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I think we need to have a candid conversation about America and war. For example:
I have no problem with assassinating the Iranian President and all the wackjob mullahs around the world. I think we ought to task our Special Ops guys with just that job, maybe do a double-team with Mossad. I think we would open up a whole new level of understanding with our jihad-jolly friends if they began to fear deeply for their personal safety. And I think we ought to have a certain tolerance for collateral damage along the way, because they would hide themselves among their most vulnerable and innocent. This is a war to the death, and you don’t win such a war playing by the Marquess of Queensberry rules. (IOW, don’t take a knife to a nuclear bomb fight.)
I think that should be our battle plan, and I have no fear of us “losing our humanity” in the process. I don’t have a rosy view of human nature, and I don’t think we should avoid looking into the abyss in some sort of misguided notion that our superior attitude will protect us from immolation or failing that, somehow turn our sportsmanlike-deaths into something noble. I don’t think we should endeavor to go down in history as “the dead nice guys.” I’d rather sin and struggle for redemption than die a virgin.
I don’t think America should have a “win at all costs” attitude about many things. Most things aren’t worth paying the price you pay for that mentality. In fact, I think about the only thing worth that price is what I think we face in the years to come: a struggle for the survival of Western civilization. And I favor taking the risk because I think our character is strong enough to descend into Hell and come out of it again.
And I don’t have the bizarrely dissonant view of the Western actor that liberal secularists seem to have. Modern irreligious liberals eschew the details of Christianity, but want to claim the virtues that go with it. They want cheap grace. They want to see themselves as possessing all the traits of Christians—the tolerance, the pacificity, the generosity, the endurance, the strength, the love—without believing in the God who is the source of those things. They want to see themselves as morally superior, but without owing submission to the Power that can make them so. They believe that man, without God, can be all those things; but they are wrong. Man without God is Will to Power. Nietzsche had that much right—he was just wrong on the God being dead part.
So I find the liberal claims to a Christian morality amusing and dangerous. Entertaining, because they are so ignorant and dismissive of the roots of their belief system. Dangerous, because they fail to see that without God, they are none of those things they claim to be—are incapable of them—and they are woefully unprepared to recognize, let alone battle, an enemy that is implacable in its immorality. A Christian can fight this enemy and win; Christians have done so before. Moral will-o-the-wisps do not have and cannot find the strength to face absolute evil and emerge the victor.
The major advantage the Christian has is his capacity to recognize evil. We don’t fool ourselves about our jihadist enemies; we don’t tell ourselves that they are, at heart, reasonable men who desire peaceful coexistence. We know that they desire our extinction and will exult in the death of our most innocent. Knowing this, we enter into our struggle with them knowing what will drive every decision they make. We know our enemies.
The second advantage of the Christian—or if you will, the man firmly grounded in the West—is that he is unwilling to submit. A self-conscious West must know itself to be superior to the enemy and therefore find itself intolerant of self-abasement. Our liberal politicians tell themselves that accommodation is possible because they don’t really believe our way of life is far better than that of our enemies. (And they know that such accommodation will not affect them, safe in their powerful political harbors.) What the true Westerner must know is that what we have is worth dying for—and worth killing for if it comes to that.
The third advantage of the Christian is that he doesn’t believe in earthly perfection. A Christian knows that he is, at all times, in sin and needful of grace. A Christian knows that he is as sinful in pacifity as he is
