BEAT ME SOME OF THOSE
Plough shares ...pruning hooks!
It's about time to get busy beating them all back into the shape of swords. Indications are that conditions are such as to require the defense of our holdings.
I think we, for the most part, realize that the intent and value of such actions at this moment, have little, or nothing to do with what is ”right” or “wrong” concerning the reasons why we find ourselves at this particular moment. Much of history works backwards and it is the followers and leaders of a decade after an era who, can look back and determine what the “cause” of it all might have been which made things happen as they did. It is unlikely that we see it all sufficiently clear even as it begins to take place to make judgments as to which way it should go.
Let's not just stand here doing nothing but quibble over who's “fault” it might be that we are in the situation which faces us.
It is not a simple problem. It is more complex than we, as yet, admit, even to ourselves. We are currently at war. We may or may not choose to call it that, but we are aligned in opposition to existing forces which are fearfully real and numerous at various locations around the world. And, our friends are few ...let's face that harsh truth and do the best we can to make up for such a loss, possibly to regain some of that trust and consideration we once seem to have earned and merited.
After many years of downgrading our military might, we have, at last, started to regain some stability. It has been politically opposed all the way. It cannot be said that it has, in any way, been done without purpose, intent and the realization, however small, that we will again be called upon to defend the basic principles of democracy where it exists around the world.
It is not of our own choosing, but our defense it had better be and in sufficient strength to better the very best of those who call themselves our enemies. They have set the terms often primitive and harsh; they have dropped the gauntlet, blood-stained and ill-fitted, and it is time to be make ready to man the barricades.
Like it or not, and most of us do not seek it or even condone it, the time has come for our nation to step forward in force to defend what we, and some others, believe has proved itself the better way for Mankind.
The price will be high. We know that, and it should be a all the more reason for us to get busy re-tooling our normal way of living to wartime realities. We must do it now... or, there may be no “later on”
Now!
What a curious way with which to begin our New Year of 2003!
Is there, I wonder, any possible way we can raise the globe of light in Times Square, New York, this year for all the world to see? The world, and we at home, need to see the Light of Truth being raised and held high rather than being allowed to fall!
A.L.M. December 28, 2002 [c548wds]
