Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Thursday, July 07, 2005

The war comes to London

Terrorist attacks in London this morning. Explosions in the subway, and on at least one bus. Truly amazing to me how the left in this country still cannot recognize what kind of enemy we are up against.

These pathetic, depraved terrorists attack innocent people who are simply on their way to work. They hope to make Britain cower in fear, to stand down in the fight against the terrorists. But they don't understand the British people, like they don't understand any free democratic society.

They don't understand because they are not free themselves. They are imprisoned by their hate. They seek to imprison everyone else. They use religion as a pretext, to excuse their murderous thirst for blood.

So, the terrorists will watch the British people gather themselves, mourn because they still have a human soul capable of valuing human life, and resume the fight. The terrorists will think, hmm, that didn't quite work as expected, and will plan other attacks.

They won't quit simply because there is a plea for peace. They need to be hunted down and exterminated. When terrorists are captured, they need to be interrogated, so that plans of this nature might be uncovered.

For our part, we cannot back down. It's why I think we should have gone into Syria and Iran a long time ago. I don't understand why in the days and weeks after 9/11 there wasn't a national call to service. Trying to fight this war on the backs of a volunteer army, at its current size, isn't working. As a nation we need to commit to seeing this through. otherwise who else is there to stop the terrorists? They are coming for us. What will they see when they come over the hill? People on their hands and knees in fear? Lefties saying "oh thank goodness you're here, save us from those evil conservatives in our midst." Or, will they see freedom-loving people armed to the teeth ready to turn any nations that support these terrorists into paste?

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