop, whiney pantywaist pushovers some Americans have become who will just sit back and say, "Let's just be nice to the suicide bombers and the rest of the murdering scum and they'll surely be nice to us and stop terrorizing us." Let's close Guantanamo Bay, pull all the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and show them that we can be civilized and surely they'll leave us alone. After all it's our fault anyway, we are the evil U.S. of A. Why, even Ward Churchill said that, and isn't he a college professor? He must know better than the rest of us, or so the far left would have us believe. If we'll just stop waterboarding them, they'll stop decapitating us. It's just a matter of showing them some love. Dream on. What do you think? Pray for our troops, and for our country. God Bless America. Charlie Daniels
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