Political foo: not warriors

[alpharaposa]

Steyn: once you're in a war, the only choice is to win or lose

The invaluable Brussels Journal recently translated an interview with the writer Oscar van den Boogaard from the Belgian paper De Standaard. A Dutch gay "humanist" (which is pretty much the trifecta of Eurocool), van den Boogaard was reflecting on the accelerating Islamification of the Continent and concluding that the jig was up for the Europe he loved. "I am not a warrior, but who is?" he shrugged. "I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it."

Too many of us are only good at enjoying freedom. That war-is-never-the-answer 25 percent are in essence saying that there's nothing about America worth fighting for, and that, ultimately, the continuation of their society is a bet on the kindness of strangers -- on the goodnaturedness of Kim Jong Il and the mullahs and al-Qaida and what the president called "al-Qaida lookalikes and al-Qaida wannabes" and whatever nuclear combination thereof comes down the pike.

Comments

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

No, we are not warriors, not even in America, with our multitudes of armchair cavaliers watching the war on Fox or CNN, let alone in Europe where the fashionably effete sniff at such barbarity. I think we hate our warriors. I know there's a lot of lip service paid to the men and women in uniform, but it rings hollow to me. Sometimes I think we will be doomed but for the weakness of our enemies. But maybe I'm just a cynic. Maybe.

On the other hand, God is a warrior, and He fights on. In this I take comfort.

[stryck.livejournal.com]

While it is possible to lose that warrior spirit, I think it is also possible to relearn it.

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, possible. But where is the interest in doing so? Certainly not amongst our civil authorities. They want a warrior caste and a peasantry/serfhood, not a warrior-citizen republic.

[aefenglommung.livejournal.com]

Your post reminds me of M. Whatsisname, the French gov't official, who fled the German takeover of France in 1940. When asked by a British reporter why France fell, he replied, "Because they had too many men like me."