THE WAR AT HOME - THE SUNDAY COMMENTARY

The war continues and it is taking its toll on the American people, Washington , politics, our free society and of course the troops. I am not referring to The War On Terror, or any aspect of it whether Iraq, Afghanistan or the continuing process of finding and flushing our the Islamic fanatics who wish to terrorize our nation and destroy all that we are.

The , " war, " I make reference to is right here at home within our very borders. It appears daily on the news. Every time the radio brings the top and bottom of the hour news break this , "war, " is front and center. It dominates the headlines of every newspaper in every city and town. Nearly every commentary on the web makes reference to it in one form or another.

This, "war, " fights for the very soul of our society and in the process it hampers the real battle against the true enemy of every American, Islamic fanatics. And the true enemy is taking advantage of this, "war, " to position, arm and recruit to better kill Americans.

The, "war, " that we are fighting, while headlines mention Iraq and other battlefields in the real war, is right here at home and the center theater of this, "war, " are the halls of Congress and the 24/7 news cycle which broadcasts the daily confrontations to the American people.

We are at war with ourselves and there never can be any winners in this type of war. It happened once before in the sixties over Vietnam and many on the left have tried to use the current fight as a comparison to that war. But truly there is no comparison between the two except that those in opposition to the current fight are turning on the troops as they did in the sixties.

Instance after instance are surfacing where the troops themselves are becoming the focus of protests, talk shows and now the actions of the Democrat controlled United Sates Congress. Sickening pictures of protesters with signs like, "F*** the troops, " and burning a soldier in effigy are showing their ugly face. Instances of spitting and name calling of honored heroes who come to protests to show their support for the mission and express their belief in the current fight are becoming more and more prevalent. Liberal talk show hosts like Rosie O'Donnell are constantly claiming that our troops are torturing innocent civilians or prisoners and arguing that rather than this being isolated incidents which always happen in war , the entire military is blamed and not just the few. 60 minutes sets up and destroys a soldier during a program advertised as an investigation into one particular incident.

Now the Congress under Democrat leadership is using the political process to rob troops of necessary funding to protect themselves and best fight the war against our real enemy Islamic fanatics. The leadership in the House in order to force passage of the current, "funding, " bill with unconstitutional provisions of time lines and manipulation of strategy which is the Constitutional Authority of the Commander in Chief and not the Congress, has used millions of dollars in pork barrel bribes added to the bill to twist members of their own party into voting for the bill instead of following their conscience. And sadly the spineless members have been bought and paid for by the bribes and the bill passed, leaving the President no alternative but to veto a funding bill for the protection of the troops!

It is time to wake up and realize what is happening. We are not at war with ourselves but instead with an enemy who will stop at nothing to kill every single American regardless of politics or philosophy or appeasement. The truth is the real enemy of America wants us dead and our country destroyed. Yet liberals and Democrat leadership would rather fight Americans that the radical Islamic enemy who does not care about even their politics except as a diversion from the war against terrorism.

Are we so removed from the terrible events of September 11 that we have forgotten why we are fighting in the first place ? I am tired of hearing the liberal argument that, "we support Afghanistan and all of the troops, " while the Democrat Congress plays games with funding for , "all of the troops." The lie is evident and the troops are the victims of this war at home. The lame arguments for political gain and the destruction of the President because of a continual brewing anger over the 2000 election has turned Iraq into a battle of politics instead of a fight for freedom and against an enemy that has stated that Iraq is the center of the, "Holy Jihad, " against the infidel. The very person that the left cries fowl because he is still at large stated this, Usama Bin Laden.

The war we fight is not just against Al Qaeda because they attacked us but against fanatical Islam who seeks our destruction. Al Qaeda's attack on September 11 was the catalyst to wage war against this fanatical enemy whose real purpose was not understood until the Towers fell. This enemy includes Al Qaeda, the current Iranian regime and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who just this past week committed an out right act of war by taking a British vessel in open waters and all 15 crew members hostage. Other groups such as Hamas, and Hezbollah are just the more well know members of radical Islam whose numbers are more than the many who make the news and who have as their goal and sole purpose our death and destruction.

While we wage this war at home against our troops, and among politicians who fight for the vote of the American people our real enemy is watching, arming, recruiting and planning. While we fight among ourselves they wait in sleeper cells, some in our own country, cities and towns, for the next 9/11 or worse. They are patient and cunning and the pure essence of evil. It may not be tomorrow or next week or even next year but this enemy will strike and will strike hard against us again. Then we will wonder how it happened and attempt to place blame but the real reason will escape us because in our debates and infighting here at home we have forgotten what they did to us and wish to do to us again. We are being lulled to sleep to the threat of a very dangerous, systematic and ruthless enemy. An enemy that we have the power and the means to defeat and utterly destroy but sadly lack the will and resolve to fight until final victory.

But we are to busy fighting among ourselves to finish what they started. To busy playing politics to fund the troops. To busy arguing about federal attorneys and Karl Rove and Global Warming. They are not too busy to wait and watch and plan and one day sooner then later while we sleep in the midst of our politics they will kill again and again and again, until we finally wake up and stand together and destroy the real enemy of all Americans. Let us hope that it will not be to late!

Ken Taylor