I am critical of US policy to a point. History is necessary to know but, while
understanding its message, it is important to live in its present.
However critical one might wax against the west one must
make a value judgment for our time. Is
the west sinless? Absolutely it is not. Is western democratic free thought and its separation between church state crafted over Renaissance centuries better than
anything else the world has seen so far? Yes, it is!
The penchant to gain so called caliphate power by those who
are said to pervert Islam with unconscionable violence MUST be stopped. There is no other way as their zest for
compromise is nonexistent. Nearly
overnight the bestial ISIS/ISIL seemed to form as the Middle East through George Bush's so
called "preemptive war" destabilized an already unstable tinderbox region and now is descending into madness. Worse, some
very unstable states have nukes.
As man is prone the Islamic Spring which seemed so hopeful
at first quickly morphed into the most extreme chaos since the barbarity of
WWII. It happened during the French
Revolution, it happened after the Russian Revolution, and it happens after most
revolutions where man wants to vie for immense power, wealth and change through
revolutionary tactics and makes brutal war over it. Revolution's propaganda for those who want to
perpetrate it is their tool.
It is the Orwellian law of revolution the brilliant George
Orwell in his book "Animal Farm" instructs. Through his animal farm metaphor and the overthrow of Farmer Jones (a brutal and oppressive human) by
the animals -- the pigs -- he creates their new world order with its rallying cry: "All animals are equal!" That mantra
quickly devolves into "All animals are equal but some animals are more
equal than others." As stated in Wiki:
Years pass, and the pigs start to
resemble humans, as they walk upright, carry whips, and wear clothes. The Seven
Commandments are abridged to a single phrase: "All animals are equal, but
some animals are more equal than others". Napoleon (the leader of the
Pigs) holds a dinner party for them and local farmers, with whom he celebrates
a new alliance. He abolishes the practice of the revolutionary traditions and
restores the name "The Manor Farm." As the animals look from pigs to
humans, they realize they can no longer distinguish between the two.
The people, fodder of revolutions, ultimately get jackbooted
to the side and/or killed as power solidifies itself through Robespierreian
terror and tyranny. We cannot and we
must not let this happen in our time yet again.
Indeed, I believe, with all our frailties this nation is the
world's last best hope for civilized government no matter how many policy
errors it makes. It is amazing what our
Founders wrought and that it has lived as long as it has where change can be
perfected by law that civilizes man and averts violence. Our Founding Documents are precious because
they are a road map over time to peaceful change. I recognize even
more their life sustaining importance when a threat to them is hovering over our
world like the Angel of Death cloud and headed for our doorstep.
One must hope we with our allies are able to contain this
latest Middle East menace for world domination taking humanity back to a new Dark
Age with medieval tactics. No
matter how much my compatriots on the left are critical of our nation they are
in error to always think it wrong.
I paste a "Slate" article by William Saletan below to
reflect the seriousness of our time and what we must do.
