America has a God sized problem

Publisher’s note:  Clarke J. Jones, Jr. is a friend of mine.  He is very bright, articulate, to the point, and he has a grasp on our national condition as few among us do.  While he was looking around himself, gathering his thoughts, and contemplating his many blessings recently, he took into account how so much of it is owed to our brave men and women in uniform.

The following brief commentary stems from those recent thoughts, all of which I agree with completely, and especially the very last line, the truth of which just reaches out and grabs the astute reader. 

Clarke J. Jones, Jr.:  This morning I was reflecting upon just how very grateful I am for our military. We are currently invested in a conflict that we can never win, protecting a country of nomadic desert dwellers who despise us. Of course I am referring to Afghanistan.

We entered this barren wasteland as usual with good intentions to route the Taliban and to restore the rule of law, though none had ever been established for thousands of years prior to our involvement there. Thousands of Americans have tearfully stood over the graves of their brave sons and daughters who fell at the hands of savages throughout the rural desert shanti towns there and did so with a sense of duty and purpose, though admittedly we entered this far away killing field with no plan for an end game. 

Exacerbating the issue is our media and their fellow socialistic pacifists on the left who have continually muddied the waters of engagement rules by handicapping our soldiers. All wars are won by killing the enemy and demoralizing him. We have failed miserably in this endeavor and as was the case in Southeast Asia, we will soon be removing our forces, heads hung low as the heretical armies of Allah regain all of the ground that was purchased with American blood.

We have no leadership in this country. It is broken from top to bottom. We have an impostor in the White House, gridlock throughout our polarized house and senate, racial division, dumbed-down education of our youth and total disrespect for our constitution. America has become consumed with pop culture, sexual promiscuity and moral turpitude. 

I have never prayed as earnestly as I have recently for our survival through all of this as a nation, but things simply are not going our way.  Only God can save us at this point.