veritas invokes Steyn

veritas invokes Steyn on Kerry, and thinks about this nation

"The 'I'll hunt down and kill America's enemies' line was written for him and planted on his lips. The 'It's just a nuisance like prostitution' line is his, and how he really thinks of the issue."
~~ Mark Steyn

Steyn is exactly on the mark here.

Kerry must either utterly misread the nature of the threat [How often have prostitutes of Mafiosi flown airliners into skyscrapers? Or tried to get nukes to blow up an American city? They need a functioning America, too.], or deep down he wants America's place in the world diminished to the point where we cannot hold to our own nature and principles.

Does Kerry want us reduced to being a "big Belgium"?

Frankly, that's the best possible assumption I can make about his weird worldview. The BEST one.

Could Belgium hold to its own if Britain or some like-sized power said: "Toe this line or die?" (Of course, that assumes such a nation would have credibility as a belligerent. Power without will is little different from powerlessness.)

But that's exactly what Kerry, the utopian Left, the jealous former imperial powers enervated over the last two centuries, and, most importantly, what our DEADLY ENEMIES want us brought to. They do NOT want the United States to have a freedom of action they do not have. A freedom of action that permits us to confront any threat to freedom in the world solely on our own counsel if we see the need and no others have the nerve to stand with us.

We should all feel a chill that the one nation that has freed the enslaved in hundreds of millions, that has "conquered" foreign lands only for the "territory" needed to bury our warriors, that this is the one nation that none want to see free to act.

There is no way that the United States can be constrained by foreign arms. But we can certainly be emasculated. Like Jefferson's "subtle corps of sappers," some work for that emasculation tirelessly.

I do not see myself as an optimist or pessimist in looking at these times and these issues. To be either means conclusions must be shaped to suit the predilection. I don't believe my thinking is quite so weak, so malleable. Certainly, I try to think more clearly.

But I do see myself as an observer, if not quite yet a student, of human nature. And in that, I recognize that majorities, while they can lead us down, never lead mankind forward. That's done by a few visionary leaders and their courageous loyalists [just look at our astonishing, unparalleled Revolution!]. And so it will be in this challenging century.

America may still, as Churchill noted, try many wrong ways before we recognize the right one for our challenges [I specifically include election results for the next few cycles]. Human wisdom is finite. Human prescience is even more limited. But the will to freedom and the courage to protect it, if these underlie the rest, will be enough and more.

Leaders will come. Bold loyalists will rise. The light of freedom shines.

Rely on it.

~~ veritas


"The day will come when even this ordeal will be a sweet thing to remember."
~~ Virgil

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated."
~~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) December 19, 1776; Source: The American Crisis, No. 1