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Posted on 09/23/2001 11:52:09 AM PDT by Alec Mouhibian

When I first sat down to write this column, my mind was set on writing words of rigor, harshness and severity to interpret and express the infuriation that was mounting up inside of me. Then on Friday (the 14^th) I unexpectedly became involved in a candlelight vigil that took place on a street in Hollywood (which was just a tiny part of the national vigil that was taking place on streets all throughout America), where I witnessed people chanting the three most precious letters on earth, waving flags with the three most precious colors on earth, singing historic national songs in unison, erecting finger “peace” signs, and cars driving by honking their horns all in the fervor of patriotism. The placating poignancy that overcame my soul after the sight and sound of what I had just experienced caused me to entirely rethink the tone of this piece. I realized, after Friday’s heartwarming indication of unity, that the levels of my emotions and infuriation were substantially inappropriate—being not nearly high enough.   

Hence, it is now of an increased importance that I ask this question: What do the following things and people all have in common?

· The intelligentsia and political powers who ironically exhort government expansion in all areas where such involvement and control obstruct freedom, yet are responsible for and admittedly advocate the under-development and under-advancement of government in the areas which are pivotal in protecting freedom: security, intelligence, and defense. 

· Garry Trudeau, author and illustrator of the famous comic strip “Doonesbury,” who gratifies his obsession with undermining President George W. Bush in his comic-strip at all costs (the most common of which is humor). The latest consequences of the fiddling of his fingers with a pen (fingers that would have done far greater service to this nation had they been preoccupied fiddling with something else) have been an incessant orgy of cartoons vehemently opposing the development of missile defense.

· The growing anti-American sentiment adopted by those who, while incessantly cackling about the “horrors” and “exploitations” of America, continue to exasperatingly “pollute” this country with their existence. The terrifying thing about the anti-American sentiment is that it has found its way into power; no longer being merely a benign idiocy occupied by hypocrites who shamelessly bash America, yet take advantage of all her freedoms, liberties and sublimities.

 So what do those three categories have in common? They represent the permissiveness, which—willfully or not—is responsible for the death of thousands and the destruction of American monuments on Tuesday, September 11, the most tragic day in the history of the United States.

I’m not trying to find a scapegoat out of emotion, but rather to expose the absurdities from within that made this country vulnerable and that will continue to leave it vulnerable if not castrated with the sharpest knife of the most detaching of efficiency. For these absurdities have not yet been deferred, even by Tuesday’s egregious “wake-up call,” as post-tragedy proliferations of the three contents behind the absurdities—abjection, ignorance, and anti-Americanism—have convincingly proven.

Observing examples of recent history can be quite valuable when determining policy. Yet it is something that is completely ignored by the foes of missile defense. Al Gore, a flaunt foe of the latter, said that his study of the arms race gave him “a deeper appreciation for the most horrifying fact in all our lives: that civilization is now capable of destroying itself.” If one were ever to consider results and facts, it would be discovered that Ronald Reagan’s temerity when it came to sustaining missile defense actually ended the Cold War in American victory without the occurrence of any single battle or war! While it is true that missile defense could not have prevented the terrorist attacks of September 11^th, it can protect America from such countries as Iran or Iraq, which doubtlessly harbored the terrorists, and possess the nuclear missile weapons that could destroy even more American buildings and lives.

From the mouths of those such as Madonna (who disgraced the American flag in her post-tragedy concert when she wore a short-plaid skirt that was made out of it) to the words from online editorials such as TomPaine.common-sense (which would be more appropriately named TomPaine.intheass) it is being said that America’s response to the tragedy shouldn’t be revenge, but “compassion.” For every minute the governments that harbored the terrorists of Tuesday’s tragedy (who are useless without money) are left to breathe, America remains a sitting duck. Destruction of those who barbarically violated peace is not only immutable in maintaining peace, but also essential in discouraging any nation from even thinking of sponsoring an encore. All it took was a bombing of Libya by Ronald Reagan to rid the threat of Kadalfi, who, in a way, was the “Osama bin Laden of the 80’s.”

Patriotism, while a monumental emotional factor in keeping the precious experiment of the United States of America alive, is meaningless if not also extended to dictate policy. My freedom to write, Garry Trudeau’s freedom to draw, Madonna’s freedom to publicly reveal her desiccated legs, Al Gore’s freedom to restrict his mental capacities to completely occupy himself with the well-being of tadpoles, and the anti-American’s freedom to boast his senseless, inane psychobabble all depend on it.

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