Posted by
Paul Derengowski on Friday, October 09, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Okay, let me see if I can get this
straight. Last night I go to bed and the U.S. military needs an
additional 40,000 troops in Afghanistan to fight the Islamic thugs, but
the U.S. president can't make up his mind whether he wants to believe
his general on the ground. The U.S. health care system is under assault
by extreme left-wing socialists, also led by the same U.S. president,
with a majority of the American populace sitting on the edge of their
seats waiting to have the screws put to them. And finally, as already
noted previously, youth violence is on the rise, and we have a U.S.
president that is "committed" to ensuring that all the gang bangers and
drug pushers receive a "powerful message" to make them quit it,
otherwise he's going to tell on them.
Now, this morning, I wake up and this
same U.S president, who has shown great prowess in campaigning and
speech-making, but little to nothing of positive substance to actually
do anything to be a leader, is a Nobel Peace Prize winner. What? Why?
From one news source the U.S. president wins the grand booby prize for
three reasons: "encourage his nascent initiatives to reduce nuclear
arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and replace unilateral
American action with international diplomacy and cooperation." So, what
does this really mean?
Encourage his nascent initiatives to
reduce nuclear arms really means nothing more than weaken the U.S.
resolve when socialist regimes want to indiscriminately throw their
weight around. That way we can all be one big happy world, with one big
world government, while we all exalt the big wonderful world ruler. Who
knows? maybe the Nobel Prize winner will be nominated for that too!
Ease tensions with the Muslim world
merely means to kow-tow to Muslim demands. One doesn't want to make the
militant Jihadist angry, because when he gets angry, he starts blowing
things up. And we, in our ever-growing civilized, rational, and
sensitive society of humanists and rationalists can't stoop to the
level of actually meeting anger with strength. We must bow to the
Jihadist wishes by holding a "dialogue" with him to try and understand
him, and he us, as if the past 14 centuries of Islamic history,
conquest, and tyranny haven't given anyone in their right mind a
crystal clear picture of just exactly what the Muslim goal and mindset
are all about.
Finally, "replace unilateral American
action with international diplomacy and cooperation" simply means, we
want you to forget 9-11, and quit acting on your own. Again, you're not
a sovereign nation anymore. And just because the U.S. was attacked on
its own soil that tragic day, and lost over 3,000 citizens through the
attack, doesn't mean that the U.S. should defend itself without world
permission. We realize that as an international community, we don't
have the guts to really get involved and solve anything, but that
doesn't mean the the U.S. should even try on its own either.
This whole Nobel Peace Prize awarded to
Barack Obama is a joke, is meaningless, and is typical of the
blithering nonsense that has become a part of modern-day parlance. In
fact, I would say it is indicative of the intellectual, moral, and
spiritual vacuity that has become characteristic of the human soul that
has gone seriously awry. Humanity has become so desperate to find
meaning and answers to an otherwise meaningless existence that it will
prop up any idol and then bow down to it, regardless of who it is. One
has to wonder just how much more desperate the world will become before
it starts to laud the savior Obama, not just as U.S president, nor as
the Prince of Peace, but as Almighty God himself.
Clearly we are living in dangerous
times. Not just because a few one-world elitists want to honor an empty
suit with a meaningless award; not because the Muslims wants to
dominate the world through militant Jihad; and certainly not because a
bunch of socialist ideologues want to strip the U.S. of its sovereign
identity. We're living in dangerous times because many know what is right, but don't have the mental acumen, spiritual conviction, or moral backbone to stand up and defend what is right.
Shame on us for we are getting exactly
what our ignorance, shallowness, and cowardice have bought us. We have
sown the wind, and now we're reaping the whirlwind. With Obama now seen
as the exalted man of world peace, one has to wonder if we're not on
the precipice of world war. But, then maybe that will be the
not-so-surprising surprise that I'll wake up to tomorrow morning.