From an early age we are taught that if we have done something wrong we need to make sure and apologize for it. It is an attempt to right a wrong, restore a friendship or settle things between 2 parties, or just plain good manners. The apology has many applications for each of us however it is not a strategy to achieve peace.
If peace truly is the goal for our nation and we accept that freedom and liberty are to be defended then history teaches us that there are forces that rise to challenge the cause of Freedom and Liberty. There are many parts of the world where freedom is absent and the characteristics of nations in the absence of freedom are often a controlled economy, an oppressed people, and deep in the heart of an individual in that populace an instinct that something is not right.
I believe we are not only endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights but we are also blessed with a human heart that recognizes when those rights are taken away from us. Even those born to a life where they are not free and are ruled by a dictator, despot, a party who exercises force over its people know that something has to be better than this. Instinct is not only given to us by God but America stands as an example to the rest of the world, a city on a hill.
America and the experience of this country calls to those that are oppressed, that are under rule, and are not free, it is in the very DNA of our nations founders. We do not force anyone to believe one way or the other but we strive to live peacefully with those that differ from us and each of us have an opinion.
The killing of our nations citizens in Benghazi, Embassy in Libya we are told was provoked by a video - to which I say SO WHAT. The focus is not someone who made a video it should be that 4 of our citizens died on American soil while representing us in a foreign country. No matter how heinous the video may be, no matter what was said - and perhaps we need the ACLU to confirm this, that video, its content, and its producer are NO EXCUSE to kill or harm American citizens abroad.
We have leaders who are worried about damage control in the media, and not bringing damage to the ones who perpetrated this act because they are a school yard bully. America this is not the time we get behind a leader and look those in the eye who murdered someone and say we are sorry, however it is a time we say in our country - we have freedom - and you attack any American for any reason you attack all of us.
Unfortunately by trying to appease and apologize for the maker of the video we fuel the hearts of those that would attack us on these grounds. While we can condemn the video at home, and we can say all we want about it, what we can not and SHOULD not do is excuse the murder of Americans because of something on You tube.
In other countries we see the absence of freedom, and unfortunately in this country we currently have an absence of leadership. In this playground - an apology doesn't cut it.
We stand up for freedom and bring to justice those that would harm and attack her. While these past attacks did not see our mortar crumbling to the ground, lives were lost and there is no excuse you can say in the media and if you truly want to deliver apologies - start by talking to the families of those that lost their lives.
