The Real "Two Americas"

The Two Americas is not between rich and poor, but between those who recognize the threat of radical Islam and those who do not. So says Jack Kelly today. It's a good piece that I hope you read. Anyone who saw the Democrat debate on Sunday, and then the Republican debate last night, clearly saw this.

John Edwards claims this as a "bumper sticker" war; there is not such thing as a "war on terror." Barak Obama says that we need to leave Iraq to concentrate on Al-Qaeda, even though Al-Qaeda is in Iraq. Joe Biden says we don't have to worry about Iran because they are 10 years away from launching a nuke on a rocket. The problem though, is that a nuke can be used just as easily from the back of a truck, and some analysts have Iran only a year or two away from a nuclear weapon. (On a similar note, it's almost accepted as fact that North Korea has the bomb, and that they continued to research it after their promise to stop in 1994.) Everyone on that state-- except for Joe Biden-- supports defunding the war without considering the consequences.

The Republican candidates, though, by and large accept the struggle we are in. They accept the danger that radical Islam poses to our country, and to our way of life. They understand the consequences of of our prematurely leaving Iraq without making sure that Iraq can hold up by itself.

This is not even going into other national security issues such as the Patriot Act, terrorist surveillance, and so forth.

As Jack Kelly points out, the struggle we are currently in did not start with our going into Iraq. It did not even start with 9/11. Before then, we had our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed in 1998, the USS Cole was bombed in 2000. The World Trade Center was first attacked way back in 1993. In was in 1983 when our Marine barracks in Beirut was bombed, the operation most likely backed directly by Iran. If Democrats cannot understand this, how can we trust them with our national security?

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