The Courage To Do What Others Will Not

Been a lot of talk lately about “moral standing” and how we look to the rest of the world.  Lot of judging going on, of people who worked during the past eight years to keep you and me safe.  Some of these people, according to many who now know much more about protection of a country than anyone else, are now to be considered criminals, and have been publicly denounced and “outed” by ABC, exposing their names and where they live.  Democrats are clamoring for hearings, to bring the “truth” to light.  So much concern has been voiced for how captured radical Islamists were interrogated to acquire information that undoubtably saved American lives.

The 2nd Amendment also seems to bring out the platitudes against violence of any kind, never failing to lump together those who murder randomly, crazily, with the law-abiding man (or woman) who kills a home invader while his (or her) family hide in bedrooms.

To hear liberals talk, and to read what they write, only they understand and possess the “higher values” and “enlightened thinking” that puts them above such barbarism.  Only they know how to end war forever on this planet, only they understand that we need to “just love one another” for everything to be OK.

Quotes from Khalil Gibran abound, and are used as the guidelines for their thinking. “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions,” is commonly used to “prove” that they, in their enlightenment, are right.

I contend that these “children of the light” are just that, children.  They believe in what they want to be true, not what is true.  I think that it takes great moral fortitude and courage to grow up, and make the transition from childlike wishes to adult recognition of reality.

Every soldier, every person involved with interrogating terrorists, and every law-abiding citizen that exercises their 2nd amendment right have one thing in common.  Each one has had to think about and actively make a decision to do the hard thing, the most undesirable thing, but the necessary thing, which is to do whatever it takes to save one’s countrymen or family.  In other words, they have found the courage to accept reality and face it head-on, rather than turn away and sing “Kumbaya,” with eyes clamped shut and minds furiously wishing “make it go away, make it go away.”

This is not “unenlightened,” this is character.  It’s easy to prattle on about peace, loving one another, and envision teaching the world to sing, but this doesn’t accomplish anything.  It’s much harder to actually pull on the backpack and pick up the gun and go to face in battle the despot that is keeping the world from learning to sing.

I often wonder if the libs, that so decry the techniques used to obtain information that averted additional terror attacks and saved American lives, ever picture their own children, or mothers, or spouses, being among the people saved.

I don’t want to be misunderstood.  I practice the teachings of Jesus, and it is my normal nature to like and enjoy people, and to want to help whenever and however I can.  My core used to be “sweet and gooey”, before I gained the maturity and life experience to understand that we must have a core of true strength to stand up to the truly evil.  Sweetness and light is well and good, and I believe in living that way as far as it will take me.  Unlike libs, I support those who make the hard choices when necessary.

And, also unlike libs, I do understand that sometimes, it is necessary.

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