Why We Write |
We’re all in this fight together for the next 250 years of American exceptionalism.
During the Korean War, General Matt Ridgway prepared materials for his soldiers to explain why the US was fighting North Korea and also Red China. Whereas the need to fight World War II may have been self-evident, Korea was harder to explain. And while the US government put together “Why We Fight” films already in World War II, the need during a war just five years after the end of the global carnage was even greater. Imagine being a GI discharged and just beginning to enjoy life after the war. The US was becoming a world economic powerhouse and you wanted to enjoy your family and modern products. Then you are drafted and sent to the barren and freezing land of Korea. Oftentimes—as in Vietnam—soldiers did not understand why they were so far away fighting some strange enemy. General Ridgway understood that many fighters needed to understand the risks of global communism and that the spread of the ideology could directly affect the US and the American way of life.
There is an active effort to destroy the United States from within and from without. The players?
Lefties who never cease to complain about all things American.
Outside actors who would like to take the US down a peg in order to raise their own prospects
Muslims who want to replace the Western government and way of life with Sharia
For the first category, let’s take Bruce Springsteen. His estimated fortune is $1.2 billion. He conveniently sold his catalog before the new Biden-era taxes came into effect. I still remember bootleg recordings from the 1980s where he was complaining that Ronald Reagan (whom he pronounced “Reegen”) would send his audience members to go fight some war somewhere. More recently, the old crooner had to make use of a teleprompter in order to give over some........