The American journalist and war reporter for GlobalPost James Foley was beheaded this week by the cowardice of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) in the Middle East. Instead of being an epic calamity of proportions of moral superiority it is carpeted on relatively subdued action. In fact there is much more attention given to the local issue in Ferguson, Missouri than there is in atrocities committed against Americans abroad. How is it that we've become numb and indifferent to such graphic murders that in President Ronald Reagan's time would've caused a decisive and quick end to such a terrorist organization? What is there to learn from this?
Since 9/11 Americans have been inundated with images of beheadings and Hitler-like barbaric acts against human beings that defy belief and the very nature of our species. No doubt it is also a part of human nature to be lessened in outrage with consistent examples of atrocious behavior from extremists before our eyes. Perhaps Americans need to reacquaint themselves with that part of the innate American spirit that would never allow such things to happen to not only Americans themselves but also the truly oppressed abroad.
We are Americans and we are better than what we've become.
We human beings are very slow to learn. One would think that especially after the Jewish Holocaust in the 20th century we would've learned how to prevent or at least not tolerate such actions again. Now we have Syrian video of people purposely being enslaved and starved in camps. We now have ISIS in Iraq exterminating and exiling Iraqi Christians to the mountains. With the induction of the Internet, social media and portable communication devices we are now seeing in real time the ruthless nature of man going on around the world.
Do we need another George Washington to morally and militarily lead us back to humility and the purity of our American endowed power and authority - and responsibility?
Though domestic events such as the recent Michael Brown in Ferguson are important, it is ever crucial for any sitting President to discern what his level of mantle should address and not address in domestic issues. His mantle should be last in the line of recognition and spoken disdain. Unless there is a natural or economic calamity within our borders that affects the whole of this country, the President should resign himself from public statements unless all other channels such as state and local authorities have broken down. This is key in maintaining order in the United States of America. This is key in tempering the passions of the people who do not have all the facts in the matter. The focus of the President of the United States should foremost be on the sovereign protection and prosperity of the United States and the guarding of the Constitution of the United States.
Briefly getting back to foreign policy, diplomacy can work and can be good in dispelling further killings of our people abroad. Yet, is there not a point when action must precede diplomacy? As we've heard in recent years of that imaginary "red line" in the sand being crossed, is not public beheadings and happily admitted murders qualify as such lines? In response we wait for the rest of the world to act. They won't - at least not in large part as has been historically proven. It is our duty to avalanche the murderous from their oppression of the innocent. Not in pockets of action, but in a decisive move the world cannot deny. A nation must take a leadership role in instances that are truly black and white - good and evil.
Administration puppets boost votes and approval ratings by turning attention to domestic issues. They spend millions sending legions of federal agents to investigate into a local case. This is not to suggest the sustaining of suppressing an important issue, but rather enhancing the justice of it. Preying on the passions of the people corrupt the nature of any investigation. Even if an investigation and/or jury finds in defense of Officer Darren Wilson, in the local and broader public eye he will be marked and convicted simply because the highest of authority clear down to the lowest denominator of activists such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have prematurely stuck their nose where is shouldn't be. This isn't order and serving the greater good of the United States. This is being paid to prey on the passions of the people whether monetarily, politically or in proxy of someone else and their agenda.
Obviously this post jumped between foreign policy and domestic issues primarily Ferguson, Missouri. The purpose and intent of this post was to bring awareness to a quiet yet larger problem of proper leadership. A unique leadership that the United States needs in these perilous times is in likeness of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and even Ronald Reagan. We are in desperate need of a leader who is willing to stand up and seal the border to Mexico allowing only proper channels for freedom-minded and happiness-minded immigrants. That should be among the primary duties of the President, especially since the commencing of vocal threats from ISIS to create havoc on U.S. soil and their involvement with the drug cartels in Mexico.
We have a moral, economic and military responsibility to the world. It starts by securing the home front first. When will we receive an exceptional leader that will have the likeness of some of the above-mentioned former Presidents manifested in their speech? When will we receive a man who will awaken the pure spirit of what an American is in each of us?
When will we be worthy to receive?
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