Give War a Chance
by Robert Yoho
COLUMN OF THE DAY!!
"Eye on Conservatism"
The great majority of those who read this column will fully understand the points
I will make. I also realize that there is another element out there, people
who are ever learning, but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
I am going to explain this slowly, so that all of you peaceniks can fully comprehend these relatively simple concepts. Perhaps I should help you along by explaining this in tiny, one syllable words: We tried to give peace a chance. It did not work. It is now time to give war a chance!
I am appalled by anti-American apologists who say they oppose the Taliban and that the terrorists must be punished. However, those statements are immediately followed by tortured explanations of why America is somehow at fault for the attacks. We are often inundated with suggestions that America should use our resources to end world poverty and the attacks would end.
In one syllable words again: You are wrong!
Let me explain the mind of a despot. One has only to look at history to know what motivates them. To understand them requires average intelligence, but an above average willingness to confront the truth.
With
all due respect to the mindless babblings of Bill Clinton, this was certainly
not our fault. We were not attacked because some Americans once engaged in the
slave trade. Moreover, we were not attacked because we are friends of Israel.
We were not attacked because of our music and culture. America was not attacked
because of our boundless wealth.
The United States was attacked because the terrorists are evil. It is that simple--and that complicated. The terrorists hate the values upon which our nation was founded. They hate liberty; they despise faith; they abuse the meek; and they abhor the strong who dare to oppose them.
The people of Afghanistan are poor because their leaders are evil. They plunder the bounty of their country and keep their citizens in poverty. They live in splendor while their subjects die in squalor. They abuse their own citizens. Their policies and politics kill more innocent civilians than our bombs and armaments.
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If
you respond to terrorism by offering forgiveness, these evil butchers only see
your goodness as a sign of weakness. To the promulgators of terrorism, benevolence
is interpreted as a sign of fear. To be patient is to capitulate. A failure
to retaliate is perceived as resignation and retreat. Extending an open hand
is an invitation to strike you with the sword. These rabid wolves routinely
prey on the weak and they often attack when they sense fear.
The meek, the gullible, and the timid will find their throats crushed underneath the boots of the Taliban and the host of evil, blood-stained predecessors who spawned them. They are the descendants of Hitler; Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Chairman Mao, and Chiang Kai-shek. They gave us the Nazis, Fascism, and Communism. They cannot succeed unless they rape, kill, maim, pillage, and enslave. Death, poverty, hunger, and pestilence always follow in their wake.
Unlike our previous president who could not recognize the difference between right and wrong--or the proper meaning of the word "is"--President Bush realizes that good and evil really do exist. He not only acknowledges their existence, Bush understands that the two are constantly at war with one another.
Our president knows the war on terrorism is a battle that we must win! The alternatives are unthinkable.
Evil cannot be appeased. It cannot be ignored. It cannot be bribed into submission. It will not be tamed with kind words and lofty ideals. It can only be annihilated.
On September 11th, terrorism was the provocation and war is the only solution. Peace has certainly given us no security from evil.. It is time to give war a chance. It worked 60 years ago; it will work today. ***
© 2001 Robert Yoho
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