As the fringe left continues to gain recruits from the uninformed middle, I keep looking for American heroes.  Today, my hero is Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.  In an article written for Scripps Howard News Service (Minneapolis StarTribune, August 26, 2005), Mr. May offered to meet with Cindy Sheehan.  He also offered to answer the question that she wants to ask of President Bush:  ‘What is the noble cause that my son died for?’ 

 In order to answer this question, May agreed to bring some friends, including “Iraqi freedom fighters with whom (he has) been working for the past several years, many of them women, as well as democracy and human rights activists from Syria, Iran, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon and other countries”.  May said that together they would respond to Sheehan’s question as follows:

“Your son died fighting a war against an extremist movement intent on destroying free societies and replacing them with racist dictatorships.”

May correctly states that Sheehan is “calling for the United States to get out of Iraq at a time when our enemies in that country include the most aggressive and lethal branch of Al-Qaida…(I)f we were to retreat from Iraq now, it would be a historic defeat for the United States.  And it would be a huge victory for Al-Qaida…Recruits would flock to (them).”

Mr. May correctly notes that “We will never be able to make ourselves inoffensive to the racist death cults that have declared war on us…Remember, we fled from Somalia in 1993.  We left Saddam in power…in 1991.  We did nothing much after the Hezbollah bombing of our Marine barracks in 1983.  Our response to the taking of American hostages in Tehran in 1979 was toothless.”

Sheehan is not fooling anyone.  Every America who thinks could have answered her question.  In fact, she could have answered her own question.  The truth is that the question is politically motivated.  She doesn't want an answer.  Her handlers on the far left want to keep the antiwar movement alive.  They want to see America fail.  They want to take America down just as they did during the Vietnam War.  Sheehan and her handlers know, as May states in his article, “we demonstrated to our enemies (in the past) that there would be no penalty for humiliating and even slaughtering Americans…(Al-Qaida) saw evidence that Americans are irresolute and weak.”

At a time in history when terrorists can fire rockets in Jordan at an American ship at port without returning fire, America is in trouble.  While America waits for Jordan to find the terrorists, America once again is viewed by the world as weak and irresolute.  That is what the left wants.  They despise American power and they will do anything to see our nation crumble.  It is people like Clifford May who continue to stand tall against this subversion.  All Americans should not only thank him but join with him in OUR battle.