Slogans and chants, generalizations and slams, "driveby's," and similar tactics have always been the communication tools of the left, whether you're talking about communists or dictators, Al Franken, Will Farrell, Janeane Garofalo, or the May Day labor demonstrators. Bush is stupid. Republicans are racist. War is bad. Make love, not war.
Not only this, liberals can’t seem to handle the complexities of life, nor of war or geo-politics. They can’t understand why we once used Saddam as an ally, and then changed and made him an enemy. They can’t figure out how war can save lives. They fail to grasp that tax cuts can help the poor.
Life is complex. It is full of paradox. You have to be principled, yes, but nimble and Machiavellian too. You might have to join with Stalin today to defeat Hitler, then later partner with the new Germany to win the cold war against Stalin. Today you defy the whole world by standing up for Israel. Tomorrow you join the world in throwing Saddam out of Kuwait. Then you defy the world again in removing Saddam from office.
Why is everything so complicated? Again, I return to the law of unintended consequences. Every action has a reaction.
Let’s consider Saddam Hussein as our example. If you remove Saddam from power, there will be a reaction. The reaction will be from the forces of evil.
Whoh! Now I’m being simplistic, right? Yes. Just as with war and peace, there is a time for being simplistic. There is a time for war, and a time for peace. There is a time to be simplistic, and a time to be complex. In the case of good and evil, we need to be simplistic, because these really do exist. Liberals can’t understand this. Hitler, in their eyes, was just a misunderstood painter who needed more maternal love. They think you can negotiate with terrorists, and so on. They are wrong and naive. There are good people, and there are bad people (and of course, those in-between). We are the good people. The U.S., England, Israel, Australia, and so on. We’re the folks in the white hats. Terrorists are the bad people. Anyone who deliberately targets innocents is evil. They are evil. Get it?
Now, the forces of evil will oppose anything the forces of good do. This is a law of nature (another simplistic notion, and totally true). In the case of Saddam, removing him will cause a power vacuum, and a subsequent battle for the vacated power. The forces of evil will try to fill any vacuum. The Iraq war, then, will not be over until that power vacuum is conquered by someone. The left would just as well let the forces of evil fill that power vacuum. They think it hurts too much to wage war.
So, let me repeat, and say it slowly for liberals, there are two wars. One, the removal of evil. Two, conquering those who want to fill the power vacuum with a new evil.
Liberals can’t hold all these complexities in their heads. They think, we got rid of Saddam, so now there should be peace in the world, right? And if there’s not peace, then we were wrong to remove Saddam. They don’t understand that liberty is never a given. It must be won. This is not a static thing. Life is more like a Star Wars movie (you can understand this analogy, can’t you?). The enemies keep coming. You have to defeat them all the time, one after the other. If you’re good, you zap them enough and you win most of the time, and may even have moments or periods of peace. Then, you have to fight again. Why? I don’t know. I wish life weren't this way, but it is. I think God has set up our existence as a huge elaborate test of our goodness and character.
So, we all have to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same time. We have to grasp the complexities of the world we live in. The easy answers and slogans of the left just don’t cut it.
Are you walking? Have a stick of Doublemint.
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