Not even the Romans faced such an enemy, through centuries of patrolling their most distant frontiers; and probably no other people previously encountered nihilism in so extreme a form. An enemy for whom the "suicide bomb" is not even a weapon, but an aesthetic gesture. Whose only purpose is to advance Armageddon. And who captures the imagination of the young.David Warren keeps earning his link. The Left wants us to surrender. The great irony is that the harder they fight for surrender, the greater the catastrophe we will be required to inflict on the enemy in proportion to that which they will be allowed to inflict on us. If the hard left were actually people of rational good will instead of the nihilist heirs of Kant and Stalin, they would be able to understand this truth...
We couldn't surrender, even if we wanted to. We must instead find new ways to fight. [Emphasis added]
Sunday, November 23, 2003
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