WRITE OF CENTER
A presidential candidate years ago had a powerful call to action for the American people to remain vigilant and strong to keep the peace. He emphasized that only a strong nation can ensure peace and that the Republican Party’s message is clear: peace through strength.
His speeches were a response to the weakness of the incumbent Democrat and the threats to peace. He called for a strong America to counter the enemy’s doubts, while ensuring the nation’s strength is not used to provoke conflict, but the importance of strength in maintaining peace.
That political candidate said, “To insist on strength, let me impress you, is not warmongering. It is peace-mongering the only kind that has ever worked in the whole history of the world.”
Only with the strength to keep the peace can we ever hope for the time in which ideological obsession of Marxism and Communism is abandoned so we don’t keep seeing what we just saw on the streets of our US by demonstrators called “No Kings.”
Yet, there are those who fear that strength may only provoke the enemy as we’ve been hearing from the “leftists” in the U.S. Where were those leftists when the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and other Jihadist groups terrorized the U.S.? This fight, this “war” has been going on for years; not just since 9/11, but for eternity.
I thank our Lord and savior for the grit, foresight and fortitude of our President Donald Trump and his Cabinet to charge ahead with policies and procedures less involved and twisted with diplomatic red tape so that any enemy won’t wonder if we will respond.
Yes, Republicans support the president in this strong, right action that we’re seeing today in Iran. No, we will not let needed actions detract us from the necessary freedoms we crave and expect in our U.S.
We must, instead, prosecute the action in Iran with the object of ending it along with the threats to peace that it poses all over the world.
Taking strong action simply to return to the status quo is not worthy of our sacrifices, our ideals, or our vision of world peace, freedom and justice.
This doesn’t mean the use of military power alone. We have vast resources of economic, political, diplomatic and psychological power which are being tapped in our Iran strategy. These are peaceful means of waging war. I’m grateful we’re using them.
As it is, we’ve seen too many previous White House administrations making crisis decisions in the middle of the night — reactionary, crisis decisions for supposedly isolated outbreaks of fire.
But why wait for the enemy to keep attacking. The “war” fomented by Iran didn’t start last month. It began, some would say, 47 years ago during the Carter administration. Moreover, for those of us who have lived and worked in the Middle East and read and understand the Koran, the war began centuries ago.
Today our society is threatened by organized and deliberate civil disobedience justified by concepts that are semantic traps, and more astoundingly organized and funded by the likes of George Soros. The only enduring method of realizing the goals of those who engage in civil disobedience is the use of our means for orderly change.
But the threat is real and continues by organized, intentional civil disobedience, undermining the stability of a society built on law. What we’re seeing isn’t spontaneous protests. The protests today are deliberate, coordinated efforts to ruin the U.S.
Civil disobedience bypasses the legal mechanisms designed to handle change. It encourages people to treat laws as optional when they disagree with them. It risks eroding the shared commitment to rule-governed behavior that makes constitutional systems work. Once people start choosing which laws to obey, the entire legal order becomes fragile.
What has happened to us? Why is it necessary, at this moment, in this forum to repeat what should be axiomatic and accepted?
In this frame of reference let’s identify certain forces whose aim is to destroy our law-based society, e.g. Soros. Let’s all ask our national representatives — what is our law-based nation doing to pursue those threats?
Art Humphries is a Kendall County Republican
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