Are we whistling past the graveyard of history?

By Aussiegirl

Why do I get the feeling that the president and the politicians are whistling past the graveyard of historical inevitability every day? Missiles are launched by a lunatic with nukes, and the UN dithers and slithers while politicians, including our own president, make unbelievably limp sounds about working for a multi-party solution and getting the Dear Leader to understand that there is a better way forward. Iran stands on the brink of going nuclear and we entice it with a package of goodies to make it behave better. Israel is retaking territory it so recently abandoned at great cost and with great fanfare, dispossessing its own settlers and forcing them to abandon businesses and communities they had spent years developing, because those areas are now being used to launch daily rocket barrages into the very heart of Ashkalon and Israel. Now they have to reoccupy those areas for their own security -- just as we predicted.

I almost can't bring myself to write about what is really on my mind. I watch the president deliver a rambling and uninspiring press conference, filled with embarrassing moments and awkward phrases, where the leader of the free world seemed to get lost in his own meandering good intentions and incoherent concepts of freedom and democracy and standing up and standing down and free trade and free borders and immigration and the need for talks and more talks and more talks and more talks. Is this man in touch with reality? He hems and haws, he shrugs his shoulders, he grins ingratiatingly and almost cringes in an attempt to be liked by the assembled press. It's truly painful to watch -- is it just me?

Of course the press are hostile, of course they are rude -- but he doesn't know how to deal with them. He occasionally attempts to spar with them, but it all winds up looking faintly ridiculous and frankly embarrassing. But more than embarrassing, it's frightening. George Bush is looking like a beaten pup. A dog that has been whipped so much with that rolled up newspaper of world opinion and media criticism that he has come to believe that it's all his fault. He apologizes, he says his wife is responsible for chastising him and telling him that he shouldn't have said things like "Dead or alive" or "Bring it on" -- Have these apologies helped? Meanwhile China and Russia and Iran plot together and behind the scenes pull the strings and levers of world instability -- from rocket attacks in Gaza, to insurgent attacks in Iraq, to the firing of a volley of missiles by Kim Jong-Il, to the mad ravings of the lunatic Chavez in Venezuela -- if you look behind the curtains you will find the real axis of evil at play in the world today -- China, Russia and Iran, working in concert together to destroy the United States and the civilized western powers.

It's obvious that China is behind these missile launches -- to have believed that China would actively prevent them was complete foolhardiness. But the old China hands in the State Department know better -- the ones who tell us that China is our ally and poses no threat. Dr. Condoleeza Rice, the modern day Dr. Kissinger in high heel boots, is in way over her head and playing a dangerous game. No one takes her seriously. No one is taking the United States seriously as a result. She is a girl in a man's world. Let's be plain -- the cultures that she is dealing with -- the very same cultures of Islam, China and Russia -- do not in any way take women seriously. And Condi's no Margaret Thatcher. And her policies of engagement and appeasement are nothing short of laughable in a current climate where the world stands on the brink of some horrible and not-unexpected flare-up and conflagration, or, more likely, of a slow grinding down and collapse from within, as leader after western leader bends over backward more and more in order to understand and to mollify and to appease.

Let us say it -- the present policy of the United States is one of appeasement. The president has lost his nerve. He is backpedaling as fast as his little bicycle-trained legs will allow. He's making nice with Europe and the UN and saying -- "See ma -- I am a good boy after all -- see? I'm willing to talk and to do diplomacy and I'm sorry I said those nasty things about Bin Laden and talked like a cowboy, because you know, I'm not a cowboy, not really, because I was born rich and I just play at being one down there on the ranch, and really most of my best friends are oil sheiks and stuff and I understand how the world works and I'm sorry I messed things up, but golly, you know it was the Christian thing to do and I hope that Zarqawi's heart was right with God when we dispatched him and it was not a very nice thing to do but we had to do it and we will stand down when they stand up and everybody wants to live in freedom and Islam is a religion of peace and our nation is founded on immigration........."

And I'm not even stating it well, because I have so many thoughts and feelings running through my brain as I watch the news every day that most days I feel like my head will explode with the incongruity of it all.

Let's face it -- let's just say it outright -- we do not stand on the brink of war -- we ARE at war already. A war we are losing, because we do not realize it has already been engaged. That the forces are arrayed, that the first skirmishes have already taken place, that the strategic placement of alliances and strengths and weaponry and fifth columnists and infiltrators are all in place and already doing their dirty deeds. Only the leaders of the west have somehow failed to notice that we are no longer in charge of this chaotic world that is spinning daily out of control. While diplomats diddle and fiddle, while wise men stroke their beards and women posing as movers and shakers stomp their attractive high-heeled boots, the evil ones plot and plan and laugh at our foolish action. We are playing a fool's game. And the tragic part is that the people see what is happening and are powerless to do anything about it. We are left leaderless and rudderless staring into the gaping void.

Our politicians have been so blinded by expediency and the prospect of money and power and influence that they no longer see the big picture, and instead go for the quick fix, the easy money. They no longer see that when they sell out our country to a wave of foreign immigration, flooding and diluting our culture until it is no longer recognizable as the great America that we now know, that it will be too late to take it all back and fix it. They don't understand that we cannot wait and appease tyrants who have openly declared war on us, and wait for them to acquire nuclear weapons. We cannot entice them into good behavior like you would an errant child. We cannot make the lunatic sell-out socialists of the world like us and give us their stamp of approval.

If the politicians would get out of the way and let real Americans stand up and finally elect someone who truly represents them, and not the corporate global interests of expediency or the gentleman's club of the Rockefeller wing, then we might finally see a decent leader emerge who might lead this nation out of the wilderness. But we know from experience that even if there were such a person, the party leadership would never let such a person near elective office. In order to be elected, even to Congress, one has to receive the imprimatur of the party, and no one who cannot be counted on to play the game when he gets to Washington stands a chance.

The few who slip by and do try to make their mark are cut down. Look at the fates of the likes of Kurt Weldon and Tom Tancredo, two lone voices of sanity and courage in that swampfever hothouse that is Washington. And look how they are treated. Dismissed, insulted and demonized.

What is the solution? I wonder if there is one. When I see that President Bush has all but capitulated to the inevitable, and I see that we engage the UN when nations fire missiles at our territory, I am struck dumb. It may just be too late. And yet, I can't go gently into that good night, and there are other voices like mine.

Where is the leadership? Will somebody please stand up? Is there a former military man out there who sees the danger? Is there someone who is wealthy enough or powerful enough to stand on his own and get elected? Someone who has a vision that goes a bit beyond the end of his own political backside? We thought George Bush was such a leader. And for a while he was. But he's been defeated. He's reduced to reciting a jumble of memorized phrases that seem to echo in his mind and come tumbling out no matter what the question. It's not a comforting sight to see the leader of the free world reduced to mumbling, well-meaning but ultimately catastrophic incoherence.

The world watches and waits to see where the next shoe will drop.