As I write this my wife is in the background watching Seventh Heaven. Yes, that sappy show where the main characters live off the public dole and dole out advice to the viewers with an exponential degree of righteousness. The least worthy cast member of this show is at least five times more likely to go to Heaven than are you, and don’t you forget it.
Tonight’s thrill packed episode was all about Darfur and the tragedy occurring there. The genocide of black Christians, committed at the hands of Muslims. (The show did mention this, I was surprised to learn). But the underlying theme of the show was a direct criticism of the U.S. for not “doing anything” to stop it. Or at least, not doing enough.
The youngest girl in the family (her name is Ruthie) is in high school and true to television fantasy, she is mature well beyond her years. She is consumed with the situation in Darfur (rather than the cute guy in the adjoining locker) and debates all throughout the one-hour show as to how best resolve it. And no one knows better than this teen-something. The most frightening aspect of this scenario is that there are young adults out there in middle America who actually derive their policy views from sources such as these…fictitious teenyboppers spouting the lines fed to them by more seasoned writers, more seasoned not acknowledging an advanced intellectual level but merely a chronological superiority.
This country has done much to combat radical Islam. For these efforts we have been roundly criticized and made to look the villain while the leftist elected officials in Congress have not only joined this chorus but have taken the lead at times.
Why are we now expected to go it alone if we must in Darfur while the UN is diddling and dallying as they make the transition to a new Secretary General? Why is it ok for the U.S. to go it alone in this instance when the left insisted that we have have a multi-national coalition to go to Iraq? (Nevermind the irritating fact that we had one, a fact to this day ignored by the left).
And what are we to actually DO in Darfur? Start blowing up bad guys? Who will ultimately decide who the “bombees” are? See the pitfalls here, dear reader? And what of the losses we take? Will the left then decide that young Americans are dying for a noble cause?
Sure, we can go in and kill everyone and then there will be no more killing, only the imprint of the havoc and carnage we had wrought. Then what? Then the liberal media would gleefully show the footage and file photos of what we had done, no doubt with universal condemnation and rage. The coverage would be extensive, to say the least.
I was inspired to write this article because of a stupid television show. How many will have the same reaction as me? Not nearly as many as one would hope for I happened upon this by proximity to the TV. Those who chose to watch by tuning in on purpose are more likely to sit, watch, and nod with that scary blank stare.
God Save America.
