Soap Box

I would love to think that a day would come when maintaining the best military in the world would no longer be a vital priority, when the climate on the international scene would stabilize and Russia and China would accept the fact that we have no desire to invade them and the Middle Eastern nations would be led by sensible people who realize that the whole world will never accept Sharia Law regardless of how many Islamist terrorist plots they hatch and carry out.

It�s a nice thought and a beautiful goal that diplomats should never stop pursuing, but in reality,
a poorly armed America would last about as long as a candle in a hurricane.

To draw an apt analogy, America resembles a largemouth bass nest.

The female picks a spot, lays the eggs and when the fry - baby fish - hatch the male guards the nest. All the fry swim around in a confined area, surrounded by hungry predators just waiting for a chance to grab a tasty morsel.

They are guarded by a fierce largemouth bass, but if he swims too far off base in pursuit of a predator or a fishing lure the hungry mob rushes in and devours as many fry as they can before their protector gets back on base.

The analogy being that the minute America goes all "Pollyanna" and drops our guard, our enemies will rush in and destroy us. They're out there, and they're just waiting for us become lax enough to - by dumb priorities or stupid politics, as our last president did - and draw down the numbers, hardware and maintenance of our armed forces.

Already Russia is back up to their old tricks, flying bombers into territory they know they have no business in, claiming to have a bomb that can destroy our whole Navy in one fell swoop, flexing their muscles and rattling their swords testing the resolve of our new president.

The Obama Accords lifted sanctions on Iran giving them billions of dollars in cash, in essence arming our enemies to go to war with us, and now, as any sane person knew they would, they are proceeding on with their nuclear plans and will continue to export terror around the world.

North Korea is led by a demented child whose actions are about as predictable as weather in the Antarctic and he has his hand on every weapon and every soldier, able to activate either at his whim.

Nobody knows what China is thinking, they play their cards very close to the vest, but whatever course of action they decide on, they have the weapons and manpower to back it up.

We all know the Middle East and Southwestern Asia are powder kegs with short fuses and if it were not for the stability and preparedness of Israel would be even more so.

My point is that we are surrounded by enemies who would like nothing better than to bring America to her knees and we dang sure don't need to be helping them do it by having anything but the best equipped, best lead and most motivated military on earth.

While Democrats and Republicans go for each other�s throats on domestic problems, the nation's defense is one thing they absolutely have to get together on and allocate whatever funds it will take to recruit the best and the brightest and bring defensive hardware up to and past anything any other nation on the planet has in their arsenal.

It will be too late one of these days, past the point, behind the curve with no way of catching up.

The president and congress could have no more urgent business than insuring the security of America.

They'd best be about it.

Muy Pronto.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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