I don't agree. I've felt at war since the second plane slammed into the World Trade Center, ending any doubt that there was some horrible accident. I have not lost that feeling. I'm at war.
I think the problem is that our Left isn't at war. But since our media and elites are largely of the Left, they can say "America" isn't at war. Heck, no American they know is at war, right?
Case in point, Iran has launched a new English language television station to appeal to the West:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday inaugurated an English-language satellite television channel to counter what Iran claims is the West's influence in covering news, state television reported.
"Press TV should broadcast the truth to the world," said Ahmadinejad in a ceremony marking the inauguration. "This network should be a podium for freedom seekers and Muslims of the world."
This morning on Fox News, Juan Williams (also of NPR and Fox's resident Lefty) complained that the station was "wacko." The station embraced terrorism and denied the truth of the recent terror plots in Britain.
Williams said that while he would be happy to hear the Iranian view on the news, the station was just an outrage.
Watching Williams, it was clear that it truly never occurred to him that the wacko denial of Islam doing anything wrong acually was the Iranian point of view. He assumed that the Iranians couldn't possibly actually think what they are saying on their TV station is truly what they think. It must be propaganda, right?
That's the problem. Williams isn't dealing with the Tehran League of Women Voters. The Iranians are unreasonable. They are wacko. And not surprisingly, their broadcasts reflect that insanity.
Respect our enemies enough to believe that when they say they want us dead that they actually want us dead.
Oh, and then kill them. Don't forget that part. We're at war with them. Remember?
UPDATE: Let me clarify something. I respect Willliams. He is the resident Lefty on Fox, but by stating that I meant that as a statement of fact and not an insult. I don't agree with him often, but he seems to be a decent and reasonable man. And the fact that it was apparenlty incomprehensible to him that the Iranians mean what they say gives me little hope that the rest of the Leftosphere has the capacity--let alone the desire--to understand that we are at war.
