My mother has had just about enough of Bush taking it on the chin because of the war in Iraq. She asks me what these people who criticize want . . . for more people to blow up more things and hurt more people on our soil? The Twin Towers, the Pentagon . . . and the targeted White House. She remembers the attack on Pearl Harbor; she remembers the speech on December 8, that announced “A state of war exists . . .”
And this morning I found myself murmuring the lines of a 1914 Kipling poem:
FOR all we have and are,
For all our children’s fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!
If only people would wake up to the war we are really in. The movie “Fitna” seems to have raised some hackles, let’s see if there is any response other than indignant outrage and claims of prejudice. One would hope a little enlightenment would result and people would see, as your mother does, that the danger is real.