What's left?

Friday – May 20, 2011

What’s left?

On Tuesday, I wrote: The Two State Solution between Israel and the Palestinians will be demanded and will be actively sought by the enemies of peace. Our only remaining ally in the Mid East, Israel, will be asked to stand down and give back the land that is in dispute and that many have died for.

The President, in essence, said the same thing yesterday in his much touted speech on the Mid East. He is saying that “we” want Israel to give back their border regions to pre 1967 boundaries. Like it or not, Israel is an ally. Israel is a recognized nation that was created for the sake of peace. Israel is the bridge and the border region of the Western way of life in the Mid East. If Israel is forced to give up the land that it won, then the western way of life is one more step towards non existence. Israel will be one step towards non existence.

If Israel is forced to surrender their land to pre 1967 boundaries, Jerusalem will cease to exist. East Jerusalem is the most holy spot on Earth, the most Christian place on earth, would be turned over to Hezbollah. In every step of this conflict, the anti American and anti Jewish State terrorists have pledged to get rid of Israel and to make the U.S. suffer. One way they will accomplish this is to take the Holy City of Jerusalem and wipe out any religious history of the Christian and Jewish faith not to mention their existence. What better place to do this than Jerusalem.

I have said many times don’t listen to what the president says, watch his actions. This week his actions have told the story. He is looking for the easy way out, because he has no courage and does not have the stomach to fight the struggle. He will fight the battle here at home to wipe out our history, our traditions and our liberty, because it’s easy. He can pass laws. Look at his actions that have accomplished this so far.

The problem with the enemy of peace in the Mid East is that the more you give, the more you are asked to give. This was the reason we fought the Muslims in the Barbary Coast Wars and this was the case when our first emissaries were sent to the Mid East as negotiators. Many Americans believe that our first exposure with the Middle East was around the time of WWI and again in WWII. If this is the notion that most Americans have then it makes sense that many would be against Israel and not know the importance of the debate over land that has been at the epicenter of the debate between Israel its enemies and our foes. Our history there is long and it is one that we have unfortunately never fully understood. John Ledyard, the first American citizen who stepped foot on Arab soil, said in 1787, “An American face does not wear well like an American Heart.”

The president now has bought into the fake statesmanship of the emissaries of peace and the fake notion that the Arab Summer is occurring for our benefit and our benefit alone. Surrender is not an option it never has been and it never will be. Israel must stand firm and our president will learn very soon that you cannot bargain with lives and the only ally in the region, when freedom itself is at stake.

When I ask, “what’s left”, I am asking what is left of the Western allies. What is left of their strength and what is left of the leverage that once made the strength of the allies so great? These are questions that are not asked anymore and these are questions that a person that has the power to lead and stand with an ally won’t ask, because he does not want to stand, he wants to bow!

Giving up land will not guarantee peace and will not set the borders for a new two state solution in an area of the world where one Arab state is the goal.

I am taking next week off to complete work that needs my attention. I am not sure if a FORUM will be written, so I would like to leave you with a few more thoughts about our lives and the importance of our way of life.

For far too long we have taken many things for granted. We have taken our liberty and freedom for granted. We have taken our soldiers and our defenders of freedom for granted. We have taken our politicians who represent us for granted. We thought they were acting in our best interests. We all expect not to stand in lines for food, because we have taken for granted what it takes to deliver us our food. We all expect to buy a car with credit and to enjoy the ride, even when we fill our tanks. We never thought that our home values would drop and that our mortgages would be more than our homes are worth. We never thought that our premier industries and companies would be in bankruptcy courts and the Unions would be its benefactors. We all took for granted that when the president of the United States took the oath of office we would not be sent down the stream with out a paddle, nor did our allies.

When I ask what’s left, I think of better days and I think that we all still can lead that extraordinary life that our fathers wanted for us. I think of that extraordinary experience that we have all lived, because we are Americans. When I ask the question, “what’s left” I think of our pristine pastures that Americans crossed to see the other side of the nation. I think of that shining city on a hill, as Ronald Reagan put it. I think about family and friends. I think of Christmas past and the Christmas’ to come in the Christian world. When I ask, “what’s left” I still believe in that gift of the extraordinary experience that each one of us is given when we are born in a country such as ours. I believe in that extraordinary fuel that we charge ourselves with. That fuel doesn’t come from the ground it comes from that extraordinary first breath that we take when born in this land.

Our President is not turning out to be extraordinary, because he has not experienced the many things that I have just written. He has not experienced them, because he does not believe in them. That is not extraordinary. That is being ordinary, just as every other person who wants to do away with liberty and freedom around the world.

A leader is not extraordinary when his actions are calculated for votes and calculated to make him look good for the short term. We should not take this ordinary action as the cure in an extraordinary time. When I ask the question, “what’s left” I only have to look at a map of the Mid East and see that the enemies of peace want it all and are now in a position to take it all.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, met with our President today. The Prime Minister has seen more and has experienced more in five minutes than our president has in his life time. That is the extraordinary difference between the two men. What I hope the Prime Minister sees is the same thing I do; an ordinary man that is not extraordinary and that has nothing to give, and everything to lose. If this is what he sees, he will also be asking, “what’s left?”

Ronald Reagan said in a speech to the American Legion, Seattle, Washington on August 23, 1983: “We can’t build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economic progress, national independence and international stability – means supporting our friends and defending our interests.”

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: These are extraordinary times, I know the Prime Minister is extraordinary because he knows what will be left if Israel is forced to give its land in order to create a two state solution. There is not enough land to separate the two because no matter how much land separates the two one party does not want the country of Israel to survive.