The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The idea of America as the world's policeman has been discredited, as our efforts since World War II often have been ham-handed, ineffectual, hugely expensive in blood and treasure, and have become a conduit for massive graft across the globe.

Should we have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan after September 11th? In hindsight....no. We should have decapitated Iraq by killing its leaders, both military and civilian. We should have bombed Afghanistan further into the stone age, and kept their heads in their holes with regular visits of American air power. Trying to create some sort of Jeffersonian democracy where the concepts are unknown is a recipe for failure. And the conceit among the so-called "elites" in our government was boundless, but borne of abject ignorance of the people they intended to mold in their image.

They simply do not understand that Western Culture took thousands of years to
develop, and one of the bedrocks was Judeo-Christian philosophy, which is completely foreign to the majority of the world. Respect for life; respect for the individual; respect for the law; respect for religion....these are all ideas that do not exist in the third world countries that the hubris of the post-modern West wants to recreate in our image.

Perhaps it is time to retire the badge of "World's Policeman," and assume the more modest title of "Protector Of Our Own Culture." And by that I mean Judeo-Christian philosophy, the glories of Western civilization and, the most pressing issue today, The protection of Christianity and Judaism from the marauding bands of savages that seek to destroy the very religions whose ethos created the modern world.

No, I am not singling out Islam, although its adherents are by far the worst perpetrators of religious violence. Socialism is at least as antithetical to religion as is Islam, which is in many respects a sham religion created to protect and hide a revolutionary political philosophy. Although socialism as currently practiced seems to be more religion than political philosophy! It certainly has its share of fanatics.

Observe the destruction of Christian communities across Africa and the Middle East, the unending hatred of Hinduism and Christianity by the Muslims of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh; and let us not forget the persecution of Christians in Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea. And the campaigns against Jews across the world is something that most would not have expected after the Holocaust, the recreation of the state of Israel, and the recognition that there are only about 15,000,000 Jews in the entire world!

But accepting that responsibility would also require embracing the reality of Western Culture's enemies. They cannot be reformed. They cannot moderate themselves the way Catholicism and Protestantism did. Islam and socialism are immutable, so nation building and a gentle hand will not work.

Israel is fighting Islam's evil on many fronts, most recently in Syria where the al Quaeda-borne new president has unleashed his fanatics against the Druze. Obviously, that is not the only place where Islam seeks the destruction of a religion and culture, and it certainly won't be the last.

Tours, Lepanto, Vienna...when is the next one? And when is the West going to recognize that there will be a next one? Hopefully before it is too late.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!

posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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