If Only Someone Would Turn On The Lights

To Red State Patriot:

The “Letter to Ben in Iraq” was spot on. I gravely fear what is happening to the Bush administration post election. The people who appear to be taking charge of the foreign policy (James Baker, Gates, etc.) favor appeasement with the Muslims, and see Israel as a mere impediment to peace in the region, rather than our only ally. This is like seeing Britain as an impediment to peace with Hitler. Their suggestion that we "begin talks with Iran and Syria to help influence the problem in Iraq," is like suggesting that we address the "problem of the revolution in Spain by talking to Germany and Italy so they will use their influence there," after Guernica. I'm more concerned about the shifts in the Administration, than I am about the Democrats taking congress.

David R.

To David R.:

You're concerns seem well placed. If we were to project your sentiments into the future, we’re forced to deal with some unpleasant scenarios. For example:

Six Arab nations, Islamic regimes with terrorist intent and teeming with fanatics, not unlike fire ants and Africanized bees, have apparently told the U.N. Atomic Energy Agency that they also plan to pursue, acquire and master nuclear technology. The threat of nuclear weapons held by Iran is quickly becoming only the first outwardly visible canker sore on the backside of humanity.

The cause of this ugly condition is intransigent ideology (religious and cultural). The current instability in parts of the world, and the Middle East in particular, seems the proximate result of decades of ill-advised and toxic appeasement diplomacy by the United States and Europe. We find ourselves in one of those situations in history where failed diplomacy can't be reversed, the genie can't be put back in a bottle, the cancer has metastasized, and the human condition may now be inoperable. Yes, some human beings will survive, but there ample reason to question how much of civilization as we know it will survive?

When Islamic terrorist-sponsor nations like Saudi Arabia can even think of making such a declaration of intent to acquire nuclear weapons, it could not become a reality except as a consequence of America's appeasement-ridden foreign policy. For decades (excepting maybe the Reagan Administration), U.S. foreign policy has been founded on liberalism and impotent policies that only encouraged new threats and aggression – both within our own domestic society and throughout the world.

The United States’ foreign policy toward Iran and North Korea has made those two ugly sister-regimes stronger and far worse of a threat to all earth-bound humanity. For decades the United States and its allies submitted to the juvenile extortion by North Korea, appeasing that hostile regime. During the 1990’s, the United States showered North Korea with technology and subsistence in return for Chinese money in the form of campaign contributions. North Korea has succeeded in going nuclear not despite, but thanks to Western liberalism and failed appeasement diplomacy.

America's foreign policy toward Iran, and our nation’s profoundly fading support of Israel, has only emboldened the Arab states. How could it not? The United States’ groveling diplomatic overtures toward Iran and North Korea has demonstrated to every nation on Earth that the United States is willing to provide economic 'incentives,' essentially, to pay “protection money,” along with Europe, to hostile regimes bent on arming themselves.

What malignant regime would not be encouraged to seek nuclear weapons and ideological dominance after witnessing the spectacle of the United States, the lone superpower, repeatedly prostrating itself at the feet of its enemies, taxing its citizens and paying for protection in the form of Foreign Aid?

Those who are unfamiliar with the term “dihimnitude” would do well to learn its meaning, various forms and implications. Rest assured, when Islamic nations acquire nuclear weapons, whether by engineering competence or commerce, deploying them against infidels and non-believers through terrorist proxies is a foregone conclusion. France, Germany and the Soviets will likely facilitate Islamic terrorist efforts.

Evil is the necessary result of rewarding evil and liberals throughout history have defiantly refused to learn that lesson, claiming relativism in ideological defense. If you take nothing else from this article, remember that greater evil is the necessary result of rewarding evil, a universal truth in human history from its origins.

Maybe the big picture would be easier to grasp if we shrink the stage from international in scope to something the size of an American city. Does any American think that their community’s safety and security is improved by negotiating with, and paying protection money to a violent street gang which espouses an extremist ideology (willing to kill you if you are not a member of their gang and refuse to join) – and encouraging the members of the street gang to arm themselves with all manner of weapons – and not hold them accountable for their unrelenting criminal acts and atrocities in the community – and make no effort to stop their expanding territory of dominance - and be unwilling to stop the flow of drugs and human smuggling across international borders – and being afraid to disarm them for fear of what others will think? If so, you are a prime candidate for the next foreign policy post in charge of Middle Eastern affairs at the U.S. State Department.

Arguably what is going on in American cities is only a microcosmic perspective of what is going on in the Middle East. Turning the coin over and looking at the obverse, the Middle East is only a reflection of the disintegration of American culture within our own cities. The cockroaches of humanity are on the move, no longer fearful of extermination. If we can’t stop fire ants and Africanized bees – mere insects, what makes anyone think an appeasement-oriented secular society can stop either illegal alien migration or a militant religious jihad?

The United States needs a radically different foreign policy, a policy that puts American self-interest first, solely on moral principles. The United States today could easily be a tragic Shakespearian incarnation of the cowardly lion, the tin man and the scarecrow. The United States needs to find a heart, a brain, and courage. Being loyal, staying loyal and living loyal requires one crucially innate human trait not found in liberals – courage.

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” - Winston Churchill

In the words of another famous intellectual: “Courage!
What makes a king out of a slave? Courage!
What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage!
What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? Courage!
What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage!
What makes the Sphinx the Seventh Wonder? Courage!
What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage!
What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the ape in ape-ricot?
Courage! “

Can you guess who the famous intellectual was?

Cowardly Lion

Being loyal, staying loyal, and living loyally, requires one indispensable human trait. Courage! Loyalty takes courage doesn't it? And who among liberals is loyal to anyone or anything? "Self" is the only focus.

If a man cannot be loyal to his faith, he cannot be loyal to anybody or anything, even himself. A man without a faith would neither understand nor know what it means to live loyally. Even a Muslim understands faith and loyalty. American secular liberals do not have a clue, and that includes all those who claim a personal faith but live outside its ethical and moral commandments.

However, the likelihood that we will punish hostile regimes, such as Iran and North Korea, instead of rewarding them through liberal appeasement and income redistribution on an international scale, is but the dimmest of lights in the White House and the Bush Administration. If only the lights in Washington, D.C. weren't so dim, consumed with self-interest instead of the nation’s welfare? The solution is so simple if only someone would turn on the lights.

Posted December 14, 2006 06:05 AM
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