Oct. 30 - Donald Sensing

Oct. 30 - Donald Sensing over at One Hand Clapping takes a couple of steps back to look at The Big Picture in the war on terror, the casus belli for military intervention in Iraq, the rationale for that intervention as well as the reminder that heck yes! it's a big gamble, but when have the stakes ever been higher? We're sitting one card short of a royal flush, and what kind of miserable creature would throw in their cards with that hand?

The post is an excellent read, but it's got something extra: it boosted my morale.

We will not falter, we will not tire, we will not fail is a heck of a lot easier for us to say than it is to do here on the homefront, so if we are to keep the homefires burning we must commit to endlessly countering the leftist propaganda, and I admit it: I'm getting tired.

I doubt I'm the only person who would much rather be over there than bogged down here trying to keep the nation's focus on the real successes while the highly weird Democrat Party presidential primary candidates strut their stuff to what is admittedly a generally unimpressed electrorate, but I know I just know that we can't get tired and we can't let up.

As Donald points out:

This strategy is fraught with risk and may not succeed. But playing a deadly game of whack-a-mole with Islamic terrorists is a strategy doomed to fail.

The campaign against terrorism is foundationally a contest of wills - dare I say it, a spiritual struggle.

The real issue is whether the Western Civilization shall prevail against the last vestige of medievalism; whether the rule of men who shoot their prisoners, enslave their women and deny the rights of self-determination to their own people, shall kill us and displace us, to whom the individual and individual rights are sacred and whose laws require respect for freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and whose traditions preserve freedom from fear and cruelty. In the long history of civilization, this task is to be done now. (Emphasis added)

He's right: we can't let them break our spirit.

Further, I'm not sure I properly understood how fundamentally the war on terror would link with the fight against anti-Semitism (simply because I hadn't recognized there had been a resurgence of anti-Semitism until the apologists for Sept. 11 expressed their views) but that too is a struggle that must and will be won.

So I am grateful to Donald for putting together a cogent, reasoned argument that starts with Sept. 11 on through to our current struggle in Iraq (and for us civilians, on the homefront) and most especially and personally because I need it. Morale matters for civilians too.

I don't often bookmark single posts, but this is the exception that breaks the rule.

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