Future attacks could dwarf 9/11
Future attacks could dwarf 9/11
Despite the best efforts of the "coexist" bumper sticker crowd, our world remains an increasingly dangerous place for American sovereignty and freedom.
Putin flexes his military and geopolitical muscle across the Ukraine with impunity, air-raid sirens accentuate the average Israeli citizen's day with regularity, Iran silently races toward nuclear weapons capability, two American journalists suffer brutal ISIS beheadings on YouTube while our president perfects his long irons on the fairway.
As America's leadership unilaterally shrinks her military and struggles to pacify our avowed enemies with feckless rhetoric, the specter of Neville Chamberlain-style appeasement looms large. With willful ignorance, blissful complacency descending once more upon the American psyche some thirteen years after the fact, we collectively relegate graphic images of New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania to the catacombs of our wireless device archives, fashionably irrelevant and conveniently forgettable.
Truth be told, the easily predictable, decidedly inevitable future attacks upon our great nation, borne of an irrational wanton disregard for history's poignant lessons, will make the horrific realities of Sept. 11, 2001 appear as child's play by comparison.
William G. Parrot
McHenry