Now lets make Hay in waging this war, which is really a battle in the larger Civil War the left has been waging against America for decades that has reached new lows since the invasion of Iraq. Many have commented on this war. For an example see Prager.

One of the major points that Prager makes is citing the alienation of the left in the MSM, academia and the Dem party that is behind much of the blame America first world view that serves as the "moral" justification for the Left's actions that many Americans consider unpatriotic, if not rising to the legal definition treason.

But I want to explore this issue a little deeper and focus not so much on CNN, but rather on the general population and look not only at the results of the Left's 40 year indoctrination on a large percentage of the American people in varying degrees, but also other influences that define the divide on the war that includes people that would not be considered part of the larger civil war in the culture..

And then I want to look at how we can wage and win this civil war at least as regards unity against foreign enemies.

Let me say this at the outset. I believe that we will unite to win the war against Islamo-Facism. The only question is if we will do so based on logical persuasion based on a historical perspective or based on massive casualties on American soil as a result of future 911's.

A second preliminary remark concerns the warning of a future civil war in America between Muslim-America citizens and the sharia-hating rest of us. I think it is essential that we unite on the present foreign struggle, if not the culture, before that occurs.

Now to the matter at hand raised by haystack.

Gamecock and most Americans alive on September 10, 2001 were gratefully ignorant of all things war, especially, the place war holds in the history of mankind and the brief history of of western civilization especially since 1776.

This ignorance born of long periods of prosperity is not a new phenomenon. Many if not most great civilizations fall due to internal rot from within that aggressive enemies exploit to bring them down.

In many ways this war ignorance is a major reason that the Left was able to increase in power in the 60s and thru today. Security, or assumed security from foreign invasion or attack is a prerequisite for leftist, secularists to grow.

The conflicts we have engaged in since 1960 have added to the ignorance and made it worse, because the added elements are what I think helps produce a lot of otherwise conservative citizens, not part of the left in any major way, but which are passive as regards what patriotism means, ignorant of the crucial need to win wars to total victory and tolerant, if not outright supportive, of media behavior like that of CNN.

I speak now of the effect of such phrases as "limited war", and "proportional escalation", but even more so the "exit strategy" mantra and the insidious self limiting "Powell Doctrine."

The First America Civil War and WWII were great victories precisely because they were total victories for the victors and total defeats for the vanquished. Less than two generations after Appomattox, Southerners enlisted in greater numbers than any other region in the "Union" army to defend the United States that had utterly devastated their CSA gone with the wind.

Japan loves baseball and Germany is pacifist.

Limited war in Vietnam prolonged the Cold War and resulted in mass slaughter that the Left still refuses to apologize for. It also signalled to would be future enemies of the United States that we could be defeated by enlisting the American Left's media in their cause.

The Powell Doctrine's insistence that war only be fought if it could be won quickly with massive force, little loss of life and have a clear "exit strategy" signalled to the world that would be enemies could defeat us even more easily than in Vietnam and that we wouldn't even fight unless Syria agreed to come along as the lowest common denominator. And even then the "victory" would leave the aggressor in power.

I think the psychological effect of the above continues even after 911 among too many citizens that never speak of victory in Iraq, but only "how to get out," as if we didn't go there for a purpose that was important enough to "get in" in the first place.

Now to my prescription for how to wage a non-violent civil war against the Left, their MSM and their useful idiots even among conservatives.

These thoughts are triggered not only by Haystack's Declaration but also by some comments made to me about the CNN video being the "truth" and Bush's so-called "propaganda".

I think the key to unity is educating the near left on war and patriotism. But it will be hard. Why? Well, prior to now,

I have suggested that the only way to turn the tide on the media and the left is for elected GOP members (but not the president) to call out their Democrat colleagues on live TV for statements and actions that embolden the enemy. To be blunt in their face. This would signal to the public that its OK to call out unpatriotic behavior and give it a definition. I am pleased to note that Duncan Hunter (R-CA) has moved to take action against CNN and that for the first time since WWII the US government has changed an American with treason.

But I now think this matter goes so deep that not even a much stepped-up calling out of the unpatriotic elected officials and media by patriotic elected officials will suffice, and that it may have to be fought at dinner tables family by family and person to person. It may well be necessary that we risk losing friends to win our Civil War, just as the First Civil War divided families and friends, so that we can win the war abroad and be strong to face the internal cultural divisions and a possible future Civil War against whatever enemies we may have developing within. We will have to be more blunt and stand our ground.

The CNN matter tells me that we must take off the gloves. Too many Americans are numb due to TV and the moral equivalence it sets up in its crossfire type shows, where everybody are pals and all views are taken equally seriously. Commercial break. See you tomorrow on Hannity & Colmes. Well, all views are not equal. Our enemies don't quote all views. They quote the views that fit with their goal, ie that we cut and run and give them the victory they have sought since they started streaming into Iraq after Saddam fell to join their Fedayeen Saddam fundamentalist religious brethren and Sunni Baathist brethren to re-establish a new safe haven and terror sponsoring state to replace the ones they lost under the Taliban and Saddam. Thanks to our military and increasingly the new unified free Iraqi security forces, the enemy's new "training ground" is neither "safe" nor a "haven." Cutting and running would make it both, with unfettered oil-rich nation-state funding to boot with access to the Persian Gulf shipping lanes.

Many Americans are totally blind to the line CNN crossed. People, we are surrounded by severely disabled citizens when it comes to war and patriotism. Major surgery is required to correct the disability. many on the left argue that we need to see such "snuff" videos so that understand what war is about, as if we don't know and that if we did we would see that war is never the answer. Yet those on the left don't want us to see the 911 videos that are the reason we went to war in the first place.

We have never allowed the showing of such close angle videos or pictures of killing by either side in war. And the showing of an enemy propaganda video would most certainly have gotten the broadcaster charged with treason and probably hanged under WWII or any other war rules prior to Vietnam. Even in Vietnam we censored enemy videos of the killing of Americans for several reasons, first of which is that it could cause sensitive civilians to lose morale at home and that it it is disrespectful to the dead and their families.

But as regards enemy provided propaganda films, the dangers are even greater that the video contains a message to their allies, provides a basis fore them to boost morale and instructs those they can't otherwise communicate with to keep up the fight.

Tony Snow also objected to the video partly because it depicts US soldiers as "sitting ducks."

Let's get the bottom of this quackery about sitting ducks.

First, I think Tony should not have dignified the sitting duck argument with a response. To do so implies that if one's soldiers are sitting ducks that the war should not be fought. If that were the rule, then we would still be a colony of the British. I really have a hard time even understanding the argument. Some falls back on the WWII example as if tank led armies on a plain is the only war our soldiers "deserve" to fight and as if no soldier was ever shot down by a sniper's rifle fire in 1776, 1917 or 1941. Its silly, nonsensical and unworthy of a response.

Secondly, lets look at why CNN shows an enemy propaganda video of an American soldier being targeted BUT NOT 911 videos of Americans burning to death, jumping from skyscrapers and hitting the pavement. If ever there were sitting ducks, it was the inhabitants of the WTC, the pentagon and the airplanes. The video of the deaths of civilians at he hands of the enemy can't be shown somehow.

But we can see the enemy aiming fire at our soldiers?

You see the connection? The soldiers are being fired at because of 911. the soldiers are in harms way voluntarily to prevent future 911s. But CNN can't let Americans see that connection. Oh no. They would rather us see the "insurgents", ie butchers that worked for Saddam or al qaeda as akin to our colonist founders, ie Minutemen, fighting for "their" country, all the time ignoring that 80%+ Iraqis are fighting with us against the insurgents for their country and to deny victory to those that would perpetrate more 911s. The enemy has diverted their most of their resources from attacking us on US soil to a desperate attempt to prevent the establishment of a stable free nation in the Middle East that is our ally against their Islamo-Facist vision and slavery.

So we cant see the deaths of America civilians but we must see our soldiers in sniper sites that the enemy hopes will cause us to cut and run, as does CNN.

The war against the MSM must be waged by not letting actions that aid and abet the enemy go undenounced in blunt terms to their faces with NO ambiguity that we respect them even if they disagree.

Those that embolden the enemy thru unpatriotic statements, actions, omissions and endorsements, explicit or tacit, are not honorable. Now, many don't realize they are acting unpatriotically. They are ignorant. They must be educated on the matter. A patriotic spanking appears in order to GC. We must become like that nation in 1777, 1917 and 1944 that were united on what patriotism is and what actions and statements are unpatriotic and on the absolute necessity to achieve total victory no matter the cost.

Give me Liberty or give me Death!

originally submitted to compliment my Red State brother, Haystack who properly and eloquently declared war on the MSM.

D-G also blogs at www.race42008.com.

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan