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The Moral Emptiness of the Left

13 September 2006

I just read what was, perhaps, the best article I’ve ever read. It was written by James Lewis at The American Thinker and I wish I’d written it. It embodies what I have been thinking and writing in my head for some time. Since I can’t improve on Lewis’ work I’ll just let him speak for himself.

The Moral Emptiness of the Left
September 12th, 2006

Life consists of choices, and no choice is graver than war or peace. The 9/11 assault on New York City and Washington, D.C. posed such a choice. Should we go to war against bin Laden and the Taliban? The answer had to be “Yes” or “No.” Those who deny that the President of the United States was confronted with that choice are not morally serious. They do not live in this world.

In the days after 9/11 it was clear that no criminal prosecution could work, because the Taliban baldly lied to the world about hiding al Qaeda and bin Laden. Thus the only choices for the United States were to do nothing, or to change the Taliban regime to get at al Qaeda. Doing nothing would have rendered us more of a target. Thus the war in Afghanistan was the moral choice to make—indeed, the only moral choice. The alternative to fighting and killing—remember, this is the real world—was helplessness.

In this world, helpless superpowers are just shark bait. We fought, and we were right to fight.

Read the rest of this article here.

H/T The Absurd Report