It requires intelligence to overcome the natural instinct for survival and commit suicide. The same intelligence allows humanity to deny the threat to its existence when the signs are all around them.
A deer would smell the danger and run.
We refuse to see, to smell, to hear.
We will not strike first. The will to survive has evaporated from the west.
We can't even admit to ourselves who is the enemy.(one of them, Islam is only one) We make up nonsense to avoid the truth. We declare a war on tactics rather than the ideology that employs those tactics.
I'm surprised we call it a war on terror when a war on massed cavalry charges would have been a surer win. Or why not a war on the throwing of hand grenades or the bolt action rifle.
Maybe because some don't want to win, but love the distant boogeyman for its own sake.
Very well stated, and the source of frustration for many of us.
The willingness to be victims, and the subdued ones, for most people, is beyond my comprehension, however.
Clearly what you say is true, and is the main source of the disrespect that I feel for our leadership.
The war on terror, but not on the clear cause of it, islam, is beyond my comprehension.
I do realize that diplomacy plays a role in a civilized world, but when it is used as a tool for denial, and as a substitute for effective action, I part company.