There is a sad truth that escapes the minds of most people in this world. Perhaps the most naïve of this lot is the average American. In America, where liberty is taken for granted and even often negatively taken advantage of, the world is a beautiful place. A place filled with happiness and justice. Life is grand in Disney Land. They cannot possibly imagine a life that is born into slavery or oppression or a life that exists or is destroyed on the whim of whoever wields the most military power. They see specific and selected occurrences on television, thanks to the media, but they dismiss such things as a tragic event that someone should do something about. Of course, this sentiment only lasts as long as it takes for the next television show to capture their attention. The sad truth is that the world needs killers.
Malevolence runs rampant in every corner of the globe. The acts of evil men are brutal, callous, and merciless. These acts are indiscriminant. Women, children, and old men are not factors to these agents of evil. There is no line drawn between military combatant and civilian. A target is distinguished only by it’s manner in which it exists. The determinate consideration in choosing who lives and who dies is based on religion, ethnicity, political opposition, and sect. These men of savagery extinguish lives as easily as they breathe. Through genocides and ethnic cleansings, they leave their mark that ruin generations to come and generations that will no longer exist. They force their will on the weak and they starve the undesirable.
Who stands in front of these kinds of people? The European Union? The United Nations? The global left, who insist that they stand for human rights? The war protester? No. The answer is America’s government. Oh sure, we do not act as often as we should and when we should, but we do act. Our foreign policy keeps the peace in many areas in order to save lives, but the problem with diplomatically keeping the peace is that not everyone is happy with peace. People get hurt and people still die. There is no way to correctly ascertain the total of conflicts that have been denied by our dealings with other nations and there is no way to count the “would-be” victims of war among the living.
Sometimes, war is the decision made. Sometimes, war is the answer that will solve many problems in one instance. War is a last resort that the American government spends billions and billions of dollars preparing for. This preparation is two fold. We prepare to kill efficiently and we prepare to save lives. Precision bombing is a technologically advanced form of the art of the sniper. In the days of old, a military target amongst a populated neighborhood, meant a carpet-bombing of the entire neighborhood. The enemy would be destroyed….but so would an untold number of civilians. In today’s bombing campaigns, missiles and bombs are laser guided by men on the ground that place themselves in danger by being behind enemy lines. They are there to save unnecessary deaths. Of course, this skill isn’t exact because military targets are in close proximity to other structures and sometimes-even share a structure with civilians, but it is proof of our noble attempts to exclude the non-combatant.
War is an inconvenient disturbance in our lives that creeps up every so often. To defeat the brutality, callousness, and the merciless of the world, an opponent of equal and greater force is necessary. This force is the U.S. military. A force that can exact the power and talent needed to avenge the weak and provide the means to a better life. As a superpower , America has an obligation and a responsibility to the less fortunate. This obligation and responsibility falls to the shoulders of men with an instinct to kill. These trained killers have a higher moral fiber than their opponents. Killers of strength that can resent the fact that civilians will accidentally die, but will still carry out their duty for the greater good. Killers that set aside their joys of surviving a fire fight in order to tend to the enemy and civilian wounded. These men, simultaneously, have the instincts to kill and save. I am not aware of any other military that will rush towards and shoot at the enemy while throwing civilians to the ground with their non shooting hand. America’s “best” understand that they can take a life while saving another and they have the conviction to do it. Their resolve is unwavering. The mission must be accomplished at all costs. They leave behind their families and fight for an effort greater than themselves. They do what you cannot.
Enter the self-appointed voice of conscious left, as they deal in mundane day-to-day details in order to derail the efforts of braver men. Enter the war profiteers as they publicly weep for America’s “victims” and make movies to declare their grief. Enter the
war protester who knows nothing of the situation or what is really the issues at hand as he chants “war is bad” or “no war for oil” and other such bumber stickeresque acclamations. Enter the voices of humanity, who remain largely silent, until they can show the errors of American action. American liberals join with America’s enemies in blaming the worlds problems on American foreign policy, because it allows them their flavor of choice – impotence. These people parade pictures of the dead, civilians and dead Marines and soldiers, to the tune of “Support the troops, not the war” or “America is the real terrorist.” The college campuses are full of the ignorant uniting for the keggers and the bandwagon chance to protest what they do not and cannot understand. (The war protesters of Vietnam were the very voters decades later that placed us in Iraq.) These kinds of people look down from their perches and are disgusted by the inhumane acts of other men. (Of course, by inhumane they mean American troops, not what we deploy to stop.) Once we were all baby killers, by ‘kids’ who merely wished to avoid the draft. Now we are all victims of American imperialism (although they showed their true colors during the Abu Ghraib affair and the Guantanamo Bay exaggerations.) America loves to send their “son’s and father’s” off to die, but soon lose interest and change their minds. We’ve seen this twice before in Somalia and Vietnam as they toy with American lives for their amusement. The hypocrisy of when they decide to care about humanity is sickening. They publicly cry about how our action is grotesque while conveniently dismissing any mention of the tyranny that existed before, but secretly they want us there. It means they don’t have to be and that they can continue to pretend that they are humanities crusaders. To them, it exonerates them from ever serving their country or from ever really fighting for humanity.
