[GMMAC]

[gcruse]

“the demand is for safety, even at the price of slavery.”

It’s a mindset, David, shared and promulgated by such as the Vatican, where Popes advocate for stability over freedom. The tossing of a murderous Iraqi dictator was criticized because it abrogated world peace.

Unfortunately, the mindset is lodged even in its detractors. Witness the author, David Warren, just paragraphs above the excerpt.

“The problem with defeatism is that it leads to defeat — not to peace. “

The goal has to victory,David,not peace. The peace of the grave comes soon enough. Peace is the weak tea of yellow ribbons and wanting the troops home now. Victory brings flying flags.

Victory takes names and kicks ass; peace is the petri dish that incubates the hatred underpinning the next war, hatred that was not eradicated when peace took precedence over unconditional victory in the last war.

Pacifist John Lennon didn’t sing, “Give victory a chance,” after all, but we should.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Defeatism leads to defeat

...and defeat leads to the Dark Side.

[headsonpikes]

All too true.

[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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