The Lesson So Far

Hard Truths to Learn From Israel's War on Hezbollah

Ralph Peters writes in The New York Post concerning the larger lessons which we must learn from our experiences in the war on Islamofascism. One of the most important is that so far we have fought this war with our hands tied by political correctness. The Angry Left, both in America as well elsewhere in the West, does not really want us to win. Thus they have worked to throw up road blocks at every turn to prevent us from using the full force of our military might as well as our intelligence and civilian resources. They argue in court for terrorist rights; they leak classified national security information to help the terrorists and to thward our own people from catching them; they argue for the moral equivalence of the civilized world and the barbarians in the media every day. And they always, always always blame America first. The time must soon come when we reject the leaden baggage of leftist multiculturalism and moral equivocation. For us to survive, we must fight for our way of life and the superiority of our civilization without apology and with full confidence in the moral nature of our defense against barbarism.