Posted by
Patrick Henry on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:46:38 PM
Why do conservatives habitually point out that liberals just don't get it when it
comes to protecting America? The claim is, of course, based on decisions made
by past Democratic presidents (FDR, Carter, Clinton, et al) that had disastrous
consequences for America's national security. But the criticism, like the root
cause. runs considerably deeper than a few executive blunders. It is traceable
to a flaw endemic to the liberal understanding of the world.
The flaw begins not abroad, but at home, where liberals support a pervasive
culture of absolute permissiveness. If people want to have or perform abortions,
it's their own business. If illegal immigrants swarm across our borders in violation
of our laws, perhaps they're just bad laws. Why bother chasing them down, arresting,
prosecuting and deporting them? If ACORN wants to engage in serial voter registration
fraud, so what? They represent the disenfranchised, so cut them some slack. If
presidential candidates want to associate with criminals and other shady characters,
well, it's a free country. We can't, after all, have suspicion, let alone guilt by
association.
All this is abetted by the liberal media and the American Civil Liberties
Union who combine to mock the law, the Constitution, God and religion
thereby cutting the ground from under any moral or legal absolutes. Relativism.
Amorality on a national scale. Roght and wrong are out the window. This, then,
clears the way for every man to do what is right in his own eyes -- unless, of course,
it runs contrary to liberal dogma. In that case offenders will be stigmatized,
ostracized and perhaps even prosecuted. In such a world the criminals are the
victims, and the victims and their champions are the crminals. As insane as it may
be, that is the direction in which liberal poicy is driving the United States of America.
With the ground cut from under objectivty, it is then a simple extension to
conduct America's relations with foreign powers on the basis of feelings. If we
like them, then our actions must be directed at making them feel good. If they don't
like us, then that must be in some way our fault. Public repentance, groveling and
subservience to the so-called "community of nations" automatically follows. That
has been a core element of liberal dogma for decades, and it is undeniably being
played out on an international scale by the current administration.
A third plank in the liberal policy platform, though not one that liberals even
remotely acknowledge is extreme naivete about the world and human nature.
Ignoring the lessons of history (Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, etc.) they
continue in the illusion that if we play nice so will the rest of the world. Believing
that men are basically good, they foolishly think that they hold the key to bringing
out the best in every man and nation, something they have yet to demonstrate. So if
we are nice to Iran and North Korea, surely they won't persist in their foolish
pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. If we try to understand Muslims better,
surely they won't fly any more planes into our buildings or try to blow up
airports bridges and tunnels in America. If the Israelis will just open the borders
to Gaza, surely Hamas will stop smuggling weapons in and raining down rockets
on Israeli citizens. You see how it goes. The question is, do you believe any of
it? Liberals do! And their foreign policy is based on it. (By the way, the extreme
logical extension of this belief is unilateral disarmament. If we give up our nukes
surely the rest of the world will too).
Relativism, appeasement and non-confrontation -- these are the philosophical
underpinnings of the liberal view ragarding how America can "just get along"
with the rest of the world. Before you get all teary-eyed and start singing Kumbayah,
remember that it was precisely such policies that allowed Hitler to conquer all
of Europe and perpetuate the atrocities of Auschwitz, Dachau, Belsen and the
other death camps. It is such a policy that allowed Stalin to create and arm
Communist Russio. It will also ineviatbly lead to Iran and North Korea threatening
the world with thermonuclear hell and Muslim extremists launching attacks on
American soil that will make 9/11 look like a tea party.
If you believe that there is an important difference between right and wrong,
legal and illegal then you are no true liberal. If you think that trash-talking
America and becoming "citizens of the world" may not be in the country's best
interests, then you certainly don' fit in with the liberal crowd. And if you
believe that the systematic weakening of the American military, the dismantling
of our intelligence services and fiddling while Tehran and Pyongyang build bombs
may not lead to a safer America, then you are no liberal. So then what are you?
What DO you believe? And more to the point, what are you going to do about
it the next time elections are gearing up. Stay silent and at home and the liberals
will keep right on doing what they're doing. By now, you can figure out the rest.