Memories fade after 13 years. Our resolve must be reinvigorated. No substitute for mortal fear that must be sown into the hearts of our enemies. If we don’t break their will, they will certainly break ours
On September 11, 2001 the forces of radical Islam perpetrated the worst domestic attack in the history of the nation. Thirteen years later, the reasons for that attack remain utterly anathema to progressive ideology.
Nothing reveals the utter bankruptcy of the progressive love affair with moral relativism, non-judgmentalism and multiculturalism better than 9/11. For the briefest of moments, it became utterly impossible to convince the American public that evil is in the eye of the beholder, that we mustn’t reach any larger conclusions about those who killed nearly 3,000 Americans, or that Islamo-fascism and American exceptionalism have a more or less equal status in the panoply of world cultures. For the briefest of moments, American were snapped out of their self-absorbed and self-inflicted torpor, their pettiness, and their reflexive ideology. For the briefest of moments, the nation was united by a steely resolve, borne first out of fear, but morphing quickly into righteous anger.
It is the remembrance of those attitudes for one day each year that scares the hell out of the American Left.
Thus they set about undermining those “threats,” and sad to say, they have largely succeeded. A large swath of the American public is now permanently disengaged, many of the things that divide us are laughably petty, and the contempt that most people demonstrate for those with whom they politically disagree, is palpably thick.
Worse, Americans are “war weary,” even as those who would exterminate us are anything but.
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To this day, the Left considers America’s defeat in Vietnam their greatest victory
Maybe it’s time Americans realized that engendering such war weariness has been one of the American Left’s greatest triumphs. Maybe it’s time they realized the elevation of such despicable concepts as the Rules of Engagement, the “winning hearts and minds” strategy, a maniacal obsession with preventing civilian casualties even if it endangers American troops in the process, and scheduled troop withdrawals, are no accident. From Vietnam to the present, the American Left has made it Job One to eliminate the word “victory” from our wartime lexicon. And absent any hope of victory, a steely resolve becomes impossible to maintain.
And so we haven’t. We send American men and women into harm’s way only to make an utter mockery of their achievements. Fifty-eight thousand troops paid the ultimate price in Vietnam, only to see the American Left hand the entire Southeast Asian Peninsula over to the Communists, who created a million Boat People refugees and executed three million Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese. The surviving soldiers who returned home were treated like pariahs and called “baby killers.” Adding insult to injury, Hollywood made several movies depicting Vietnam vets as troubled time bombs waiting to explode.
To this day, the Left considers America’s defeat in Vietnam their greatest victory.
Fast forward to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the same template eventually emerged, even as the Left became more adept at concealing their contempt for the American military. “Baby killers” became “I support the troops, but not the war,” Afghanistan temporarily became the “good war” for no other reason than to contrast it with the “bad war” in Iraq, and the slogan, “Bush lied, people died” – a monstrous and throughly discredited lie in and of itself – became the vehicle the Left used to reignite a war weariness among Americans that is as dangerous as it is ill-advised.
ISIS, Al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, al-Nusrah, Boko Haram, al-Shabab and countless other Islamic terrorist organizations that are now imbued with a steely resolve