Sorry – You will do war

Continuing on from Sorry – We don’t do war; remember the other day we heard that Jihadists in Somalia dragged the bodies of two Somali soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu. I’m sure most of us also remember the American soldiers dragged through the streets of Mogadishu some years ago. I’m sure you also remember the four American contractors who also met a similar fate in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. When we hear of this and see it, we recoil from it, it’s too barbaric for us, and we walk away and go back up the hill to the moral high ground and proclaim that we won’t go down to that level.

So what did the Ethiopians do, we didn’t see them de-escalating, drawing up exit plans and redeploying did we, they got back in there shelling and blowing crap to smithereens. The unfortunate reality is that Ethiopians in back water Africa understand war better than we do. A recent example, 15 of Britain’s soldiers were captured and the best the west can come up with is ‘grave concern’, ‘outrageous’, ‘a disgrace’ and now ‘unacceptable’, one morning I heard on the radio that the consensus on the west’s side was how to get them back with both sides not ‘losing face’, win-win and all that. The Iranians already had so much face they couldn’t be bothered, yet we insist that they lose none.

A few weeks ago I was browsing through a report of the Gathering of Eagles on Michelle Malkin’s blog, they are the anti anti-war protestors that are getting together to protect war memorials and oppose the anti-war protestors. Among the placards that were carried, one caught my attention ‘Peace Thru Superior Firepower’. Contrast this to the ‘Arms Are For Hugging Not For War’ slogan carried by your everyday peace-protestor or foul-smelling hippie. If you look at an Australia, Canada or Europe, most of us would avoid the foul smelling hippie and the ranting peace-protestor in the street. But whether we like it or not, we as a society have aligned ourselves more with the foul-smelling hippie and the ranting peace protestor.

We have deluded ourselves into believing that walking down the main street of Sydney waving a ‘Give Peace a Chance’ placard is enough to keep the barbarian outside the city. Well, what if he’s already inside? See below an incident that happened just this weekend in a Sydney street. We use our arms for hugging, some chose to use them for punching.

A man has been admitted to hospital with bruising to the brain after being set upon by a group of about eight men in Sydney's inner city overnight, police say.

No he wasn’t dragged down George street, stoned and mutilated, but that doesn’t mean you can go back to sleep. Hopefully that will never happen here, but remember what some did to defenseless cats last year, teenagers who video-taped themselves sexually assaulting a mentally disabled girl, the gang rapes that happened in public areas and the fact that assaults like the above happen every weekend in Sydney. Do we have to be stoned and mutilated to understand that the barbaric and depraved are already in the city running loose and unchecked by a police force that has its arms and legs tied by governments of our choosing?

Coming back to the UK Soldiers and the more-than-likely win-win outcome for both sides, yes we can sit there on the moral high ground and proclaim that we ‘Gave peace a chance’ and everybody won. Yes we have gay rights, women’s rights and the rule of law, and the enemy does not. We have also outsourced our health, our welfare and our security to either our governments or to America, not my responsibility, someone else can do it. Some fool in Europe once retorted to Mark Steyn that some in Europe want to have guns but they cannot. Think about the folly of that.

Any financial adviser will tell you never to put all your eggs in one basket, but by outsourcing our security to America that’s exactly what we’ve done. Many of us have forgotten that healthcare to civil liberties, are all enabled and enforced by someone with a gun. Our enemies have not and much to their surprise they find they don’t even need the gun. The British Embassy in Tehran is pelted with bricks and stones by Iranian thugs, but will anyone on the inside think to send a few back over the wall or are they too busy scrambling up to the moral high ground proclaiming ‘we don’t do war’. It’s there for the entire world to see, a western nuclear power humiliated daily by a couple of wankers in long dresses wielding sticks and stones. It’s almost pitiful.

Are we any better down here, well we haven’t had to gorge ourselves internationally on humble pie like the English, but remember the Redfern and Macquarie fields riots, the G20 rioting in Melbourne? Our police had to stand there and be pelted for hours by thugs while we were stretched to the limit baking humble pies.

Yet, how many of us are willing to give up the dole, the PBS, the needle exchange program, the weekly booze-fests, the free this and the subsidized that, the healthcare system that’s already falling apart in exchange for more spending on the military, growing our army, letting our police do what they need to and taking on the responsibility of arming and defending our own castles.

Because of this, our enemies see us as soft and fat; they are not stupid, they can ‘Google’ us and see that some of us need heavy-duty stretchers to carry us out to heavy-duty ambulances to drive us out to heavy-duty helicopters to carry us to a heavy-duty hospital bed to fix a broken leg that wasn’t ‘heavy-duty’ enough to carry our weight. They see how much we have and see that we cannot protect it even if we wanted to.

The bitter reality is that when we surrendered our guns to the government or whoever, not only did we give up our ability to defend ourselves, but we also gave up our will to defend ourselves. There is only one way back.

Image via Michelle Malkin