Roci, at Rocinante's Burdens, has an excellent post up with several good insights. He point out some hard truths -
Hard Truth #1: We are not all entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Only those of us who are willing to live in peace with our peaceful neighbors are. The rest can go back to that God-forsaken rat-infested third-world hell hole they came from and stay there till they die of an unnaturally short lifespan or some disease that could have been cured with an office visit in the USA. Home-grown enemies cannot be deported. They have to be executed, after very short prison stays, preferably in some sort of crushing-grinding death machine that hasn't been invented yet.Hard Truth #2: Our enemies are easily identifiable. They come from a few countries, share a common religion and a common heritage. It is self-defeating to cling sloth-like to the Cold War civil rights era mantra that racial profiling is wrong. (2 of the 5 offered - go check out the rest! -Kat)
And then Roci offers some new rules -
Rule #1: No one has a right to live in the USA as a citizen or a visitor. Moslems need not apply. Moslems already here can be deported for anti-American behavior. Membership in CAIR qualifies. Moslems can visit Europe to let their hair down. We don't want them here.[...]
Rule #5: Eject the UN from US territory. This was a conduit for communist spies and agents during the Cold War and is doing the same thing for our islamic enemies now, most of them with diplomatic passports. There is no possibility of reforming them. They have never and will never achieve their chartered purpose. Continued USA participation in this organization is counter-productive. We do not need or want any more security council resolutions to back up the self-defense of western civilization.
Read the whole thing - it's truly and excellent post. I hop Roci submits it to the VBC this week.
The second post that I highly recommend is by Grim, over at BlackFive: "On the Virtues of Killing Children." Grim starts out by saying "You're not going to like this."
I don't.
But this is what our honor and scruples have forced us to, when faced with an enemy which has no honor or scruples - and never has.
"Then it is proven," I say. "It is our love of these innocents that endangers them. If we did not care if children died, they would be in little danger.""That cannot be," she replies in anger.
"But it is so," I contest. "If we did not care if our children died, they would not be targets. There would be no reason to target them, because we would not be moved by their deaths.
"If we did not care if their children died," I add, "there would be no reason to clutter military emplacements with their presence. If it were not that we are horrified by the deaths of children, the enemy's children would be clear of all places of battle -- because they are, except for the fact that we love them, a hindrance."
Truly a chilling necessity - but it may be a chilling necessity similar to Hiroshima and Nagasaki: it may be that we must ruthlessly kill thousands, so that we may forever eradicate the murderous Islamo-fascist terrorists - and so that millions may finally live in peace and in freedom from oppression, tyranny and terror.
What have we had to come to? And how can we stir up the resolve and hardened "Git 'r' done" attitude which used to be the core - the backbone - of every American citizen?
After we have exterminated these vermin forever, after we have wiped out these vicious thugs that have forced us to do what we hate, after their bodies and their ideology have been reduced to their atomic particles - after all this, we can bind up our wounds, and in triumphant sorrow return home to mourn our methods.
Not before. As Grim says:
"Love should always rise, above war and fear and death. Love should always be first, and not last, in our hearts. It should never be that love brings wrong, and disdain brings right."And yet," I say, "It is. I have shown you that it is. That means we have moved into a time beyond human wisdom. We can no longer know the right. It is beyond us.
"We can only do," I must warn her, and you. "We can only do, and pray, that when we are done we may be forgiven."
Love - true love - is hard. God help us.
