What Americans are saying: TownHall.com
I decided I needed a recurring blog post, so this seemed like a good idea. It’s a look at what average Americans are saying over at some good, old-fashioned conservative sites.
Today’s sample group: TownHall.com
The Column: Will the West defend itself?
In this column, Walter Williams decries Americans being too weak-willed to go as far as they need to destroy their enemies:
Think about it. Currently, the U.S. has an arsenal of 18 Ohio class submarines. Just one submarine is loaded with 24 Trident nuclear missiles. Each Trident missile has eight nuclear warheads capable of being independently targeted. That means the U.S. alone has the capacity to wipe out Iran, Syria or any other state that supports terrorist groups or engages in terrorism — without risking the life of a single soldier.
Terrorist supporters know we have this capacity, but because of worldwide public opinion, which often appears to be on their side, coupled with our weak will, we’ll never use it. Today’s Americans are vastly different from those of my generation who fought the life-and-death struggle of World War II. Any attempt to annihilate our Middle East enemies would create all sorts of handwringing about the innocent lives lost, so-called collateral damage.
Americans respond
And here are some of the comments to that article:
“We have to seriously consider our pre-emptive options. To do so we have to get the hand-wringers to shut the f**k up.”
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“I thought I outlined reasons for eliminating whole bunch of them. Maybe the sarcasm didn’t work. If all the people who find comfort in the koran were gone the greater world world would miss nothing of value…nothing … Whithout the islamos we could return to an open society which is out birthright.”
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“Abraham Lincoln knew how to win a war. He didn’t give a rats behind what anyone said, all he knew is that he needed to win. During the Civil War, Lincoln siezed control of several newspapers, suspended hbeas corpus, issued arrest warrants for Supreme Court Justices that disagreed with him, even exiled a United States Senator.
It is WAY past high time for some of our media outlets to be shut down. We can start with the hanging of “Pinch” Sulzberger and Bill Keller for High Treason by publishing classified information on the front page of the New York Times.”
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“The enemy is in sight. It doesn’t even attempt to hide. Kill or be killed. These people wish to rule over us. Our forefathers refused to be ruled a king from a distance and fought for a republic instead. I refuse to be ruled by a Caliphate, Imam, or some other self proclaimed Islamic cleric. Get this fight started. Before you know it we’ll be staring at a nuclear Iran AND North Korea. Then what? Nuclear deterrance doesn’t work if the enemy knows you won’t actually use the nuclear weapons. Lets create a surprise of our own. The rest of the world will whine and cry in public while they give a big sigh of relief in private.”
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“get rid of the seditionists, the subversives and the hate-America Americans. We have to go into war totally. War is life or death, it is to eradicate the enemy, not to make friends with him. It does not matter what the frogs think. We go to total war, level the countryside devoid of housing, shoot ununiformed ‘insurgents’ on the spot, destroy all cover from which they could return fire and occupy the oil fields. Hey! China! You want some oil? Here, we can turn the spigot as easy as the Iranians. And, how about fifty dollars a barrel? You think they won’t approve of our ‘War on Terrorism’ at $50 a barrel???”
And finally …
“You people disgust me.”
–WKW
August 25th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Yes, there are thousands of similar blogs with like comments.
It is so unfair of muslims to hate freedom and democracy like they do and not give in to compassionate conservatism as displayed in these blogs. Some people will never play fair it seems.
America is lost to humanity I fear.
August 26th, 2006 at 5:52 am
Engaging in all out nuclear war in response to terrorism is overkill. On the other end of the spectrum, using the National Guard and U.S. Reserve forces as an invasion/occupation force is a poor strategy. Every U.S. President has had to crack down on military crackpots. It appears that the crackpots are being encouraged today, with predictable results. The results speak volumes about the mess in Iraq. The Iraqi military has been defeated and now we are attempting to rebuild it to our specifications. If we leave Iraq with no military in place, it may just be safer than a Iraq with a military. The risk is that some other country will invade Iraq. Invasion is a strategy of the past. It has never worked very well, which is a lesson Germany learned during World War Two.