31 January-1 February 2007

I do believe I live in a world of flaky, weak-minded people. Jacques Chirac thinks that if Iran has the bomb, it is no problem, then says he didn't mean it. The Republicans in the U.S. Congress say that they want victory in Iraq, then say that it will be too late if it doesn't happen in 6-9 months, giving the signal to the enemy of the time they need to maintain their pressure on the Americans and the Iraqi government in order to ensure American retreat and victory. The Democrats say they want immediate withdrawal, then they don't, they want to cut funding for the troops, then they don't. John Kerry waits until he goes to Davos, Switzerland to tell the world's elites that America is a global pariah. Our military, knowing that Iran and North Korea are working at breakneck speed to perfect long-range missiles capable of hitting London along with creating the bomb before the end of the year, announces that they should have a missile defense shield that would include the Middle East, by the end of the year. Good move, guys, that tells Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il exactly how much of a window of time they have before they can strike the USA. And Hugo Chavez has been given power to rule by absolute decree for the next 18 months, enough to form a large armed force for wholesale guerrilla warfare in the Americas, from La Paz to Oaxaca.

The enemy, if I am a betting man, are busy reading history. In particular, the Tet Offensive of the Vietnamese communists in February 1968, and the timing of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Singapore-Malaya, Formosa (Taiwan), Indochina, Burma, and the islands of the western Pacific, all in December 1941. What do they have to find in those stories? Two important principles: 1) even if militarily unsuccessful, in fact, a disaster, the sight of an all-out grand uprising in Tet intimidated the American people, led by their elites, into turning and running from Vietnam; 2) the best time to attack your enemy is just before he is prepared to fight you: he is not prepared yet to fight, and you can destroy much more of his military resources if you wait until he is almost ready to fight. Don't think that Ahmadinejad and bin Laden aren't thinking those things.

And the party goes on, even down to my own life and circle of "friends" and acquaintances. It is one reason why Gail and I are now looking for a new community of Christians where we will worship; the other one is led and frequented by people who think that the mad dogs of war can be reasoned with and all will be well if we just "celebrate diversity." As Jesus said, "Think that I have come to bring peace? Nay, not peace, but a sword."

Tick, tock, tick, tock.

---Belisarius II---