Who's Revolution Is It?

Imagine yourself as a member of the Continental Congress. When the Stamp Act was passed in 1765, a chain of events was set in motion that helped create the need for a legislative body that could make decisions for 13 very distinctive states. Ten years later in 1775, at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, rebellion erupted and for the next seven years many of your fellow countrymen gave their lives for your independence. During that time, Tories killed and tortured their rebellious neighbors, and vice versa.

Then in 1782, the Treaty of Paris is signed and although fighting continues for a while, it is the end of the Revolutionary War for all intents and purposes.

How long did it take for our ancestors to create a constitution and ratify it? The Constitution of the United States of America was finally ratified on September 17, 1787. Was George Washington already the President? The answer is no - Washington was notified that he had been elected President on April 14, 1789.

Now, imagine that the French are pretentious - I know it's tough, but try. Thanks to their entrance into the war and due in large part to their navy, we have managed to defeat those we considered to be tyrants. Imagine also that they've been setting bench marks and guidelines for us to stick to, as they are anxious to get repaid for all the money that Ben Franklin talked them out of. The treaty is signed in 1782, but it's five years before a constitution is ratified and seven years before a President is elected, and there are still many years of work ahead to determine what degree federalism should be allowed to invade upon states rights.

Even though the vast majority of the congressional delegates once considered themselves British subjects, and are therefore a rather homogeneous body, working out the details of a new government that has never been tried before is a difficult task.

Now let's fast forward to today and the blithering idiots we have elected as Congressmen and Senators. Pretentiousness will always be ascribed to the French - sorry Jacques - but our elected officials have even outdone the French this time. This week, once again, the Dems will introduce legislation demanding a withdrawal of our troops on some Disney-esque timeline.

We have become what ever great power has become - a nation of contented cows who have forgotten what it's like to be slated for the slaughter house. How long a fight is required to outlast terrorism? It's quite simple really - as long as it takes.

Since the days of the Peanut President, America has time and again encouraged people to fight for their freedom, and then left them hanging in the lurch when the American public was swayed by the liberal philosophy that ass-kissing, ala Neville Chamberlain, is the way to win friends and influence people. Liberals are children of God too, deserving of love and respect - it's just incredibly difficult to remember that whenever Nancy Pelosi opens her mouth or Dick Durbin compares our soldiers to Nazis.

The war is lost, the surge has failed, do not pass Go - send Bush to jail!

Maybe I should copyright that phrase, put it on t-shirts and sell it on college campuses - it's just the type of liberal jingoism that could make me a fortune.

I know the French were not here, patrolling our streets, getting shot at by Minutemen, and I know there are many other dissimilarities. You need not have an exact duplication of a situation in order to garner lessons from it.

It would be nice if these liberal Dem's would remember our history, the years of struggle it took for us to become a nation, and allow the people of Iraq the same opportunity. Based on our history, how can any American say that freedom is not worth dying for - be it ours or others who are struggling to create something revolutionary; something that has never tried before in the Arab world - a separation of church and state that will allow a degree of freedom previously known only by Bedouins.