September 10, 2007
Tomorrow, six years after Islamofascists murdered thousands of people in New York and Washington, reports will be delived on progress in the war against terrorism.
Right now, we in the United States are not living with constant violence and terror threatening us, largely due to the sacrifices of our military and the decisions of our leaders. Others are not so fortunate, for they live in a place that terrorists have decided is a major battleground. There has been major progress in Iraq, yet the enemy is determined to undermine it in any way possible.
I find it shocking and sad that a major newspaper has advocated abandoning men, women, and children in Iraq to be murdered by terrorists. The New York Times is prepared to accept deaths on the level of genocide as the consequences of its demand that we leave Iraq as quickly as possible.
The Times would advocate throwing away everything that we've gained, leaving at a moment in time when we are in fact winning the war against these terrorists. The Times advocates abandoning people to brutal slaughter so that we can save our own skins.
This is despicable cowardice.
It is wicked to suggest abandoning the Iraqi people to murderous terrorists. It is disrespectful to our soldiers, living and dead, to abandon the gains that they made through their sweat and blood. It is dangerous to assume that we can run from foreign dangers and not find the dangers following us to our own shores.
I am thankful that there are people who are not willing to abandon the fight. Let these voices of courage be those that we listen to in the coming days. Otherwise, what we will hear is the wail of innocent Iraqis being murdered by our enemies.
On another note, I find it interesting that major leaders in the anti-war movement "don't have a coherent alternative world view from which to base a strategy," according to Rabbi Michael Lerner. What have they been basing their movement upon? A knee-jerk reaction against war simply because it is war?
The article goes on to suggest that the anti-war movement doesn't have a compelling vision of what will happen if they convince us to retreat from the current war. I have to agree; as noted above, the most likely outcome will be death and evil on a massive scale. That's hardly a good outcome.
The anti-war movement has no good reason militarily or in a political sense to end the war. It is winnable, if only we have the courage to endure longer than the terrorists. I think we have that courage; we only need to let it be expressed by our soldiers and our political leaders. A display of courage would be a fitting and inspiring response to the sixth anniversary of 9/11.