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Kids and guns and the War on Terror
July 19, 2008 | Tagged Denver Post, Kids and guns, War on Terror |
In the June 24th issue of The Denver Post, on Page 13 B, “Opinion,” there is a picture of an eleven-year old boy wearing a helmet. He is shown with a machine gun on top of a Humvee. The article in question is “Summer camp sets sights on military kids,” June 20th, Denver Post.
Two letters to the editor are printed in conjunction with the picture. Both letters express shock and horror over the picture of a young man with a gun. One letter opines that “We need to teach how to communicate through nonviolence…” The other patronizingly states, “I get that these are military kids and all.” (So military kids are somehow more animalistic and violence prone than “normal” children?) The second letter compares the picture to photos of “…Taliban children holding machine guns.” The letter ends with the question, “Aren’t we better than this?”
If Islamofascist terrorists bother to read the opinion page of the Post, there is a slim chance that some of them will laugh themselves to death. That would be a pretty good outcome for these two letters to the editor. The real danger is that ignorant people in this country will buy into the shock and horror theory of “kids and guns.”
Any society that believes itself to be too noble to defend itself is doomed. (See my post of June 19th, 2008, “Leftist Thinking Could be Fatal For U.S.”) We, as a society, do not have access to the minds of al Qaida and the Taliban. They have virtually unlimited propaganda access to us through the mainstream media. They have a religiously-inspired doctrine that prods them to sacrifice themselves and their children in the cause of a world-wide Muslim theocracy.
We apparently have a mandate to “teach how to communicate through nonviolence.” Who is going to win this war? You don’t have to have a crystal ball to figure that one out. If the people in this country don’t wake up, the establishment of the caliphate is inevitable.
I guess I feel most sorry for the formerly-free, veiled western women who will not be allowed to go to school, drive, or go outside the house without a male relative. There probably won’t be many floggings, stonings, or “honor killings.” American women will get used to being whipped by their husbands. After all, men can only use sticks no bigger than their little fingers under Sharia. Yeah! That’s it. Marry a small-boned man. You will have less severe welts. (Read: Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, Infidel, Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, NY, NY, 2007.)
Oh! I forgot. The next generation of women won’t have much choice, since they will probably be married off by their parents as child brides. (Hint: try to get an elderly husband. He probably won’t be able to hit as hard.)
Well, that’s what happens when you lose a war to an implacable, merciless enemy. Imagine the fates of American “Comfort Women,” if the Japanese Empire had won World War II. (Read: Chang, Iris, The Rape of Nanking, Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, Jackson, Tenn., 1997.)
Of course, I realize that it is much more important to teach non-violence than it is to prepare our young men and women to defend America. Heaven forfend that a familiarity with weapons should better equip our youth for service in the military and police forces. (The Left-wingers haven’t taken over yet, have they? I can still use the “H” word?)
This sort of fastidious,hoplophobic, moralistic posturing would be comic, if it did not have the tragic potential to bring a bloody end to the American experiment in republican government. We are in a war! History has not stopped! We are not living in some sort of “post-historical” age where we are immune to the results of suicidal ideation. Think about it.
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