HOME > BLOG
> Where have all our war heroes gone?
November 1, 2009
Where have all our war heroes gone?
While a decadent culture may reward pacifists and appeasers with golden thrones and laurels, at least after death, the real world does not. In the real world, Obama’s Afghan policy is faltering badly, because soft power is just a fancy way of saying indecisive. Ahmadinejad and Chavez are playing the Great Leader like a cheap deck of cards and the world is laughing at us. In the real world, agreements with the VC meant the submergence of Vietnam beneath the boot of a Communist tyranny. In the real world, shaking hands with Hitler and Stalin meant agreeing to the mass murder of millions and the tyranny of hundreds of millions. In the real world shaking hands with Arafat meant shaking hands with terrorism. And in the real world the much ballyhooed ideas, the stirring quotes that coat a sugary layer over the reality of embracing evil, are a suicide pill for civilization. Speaking about peace is not heroism and fighting for peace does mean delivering a well written speech absolutely detached from the hard realities of the world.
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 1, 2009
Reader Comments: Submit Your Comment (0) | Permalink
