Posted by
ParallaxAdHoc on Friday, July 30, 2010 12:56:24 PM
A mosque at ground zero or its immediate vicinity is like rubbing salt to the wounds and washing it off with sulfuric acid.
The problem mainly is that Islam has been at war with America (and the West), but we are not at war with them. Every time an attempt at mass murder manifested itself, foiled or successful, our so-called leaders, political and religious bend over backwards to proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace and we are not at war with Islam.
Well, wake up, people. The sooner we acknowledge, with extreme prejudice, our enemies the better able we are to prevail over them. You cannot fight a war you are hesitant to acknowledge. You cannot win a war you only begrudgingly fight, with utmost hesitation. As I pointed out earlier elsewhere,
“Are we then to wait around for another generation of enlightened intellectuals to decide whether or not it is a war worth fighting and another generation to actually fight this war? Or shall we deny that there is a war being fought! The events of 9/11 changed a lot of things. The principle of self-preservation was not one of them.
“When somebody comes to my house to cut my throat, my first order of business is to prevent it from happening. I’m not going to debate on the merits and causes and motives of the mission. I can take care of that after the mission has been successfully foiled. It is too late to prevent 9/11 from happening. It is imperative that we deter the perpetrators from making a habit of it.”
Burying our heads in the quagmire of political correctness in the name of religious tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism is a sorry excuse for the failure to exercise leadership. President Obama might have some excuse for doing his “apologize for America” international tour. Diplomacy is his convenient excuse, although a muddleheaded one. Rather, it’s incompetence masquerading for diplomacy.
On the local level, however, there simply is no acceptable excuse. We are down to fighting in the trenches. If we cannot defend our honor and pride on the local level, we simply run out of room to retreat and hide. Pre-emptive surrender is not an option for survival.