Victor Davis Hanson moral clarity huge BUMPThe world is watching the Baathist and Islamic warriors of the Sunni Triangle and the Shiite militias and what they see they most surely do not like—for these fascists and theocrats are as foul and odious folk as they are on the wrong side of history. For a year now our soldiers have privately assured us that they were dealing with an enemy primordial and cruel. Now with the proof of filmed executions, desecration of the dead, the macabre hostage taking, and the shooters caught on tape firing from mosques and schools, the global community at last sees that this really is a war between civilization and barbarism, and one, for the world’s own sake, we Americans cannot and will not lose.
At a time when bin Laden assured the Middle East that Americans were weak and decadent, the US military tore apart the most fanatical and savage fighters of a savage Middle East—the only reprieve came from diplomats who fretted about the rhetoric of the hapless Arab Street. Far better than we at home, our soldiers grasped that fighting fascists for consensual government is a noble cause and should have been the source of great pride among the American people.
No, despite all the chaos in Washington, these are not bad, but rather noble times, among the best I think in our history. So let us remember the famous words of Virgil –indeed perhaps the most moving in all of Latin literature.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
“The day will come when even this ordeal will be a sweet thing to remember.”
And so it shall be when it is all said and done.
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