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Posted on 09/11/2026 2:45:25 AM PDT by texas booster
We will not win this war against any enemy until we believe that we have a right to kill them so that they do not kill us.
In the age of endless wars, we also celebrate endless anniversaries. September 11 has come around again. After it, October 7. The difference between these and Dec 7, is that a horrifying day was redeemed through determination and victory.
America has long since proven that it can militarily defeat Islamic terrorists, what it has not proven is that it can unite its own people or even its own leaders around the moral conviction that it has the right to do so. The problem doesn’t lie in how many bombs we have, but whether we’re willing to use them. We had our enemies within in WWII, but we did not allow them to handicap the country, lie to its people and play for the enemy. We didn’t allow ourselves to be morally divided and so we were never morally conquered. That gave us freedom of action.
It was a freedom of action that we would never have again during the Cold War or the Islam War that followed. The amount of media coverage focusing on ‘Islamophobia’ on September 11 or the media coverage of the campaign against Iran offer ample reminders of that.
We will not win this war or any war against any enemy until we believe that we have a right to kill them so that they do not kill us.
That is what winning looks like.
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Winning means joining moral conviction to military might. Rhetoric without might is worthless and military might without moral conviction even more so. It means making sure that there is a clear choice: America’s side or that of its enemies. Yes, “either you’re with us or with the terrorists.”
Until we’re ready to do that, wars will be endless, endlessly lost and anniversaries will be an endless cycle of futile grief.
Like so many other things about America and the West, it doesn’t have to be this way. We don’t have to live like this. We just need the courage, not to charge into a burning building or down an airplane aisle at a terrorist with a boxcutter, but to demand real change.
Until we’re ready to do that, wars will be endless, endlessly lost and anniversaries will be an endless cycle of futile grief.
Mr Greenfield just nails it - an excellent essay on the anniversary of 9/11.
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Indeed. Until we honestly face the planned Islamic conquest of the world, we will have nothing but weepy “remembrances” forever…as they continue their conquests unabated. World history is very instructive on this and we are totally ignoring it.
We visited Vienna a few days ago and were at the site where the Ottoman Empire was twice repulsed and thrown back thus saving Europe and Christendom:
1529 (First Siege of Vienna)
Suleiman the Magnificent’s army laid siege from late September and failed. After a last major assault on 14 October was beaten off, the Ottomans withdrew on 15 October 1529.
1683 (Second Siege / Battle of Vienna)
The much larger Ottoman force under Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa began the siege in mid-July. The city was relieved on 12 September 1683 when a coalition army led by King John III Sobieski of Poland defeated the Ottomans at Kahlenberg.
The West has no spine and refuses to learn lessons.
The naton does NOT have the political will to execute that kind of escalation. We certianly are not willing to commit a large force of ground troops.
We do best with small scale operations where we can get in, do what we are going to do (which does NOT mean “kill everybody”), and finish up, posspecial ops.sibly with a new relationshio (Grenada, Venezuela).
When we get involved in the Middle East, we make things worse. Being bigger is not enough. Somethings are not possible. Somethings are not politically possible. Some thinbs are not worth doing. Some things are werong to do.
We can give Israel the green light to do what they have to do if they believe they are threatened. Israel has had 70+ years to set themselves up, and they are ingenious at special ops. If we do not get kinetically involved, and allow each nation to make itself Great Again, we might be trusted as an honest broker in efforts like the Abraham Accords.
We have to clean up our own house, and slow the increase or debt.
It’s nothing more than self-defense. Not to make light of a deadly serious subject, don’t let word salads complicate making a cheese sandwich.
Unfortunately, humanity has fought wars and always will. It’s what we do, divide and conquor. It’s never changed. There were tribal wars and slavery in America long before Europeans got here.
Even chimpanzees have territorial wars and many animals protect their territory so it’s inbred instinct.
the enemy is already inside the gate
War is of necessity, unimaginably brutal!
But, here’s a guy, who’s likely never experienced brutality in his cloistered life, telling the rest of us how we lack the “killer instinct” to wage war!
He’s a male “cheer leader” at an NFL game.
Get outta here!
Thanks for posting. TRUE.
Or, just kick them all out even if they do.
No need to conquer them. They will collapse back into their static, backward, ignorant, diseased, arrogant, smelly miasma of a culture.
Which we can isolate then forget about.
Ship them all back to Moose Limb countries. They will be happier, we will be happier.
The Nation does not have the political will to survive much longer and if you toss in 40 trillion dollars in national debt has already determined the final outcome.. That is the realistic truth.
And don’t let any of them immigrate to the US ever again. For any reason.
“””””we also celebrate endless anniversaries. September 11 has come around again. After it, October 7. The difference between these and Dec 7, is that a horrifying day was redeemed through determination and victory.”””””
Which one is October 7?
That is because our nation is no longer a country of Americans. It has been infiltrated and infested by islamists, and its psyche has been destroyed by leftists in academia and media, which have actively denigrated its history and character ceaselessly, for decades.
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous”. You can’t kill your way out of these conflicts. We killed two million vietnamese, did we win? Do you not think we are brutal enough? The russkies lost in afg and it’s hard to imagine a more brutal army than the soviets.
Very true.
Now, to find politicians that an allow one of these things to happen.
What is your post about?
Marking.
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