Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Why Our Adversaries Win

It's no secret, folks. The entire world understands that the United States is unwilling to use its force to achieve its national goals. Put another way, we don't have the stomach for a fight.

We aren't willing to do what it takes to win. Every dictator, every petty tyrant, every would-be terrorist organization knows this. We'll bomb like crazy for a few days or weeks or even months, but we won't engage in an all-out effort to win. We'll seek some sort of negotiated 'balanced' solution instead of victory. We won't do WW2 again, where we simply hammered the enemy into submission and accepted only unconditional surrender.

It's a case of news-byte boredom, a product of the MTV generation who thinks global politics is just an exotic video game. Most Americans don't understand that winning also involves, in a war, killing and destroying. We're shocked at the bodies, at the destruction. We eventually grow bored by it, then demand that we stop the carnage even if that means defeat for our purposes. Listen to the leadership of the Democratic Party on this. They are committed to bringing about our defeat against terrorists! Against terrorists! And you voted them into office knowing this! Of course, not all of you did that, so the rest of this comment is for those of you who understand the ultimate price of defeat.

How to overcome? One way: go all out from day one in a war, hold nothing back, wreak utter devastation quickly while the news organizations are still trying to decide which sacrificial slobs to send to the front. Get the job done while the news is still fresh and the ostrich-beset Americans, of which there are far too many, get bored and want something else interesting to watch on TV.

But we won't do that. Not even for the safety of our country. So, folks, we're doomed as a country; we don't have the will to defend our interests. We still have the means, but we don't have the will. So it's over. It's just a matter of time, because we've shown the world that they're right, we don't have the stomach for a fight.

Get used to the idea, and start learning Chinese or Arabic.