U.S. has the means – but lacks the will

First off, to the 40 percent of Americans who voted in this election, let me say, "Thank you." Regardless of how you voted, at least you thought about the issues and cared enough to make a decision.

To the 60 percent of you who could have voted – but didn't – I ask, "Why?" Is Oprah's bathroom air freshener scent-of-the-week more important than who represents you in Congress? Is the starlet of the moment's personal life – splattered across grocery store checkout magazines – more important than our nation's public life?

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Or were you just punishing your congressman or woman by "sitting this one out"? Perhaps if you can't be bothered to vote, we should exchange your citizenship with that of an illegal immigrant who cleans toilets at the motel down the street from where you live, or picks your fruits and vegetables. Plenty of people still want to be Americans. Then we could deport the people who don't care, instead.

I understand that there are lots of good, decent people who simply want World War III to go away. They want to focus on getting ahead at work, raising the children, taking a vacation, or saving for retirement. I'm sure the people who sent husbands, fathers, brothers and sons to World War I or II felt the same way. What would our world today be like if they hadn't gone?

World War I was the war to end all wars. World War II was the clean up operation. We've been mopping up around the edges ever since, with blood, sweat and tears. So many never came home again.

The parallels between World War II and World War III (although it is not commonly called this yet) are striking. Great Britain, a decaying world empire, attacked by a youthful wannabe. Unprepared and divided – a nation that wanted peace at any price – but the war came. Churchill realized Britain could not fight the war alone. He drew in Britain's young empire prot?g? – America.

America was attacked on a second front by Japan. Our cohesion, industrial capacity, will and technology brought us through. Our internal enemies then passed the terrible A-bomb technology to our upstart enemies – even as Roosevelt sought peace and equity with them in dividing up the spoils of war.

Nuclear proliferation – the gift of treason – consumed our minds and substance for 50 years. The Cold War was fought by professionals – the foot soldiers and generals of the intelligence services, clothed in the anonymity of initials: KGB, CIA, NSA, MI6 and a handful of others.

Candidates came to the service via professors at the best universities: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cambridge and others. But for all its uncertainties, the Cold War ended peacefully. This happened because in the end, we were more like our enemies than we were different. Our armies stood down and the nuclear weapons we feared were never launched.

The army we face today does not share our values – whether secular or Christian. Their enemy is the God of the Bible – who betrayed them through Abraham and Sarah, their common ancestors with the Jews so many centuries ago. God's aged and failing ambassadors on this earth are the Jewish people – America and a handful of others. Abraham's illegitimate son still seeks to rule the world.

The two sides in this war will not stand down. They do not have shared values. That's why the appointment of Robert Gates, a Cold War manager, is so ominous. The West had the ability – through the incineration of Pyongyang – to send a definitive message to those who believe that nuclear weapons are the answer to their dreams of world empire. This would have ended the war in Iraq and Iran's nuclear ambitions the same day. The message they sent instead is that while we have the means – we lack the will.

The world has no need to concern itself with global warming. Its future is a bleak nuclear winter.

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