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"WILLFUL BLINDNESS"
By Lt Col P
Great interview in NRO with Andrew McCarthy, regarding his new book, Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad.
He gets right to the point:
Kathryn Jean Lopez: Do I have the sides right? They say “Allahu Akbar!” we say “Imagine the liability!”Andrew C. McCarthy: Unfortunately, that’s exactly right, and you’ve hit on the key difference. They are a religious ideology reveling in a mission for which, far from making any apologies for their brutality, they exude a zeal found only in people convinced they are both right and justified. You won’t ever hear from them the slightest misgiving — no careful references to Infidelo-fascists so as not to offend all the wonderful moderate infidels out there.
We, on the contrary, are an odd combination of diffidence, self-loathing, and arrogance: doubtful we are worth the trouble to defend; apt to figure that if people hate us, we must deserve it; and sure that it is within our power to satisfy their grievances — even though we didn’t cause them — by dialogue, political processes, sensitivity-training, and, of course, buying them off — which simply confirms them in their suspicion that we don’t have the stomach for the fight.
They continue in that vein for three pages. Here's more, and this is my favorite, concerning the pitfalls of using the legal system as the primary defense against terrorists:
... But a national security threat is not, essentially, a legal case. When the protection or even the preservation of the country is at stake, our position has to be that government must prevail — not that we’d prefer to see government lose. Government does not create our rights and our freedom, but it is necessary to their protection. If the system is not preserved, we are no longer free and our rights are worthless.
Sounds right to me.
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Sir,
With all due respect, it is apparent even to such a "clinger to guns and faith", that what is being levered again'st us is this country's own legal system. After of course
the system's foundations have been jack hammered to the point of tipping toward the PC manifest which planned it's destruction in the first place. That said, we are in the "Looking Glass." Elections may not be a saving grace any longer, (may I be very wrong on this) My gut tells me that "we the people", may be we alone sooner than later.
I don't watch the news, sites like this are my news.