According to a recent article from the Associated Press the suicide rate of our military personnel is at the highest rate (2008) since such records began to be tracked in 1980. The so called main-stream media picked up on this story and set out under the pretext of compassion for our service men and women but really used it to once again portray to our nations myopias that the often touted Hollywood view of our combat veterans being psychotic rapists and cold blooded killers appears to have been the real agenda. The MSM does this of course even as they continue to report that our veterans have a slightly higher unemployment rate than the “average” American.

   While I certainly agree that our veterans don’t receive the quality of care that they are most deserving of, I have only two words for this liberal view of our brave men and women who, as a whole, have done their best to serve our nation with honor and courage. After telling the reader in the first third of the article that the suicide rate of 20.2 per 100,000 military service members was the highest ever recorded and was higher than the national non-veteran population, the reader is required to read through to the bottom half of the article to see that the “Army says the civilian rate is more like 19.5 per 100,000 when adjusted.”

   In other words it took our nations fighting two foreign wars simultaneously over a period of more years than WWII lasted for our young men and women to reach the same suicide rate as the “general population” of non-veterans. And let’s not forget that we haven’t seen our military forced to serve in a combat zone for such prolonged periods since WWII. Nor should we forget that during WWII our military personnel generally knew who the enemy was from the uniforms each wore. It has not been since the Vietnam War that our troops have had to deal with an enemy that does not wear a uniform, and an enemy that intentionally uses women and children as human shields. A enemy whose battle cry appears to be something along the lines of, “We love death more than you love life.”

   Think about that for just a moment. You are fighting for your country and understand that a possible consequence of serving your nation in a combat zone can cost you your limbs, brain damage, and even your death; but your adversary appears to have no qualms about causing the death of innocents, and who is willing and even eager to die in their “holy war” as this ensures them a special place in heaven with 72 doe eyed virgins that must submit to their every sexual fantasy. As an American warrior you understand the sacrifices that may be borne by you, as well as the legal perils of fighting for a country that believes in the sanctity of life, even as your enemy is held to no such obligations.

   If our troops take these enemy terrorists, for that is the definition of their real status let us make no mistake about that point, they will treat their wounds, feed them, clothe them, and the worst of these terrorists would be sent to Guantanamo Bay where they get video games, some of the best medical treatment in the world, the right to practice their barbaric religion, a very well stocked library, and their guards having to kow-tow to them. Despite what the liberal MSM, ACLU, Amnesty International, and other such groups would have us believe, compare our treatment of these savage butchers of all peoples with the treatment that our soldiers receive at the hands of our terrorist foes. Rape and true torture is only a couple of the dehumanizing and demeaning methods almost always used on the prisoners of our foes. Not water boarding some monster that has time sensitive information that may save many innocents lives in the very near future.

      I bet most Americans don’t know, because our MSM never told them, that the vast majority of our servicemen and women captured during the first Iraqi war were raped. That’s right, rape of the women was pretty much a given but they raped the men as well. Can you imagine a more despicable psychological assault than being gang raped, raped with whatever filthy implements they found close to hand, along with the physical pain and torture that almost always accompanies such violent acts; and that was from the uniformed military of Saddam Hussein’s military? Why do these terrorist Taliban, al Qaeda, L.E.T., Abu Sayyaf, Hamas, Hezbollah, and so many other seemingly disparate groups from almost every country in the world today have in common? Islam.

   Have we already forgotten Iran’s takeover of the American embassy in 1979 and the subsequent hostage ordeal of American citizens for 444 days? The bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon and the Khobar Tower in Saudi Arabia? The attempted slaughter of our forces in Somalia, and the literally hundreds of other such Islamic driven terrorist incidents. Instead of showing our self-avowed enemies some back bone we tucked our tails and ran, or attempted to “negotiate” with our enemies. What has that brought us so far? 9/11 that’s what. More death, more demands, and more appeasement than ever before! Ask the typical Israeli citizen what their appeasement has earned them so far.   

  Only after 9/11 did we get serious about this worldwide threat and fight back. In the process Iraq now has at least the chance of a freely elected government, and Afghanistan, though lagging behind Iraq, may still have a glimmer of hope. I personally don’t believe that either will be successful because in both cases a befuddled American policy allowed these countries constitutions to declare that no law may supersede Islamic law. On the other hand, al Qaeda was dealt a series of body blows that emasculated and denied this vile organization the follow on attacks it had hoped for. The only reason al Qaeda’s command and control survives to this day is the duplicity of other Muslim nations. Saudi Arabia’s massive financial support, Pakistan’s allowance of its country as a sanctuary area, even as they continue to accept billions of American dollars to “support” us in this “war on terror.” And let’s not forget the appeasement, if not active assistance, of the European Union, Russia, and China.

   Why do we see a resurgence of beheadings over the past decade? Because the most revered personage of all mankind (at least to Muslims) was and continues to be the Prophet Muhammad himself, and he was really, really big on beheadings, rape, torture, and pillage. Not that you will hear such things from either our government, our academic “intelligentsia,” and certainly not from our MSM. Yet even our homicidal enemies realized that the beheading and internet posting of those beheadings was actually hurting their cause. Until President Obama’s election that is.

   How did our nation respond after 9/11? On 9/12 President Bush went on the offensive against those terrorists responsible, but in almost the same breath, insisted on defending the very same religion that provoked 9/11 by telling all the listening world that Islam was indeed a “religion of peace,” despite all evidence to the contrary. Do I believe that all Muslims are my mortal enemy? Of course not, but I believe that the vile “religion” called Islam is the enemy of all freedom loving peoples anywhere. Islam is a 7^th century Arab-political-supremacist ideology of world domination wrapped within a 7^th century religion as a façade.  

   While our MSM continues praising President Obama’s “bipartisan” efforts at “reaching across the aisle” to his Republican foes, is it any coincidence that since he took over as President, beheadings have seen a sharp increase, Pakistan has released the infamous Dr. Khan, other Muslim countries are releasing known and suspected terrorists by the dozens,  Pakistan has caved to the Taliban’s fundamentalist demands for Sharia Law, and our own FBI is now planning on transferring agents from the counter-terrorism mission to the more mundane fraud investigations such as those perpetrated by the now infamous Madoff. Could it just possibly have anything to do with Obama’s blatant appeasement of Muslims worldwide?

   I personally have no doubt and I am deeply concerned about what our near future holds in store for our nation from the rapid expansion of this worldwide Islamic terrorism that comprises both overt and covert, as well as economic, arms to achieve their global domination and the forced return to the 7^th century Arabic lifestyle. 9/11 should have been sufficient to awaken the peoples of our great nation, if not the world, as to the greatest peril faced by all free peoples in many decades, but alas, we appear determined to spill more blood and tears to relearn what we should have already known. What a shame.

   As to the image our liberal brethren would have us believe about the many wonderful men and women who volunteer to go in harms way, to both protect and serve our great nation, don’t believe it for a moment. I currently serve in a management position that authorizes me to hire personnel for my department and I have no problem giving our recent combat veterans a job. In fact I have hired a number of these men and women and have generally found them to be excellent people and employees. I would like to think that others in similar positions are doing the same. It seems the very least we citizens who have benefitted from these heroes sacrifices should do. The very least.