Lech Walesa and the Thousand Years of Darkness
| February 6, 2010 Lech Walesa, along with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II, became a symbol of the struggle against communism in the 20th Century for millions around the globe. He led Poland's Solidarity Movement in resistance to the Soviet client government. Lech's courage helped fan the fires of revolution throughout Eastern Europe. A true hero by anyone's standards!
Except for those, of course, who subscribe to Soviet-style economics.
So it should be a matter of major concern that Mr. Walesa is disturbed by America's current direction and, more specifically, the lack of leadership coming from Washington. He recently said the following while stumping for a conservative candidate in Illinois:
"The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting weak. But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope."
Leadership is about more than soaring rhetoric and brute strength. This country used to be in the business of trying to defend democracy and export liberty -- politically and economically -- to all corners of the globe. Barack Obama and his cocktail party cohorts have no interest in "forcing" their worldview on dictators and liberating the oppressed, but they certainly never hesitate to force economic socialism on their own people right here at home in the States.
Heed Lech's warning, Save Jerseyans. The enemy within is as dangerous as the peril abroad. The United States needs to reclaim its role in world affairs or, as Reagan famously predicted, "we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness."
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