RELIGION or POLITICS ? The Presidency and the Constitution, cont'd

(Wisdom from Imprimis published Hillsdale College. The article is by Mike Pence, Representative of Indiana's 6th Congressional district."

Happy monday, y'all, and a whole new week ahead.  Hold your Faith in yourself, strong, and make it a great one. Only you can do that, ya' know. And so to continue............


(I concluded my last blog with  "And to repeat, you do not apologize to them, the enemies of the United States."

      Now, Closely related to this, and perhaps the least ambiguous of the president's complex responsibilities, is his duty as commander-in-chief of the military.    In this regard there is a very simple rule, unknown to some presidents regardless of party: If, after careful determination, intense stress of soul, and the deepest prayer, you go to war, then, having gone to war, you go to war to win.   You do not cast away American lives, or those of the innocent noncomabatant enemy, upon a theory, a gambit or notion.   And if the politics of your won election or of your party intrude upon your decisions for even an instant--there are no words for this.

      More commonplace, but hardly less important, are other expectations of the president in this regard.    He must not stint on the equipment and provisioning of the armed forces, and if he errs it must no be on the side of scarcity but of surplus.   And he must be the guardian of his troops, taking every step to avoid loss of a single life.

      The American soldier is as precious as the closest of your kin---because he is your kin, and for his sake the president must, in effect, say to Congress and to the people:  "I am the Commander-in-Chief.   It is my sacred duty to defend the United States, and to give our soldiers what they need to complete the mission and come home safe, whatever the cost."

      If, in fulfilling this duty, the president wavers, he will have betrayed his office, for this is not a policy, it is probity.    It is written on the blood-soaked ground of Saratoga, Yorktown, Antietam, Cold Harbor, the Marne, Guadacanal, the Pointe du Hoc, the Chosin Reservoir, Khe Sanh, Iraq, Afghanistan, and a thousand other places in our history, in lessons repeated over and over again.


O.K., this is pretty darn good for monday, don't you think? and I hope you are absorbing the importance of what I am writing about in my last few blogs, it is important to our futue, all of us.
In my next offering here, I will complete this really great comtribution by  Rep. Mike Pence.

Many cheers,      CJ