Ivory Dome

Listening to Bill Bennett’s Morning in America this morning, I heard this quote from John Stuart Mill:

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ”

Thank God for the men and women who rose to the challenge, especially those who paid the ultimate price. I’m reminded of the words to the song, We Were There: “No, it wasn’t always easy, it wasn’t always fair. But when Freedom called we answered, we were there.”

Thank God for young men like my son-in-law, a PV2 in the U.S. Army, who just finished his Advanced Individual Training and will be headed for Germany on June 12. I pray that he’ll never have to see combat, but I’m confident that if he does, he will proudly serve and protect.

Thank God for people like Bodacious and Celtictexan, both of whom have tasted the sting of battle in defense of our country.

On this Memorial Day, I feel humbled to be counted as a veteran among those who served their country in war, because in my 20 years of service, I never had to do so.

We are engaged in a war unlike any we have seen before. There is no Forward Edge of the Battle Area, the enemy doesn’t wear a recognizable uniform, and for the first time in more than a century, we are vulnerable on our own mainland. We must stay the course and prevail or run the risk of losing the freedoms that so many secured and defended for us in the past. Please take a moment and pray that we don’t lose our resolve.

- Hello?
- Allah akhbar!
- Omar, what are you doing, calling me on my cell phone? Do you want to get us both killed?
- Not to worry, Ahmed! I switched by carrier to Qwest. No one will ever even know about this call, much eavesdrop on our conversation.
- Right you are. I switched to Qwest, too. So, now that we can speak freely, what the latest plan from Osama? IED’s, suicide missions, dirty bombs?
- Better than that! Al Qaeda’s come up with something called “Plan B”.
- Plan B? What’s that?
- It’s a brilliant idea, really. Psychological warfare against the infidels. In the first phase, we eradicate all memories of the Great Attack of September 11. Our operatives in newsrooms throughout the West have been hiding, and in some cases erasing all video evidence that it ever took place. They’ll also make sure that those photos from Abu Ghraib are shown as often as possible. Others have been strategically attending previews of that terrible movie “Flight 93,” shouting “Too soon! Too soon!” at appropriate times.
- Sounds interesting! Go on.
- Once our real intentions have been concealed, we’ll direct the West’s hatred toward the real Satan: George W. Bush. You know how effective chants are in working people into a frenzy: “Bush lied! People died! Bush lied! People died!” Before long, the crowds will hate Bush as much as we hate those Zionist pigs. Once that blind rage takes hold, there’ll be no stopping it. Anything will justify bringing down Bush. Mothers will embrace their sons’ killers. Jihadists who behead Westerners and blow up Iraqi women and children will be hailed as freedom fighters. Intelligence officers will compromise sources and methods to willing members of the media, and as the public cheers that they know all the state secrets, so will we! Never again will we have to forge documents to bring Bush down, like we tried with that National Guard memo in 2004. The people will automatically blame Bush for everything: natural disasters, skyrocketing gas prices, bird flu – you name it, it’s Bush’s fault.
- What about acceptance of Islam?
- We’ll project our less popular beliefs onto the Christians. Our friends in the media will convince everyone that “death to the sodomizers” is an aberration of True Islam, while at the same time portraying those Baptists in Kansas with their “God Hates Fags” signs as mainstream Christianity. Why, after awhile, I’ll bet even Bush himself will embrace Islam as the Religion of Peace!
- Omar, have you lost it? Are you trying to tell me that the infidels will support us over their own culture without the threat of imminent death hanging over their head?
- Maybe you’re right, Ahmed. Besides, if we could convert the West without jihad, we’d miss out on those 70 virgins. So, what’s it going to be: IED’s, suicide missions, dirty bombs …