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Date Posted: 07:47:26 10/18/01 Thu
Author: Sparky
Subject: Bleating hearts

I heard someone read this on the radio last night and I was impressed. I found the article at newsobserver.com, I believe the author was Dennis Rogers. Hope you appreciate it as much as I did.

The very idea that many of us love our country so much that singing "God Bless America" leaves us with tears running down our cheeks has so offended cynics on university campuses that they just have to rain on our patriotic parades.
Egged on by tenured professors -- my, how brave to be so outspoken when you can't be fired for foolishness -- we have been treated to the astounding spectacle of our children and those who teach them actually debating whether we should defend ourselves in this war.

What part of a sneak attack that killed 5,000 Americans don't they understand? If a suitcase-size nuclear weapon had been used to kill every man, woman and child in, say, Hillsborough (pop. 5,446), would that have gotten through to them? One must wonder.

Has it not occurred to them that a very real war is being waged against us and that the cost of doing nothing -- or even wasting time trying to fathom the motives of crazy people who would destroy us -- could leave them stone cold dead, too? The terrorists would like nothing more than for us to turn the other cheek so they can smash us again, perhaps at Kenan Stadium or the Dean Dome next time.

We tried your pacifism, kids, and have the bodies to prove it. The bombings of the World Trade Center, Kobar Towers, the USS Cole and U.S. embassies were Osama bin Laden's handiwork, too. Now he has caused the deaths of more Americans than died at Pearl Harbor and D-Day, combined.

The great danger is not that the misguided anti-war crowd will have an effect on the war. Their ideas are so silly and their numbers so small as to render them inconsequential. For instance, the childish fantasy that "violence is never the answer" was pretty much laid to rest when Hitler blew his goofy brains out.

We have not lashed out in a blind rage, waiting 26 days before trying to bring bin Laden to justice. Nor are we making war on innocent civilians, as did our enemies. Instead, we risk American lives to deliver food, and American schoolchildren send their dollars to the White House to help little children even as we fight the scourge that brought starvation to them. That we are the good guys this time seems incomprehensible to those who always blame America first.

Free speech is vital, and I support their right to speak out. But the flip side is that when you speak, you have to take the heat. And if North Carolinians listen to the senseless babble spewing from that rabble, they may begin to wonder why we spend so much keeping such shallow people in school and so well-employed.

By falling for the sexy fad of dissent as their long-haired daddies and braless mamas did 30 years ago, today's students run the risk of becoming irrelevant. If they won't defend their country, or at least respectfully stand aside so those of more courage and compassion can do it for them, then maybe they really are just a life support system for sports teams. So let Nike pay their bills.

Rather than admiring well-informed future leaders, we are seeing bleating sheep eager to follow their pied-piper profs off of a rhetorical cliff. Well, rest easy, kiddos. There are still brave young people willing to defend you. But is it too much to ask that you at least be grateful for the sacrifices they're making to keep you safe?

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Egads! -- Sparky, 07:49:27 10/18/01 Thu
Bravo -- Su, 18:33:44 10/19/01 Fri