Posted by
Randy Miller on Monday, September 18, 2006 12:16:05 AM
Major Victory, a contestant on Sci-Fi Channels recent "reality" show,
Who Wants to be a Super Hero (pure camp, and I mean that as a compliment) had a slogan: "Be a Winner--not a weiner." Could a more apt admonition to our times be had?
We are a nation of girly men, as recent events point out, or at least a nation led by them. The military brass, or someone who sets rules of engagement, nixed the opportunity to splatter some Taliban at a funeral. Called off the predator drone because it would be insensitive to whack someone in a cemetary. As if a culture that has no respect for life deserves respect for their dead.
The Supreme court has declared terrorists deserve the protections of the Geneva convention which were designed to prevent the warfare that they embrace. And the media and congress cry foul when the President tries to spell out just what the Geneva convention is?
Captured terrorists are treated to gourmet meals and an acrobatics show as military police try to work around their religious sensibilities. Demagogues scream torture when loud music is played to break these men who spend their time excreting bodily fluids to fling at our soldiers.
Examples of suicidal sensitivity abound in this PC age. Republican "hawks" are girly men, and their opponents are positively post-op. And don't look at Europe if you want to see survival instincts. From a
Dutch Justice Minister advocating Sharia, to banning Piglett in offices and self-censoring cartoons, to playing nuclear patty-cake with Iran, "diplomacy", i.e., pre-emptive surrender rules the day. Perhaps it has to do with being a geriatric continent, as Mark Steyn laments frequently, or as likely a pathological self-hatred at the level of the cultural elite. Or simply the church of multiculuralism unable to do anything to the barbarians at the gate other than roll out the red carpet.
Will is our nation's fate sealed as Europes appears to be? I doubt it. We have at least faith enough in
something to reproduce ourselves, as I note with satisfaction every time I see a Sunday school class. And when the riots grace our streets, I have to believe Americans will throw off the shackles of multiculturalism. Realize that common sense is far more reliable than non-judgementalism.
But if we continue to act like weiners, we will not be the winners. Nor will the world, if Sharia continues to grow and America fears countering it, here and around the world. With action, and more importantly, truth.