I used to be proud of America. My father was a chemical engineer for Esso (Exxon), and we traveled all over the world where he built new refineries, trained locals to operate them; then turned everything over to the locals and moved on to the next job.
The locals adored him because he brought good jobs to poor areas. He brought prosperity and pride and dignity to good people all over the world. Much the way our military was an extension of American values back then.
These days we export financial excess via bundled subprime mortgage securities that aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. We export obesity and cultural nihilism under the auspices of McDonald’s and all the other major fast food chains. We don’t export a strong Christian work ethic but moral depravity and homosexual values and liberal arrogance.
When the last American troops were preparing to leave Iran, there were negotiations to keep a limited presence there. Iran demanded that American troops be subject to their laws. Obama withdrew our troops instead of allowing that.
I believe Obama was offended that Iranian law bans homosexuality, and if U.S. troops couldn’t be openly gay in Iran then screw Iran. The country is now a close ally of Iraq in supporting Syria. All three are in the new Russia-China protectorate forming in the void that our hasty and ill-conceived departure left in the power structure there.
When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, the Taliban had eradicated the poppy crop. Now Afghanistan exports 98% of all heroin in the world, mostly to Europe. Our generals over there aren’t leaders. They’re drug lords.
It’s just sad that the more liberal our society becomes, the more super rights Obama gives to gays in the military, the more fuel the Arab radicals have to oppose us. Why couldn’t we maintain a presence in Iran with an all-straight force? Why aren’t we trying to eradicate the poppy crop in Afghanistan – drug use is a major sin in Islam. Have we no idea that we might win their support by doing so? 15,000 people in the Pentagon and nobody worries that gays serving openly in the military in Arab nations around the world is offensive to them?
It’s little wonder that Iran has three times the number of nations supporting them as the United States. Must we be so assertive in promoting the homosexual agenda? They have no right to make the whole world believe that all Americans support gay rights.
I just find it offensive that at least half of Americans do not believe homosexuality is right (30 state constitutions ban gay marriage), yet Obama has the power to use the military to project the image of America as a gay haven. He has no right to do that, especially when it weakens our strategic influence.
Any more, the good men and women of the military are being used as a tool to spread the liberals’ corrupt homosexual agenda to every corner of the world. Americans deserve better. Our troops deserve better.
The day our military is used more as a political tool than an extension of American military might is the day we raise the white flag. That day is here. How sad.
Happy Pearl Harbor Day.
