Engagement of Rules

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— Published August 21, 2010 | The Wall Street Journal

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There are those who look at conflict as it is, and ask, "What are the rules of engagement"? I see an existential clash of civilizations and ask, "Why not engage the rules of total war"?

Western civilization is under attack by international terror organizations, all of whom have explicitly stated their aim to annihilate our chosen way of life, as well as the lives of those who live it. These rogue regimes and death-dealing sects, as well as their mindless enablers on the periphery of perverse political correctness, have explicitly declared and unambiguously demonstrated their willingness to commit, nay, their passion for committing indiscriminate murder and mayhem. But our Leader of the Free World can't bring Himself to acknowledge that they mean what they say and mean to persist, to the bitter end, in doing what they do.

Many have wondered why the civilized world was so slow to realize the scope of the evils launched by Nazi Germany. I do not presume to know the myriad contributing factors, but it seems clear to me that that monstrous malignancy was unprecedented in modern times. Not so for the monstrous malignancy now metastasizing.

As for the miserable little self-righteous pricks who see fit to perpetrate their personal vendettas against those who risk their lives to protect the rights granted to those miserable excuses for holier-than-thou-ism, have we not a Predator or two to spare? You could look it up in the rules of engagement for total war.

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