The Posse has been somewhat overcome by the spirit of the season.
We find ourselves paying less attention to current events and focusing more on our friends and loved ones.
Instead of our usual thorough sweep of the day's events, we are sleeping in, playing with the junior Posse members and keeping away from the computer.
That's probably why they call it Christmas vacation.
Yet even in our semi-disinterested state, the news of the world gets through to us.
The recent spate of Coalition deaths in Iraq are a grim reminder that peace remains elusive.
And contrary to the wishes of the anti-war left, a desire to hold hands and sing carols around the Festus pole with the Fedayeen Saddam won't make the killing stop.
Our enemies are the enemies of civilization itself. They are the enemies of justice and peace as well.
To us, peace implies justice, an ordered system where people are allowed to live, work and play without fear of brutality.
The terrorists despise this concept of peace. For them, "peace" is the absence of resistance, it is the freedom for them to do as they please while their subjects cower in abject terror.
Saddam Hussein's Iraq was therefore "peaceful" in the sense that those who were being raped, robbed and murdered feared to fight back.
But it was not peaceful in any sense that we in the West can relate to.
Though our thoughts are increasingly filled with carols and the happiness of holidays gone by, the Posse remains grimly committed to seeing this through.
We honor and remember those who stand watch in distant lands so that our children may sleep safe and secure in their beds.
It is the greatest Christmas gift of all.
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