You know what?

I like that term… “9/10 mindset.”

It is a term that can be used to describe much of the Democratic Party right now, isn’t it? While the Dems still have a few hold-outs like Joe Lieberman, Zel Miller and Ed Koch, the other 70% seem to have forgotten that the US was attacked on September 11th by forces that have only one goal in mind: the utter destruction of everything American in the world.

The mindset isn’t one held ONLY by Dems, though, is it? Much of “independent” America must feel some sympathy with these lines of thought, or “Oba-mania” wouldn’t be the phenomenon it is today.

Why is it that so many of America’s youth (call them the “under-thirty” crowd) have forgotten the images of 9/11? Why have so many forgotten the “stained fingers” raised in triumph across the Iraqi nation? Why have they forgotten that prior to the US over-throw of Afghanistan and Iraq, no woman in all of recorded human history had ever cast a political vote in either of those countries? Why have they forgotten the tens of thousands of Afghanis and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis that died horrible, unjust deaths at the hands of tyrannical despots calling themselves “leaders”?

Why?

Because the current Presidential Administration has ALLOWED them to forget, that’s why! This administration has allowed the media, the Democrats, and YES, the pacifists among us to paint such an “anti-Bush” image of the entire affair that the legitimate gains and victories of the men and women risking their lives to secure the freedoms and liberties of not only the Iraqi and Afghani citizens in question but each and every American citizen that is threatened daily by the efforts of terrorists and jihadists from every corner of the Muslim world.

For every press release or front-page story of a soldier, sailor, airmen or marine killed in action in Iraq or Afghanistan, or every 30-second sound-bite news flash that gives the latest casualty figure on TV or the radio… the Administration should hold a Pentagon briefing detailing the latest success stories from Kabul or Baghdad, including pictures, video and eyewitness accounts.

I realize that it is NOT the responsibility of the Federal Government to broadcast this news to the world… but to suggest that the Administration can’t do SOMETHING to further the effort of education this nation in what is actually happening in Iraq and Afghanistan is simple in the extreme. Put the news out there, and when it isn’t reported or picked up by the mainstream media, then ask for an explanation in the next SotU Address. Better yet, ask it at the next Presidential debate, and see how Senator Obama responds to that one.