The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword
On one hand, the pen is a weapon used by our enemies to fight an asymmetrical war. A war that uses our traditions, culture, customs, tools, technology, laws and political process against us. On the other, the pen is an olive branch. A tool used to try and prevent a war. Lately, regardless of whether the US has chosen the pen or the sword, we have come up short.
Left unchecked, The War On Terror will soon reach the boiling point. There’s only one way out of the cauldron, but unless we stiffen our resolve –real fast– we are bound to lose this thing.
This global war has several possible outcomes, none of them yet certain. Among these:
- Uncle Sam opens up a can o’ whupass with his few remaining allies and excises this cancer from our existence violently and permanently so we can live in peace along with the rest of the world.
- Uncle Sam “stays the course” and continues down the same road; tossing Marines who actually follow their orders into cages like common street thugs so they can show our enemy that although we’re causing civilian deaths because they hide behind the skirts of their women, we still care about human rights and will investigate and prosecute Marines for following orders in a war zone.
- Uncle Sam eventually gets vaporized along with a sizable contingent of his countrymen and the United States descends into anarchy because of political correctness and a failure to call a spade a “spade”, only after “staying the course” until Iran or another terrorist-harboring nation can develop a nuclear warhead and the technology to deliver it on target.
There are probably a hundred other possible outcomes or combinations thereof, but I submit to you that it will be one or a combination of the above, depending on when exactly we wake up and start doing the dirty work inevitable in any war effort. We’d better hope it’s not the latter.
The problem with the war against terrorism is that no one in the US Government understands it. There are high-school dropouts in this country with more intuition than the Ivy League bureaucrats in charge. What they don’t understand is that the Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword.
The first objective is that we need to invest in and consistently obtain accurate intelligence to find and fix them. Wherever they are. In New York City, Karachi or a mud hut in Waziristan. Then we need to surround them and then kill them.
Right now, thousands of soldiers are either on their way to Iraq as reinforcements or have been told that their deployments have been extended. (Bravo Zulu to the Scrambled-Egghead who decided not to rotate in other fresh troops. What a great boost of morale to our fighting men.) Their stated purpose is to secure Baghdad.
The second and most vital objective is that we need to stop the festering dung pile of lies, hate and enemy propaganda that is being spewed forth from madrassas and mosques in so-called “moderate” Muslim countries or on news programs.
Muslim youth are indoctrinated by terrorist agitators from a very young age that Israelis are the hook-nosed descendants of pigs and monkeys, the US is the Great Satan and all sorts of other vile things. They back this with a twisted justification that their religion says it’s OK to kill nonbelievers, especially Jews.
The Palestinians as well as Hezbollah and many other Muslim terror groups routinely train children to fight after they have bred them on a steady diet of hate. Suicide bombers are lionized by Palestinian children. Ask one what they would like to be when they grow up and they’ll tell you they wish to detonate a bomb on an Israeli bus as an act of revenge.
Once again only a military solution will end the crisis in Lebanon. Lost in all of the machinations are the whereabouts and well-being of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers that are the true cause of this crisis.
Hezbollah’s leader stated publicly on Saturday that they were agreeable to the terms of the cease-fire on Saturday then abruptly changed course today along with Lebanon’s Cabinet, a sure sign to me that they are in cahoots.
When it comes down to the question of whether the pen is mightier that that sword, once again, it depends on who wields the pen. In the case of Lebanon, I don’t have to tell you the answer is, “It’s the UN, Stupid!”
