Apparently, Iran is causing problems, but no one seems to be too concerned about it. Not us, not the Israelis, and not the europeans.
What is Iran going to be allowed to get away with next?
It is one thing to abhor and object to war. It is quite another to connect the stoning to death-chopping off hands-sawing off heads with a dull blade-'honor' (less) killing mass of those who want to murder you because you draw breath with that abhorrence.
Why? How can a woman who wants her sexual freedom not say "boo" about clitoridectomies or betrothals of 3 month old girls? How can a man who loves his football or his muscle car deride and otherwise shoot blanks at the real reality show-of people who would blow you to bits out of the sky because you happened to be there, or use the very technology you require for business and pleasure-to destroy your life?
To quote Tolstoy: "What then must we do?" Can we suggest to those who speak of peace that they are not really pacifists, since taking away their SUVs, jet skis, air conditioning, Nikes and digital TVs are things they would kill for?
The populace may want peace, but that's an easy concept from a Lazy Boy or a corner office. Were the water cluttered by the cement of fallen buildings in our retention ponds, the bodies of neighbors burned and strung up from the our Interstate overpasses, or the aisles at the our grocery empty of cheap produce, Angus steak and cereal choices, would the people who now cry foul cry havoc?
The iron might of those who will fight to the death to defend their principles cannot be the America of yesteryear, even if the tolerance of all things equally makes American heritage equivocal. The philosophical laziness that argues for parity between beliefs and methods ignores, no, denies this historical fact: when the Centurion shows up, it's already too late.
Veni. Vidi. Parli? Talk can neither replace or negotiate for the surety, the power of vindication: I come. I see. I conquer. Be it the Rubicon, Tigris, Yellow, Nile, Amazon or the Lilani. Vici.
I was just reading Mark Steyn's column in the most recent National Review magazine. He was talking about this whole WWIII/WWIV thing and he mentions that one thing we might be doing wrong is trying to fight WW4 the same way we fought WW3 when we should be fighting it the way we fought WW1 and WW2.
I was just reading Mark Steyn's column in the most recent National Review magazine. He was talking about this whole WWIII/WWIV thing and he mentions that one thing we might be doing wrong is trying to fight WW4 the same way we fought WW3 when we should be fighting it the way we fought WW1 and WW2.
Podhoretz extols the Bush (NeoCon) Doctrine of "democratization" of the Middle East and, at the end of the article, claims that Palestinians only crave democracy.
So, I think the election of Hamas threw a little wrench in the NeoCon dream for the Middle East and I don't hear much about the "Road Map to Peace" anymore, although SECSTATE uttered the ludicrous side-by-side-states mantra as one of her first lame responses to the current Israel vs. Hamas/Hizb'allah conflict.
The UN "peace" agreement is also pure neocon nonsense, including the $50 million U.S. aid to Lebanon, and now pressure for Israel to surrender Shabaa Farms.
Shameful.
This phrase is one of the ways we will lose the war we fight. It says that we are in a war against a tactic. But the tactic, terrorism, is not the enemy.
The enemy we fight uses the tactic of terrorism against us, their enemy. They have no qualms about identifying, naming and targeting us as their enemy, just as they have no qualms about using the tactic of terrorism against us. Yet, we say we are in a war against a tactic.
We won WWII because we named our enemies, labeled them, characterized and caricatured them, propagandized against them and all to simplify how we viewed them so we had no doubts about why we should beat them.
Thanks for pointing me to those two articles.
I really enjoyed reading them.
I really think that this is a prime example of why don't need homeschooling, but rather, why we must break the dominance of the left in the NEA and public schools. Too much of America can not comprehend these things.
Long read but, well worth it. Good post.
Thank you so much for posting this. This article is just mind-boggling in its analysis of the past 5 years and the factors at work that brought us into this new era. It is immense but worth every minute it takes to read and definitely a "saver" for the future.
BTTT
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