The battle never ends
October 25, 2009 11:01 pmTwenty six years ago tonight Mad Brad and I were taking part in the last American hot war on Communism. Our friendship was forged on that commonality. This site was originally conceived as a thumb in the eye to some dead-ender communists who, after losing their Marxist/Leninist dictatorship in 1983, left Grenada and came to – you guessed it – the United States.
Doesn’t that sound about right? You engage in a communist coup, you impose a harsh dictatorship, you alienate your countrymen, you get over thrown by the United States, you are no longer comfortable in you post-communist country, so where do you go? Why to the United States of course.
If fact, the prisoner furthest from the camera is still engaging in anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and generally anti-American diatribes from a comfortable perch in New York City. I still engage him in cyber-space.
That photo was taken in 1983. You can never really get rid of cockroaches or communists. You can only suppress them for a while. They always survive and they always return. The battle never ends.
Two years after Operation Urgent Fury, my oldest son was born. Between 2004-2007 he fought a different, equally deadly enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan. That enemy isn’t going away either. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance all enemies foreign and domestic. How many Americans understand that today?
BaconNeggs :
Date: October 26, 2009
RD, Mad Brad, thank you and the many others who risked or gave their lives to free Grenada from these Marxist dictators.
They crawled away from Grenada shunning Cuba, Russia and various Socialist states around the world which they admire so much, to roost themselves in the “Great Satan” and continue their hypocritical Socialist braying from kindly embrace of Uncle Sam.
Some of these same die-hard Socialists who ran away, have even returned to Grenada with a new veneer of patriot paint and been elected by a new unsuspecting generation. Their Socialist battle have never ended.