Given the context of decades of conflict between Iran and the US, it’s absurd to think that the determination of whether Iran is an enemy would ride on the origin of mortars and IED supplies found in Iraq. It might be of some tactical interest to understand supply lines (if the military weren’t paralyzed), but recognizing the fact that Iran is leader of global terrorism certainly doesn’t hinge on such miniscule facts. For example, a State Department report of 1999 identified Iran is the most active state sponsor of terrorism. Or one might consider Iran’s support for organizations like Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Hezbollah, or the involvement of Iran in attacks on the West over the past 50 years.
That there is some plausibility in looking at these devices to conclude that Iran is our enemy is a tribute to the effectiveness of the MSM in obliterating all historical context. As Iran flaunts world opinion to accelerate its nuclear program and proclaims “death to the Great Satan America”, we speculate that identifying Iran as the weapons manufacturer is not conclusive proof of Iran’s involvement, because some 3rd party could be the distributor. How far removed from the events of the last 50 years does one have to be in order to make such an objection seem plausible?
The term “political correctness” obscures the true question at issue: more precisely, it’s moral correctness. The Left, the American intellectuals, the church, the Right, and the terrorists all agree that altruism is a proper moral standard – selflessness is the highest virtue. That is why we’re caught in a dead-end effort to defend the US indirectly – to somehow secure the West through the vehicle of charity to the Iraqi people. It is why we have encumbered our troops with Rules of Engagement that put them in harm’s way for the sake of respecting the enemies ideals, and why we cannot name the enemy. The Right’s current attempt at defense within the moral confies set forth by the Left is doomed to fail. If the Right wants to change course and save America and their party, they’ll have to identify morality as the issue at stake. reject altruism as the basis for conducting war, and mount a unilateral defense of Western Civilization.
