Posted by
Reaganite1970 on Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:48:00 PM
My Fourth of July weekend will be spent with loved ones, enjoying fireworks, and celebrating our freedom. I will not forget, however, that this freedom came a a very high cost. Our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are working to preserve that freedom and pass that gift on to the people in both countries. They are even protecting the liberties of people who disagree with the reasons why they are there. That is why I think the United States is both admired and feared around the world. We are admired by the citizens of oppressed nations and feared by the oppressive governments that rule them.
For those that think that we have no business interfering in the business of harmless dictators, let me remind everyone of the words of the late Ronald Reagan in 1964.
"If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters." Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Let's set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace--and you can have it in the next second--surrender.
Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face--that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender.
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery."
I hope this nation never forgets that wisdom, or the people who have served to help it endure. God bless America.