Epluribus Unum

I read this on Michelle Malkin’s blog the other day and it struck a chord. I post it here, so that Sergeant Jeffers’ essay can be read by more people. His voice is not alone and there are many of our young people overseas fighting a war on our behalf. We may not agree on the war, but a soldier needs the support of his countrymen if he is to survive combat as a human being. Do not let us create another Vietnam homecoming for those who have given so much for the cause of freedom.

Hope Rides Alone

People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don’t realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy’s brutality because it’s against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward’s war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation’s news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes…only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society…and they are becoming our enemy.

Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word “quagmire” around and compare this war to Vietnam. In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam. Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even for their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war.

Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet…and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed…for doing their job.

It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we’ve done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It’s all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right…

…We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause and see it to its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor…we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It’s supporting our President, our troops and our cause.

Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn’t.

Let’s stop all the political nonsense, let’s stop all the bickering, let’s stop all the bad news and let’s stand and fight!

Isn’t that what America is about anyway?

Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, KIA Iraq in September of 2007

Black Listed by History – The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy

There are few books that open the eyes of a reader to the world around them and there are fewer still that reveal previously hidden truths. M. Stanton Evans “Blacklisted By History” is such a work. That Joe McCarthy is a pariah in his homeland is undeniable. Ask any school kid and he will tell you that McCarthy was evil and will compare him to fascism and Adolf Hitler almost by rote. In fact, I once shared these opinions myself, until I began looking for the truth. However, the truth about McCarthy is difficult to find as Mr. Evans found out.

When Evans began researching his book he decided to use primary sources only and not to rely on what had already been written by others. His search for official documents turned up an interesting fact: that there was an ongoing process of removing these documents from the National Archives continuing until at least 1994. Additionally, private records have also been stolen, including the microfiche of the Wheeling newspaper that reported the infamous "I have in my hand..." speech. Evans would find the staples in place, wads of paper still bound to other documents, but the records absent during his search at the National Archives. Despite Evans' difficulty in locating these records, he nevertheless managed to locate many copies of them. The copies of the official records and the decrypted Venona recordings, declassified when the Soviet Empire collapsed and the release of former Soviet records from that era have removed the haze of a false history planted and maintained by communists and sympathizers since the fifties.

As a point of fact, almost everything that you know about Joe McCarthy is a lie. Reading this book brings many facts to light. That the government was rife with communists and agents for the Soviet Union and Red Chinese, that hundreds of front organizations recruited unsuspecting American citizens to do the will of Moscow because their leadership were all red agents, that the State Department took its cues from Moscow rather than Washington are all examples of the communist infiltration of that time. Further, Moscow sought to infiltrate all spheres of American culture including Hollywood, the broadcast industry, and newspapers, and institutions of higher learning, all necessary components to assemble an effective propaganda machine for the purpose of expounding the communist doctrine and promoting the will of Moscow to an unsuspecting public.

With such power at the command of the communists is it any wonder that Joseph McCarthy was destroyed so effectively? While McCarthy did manage to inflict some injury upon the communists, their retaliation was brutal and final. The communists, much like the modern left, never met a lie that they would hesitate to tell and their previous machinations gave them the apparatus to launch a full scale propaganda war against McCarthy. This was such an effective assault that it was not until after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and over a decade had passed before the truth emerged from the shadows. Worse, the Soviet influence is still rippling through the American culture. Its echo’s can still be heard in Hollywood, the news media, higher education, and in the Federal government. I cannot recommend Evans book strongly enough because every American deserves to know the truth about this period of American history and needs to be made aware of the influence of communism that continues to exist today.