First, we have learned once again that in the Middle East, weakness kills. There is no amount of tolerance, understanding, or sympathy that will appease a Muslim radical, and the radicals will indeed see that tolerance as an invitation to strike. The attacks in Egypt and Libya on September 11 — of all days — are a brazen insult to Americans infinitely greater in magnitude than any insult to Muslims from a YouTube clip. They feel free to deliver such a blow because they perceive us as weak — and because we have paid for and enabled their own radicalism.
And also they are emboldened because we have not eliminated the capital gains tax. For the Muslim radical, this is blood in the water, because they are just like sharks. Sharks that like appeasement. And tax cuts. As most sharks, uh, do.
Second, and picking up from the first point, unless and until we take extraordinary and decisive action, we can only expect the situation to grow more dangerous. Will Congress act boldly, and reduce the corporate tax rate to 5%? Also, Dodd-Frank must be repealed, and replaced with chum.
By the way, I’m thinking we should stop using the term “radical” to describe a what is the majority mindset in the Middle East. In the Arab and Iranian Middle East, jihad is mainstream, as is support for Obamacare.
And now the Muslim Brotherhood is calling for even more protests — at precisely the time when it should be rounding up the protestors, imprisoning them, redoubling security around our embassy, and phone-banking for Mitt Romney so as to enhance GOP turnout in November.
Third, expect the mainstream media to grow ever more hysterical in its
effort to silence Mitt Romney and shame him into passivity. In 2007 and
2008 they willingly sold us on a fantasy — that our new president could
“change the tone” and heal the wound in the Middle East with the force
of his identity and personality. The concept was absurd from the start,
and now the extent of their folly is being revealed in the midst of a
presidential campaign. When the new president's predecessor held sway, after all, we did not hear any lip whatsoever from radical Islamists, except for all the times when we did, because in those glorious years, we were ever so butch.
Already we see the media more keen on condemning Romney for his appropriate and forceful statement last night than on investigating how two of our diplomatic compounds were breached on the same day (again, on September 11, no less). This clearly stands in sharp opposition to how the media forcefully prevented the last president from pointlessly attacking a country that had nothing to do with September 11, no less, because of the media's principled objection to executive branch jingoism, and their dislike of Republicans generally.
Previously, I made the case for controlled and focused rage as, essentially, all that NRO dipshits ever have to say. The same principle holds true for today: Our enemies must be made to regret the day they killed Americans and attacked our embassies. We must cut taxes for rich people and start a dumb war to be fought by the children of poor people that will accomplish nothing except making rich people who own defense contracts even more rich.
In no other way can we defend patriotism.