Life and Death in America

 

 

"We kill each other by the thousands. Why? What is to be gained?"

Our current casualty list for the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars currently numbers about 5,200 brave American fighting troops. A high and tragic number for sure. However, during the same time period, the number of murders in one city alone - Chicago, are about the same. Think about that for a moment - one American city has the same casualty numbers as two countries in war zones.

And as much time and energy as we are using to focus on the unfortunate event which happened in Ferguson, the number of casualties in 2013 for the top ten cities (for murders) in this country numbered around 2,500. Chicago of course, came in first again amongst all the cities listed.

Yesterday an innocent American citizen, a journalist, was beheaded by the terror group ISIS. What was his crime? Reporting on the plight of the Iraqi people. He was not a soldier - he was just an innocent civilian. It will be interesting to see how much press and attention this case gets as compared to what is happening in Ferguson.

I continue to be amazed at two things in our country. The first being the extraordinary number of young people, mostly male and of color, that die violently every year. The second is the acceptance we seem to show for these tragic losses. No Jessie, no Al, no Eric, no POTUS, no marching - no nothing. The numbers keep adding up and that is all they are to us - they are just numbers. Then every once in a while a situation comes up like Travon Martin or this young man in Ferguson, and all hell breaks loose.

Well here are the facts. We need to pull it together as a nation and we need to do it soon. WE NEED TO STOP KILLING EACH OTHER! This group, the one that beheaded an American, needs to be taken very, very seriously. They will kill us, and they will do it without hesitation, remorse or mercy. They a have large number of members (and growing), a ton of stolen money (more oil money to come), and sophisticated stolen weaponry (ours). They have every ingredient needed to take their war global. In other words, they can bring it over here. They hate us, they want to kills us, and they want to kill our families. We know how they kill people - we have seen it live and in color on the internet. Now they have killed an American in the most barbaric way.

We need to stop our focus on Ferguson immediately. We need to secure our southern border immediately. We need to have TSA do more profiling immediately (sorry, the Israelis do it and it has worked for them). We need to carpet bomb ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria. Shock and awe, 24 X 7 bombing. We need to do it until nothing left is left moving on the ground. After the bombing, we need to send in our special forces to ensure the job is finished. As far as I am concerned, when this group revealed themselves to be remorseless and brutal, they signed their own death warrant.

The only story we should be focusing on right now is ISIS. Period. Congress needs to called back to Washington, POTUS needs to return to the White House, and we need to take action NOW. To do nothing while this clear and present danger continues to grow and metastasize in the Middle East borders on treason. We need to stop killing ourselves and focus on this very serious threat which could come here to kill us all.