{"id":2409,"date":"2017-06-22T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T19:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2017-06-22T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T19:33:39","slug":"a-compassionate-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"A Compassionate Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are a compassionate people. I am a compassionate person. At least I&#8217;d like to think so. But we all have limits, don&#8217;t we? From the number of times you&#8217;ll get a toothache before going to a dentist, the time we&#8217;ll spend on hold or the number of times a kid says &#8220;mom! mom! mom!&#8221; before you answer. How many times do you need to trip over that edge of the carpet? Follow me, here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My heart feels EVERY BIT as badly as yours when I see the groups of displaced children with the flies on them. It does. But the UN just said that the global number of &#8220;displaced&#8221; has climbed to 65.6 MILLION people. <\/p>\n<p>Now? <strong>The Schadenfreude<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If someone attacked the United States, think &#8220;Wolverines&#8221;. Would I be the total Patrick Swayze bad-ass I once was? Nah. Would I do EVERYTHING in my power to save my country? <\/p>\n<p>Wait&#8230;you had to stop and <em>THINK<\/em>?  Did you <em>just meet me<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>That famous picture of the classy-looking older Frenchman in gabardine jerking a tear as the Nazis, (<em>THE <em>REAL<\/em> ONES<\/em>, Snowflake), marched into Paris. Sorry. That is <em>not<\/em> an image of me. Even if all I could do is bust a wine bottle and take out <em>one<\/em> uniformed soldier, I&#8217;d have made it ONE UNIFORMED soldier EASIER to <em>win the war<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Widows and children are protected; and yea, verily, provided for in the Bible. Able bodied combat aged men are covered, too&#8230;they&#8217;re there to FIGHT. <em>WHY<\/em> are we allowing a multitude of these young men, to <em>NOT FIGHT for THEIR country?<\/em> Oh, because they might get killed? SURPRISE! People get killed in war.  People get hurt in war.  Ask any veteran you know.  We go places.  We kill people.  We break things.<br \/>\n We make a mess.  Sometimes, there&#8217;s a cost to it.  Besides, people have been killed for much, much less.  Here on the mean streets of America.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is this; STAND UP and FIGHT. Survive.  Take your country back.  I&#8217;m even willing to HELP you DO IT!  But it IS, after all, YOUR COUNTRY.  FIGHT for it.  Don&#8217;t come to mine, (or that French guy&#8217;s, or that English guy&#8217;s, or Sweden, Germany, Norway or any other guy&#8217;s), and fight with US over your inability or lack of desire to fight <strong>FOR YOURS<\/strong>.  Or don&#8217;t.  But please don&#8217;t come to me looking all sad while the bad guys laugh and mock your inability to carry yourselves like MEN.  Real men.  MEN not wearing gabardine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a compassionate people. I am a compassionate person. At least I&#8217;d like to think so. But we all have limits, don&#8217;t we? From the number of times you&#8217;ll get a toothache before going to a dentist, the time we&#8217;ll spend on hold or the number of times a kid says &#8220;mom! mom! mom!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2409\">Continue Reading&rsaquo;&rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}