Soap Box

As I write this on Friday morning, my prayers go out to the people of France, whose innocent citizens have again been targeted by senseless, brutal, demonic terrorists, claiming to be practicing the tenets of a faith that knows no bounds of cruelty and evil.

There is no doubt that Islamic terrorist attacks are increasing in regularity and intensity as rarely a week goes by that, somewhere in the world, the wicked shadow warriors of Islam visit death and injury somewhere in the world.

For the terrorists, they could not have picked a more opportune time to practice their hellish fanaticism as all the leaders in the western world seem to have their heads deeply inserted in their posteriors, a weakly, timid, politically correct bunch whose strongest reaction to the murder and mayhem is worn out rhetoric and the maddening habit of endlessly reminding us that all Muslims are not terrorists.

The sad fact is that in the last century the free world has always looked to America to lead, to pull together the best military minds and craft a strategy and carry it out and there is no leadership in America, only a president who is trying to limp to the end of his term and leave the whole thing for somebody else to deal with.

On top of the milksop response to the international terrorist threat, many countries in the world have made the decision to import hundreds of thousands of Islamic refugees, a percentage of terrorists which will operate from within, their ever increasing numbers becoming a political as well as a terrorist threat.

To say that ISIS cannot be destroyed in the Middle East is a weak and untrue response to the problem. Our Special Forces brass, given the equipment and latitude they need to do the job could take these scumbags out and break the back of terrorist power in short order.

Obama's response to any shooting death is that we need stronger gun laws. Hell, Mr. Obama you don't enforce the laws you have on the books now, what are a few more pieces of paper going to mean?

Your Attorney General spearheaded the most deadly gun deal in the last decade and you sealed the records so he can't be prosecuted.

Paris� strict gun laws didn�t keep terrorists from massacring 89 people in a theater last November, and no gun law could have kept a terrorist from mowing down 84 people with a truck in Nice this week.

To dig out the terrorists who live among us it's going to take going into the neighborhoods where they are, following leads wherever they go, and yes profiling.

We stop grandmothers and children and single them out for special screening at airports, that is random profiling and searching for a certain ethnic type among his or her peers takes away the possibility of hiding in plain sight.

Profiling is sometimes necessary and not the big deal it's made out to be.

We've been pulled over down along the Mexican border for no other reason than we were traveling in a bus, a prime vehicle for moving illegal aliens in that part of the country.

A courteous officer checks it out and you're on your way in a few minutes, no damage done, no feelings ruffled having cooperated with a law officer just doing their job.

I know it's a little more complicated in some cases but by fully cooperating with officers involved, it's over shortly and if we're going to eradicate the terrorists who threaten our very existence we must put up with some inconveniences.

Hopefully, whoever moves into the White House in January will have a better understanding of the seriousness of the threat and the willingness to take unpopular steps if necessary to protect us.

Free societies are low hanging fruit for terrorists. Our open lifestyles freedom to go anywhere or do anything makes us an exposed target in our shopping centers, schools, places of worship and any place masses congregate.

We have some of the world's finest in our military and security services that are capable of getting the job done if they're allowed to take the gloves off and get on with it.

In the meantime, the terrorists operate in a perfect storm of weak leaders whose politically correct policies and reluctance to do anything meaningful block the way.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels