Posted by
Jay Noble on Monday, December 25, 2006 8:26:07 PM
What if the liberals long march through American institutions has successfully gutted the soul of America?
The question is relevant because seldom in American history has the nation faced more grave present and potential threats than today. The Islamic fascists have demonstrated the willingness to kill on a massive scale, without regard to noncombatant status. The president of Iran gives every indication of he will use a nuclear weapon as soon as that country develops one. And these are but two of the external threats. At home the Congress will soon be in control of the Democrats, whose every instinct is to retreat from the world’s challenges and delegate American security to the United Nations. Illegal immigration continues unabated and the border between the United States and Mexico is wide open to infiltration by terrorists.
How will Americans react? In times past our forefathers found it within themselves to meet and overcome threats to the nation. But today Americans are different from their ancestors. The present generation has been inculcated in the gospel of multiculturalism, which interprets American history as one long period of racist, imperialistic dark age, and believes the world would be a better place if the United States no longer was the world’s leading power. Americans today have been subjected to a relentless propaganda campaign blaming them for most of the world’s ills and teaching them that they should harbor a sense of guilt about their country’s history and actions. For a society to sustain itself in a conflict which may take many years, its people must be convinced their cause is just.
Every generation has a rendezvous with destiny. Our nation cannot escape the future but only can shape it with the decisions made today. Continuing to teach school children the revisionist history that denigrates America and Americans is both bad history and societal suicide. Refusing to label conduct as sedition when plainly that is what it is, is cowardice. And we are long overdue for the president and leaders in and out of government to inform the American people that we can not continue to live at home as if no war exists abroad. Americans must be challenged to sacrifice.
As for the portends of how we will handle the challenges destiny has placed before us, signals are mixed. Unquestionably, millions of Americans are prepared and eagar to fight the battles, out of love of country, pride in its history, and faith in its people and institutions. Unfortunately, there are other millions of Americans who seem to be indifferent to their nation’s fate or actively hostile to its interests.
Only time will tell which group determines the direction the United States takes. Perhaps we have already crossed an awful tipping point. Perhaps too many of our fellow Americans desire their country’s defeat and disgrace. Perhaps too many Americans simply don’t care. Perhaps our national vitality has been expended and all that sustains us is some sort of historical/cultural momentum, a momentum which must inevitably diminish until, one day, it stops and the American moment in history ends.
Then again, we may yet experience a "new birth of freedom." The love of country may be too stubborn a thing to be washed from the soul of Americans by the leftovers from the 60’s and their progeny. The American moment in history may have more chapters.
As we turn the page into the year of our Lord 2007, we can hope for a revival of spirit, a renewal of pride in the nation, and an increasing determination that no matter what comes, we shall overcome.