Questions for My Conservative Friends
While American conservatives focus on very important issues, like whether Romney or Huckabee is the man to beat, what Senator Lott's resignation means and how many illegal aliens deserve tax- and penalty-free bonus citizenship prizes, here are a few questions from, say, right field that I would really like answered, if it's not too much of a bother.
Question One: In 2001, an organized Islamic terrorist group known as "Al-Qaeda" launched terrorist attacks on the United States of America, killing more than 3,000 people in four separate, horrific attacks on our people and our soil. It soon became known that Al-Qaeda was sheltered in the country of Afghanistan then under the control of a similarly radical Islamic organization called the "Taliban." Rightfully, the United States went to war with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. It is now November, 2007, and the Taliban still exists as a viable organization, with military assets in the field, still conducting acts of war against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Why have we been unable to defeat a small, ill-equipped militia in six years?
Question Two: The President of the United States has a duty, and took an oath, to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Are immigration laws being enforced?
Question Three: In 2003, the United States went to war with Iraq, after that nation routinely defied legitimate United Nations inspection requests regarding its known WMD programme, a matter made most urgent for the United States given the then-demonstrated willingness of Islamic radicals to execute WMD attacks upon the US, the Iraqi regime's open state of war with the United States and the Iraqi regime's past use of WMD attacks during its earlier war with the Islamic Republic. Given that the objectives of that war were met within two months, why are U.S. armed forces attempting to settle disputes among Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites concerning the future of Iraq?
Question Four: Earlier this year, a major Interstate System bridge collapsed in the United States. This year, how much has the Government of the United States spent on infrastructure in the nation of Iraq and how does that figure compare to that spent by the Government in the United States?
Question Five: On July 4, a nation with which we are currently at war under armistice, known popularly as "North Korea", launched a rocket with an unknown payload on a trajectory that would have taken it near the State of Hawaii. What steps has the President taken to protect the United States given this open act of war and clear breach of the armistice agreement?
Question Six: Hezbollah, an international terrorist organization which has hung, strangled, mutilated and humiliated the corpses of U.S. military officers, which has announced as one of its goals the killing of Americans anywhere it finds them, operates in the open in Lebanon, where its leaders hold press conferences in public in broad daylight, when not operating their television station. How does this fact square with the President's stated War on Terror goals?
Question Seven: The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the United Kingdom's established church and a member of its Parliament, has attracted international attention due to his remarks condemning the United States and claiming that it has lost its moral standing. Has the President objected? Has his Ambassador in London? Do we not have a duty or a sense of honor compelling us to respond at the highest possible level given the source of the condemnation of our nation?
Question Eight: Conservatives pride themselves on their pro-business, free-market policies. Given that Arizona business is engaged in a very high profile effort, not least through its Chamber of Commerce, to overturn Arizona's recently enacted laws regarding the hiring of illegal aliens and, further, given the U.S. Chamber's vocal and key support for the failed immigration amnesty effort in the Senate earlier this year, might we not want to address how those pro-business views mesh with business-as-it-actually-is-conducted and what this means for the future of the United States?
Question Nine: Education, at all levels, is firmly in the grip of the Left, yet our only response continues to be calls to privatize education via vouchers, an idea firmly rejected again and again by huge majorities of Americans, who believe that a common, public education is key to passing on our culture, our heritage, our history, our beliefs. May we not want to reconsider our approach, given that fact?
Question Ten: Is the United States comprised of a people, Americans, who are overwhelmingly European by heritage, Christian in outlook and culture, with a distinct history, a legal tradition embodied in the common law, and a devotion to republican government? Or is the United States comprised of citizens, Americans, who so long as they adhere to the basic tenets of the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, may be of any heritage, any religion, carry distinct cultures and beliefs, with their own ethnic and national histories, with a shared devotion to democracy and equality?
Question One: In 2001, an organized Islamic terrorist group known as "Al-Qaeda" launched terrorist attacks on the United States of America, killing more than 3,000 people in four separate, horrific attacks on our people and our soil. It soon became known that Al-Qaeda was sheltered in the country of Afghanistan then under the control of a similarly radical Islamic organization called the "Taliban." Rightfully, the United States went to war with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. It is now November, 2007, and the Taliban still exists as a viable organization, with military assets in the field, still conducting acts of war against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Why have we been unable to defeat a small, ill-equipped militia in six years?
Question Two: The President of the United States has a duty, and took an oath, to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Are immigration laws being enforced?
Question Three: In 2003, the United States went to war with Iraq, after that nation routinely defied legitimate United Nations inspection requests regarding its known WMD programme, a matter made most urgent for the United States given the then-demonstrated willingness of Islamic radicals to execute WMD attacks upon the US, the Iraqi regime's open state of war with the United States and the Iraqi regime's past use of WMD attacks during its earlier war with the Islamic Republic. Given that the objectives of that war were met within two months, why are U.S. armed forces attempting to settle disputes among Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites concerning the future of Iraq?
Question Four: Earlier this year, a major Interstate System bridge collapsed in the United States. This year, how much has the Government of the United States spent on infrastructure in the nation of Iraq and how does that figure compare to that spent by the Government in the United States?
Question Five: On July 4, a nation with which we are currently at war under armistice, known popularly as "North Korea", launched a rocket with an unknown payload on a trajectory that would have taken it near the State of Hawaii. What steps has the President taken to protect the United States given this open act of war and clear breach of the armistice agreement?
Question Six: Hezbollah, an international terrorist organization which has hung, strangled, mutilated and humiliated the corpses of U.S. military officers, which has announced as one of its goals the killing of Americans anywhere it finds them, operates in the open in Lebanon, where its leaders hold press conferences in public in broad daylight, when not operating their television station. How does this fact square with the President's stated War on Terror goals?
Question Seven: The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the United Kingdom's established church and a member of its Parliament, has attracted international attention due to his remarks condemning the United States and claiming that it has lost its moral standing. Has the President objected? Has his Ambassador in London? Do we not have a duty or a sense of honor compelling us to respond at the highest possible level given the source of the condemnation of our nation?
Question Eight: Conservatives pride themselves on their pro-business, free-market policies. Given that Arizona business is engaged in a very high profile effort, not least through its Chamber of Commerce, to overturn Arizona's recently enacted laws regarding the hiring of illegal aliens and, further, given the U.S. Chamber's vocal and key support for the failed immigration amnesty effort in the Senate earlier this year, might we not want to address how those pro-business views mesh with business-as-it-actually-is-conducted and what this means for the future of the United States?
Question Nine: Education, at all levels, is firmly in the grip of the Left, yet our only response continues to be calls to privatize education via vouchers, an idea firmly rejected again and again by huge majorities of Americans, who believe that a common, public education is key to passing on our culture, our heritage, our history, our beliefs. May we not want to reconsider our approach, given that fact?
Question Ten: Is the United States comprised of a people, Americans, who are overwhelmingly European by heritage, Christian in outlook and culture, with a distinct history, a legal tradition embodied in the common law, and a devotion to republican government? Or is the United States comprised of citizens, Americans, who so long as they adhere to the basic tenets of the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, may be of any heritage, any religion, carry distinct cultures and beliefs, with their own ethnic and national histories, with a shared devotion to democracy and equality?
