Posted on 04/21/2003 11:13:40 PM PDT by abigail2
Fear of the U.S. Is the Beginning of Wisdom
Exclusive commentary by Patrick Rooney
Apr 21, 2003
Today and henceforth, I shall fill the peoples under all heaven with fear and terror of you. --Deuteronomy 2:25
Our current tour stop in the War on Terrorism is Iraq. And while we’re there, we’re letting Syria know we’re in the neighborhood, and wouldn’t be too inconvenienced to, ahem, “stop on by”, depending on their hospitality or the lack thereof.
We’re speaking loudly too, to Iran and North Korea. Believe me, we now have the attention of every terrorist and terrorist sympathizer in the world.
Meanwhile a lot of Iraqis are angry and want us to leave. A few weeks ago, these people were under the iron grip of Saddam Hussein, fearing torture if they dared dissent. Then last week they were beating Saddam’s statue with their shoes. The vicious tyrant had been in power for nearly a quarter century, we removed him in three weeks, and now supposedly we’ve overstayed our welcome? Please.
After our fast demolition of Saddam’s regime, many in the world fear the United States. Some in the U.S. are embarrassed that we are feared. Instead of fear, they want the world to love us. There is only one problem with that—evil can never love good, but it can and does fear good.
The Hollywood Left now fears us too. Super Leftie Tim Robbins last week compared America to the old Soviet Union. He spoke of a “chill wind blowing.” Good, let him stay indoors.
America is the leading force in the world, thank God. Imagine if you will for a moment, that America was weak and Saddam Hussein had at his disposal the world’s greatest military force. Even the America-hating “peace” activists would be running for cover!
Fear is not a dirty word. It is indeed the beginning of wisdom, the wisdom of knowing where the true power is. If you do not yet have the grace to love God, at least the knowledge of His power should cause you to fear Him. The same is true in the geo-political realm.
Trying to get other countries to love us is a waste of time. Loving us would be better than fearing us, but fearing us is far superior to the world thinking we are a paper tiger. That only encourages us to be attacked. As William Kristol correctly pointed out, Osama bin Laden viewed the United States as a “weak horse”. He had seen American foreign policy weakness in response to many attacks against us including the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. Believe me, assuming he’s even alive, bin Laden no longer views the United States as a weak horse.
September 11th gave us the resolve to once and for all stamp out world terrorism. We must never apologize for that resolve.
Much of the world’s population has been brainwashed by their slanted media and their corrupt political and religious leaders. So has our own populace. Many have spent their formative years in government schools run by America-hating liberals. Why should we be surprised that when these kids get of age, they reject us so vigorously. Their brainwashed minds and hardened hearts will not hear us, no matter how rational and kind we are. What’s more we deserve their rejection, for turning over our children’s minds to corrupt, godless people.
The goal of terrorists is to strike fear into the hearts and minds of their enemies. Now the roles have reversed, and the terrorizer has become the terrorized. That’s beautiful.
A defeated evil enemy will always beg for sympathy. But we must never forget who the terrorists and their sympathizers are, foreign and domestic, and how they behaved when they were in power. And we must never feel sorry for them after we have defeated them.
I have said that America is the greatest force for good in the world. Terrorism is the greatest force for evil in this world. The showdown is on, and by my count so far it’s U.S. two, terrorism nothing.
May our enemies’ wisdom increase!
Patrick Rooney is the Director of Special Projects at BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man.”
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Geez, now we DON'T think we're the bad guys!!
All of this, in a broad and general sense, was utterly predictable. Of course the radical left (and much of the extreme right) will never get it. No matter how many times the beneficent effects that flow from a demonstration of principled American resolve are proven, they will continue to predict that only doom and gloom can result from anything short of full appeasement of evil enemies.
Consider how many times Reagan alone showed the value of a stalwart policy toward adversaries: Deployment of INF (intermediate range missles in Europe) which led to eventual negotiated withdrawl of all Soviet missles in a few short years; Defense of El Salvador against insurgencies financed by Nicaragua, the Cubans and Soviets, which led to the emergence of a centrist and democratic Salvadorian government in a few short years; Support for the Contras against the Marxist Sandanistas in Nicaragua, which consumed billions in precious Soviet military aid, built the insurgents into a democratic force, and eventually deligitimized the Sandanistas to the point where they were forced to hold elections. There was also the forcible removal of a Marxist regime in Grenada, and of an authoritarian regime in Panama which, along with the efforts in El Salvador and Nicaragua, secured democracy in Central America, and thwarted the Soviet plan which was (almost certainly) to establish a communist regime in Mexico, right on our borders.
The left opposed ALL of the above, and predicted that nothing but disaster, not excluding nuclear annihilation, would result.
Thanks for the ping.
"The only lesson I'd like to see the world learn from Iraq is that the US can be a real M_F_ when they've been pushed too far."
Fear is not a dirty word. It is indeed the beginning of wisdom, the wisdom of knowing where the true power is. If you do not yet have the grace to love God, at least the knowledge of His power should cause you to fear Him. The same is true in the geo-political realm.
Trying to get other countries to love us is a waste of time. Loving us would be better than fearing us, but fearing us is far superior to the world thinking we are a paper tiger. That only encourages us to be attacked."
Very well stated. Very Machievellian. Very accurate.
Teddy Roosevelt said these things a hundred years ago, and we have had to re-learn them, unfortunately
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