Actually, not yet. But on another note the web is chock full of NR ‘y goodness today.
An excellent article, which I won’t link to, on why Europe is so dead-set against our aims. Makes perfect sense and also explains why liberals (like my Mom) constantly harp about how I don’t listen. I do listen, I just fight to win.
And then there’s this absolute gem. You gotta read it. This fellow sums up PRECISELY what I’ve been harping about for the past months and completely internalizes all my arguments and pours them forth far more cogently than I ever have. Not that I had anything at all to do with his article. I’m small potatoes. Hell, I’m not even a spud. I just find it really nifty that an official pundit is saying exactly the same thing I’m saying and for a change I had the idea first.
We’re working to end Islamic terrorism the hard way, over the course of the next several decades. Taking down corrupt regimes. Establishing democratic institutions. Building nations. The Taliban came first. Saddam is next in line if for no other reason than we’ve got a pretext for going after him: He’s in violation of the surrender terms which kept him in power in 1991. And after Saddam? Maybe Syria. Maybe Iran. Maybe the Sudan. The testimonies of Iraqi civilians, after we liberate them, will provide us our next fig leaf for doing what needs to be done. Beyond that, the writing will be on the wall for Libya. For Egypt. For Saudi Arabia. Wherever radical Islam festers, we will go. And we will go in force, and in waves, and with an absolute certitude that the cause of individual liberty and human rights is just.
After a time, the people themselves won’t wait for us; they will witness the ordinary miracles of freedom, the better lives of liberated populations, and they will not abide tyranny for long. They will wise up, and they will rise up. No one wants to get caught on the wrong side of history. The Arabic word “Islam” means submission, but submission is meaningless, it is merit-less, unless it is undertaken freely. If in the end free people no longer submit themselves to Allah’s will, the religion itself will wither and die.
It’s not a new world order.
It’s a new world.
Makes me happy.