It’s often written that our three week blitzkrieg to Baghdad was a new world record for speed of conquest.
It wasn’t.
The original blitzkrieg of FRANCE was roughly equal for speed, but we forget that France had the largest army in the world at the dawn of WWII, not Germany. The two were roughly equal in technology, but the French were grossly inferior in tactics and C3 (Command, Control, and Communications).
Where the United States and our beloved armed forces hold the record is in the aftermath. 1-1/2 years after the invasion, the Iraqis are back in control. Or at least in charge. Plenty of fighting left.
It was mentioned a few times at the beginning of the war and its 14 month rush-to-war that NAZI = BAATH. They are both acronyms for National Socialism. We haven’t heard that mentioned lately, and we forget it at our grave peril. It is no coincidence that they both involved mass murder, attempted genocide on Jews, multiple invasions of neighbors, and stubborn blind violence after nominal defeat.
We are not fighting the Resistance. We are fighting the Werewolves. The interim Iraqi government is not Vichy France, but the Weimer Republic in its infancy.
What seems absolutely unique to me, a very casual student of history, is the lazy acceptance of traitors in our midst. The new American Left wants us to fail. They want just enough American soldiers and Marines to die so they can whip the public into demanding another Vietnam style retreat. They make no bones about this among themselves, although they viciously insist that we patriots recognize their “protest” as the highest form of patriotism.
It is not.
We must not be afraid of their name-calling. Just as the insult of ‘bigot’ and ‘racist’ has worn thin and no longer stings like it once did, we must counter the left’s lies. When they say “How dare you question my patriotism!” we must say “I question your patriotism because you are a traitor. You want America to fail. You want Americans to die. And you want this because you are a socialist who believes America is the greatest evil in the world. I denounce you. I spit on you. You are a traitor.”
When they say “Protesting is the highest form of patriotism!” we must say “The ability to protest without fear of arrest is the fruit of the patriotism of the soldier, the marine, and the founding fathers. You will not fool me with your stupid attempt to reverse cause and effect. The volunteers in our armed forces are patriots. You are a traitor.”
When the left calls us “stupid” we must say, “It is you who are stupid. It is your ideas of socialism and communism that have the blood of hundreds of millions on their hands. The burden of proof is on you, traitor. Prove to me why those people, or any peoples, should not be free. You want to subjugate them. You want to subjugate me. You are a traitor.”
What is this horrible idea that we dare not impose on the noble Iraqi Ba’athist? It is liberty. The idea that men and women should be free from each other. Not free from hunger or want – that is the obligation of the individual. The lefty turns this on its head. To the traitor left, man should be free from want but subject to the control of the elite. And any elite will do, even the psychotic Iraqi NAZI, if the alternative is liberty.
Why so hysterical, traitor? What catastrophe do they face if the camel’s nose of liberty gets into the tent of the Muslims? That’s 600 million people who may become free, and therefore enemies of Left. That must not be allowed.
The new American Left knows that it has only one real success, and that is America’s retreat from Viet Nam. They ascribe that to the public’s reaction to their protests and media, and in that I think they are correct. That is exactly what they are trying to reproduce now, with the drumbeat of defeat and the lullaby of lies from the BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN, and MSNBC. But there are apostates in the room. Not only National Review and The Wall Street Journal, but also FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, AND THE HAPPY CARPENTER! We will not let them succeed. We will fight them every step of the way. We will expose their lies. We will pull back the curtain to show the Wizard of Oz.
How many traitors are there? Is the standard for treason “knowing”, or “ought-to know”? If the standard is knowing, then about one in ten Americans is a traitor. If the standard is ought-to-know, then the ratio is about one in four. Of all the frightening factoids, that one is the scariest.
What is treason? Treason is active support for ideas and ideals antithetical to American ideas and ideals. Treason is worse during a time of war, but can occur at any time. American ideals are of the individual’s superiority to the group. The individual’s natural right to liberty over that of the elite. The American idea is to achieve the ideals through a constitutionally restrained republican form of government. Advocating socialism, communism, fascism, and Ba'athism is treason. Acting to bring about the success of those ideals is treason.
Today’s American traitors are fully cognizant of the lesson of Viet Nam, which is if you can twist the press, then you can twist public opinion, then you can twist the vote, then you can get the government to do your socialist bidding.
The Achilles heel of American society is the soccer mom, who will vote for treason if patriotism can be portrayed as being mean, because for the soccer mom nothing is more important than being nice. It was for her that the conservative cloaked himself as “compassionate”, and it was because the marketing of conservatism as compassionate worked politically on the soccer mom that the left passionately hated the President long before 9-11 and War on Terror. Then the dumb son of a bitch had the temerity to ignorantly go out and campaign during an off-year election and kick liberal ass. Oh the humanity!
So be nice if there are any soccer moms present. When you confront the traitor, say something like this: “Marge (to soccer mom), I know you’re a little uncomfortable with this political stuff. Lord knows you’ve got enough on your plate. So excuse me while I respectfully tell Ted here what he is.
Ted, you might not realize this, but you’re a traitor to America’s ideals. You can’t believe individuals anywhere don’t deserve freedom and still be loyal to America. Sorry, but you can’t have it both ways. (Shake your head, bite your lip, shuffle your feet, look away. Don’t ball your fists, or rise up on your toes, or raise your voice.) And besides, Ted, don’t you see that those people started a war against us? Don’t you see that the only nice way to win is to win them over? Don’t you see they deserve democracy at least as much as you do? Don’t you think it’s our duty to create a world in which Marge’s kids don’t have to look over their shoulders for suicide bombers? Marge, Ted is probably hopeless, but we all need you, my kids need you, to do the right thing this November. Ted’s ideas are not American. We need you to support those that are.”
Now Marge is going to squirm here. She is not going to feel comfortable with this exchange. And Ted is not going to take it lying down, either. You can expect Ted to call you a fool, a bigot and a racist. You can expect spittle to fly from his lips. YOU MUST NOT RETALLIATE. Your calm affirmation of American ideals in the face of Ted’s spittle is what will win Marge over, and the fight for Marge’s vote is the fight for all the marbles. If you lose Marge this November, you lose the War on Terror, and you’ll have truck bombs in your shopping malls before you can say “But I didn’t mean it.”
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Happy Birthday, America. I apologize (a little) for such a harsh tone on this date, but Freedom must be defended, and besides, the muse strikes when she strikes.
If John Ashcroft's department not been chasing bongs instead of terrorists, 911 might have been prevented. It was soccer moms who were convinced to vote for republicans via the scare mongering of their children having access to drugs. Of course prohibition makes drugs more dangerous, more available, of totally unregulated and thus dangerously unknown purity or potency, and makes them naughty and thus alluring to kids. Finding out marijuana is not at all as risky to use as legal alcohol, kids loose respect for adult and governmental advice too. And might OBL have not have had a Taliban government at all were it not for the profitability of opium poppies solely due to drug prohibition? Billions of dollars are still being diverted from real law enforcement and intelligence gathering. It's also soccer moms who made it illegal to have guns despite the second amendment(!), which makes our society much less "polite" so doors are now locked and burgler alarms armed. The number of children who are injured due to the criminal advantage of gun control, illegal drug profiteering, and a lack of focus on real risks is huge. Then you must add the soccer mom votes for scare-tactic-environmentalism, which by by thwarting our energy industries drags us into oil producer politics. Why are soccer moms so easily manipulated with fear of things like drugs, guns, or a falling sky, but cannot be convinced that violent people should be destroyed?
"Prohibition goes beyond the bonds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes." – Abraham Lincoln
Posted by: Nik | July 06, 2004 at 12:02 PM
I think "Nik" is a little over wrought.
Posted by: Keith | July 07, 2004 at 12:22 AM
Early to bed and early to rise,makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise.
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