…illustreras nog bäst av Cox & Forkum:

Leonard Peikoffs artikel, ”End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”, som skrevs strax efter attackerna den 11 september 2001 (närmare bestämt 2001/10/2), är tyvärr lika aktuell idag som för fyra år sedan:

The choice today is mass death in the United States or mass death in the terrorist nations. Our Commander-In-Chief must decide whether it is his duty to save Americans or the governments who conspire to kill them.

Varför är Peikoffs artikel lika aktuell idag? Det förklarar Onkar Ghates i ”America is Not Winning the War”:

How then goes the war? An objective answer must be: badly. But our cause is not yet lost. We lack not the wealth nor the skilled military necessary to defeat the enemy, only the ideas and the will. If we articulate and practice a rational foreign policy, one actually premised on America’s self-interest, we will prevail. Nothing more is needed to achieve victory than to replace the pragmatism and self-sacrifice now dictating America’s actions with the principles of reason and rational self-interest; nothing less will do.

Och i ”The Timid War on Terrorism”, av Yaron Brook och Onkar Ghate:

The Bush Administration lacks moral confidence. At every turn we blushingly pretended that we are fighting to liberate the oppressed Afghans or tyrannized Iraqis–anything but confess what we should proclaim loudly: that we value and seek to protect American lives. Facing the prospect of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Administration quailed. It should have asserted that, though such casualties are regrettable, they are the responsibility of the regime that initiated force against us. Instead, America was guilt-ridden, apologetic and appeasing.

We are not winning the war, but we could be.

Our Founding Fathers did not have even one hundredth of America’s present military power, but they were armed with the conviction that political freedom is an ideal worth fighting for. Their moral certainty gave them the courage necessary to fight for their independence from England, the 18th century’s lone superpower. We are at war with militant Islamists who lust for our annihilation. Our survival depends, not only on having a more powerful military, but on the courage to use our might–to act on what is morally proper–to act on our urgent need of ferocious self-defense.