Apathy and comfort are our worst enemies

In the history of the world no society has what we have in the US. Most other first world counries are no where close to the US (have you been to Europe?). This has put humans living in the US in uncharted territory. No society has ever owned so much stuff or has had so much comfort as well as security from outside attack. It has been this way for the entire lives of our population under the age of 20 and for the entire professional life of those workers under 40. Most people under 65 have not felt the threat of losing it all that was felt by the WWII and Depression generation. This has created a high percentage of comfortable people. Though many of those people do not take our freedom for granted it is normal that a high percentage have forgotten or don't know what it means to be under constant threat of losing everything. This manifests a society motivated to not want to rock the boat and lose their stuff and an unwillingness to fight for the societal environment that got them their stuff.

In generations past most people did not have a lot thus their was the clarity to know what was important and the desire to die for it. Today, peolpe have so many "things" and are so comfortable that the mentality is that is "preserving my stuff". They don't want to do anything to upset their comfort, thinking that if they just don't do things to make our enemies hate us then our enemies will not bother us thus preserving our comfort.

The truth of the matter is that our enemies still hate us and they still want to kil us. It doesn't matter if we give they everything they want or if we give them nothing. They still want to kill us and the want the US gone. The "preserve my comfort" thinking clouds most people's judgements which gives birth to the "let's not get them mad at us and let's show them we are nice people" attitudes.

Some politicians play on this and want us to do nothing in hopes that the threat will go away. Any brave leader that actually does something is vilified. So we slowly give them more and more of what we've got in hopes of getting them to see we are not bad people - of course this is motivated by our aforementinoned desire to not want our comfort to be interrupted.

If we choose this pacifest line of thinking then our enemies will take and take some more. They will get stronger and stronger and see us as a paper tiger. Their numbers will increase until suddenly there is more of them than us. Then they will take all our stuff away anyway despite our attempts to placate them in the name of comfort.

Our enemies are not going away and doing nothing out of apathy and to preserve our comfort is not a recipe for victory.