Why Bush? Why not Kerry?
The two major party candidates in this election offer us fundamentally different worldviews. On the one hand we have a man who believes that bad actors in the world target America because America acts “provocatively”. The other is a man who believes that bad actors in the world target America because we are a free people, and as such, the obvious enemy of all to which they aspire.
Kerry is, of course, a proponent of the former view. This worldview is a fantasy. The reality throughout history is that nations which maintain a strong capability of and willingness for preemptive self-defense survive while those which do not vanish. Today the bad actors in the world target our citizens for death because they have received decades of affirmation of their belief that Americans, despite our material might, do not possess the strength of will to persist in the face of atrocities committed against us and others.
The only merit in the Kerry worldview is that we Americans do indeed provoke the jihadists. What Kerry and the holders of this view fail to understand is that we provoke them merely by existing as a free people, that is, by existing outside of their domination. For this the jihadists have very openly declared war on us, both by word and by deed.
The jihadists offer us the options fight or submit. Those who possess John Kerry’s worldview see Americans fighting in self-defense as provacative and so they choose submission.
posted by Crusader Rabbit @ 6:13 PM
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"Fight or submit." You rose to Hugh Hewitt's challenge with 247 words to spare. Excellent work.
-Dave O'Connell
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Right Arm!
Well articulated, and succinct.
We don't have a choice labeled "None of the Above"
We have only 'Submit' or 'Die, filthy unbeliever'
Hey, I found your blog on Hugh Hewitt's site... stop by mine :)
America has been brutal in the Middle East. We stopped the Syrian democracy in 1949. The Iranian democracy in 1953. We overthrew the Iraqi government in 1960 (the British invaded and conquered Iraq in WWI and WII).
Bush lied and lied and lied about the threat from Iraq. You, apparently, don't care about being lied to. Look, when people want to say "My tax cut will make the gov't richer!" (Reagan and Bush II, based on Supply-Side Economics), it is hard to prove them wrong in the first place.
Do the terrorists hate Japan? Is Japan a slave country? Do the terrorists hate France and Germany? Are they slave countries?
Terrorists don't hate Freedom anymore than the modern Evangelical Christians, who don't want other people to have the freedom to engage in the same sex acts that the _people_who_invented_democracy_ did.
Athens.
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Josh,
Do the terrorists hate Japan? Yes!Do the terrorists hate France [?] Yes!and Germany? Yes!"Are they slave countries?"
In those areas where the French police dare not go anymore, yes!
"You, apparently, don't care about being lied to."
Au contraire mon ami. When a man lies before the Senate accusing American servicemen of being war criminals, and when he meets with enemy delegations while holding a commission in the US Navy, and later claims to have done no wrong in so doing I care very much indeed.Start a blog, detail the lies you mean, we'll take it from there.
Do you not care that you are supporting a man who is a self-admitted war criminal?
Acting ‘provocatively’ amongst ‘bad actors’ is not unlike the act of walking along the street amongst the deinstitutionalized insane in cities like SF - or perhaps it is more like walking amongst muggers with money in your pockets – or perhaps it is more like a vulnerable woman walking amongst rapists.
To extend the analogy, the ‘bad actors’ should be locked away in straightjackets, locked away in jail, or summarily dispatched with a bullet to the forehead by whoever would be the victim of the bad acts.
Personally, I do not want the world I live in to be as tolerant of islamofacists as SF is of aggressive, panhandling loonies. I certainly will not vote for someone who would toss them the equivalent of ‘mugger money’ in the form of Iraq and Israel, in order to appease the villainous and insane lunatics of the world.
Remember – terrorists want you to vote for Kerry.
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