“Those who expect to reap
the blessings of freedom,
must, like men,
undergo the fatigue
of supporting it.”
~Thomas Paine
It would seem we in the West, have but two choices in the 21st Century.
If we place world peace above all else, we will eventually capitulate to the tyranny of a One World government. We may have peace but few freedoms granted to us by a handful of plutocrats.
On the other hand, if we choose to keep our freedoms, we may also be forced to accept terrorism as a fact of life. Because in a free capitalistic society, as long as there are "haves" there will be "have nots." Thus there will always be discord. Wealth by definition is concentrated in the hands of the few, and can only be built on the backs of the many. Thus the "have nots" will always outnumber the "haves," and the "haves" will always exploit the "have nots." Eventually, the "have nots" will have had enough. They will rebel.
But out-and-out revolution is unlikely in a modern nation possessed of powerful means to control the masses of “have nots.” Therefore the “have nots” are left only with the techniques of terrorism to make their voices heard. "Haves" in adversarial nations will secretly fund and supply the “have nots” with weapons to gain advantages and to assuage anger among their own "have nots." This is a time-tested formula.
Sadly, at this stage of human evolution, there are no other realistic choices.
Those who believe an end to terrorism can be achieved, believe in a pipe dream. Perhaps modern-day terrorism might have been preventable had our past and present political leaders had any foresight; more importantly, had they had any backbone. But they continue to be slaves to their own greed, and bend to the will of the One World socialist movement (ie: Marxists – are you understanding the real enemy is not Islam? Islamic terrorists are simply the willing “have not” henchmen for the real enemy, Marxism) and that most insidious weapon of mass destruction – Political Correctness.
As a result of the PC infection, America has so many terrorist sympathizers in its own midst that terrorism eventually will become, as it has most notably in Israel and now in Europe, part of America's everyday reality. It will be here to stay. Our governmental agencies, charged with the defense of the nation, are so hamstrung by PC that, while they may foil one plot in one city, another will soon be born in another city.
Looking at it coldly, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Just as the price of your freedom to travel freely on the Interstates is a certain number of traffic deaths per year – a price we pay and hardly mention anymore – the price of Western freedom is a certain number of deaths per year attributable to terrorism.
Wait, I hear you say, these traffic deaths are "accidents" and unavoidable. Rubbish! If the kind of draconian driving laws which would be imposed by a One World government (including the types of cars and how they are powered) were ever implemented, highway death tolls would be drastically reduced. But nobody in America would tolerate such laws. Therefore, we accept higher rates of traffic deaths as part of the price of living the way we want to.
Restated, the price of your freedom to travel freely on the Interstate is a certain number of traffic deaths per year. The price of maintaining America’s free life style is a certain number of lives per year lost to terrorism.
Americans who know anything about our history and the price this nation paid in its most precious blood, are not willing to capitulate to world Marxism. Aside from its abject failure, it is bleak, discourages inventiveness, and suffocates the human spirit.
So how many casualties per year – both military and civilian – is America willing to accept to maintain its freedoms? 100? 1,000? How about 10,000 terror deaths per year? More than three 9/11's. Does that sound horrible? Far too excessive? I don't want to shock you, but here in America, just for the freedom to drive 65+ mph, we turn a blind eye to well over 40,000 deaths per year. 40,000!
(According to NHTSA statistics, in one recent
year there were over 6.8 million major accidents
on America's highways alone, in which over 41,000
were killed and another 3.5 million were injured.)
Since you can't have your cake and eat it too, are 10,000 deaths per year for America's freedoms really too much? That's 200 deaths per State. About 17 per month. In many of America’s largest cities, there are more than 17 deaths per month caused by gangs – deaths which don't buy freedom or anything else. I don't hear many Americans squawking about that either.
