A Couple of Cowboys Riding Point.


A great hero has left us. Ronald Reagan, the man who defeated The Soviet Union and ended The Cold War without firing a shot has gone on. We'll miss him.

As I watch various tributes to his life I notice something. A lot of people called him a cowboy. They use it as a derogatory term, not truly understanding that it is among the greatest of compliments.

They called him a cowboy because to them a cowboy is someone who goes off half cocked, jumping into something he doesn't understand, they called him that because they thought he didn't understand about the Soviet Union. They called him that because they thought that his actions might upset the delicate balance of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction). They were never so wrong, on all counts except one.

He WAS a cowboy.

When a cowboy sees a wrong being done he steps in and fixes it. It's just part of the cowboy way. Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet Union as what it was an, Evil Empire. An empire of subjugation. An empire that created a hideous lifestyle for it's citizens while a few political elites lived high and ate good. An empire where freedom was a lost hope.

Like a true cowboy Ronald Reagan set out to end this Evil Empire and he did. In the last few days even the the most liberal folks have given him credit for that, or lambasted him for it as is their wont.

A cowboy will to fight for right even when everyone else runs away or tries to tell him he shouldn't. That was Ronald Reagan.

Today the President of the United States is fighting another fight against Evil. This time it's an Axis of Evil. This time it's a group of people who want to take away your freedoms and force you to live by their religious beliefs or just kill you.

And again The President of The United States, George W Bush is being called a cowboy. And again they are right in that one thing. George W Bush IS a cowboy. A cowboy who understands right and wrong on a basic level that these elitist can't and is going to do what is necessary to see that right wins.

Belief in, those values, and a willingness to live by those values is the reason why the cowboy remains to meet the outlaw at "high noon", even if he must fight alone while everyone else runs, whines about how he might make the bad guy mad, or worries about how much money they will lose in illegal contracts the outlaw used to pay them. While everyone else is making excuses, the cowboy steps forward with one aim: to defeat the evil, for the good of the town.

Yes George W Bush is a cowboy. Yes Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. Those who try to use the term as an insult don't understand what a real cowboy is any more than they understand the true evil George Cowboy Bush is fighting against.

History will show that these two cowboys rode point, showing the rest of us where we should go, even though many of us (France, The UN, Liberals, peacenics) are too stupid to follow.

The world needs a lot more cowboys.