Memorial Day 2013

Well, here it is, the Unofficial start of Summer - with snow falling in the higher elevations of the northeast, Al Gore be mystified, and cold.  Nonetheless, irrespective of the inhospitable weather (and remember its not like the frozen  (25 below F.) Chosen Reservoir in November 1950), we should all take time out from Mom, apple pie and baseball to recognize the sacrifices of those heroes who now rest in peace in our nation's cementaries from Sea to Shining Sea. 

So many young lives given freely to defend our most cherished freedoms - free speech, freedom of the press, free exercise of religion, freedom to bear arms and the freedom to assemble and petition the government fro redress of grievances.

Indeed, the Bill of Rights is a collection of immortal ideas that are worth dying for.  Still, war is the most inhuman, most repulsive, most detestable activity ever conceived by mankind.  President Obama, therefore, is to be given credit for his steadfast commitment to ending our "forever" wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while staying out of Libya and Syria.  Staying away from (or removing) American boots on the ground in these internecine conflicts is definitely credit worthy.

What is not good policy, in my judgment, is for the President to speak before the National Defense College to announce that the Global War on Terror has been ended by an American Executive Order.  Great, by the One's Proclamation of Peace in our Time, the terrorists - or to name our Enemy accurately, the radical Islamic Jihadists - have been ordered to stand down - very reassuring, unless you are a unarmed British soldier,walking peaceably down a London Street;

or,  marathon race spectators standing peaceably on a Boston Street;  

or, 13 unarmed American soldiers sitting at plastic tables at Fort Hood, Texas;

or, an American Ambassador and three fellow heroes working for us peaceably in Benghazi;

It is clear on this Memorial Day weekend that the War being waging against Western Civilization by the Radical Islamists will not end by the signing of a Peace Treaty on the deck of the Missouri.  It is equally clear that these Jihadists will not end their mass killings because President Obama gave a speech at a venue that our national security apparatus could not even secure against one intemperate woman.  When one Code Pink lady can confront, and for a period of time silence, the most powerful official in the world, my firm conviction is that it a mite premature to raise the "Mission Accomplished" banner just yet.