Posted by
AlongTheWatchtower on Friday, August 04, 2006 12:15:09 PM
One thing indisputable in history is that liberals think you can--must--talk to lunatics who mean your destruction, conservatives generally have little patience with such foolishness, and prefer bombing them into dust. This sad "meme" seems more indestructible than the Sun. I'll never fully understand why, because when I was a liberal, I had no problem smacking down bad guys; hell, I thought that was what good government and liberal civilization were all about. I read The Once and Future King in 8th grade (thankyou Ms. James!), and believed it: "Might for Right." Silly me.
I'll leave it to another time to discuss the how and why (postmodernism, Vietnam, Buddhism) the Left has lost its moral bearings in favor of a real love of Marx and a phony love of pacifism, just to note for now that they are extremely dangerous to our children's intellectual morale and therefore to our future as a great global guarantor of peace and prosperity. This they achieve by denouncing, eliding and lying to them about their heritage and their ancestors' amazing accomplishments solving the ancient depredations of both nature and mankind. They know that as goes patriotism, so goes patrimony, so they pour every manner of cultural and intellectual filth on both.
So how can it possibly be that the cowards, traitors, degenerates, and marxist morons of the Left actually serve to improve and advance the Pax Americana? In nature, weakness invites attack. My point, exactly.
Liberal weenies and pusillanimatrons (flaccid little pricks and pre-programmed, heartless pussies) serve the US in two important ways (neither intentional, of course; it is axiomatic that the Left has everything bass-ackward):
First, as Larry Schweickart and others have pointed out, the protests against US and the others' dead (wasteful and indiscriminate application of force) have wrought important changes in our fighting doctrine, increasing our lethality and precision, while putting a premium (sometimes too much of one) on our fighters' safety. These two facts, along with the professionalism engendered by ending the draft, make the US armed forces the best trained, equipped, and motivated ever, by orders of magnitude.* This condition is not likely to change anytime soon.
More importantly, the acrimonious division caused by, and the public predominance of, the pusillanimous Left, the perpetual practitioners of what Bernard Lewis called "anxious propitiation", encourages our enemies to misread us and practice reckless adventurism, which exposes them prematurely, from their pov, to our deadly wrath, once some outrage finally moves us off the ball to crush them. While we are not ultimately destroyable (except from within, by socialist nonsense), we can be hurt very badly from without, and many of the world's innocent will be destroyed in the absence of the American/Western/Capitalist hegemon, should we "liberally" respond only with a retreat behind our dunes, instead of advancing over theirs. All sucessful empires grow by meeting and defeating their hostile border folk, and as Robert Kaplan has illuminated for us, we are still growing.
This awareness of the role of the appeasers doesn't mean we should encourage the coward contingent, much less the anti-American, anti-capitalist Chomskyite lunatics, as they do great and long-lasting harm to our nation's people in myriad ways. But it does show they have had an historical role in bringing on the swift defeat of what could otherwise be seriously existential threats.
Let me explain: If the West had heeded Churchill's counsel about Hitler in the mid-30s by say, opposing with force his march on the Ruhr, or later the infamous dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, what exactly would have happened? Glib and shallow amateur historians declare it would have prevented WWII. Can this possibly be true? Is it not more realistic to conceive that Hitler and Co., thus chastened, would have more prudentially martialled their forces, bided their time, and when, in 1942 perhaps, they were much more ready than in 1939, they could have initiated the war they were impelled toward with a much greater chance of destroying the opposition. This scenario is truly scary. Hitler had originally promised his admirals there would be no war before 1944! Why did he jump off 5 years early? He sensed extreme weakness in the West, and had successfully tricked Stalin into nearly destroying the Red Army's fighting effectiveness. He was drunk with the appeasement of the West and his many victories in the East, and justifyably feeling the road open, it is reported to have been truly surprised that Chamberlain declared war after the invasion of Poland.
Consider that a chastened Hitler, spanked by a resolute West over the Sudetenland, would have been much more prepared than he was for the cataclysm he wanted. England and France, convinced by their craven wishful-thinking, Hitler's assurances, and the limited success they'd had in Munich in 1938, would have been slow as ever to rearm and when the Blitzkrieg came it would have been overwhelming; there would not have been time even for the US to intervene. Imagine Hitler's restraint at Dunkirk (believing still in his dream of a negotiated truce with England, necessary while he conquered the Soviets) instead becoming a nuclear bomb there, and then more on London; picture the subsequent easy taking of North Africa and the Middle East; the displacement of the Soviet Union to the eastern half of Asia (where the Japs would finish it off). He came close to all of these as it was, without ever bringing the German economy to "war-footing". Had Hitler not been induced by Western pusillanimity into a disastrously underprepared overreach, had he played to the Lindbergh mentality in the States (quite prevalent before Pearl Harbor) the world today would be a very different place. We might still be in a Cold War with the Axis: Germans in charge of Europe, Africa and the half of Asia not owned by Japan; the US would have had no choice but to occupy the Western Hemisphere, and we'd have had at least one nuclear war by now. We may owe as much to Chamberlain's fecklessness as to Churchill's resolution!
The same forces of megalomaniacal, genocidal, totalitarian fascism, sharing the Nazi and Commie obsession with anti-semitism, are on the loose again, and are closer than we think to having an industrial-strength nuclear weapons production line. They too are encouraged to more reckless outrages by our weenies. They too mistake the democratic civilization's bilious debate with weakness. This is therefore to the great advantage of the West, to have our public face be so cowardly, propitiatious, and hypocritical. The Soviets, Germany and Japan, and bin Laden all found out to their horror that the heart of the West is stronger than an ox, and our collective head is not nearly so stupid as the talking heads' and appeasing heads' social prominence suggests.
For instance, the notion favored by Democrat leaders of setting a pull-out date from Iraq is as militarily stupid and enemy-advancing as imaginable; it is only proposed by them because they think "the people" are bigger idiots and at least as cowardly as they are. They advocate a strategic lunacy because they think it will regain them political power. Their entire approach to Iraq is in this manner. Nothing could be more despicable, after most of them signed their names to the bottom line demanding regime change, first in 1998, and then in 2002/3, than to send our troops into hell and then spend every waking moment undermining their success. It is the vilest of treacheries, worse even than having working national security secrets betrayed by the New York Times.
Our enemies know human nature in this respect quite well. They know treachery, division, and deceit when they see it, and they see it in our Leftwits all the time. Lenin called such people within our society "useful idiots". They have only gotten more numerous and thereby politically stronger since Leninism's demise. For which unhappy fulminance can thank our universities.
This appearance of division and treason in our ranks, in addition to the appeasing policies of most Western politicians, encourages the enemy to act before they are really prepared to deal with the eventual onslaught of American arms. Thank (maybe God, surely not goodness, but) stupidity--our Left's and our enemies'--because if they were smart, they'd play nice and exploit our divisions and stupid people until they were really ready to do us in, meanwhile, deep asleep in that phony peace, we'd surely delude ourselves to it being real, and wake up one day with our capital cities in ashes. The 1990s were a foreshadowing of that nightmare, from which only some of us awoke on September 11th, 2001. Our enemies' plans would make 9/11 look like a firecracker in a thunderstorm.
This way, they are encouraged to by our apparent weakness to insult, usurp, defy, and finally, recklessly, outrageously overreach, and bring down upon themselves the destruction they so surely fear, and so richly deserve, after all.
Provided that we haven't, all of us, been neutered by the pathetics of Liberal "thinking", first.
The only good thing you can say about megalomaniacal fascists is they tend to overreach.
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." ~ Albert Einstein ~
"De Oppreso Liber" ~ US Special Forces Motto
*
Capitalismo, the hated
bete noir of the Left that they so completely misunderstand, is the other major engine of American military dominance, thru its protean and indefatigable industry, of course, but also from the personal, physical, and financial investment that every American has in the success of his nation, this the truly empowering
genius of private property rights.