By John Burtis
Monday, august 28, 2006
There is an interesting article, "When Love Conquers all" from aBC News which I found courtesy of Lucianne.com and features the love story between two people, Carrie Bergeron and Sujeet Desai, who now share a future together despite the dual rigors of Down syndrome.
What struck me about this couple were the numerous hurdles they had to overcome on the way to the altar and their indomitable characters as well as those evinced by their families.
Yet, at the same time, I realized the fragility of their relationship in view of the growing forces ranged against america. Forces which would crush the life out of fragile individuals like them. Forces, should they triumph, which would put small defenseless folks to the sword.
Too often of late we are spending an inordinate amount of time whipping ourselves for real and perceived shortcomings in the war on terror, the costs of victory, and forgetting, at the same time, the real nature of the foes we are fighting, their implacability, their ruthlessness, the nature of their victims, and the real costs of defeat.
and, of course, if we follow the left's, the progressive's, and the Democrat's path of appeasement, withdrawal, and retreat, and abandon the field to terror, to the fascists, to the nuclear armed theocratic kamikazes and unstable dictators, it is Carrie and Sujeet who lose.
Some years ago I was lucky enough to view myself as I was years ago as a cop, to see myself entering apartments on calls for help, and to see myself as others saw me, and know that in my small way, I was a good guy. I also understood that those who had reached out for my assistance received the best that could be provided, and in the end they had been offered everything there was to give. Today I sleep soundly.
and so it is with america and her troops. While not as perfect as every single progressive would like them to be, nor will every farthing be accounted for as each new Ned Lament will demand, nor will any operation be utterly be free of blunders according to the haunting tunes of Honest John Murtha and John Kerry, nor will our soldiers ever measure up to the social and athletic prowess of Hezbollah as explained in the finest fifth columns of the New York Times – still and all, the arrival of US troops, our soldiers, is a far better offering to the benighted than any other, save our closest allies.
My grandmother always reverently called american soldiers, "our boys." and though our "boys" aren't perfect, nobody is, they are far better than those arrayed against them in the arena of terror – the murderers of Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and the rest, who hide behind the innocents, who kill the unfortunate without mercy, who slaughter captives on television for sport while masked, thus demonstrating their cowardice.
and when we think of our men and women under arms, let us remember why we fight again and think of the lives and love of Carrie Bergeron and Sujeet Desai – people who would fare poorly in a fascist world dominated by barbarous militant Islam or the nuclear madness of North Korea, the murderous mayhem of communist Cuba, the growing pestilence found in the cult of personality in Venezuela, and all those places on earth where the rule of law and care for the helpless disappears at the borderline.
It is for the equal protection of these two people that we must draw a line in the sand. Perhaps not as big a line as the others we so often bark about, but one small line for these folks, nevertheless, and those like them, individuals we too often overlook, those without a large political voice, little folks the New York Times pays scant attention to.
Carrie and Sujeet deserve a world in which to live and prosper and where but in the United States of america can they expect to have it.
as a cop or a firefighter, I'll gladly take their call. But in today's world, it'll take Uncle Sam's army, navy, air force, and Marines to protect them from the forces of evil abroad in the forests of the current night. You know, the masked men who behead people without a care and throw their bodies on a dusty forlorn street.
It is against these balaclava clad men, whatever their ilk, we must fight and win.
and without the United States of america, who can expect to gain a world-wide victory over those who freely kill the most vulnerable among us?
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