Reply to VDH on The Strange War via Austin Bay

Actually, this cult of the underdog is more symptomatic
of supreme arrogance of the liberal left than of
a deep and abiding sickness of the west. The elite, partly
habitated by the MSM, simply does not believe to any serious
degree that there is any danger posed by the threats of the
Islamofascisti, even when they see it with their own eyes.

The press lives by daily Rorscharchs called Arbitron Ratings and
circulation numbers and have no memory or historical base from
which to make judgments or to parse insights, unless, of course,
it is to revive half dead ex-FBI officials who will dredge up
the same old right bashing stories. Their best hope is to divert
attention from the common sense implications of today’s threats.

Real people understand, or perhaps intuit, the danger of forgetful-
ness. Why else would the New Minutemen movement have struck such a
hearty chord?

The real problem here is that the destruction of 9/11/01 was buried
sometime in April of 2003 when all that could have been said and
tolerated of the Twin Towers massacre was put to rest in the “morgues”
of the news services, as were the murders of Danny Pearl, et al.

Surgical air strikes, lightning attacks, tightly focussed firepower
are all well and good if infrastructure were all there was to a
regime and a mindset, but they are not. Gradual escalations always
lead to final cataclysms, i.e. Hiroshima. The true goal of warfare
is to destroy the enemies’ will to fight, to convict them that anything
is better than war, even surrender.

In this particular war, the fifth column of liberals needed to be
persuaded that anything was better than being a sitting duck for
terrorists, and we should probably should have unleashed unforgettable
destruction with terrifying collateral damage one hour after the
deadline. Nothing says “knock it off” to close observers like
a firestorm.

The delays made us look weak and provided time to plan a back door
war, and this in turn gave the liberal left time to equivocate,
snipe, and get their story together in order to blame a very
competent and decent President, and military, for the middle-Eastern
hatred and uptick the violence.

Are we sick? No. We are trying to be decent, but we have let the left
set the agenda which could change in the wink of an eye….
if the Islamofascisti find a way to offend the liberals and their
sisters in the press.

Remember the atomic bomb was developed and dropped by, you guessed
it, liberals who were forced into it by failed negotiations.

The rest of America gets it.