Archive for the ‘war’ Category

Darwinian and divine morality

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Morality derived from human nature (and thus from Darwin’s sociobiology) differs from divine law as expressed in the New Testament in significant ways. It is Aristotlean and Randian morality, is fundamentally selfish. Aristotle and Rand tells us to cultivate our own excellence.  Darwin tells us we commit ourselves to conduct that will enable us to get along with others because humans are a social and political animal, we need to cooperate with others to achieve our goals.

Thus one should return good for good and evil for evil. Vengeance is not the Lord’s. He will not repay. One should do good for one’s kin, and forgive them their sins, and good for one’s friends, but not be nearly so forgiving of their sins. All men are not brothers. One should not harm other people without compelling and urgent reason, but the standard of what constitutes compelling and urgent reason is considerably greater for neighbors than it is for distant strangers. All men are not Hebrews.

It is a considerably more manly and muscular morality than that of Christianity.  Transnational progressivism is Christian morality, Americans putting themselves on the cross for Muslims as Christ did, which is why we are losing in Afghanistan. Darwinian morality is classic Greek morality, Xenophon explaining that he had urgent need to slaughter, rape, loot and burn his way across Asia because the incorrigible bad conduct of the savages around him gave him no real alternative.

The error of Nazism

Friday, September 11th, 2009

The Nazis are hated for what they were right about (Darwinism), not for what they were wrong about.   The error of the Nazis is the error of Mencius Moldbug:  Hobbesianism. (more…)

Losing in Afghanistan 2

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

When the US began its attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan, I said that destroying our enemies anywhere in the world would be easy, but building states would be hard, would most likely fail, for no one understands how a state is built, and the trend of the times is for states to fail.

And today, we again see state building failing.

In an earlier post “terror works” I said of our Afghan policy:

Forming a government in Afghanistan looked remarkably like selling our allies into the hands of our enemies, like Chamberlain selling Czechoslovakia to Hitler. The people who fought for us are outvoted and disarmed, which is why things are now going bad in Afghanistan. It is as if the Czechs had fought and won, and then Chamberlain sold them to Hitler.

Michael Yon is giving us the grunt’s eye view of Afghanistan:

we are fighting the people in general, and not some small group of Taliban … We generate the electricity and the Taliban collects money for wattage.

Losing in Afghanistan

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Michael Yon, who should know better than anyone, reports we are losing in Afghanistan.

He suggests the solution is more troops.  I don’t think so.  After all, we originally won in Afghanistan with near zero troops.

Democracy has been a disaster, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq.  The masses just do not like us much, and tend to elect people that do not like us much – or like freedom, or like democracy, or like capitalism.  And especially, they do not like religious freedom.

The winner in a guerrilla war is the side that most brutally terrorizes the population.  Our troops lack the stomach for what it takes to win a guerrilla war, so more troops will not help.  We already have enough troops to win any conventional battle, and there is not much else to do, other than what our troops are reluctant to do.  It also helps to know the locals, know the language and know the culture – so winning in a guerrilla war means arming the local killers that are on your side, and killing the local killers that are against your side.  And that, of course, means arming the Northern alliance and terrorizing the Pashtuns.

Courage

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

A kid carrying a gun, and wearing an explosive vest, attempted to enter a mosque. It seems that though the congregation were Muslim, they were the wrong kind of Muslim.
Courage
A guard tackled him. That is courage.

Iran tells it like it is:

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

In his April 15, 2009 speech, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told America:

We say to you that you yourselves know that you are today in a position of weakness. Your hands are empty, and you can no longer promote your affairs from a position of strength.

… with the grace of God, and thanks to Iran’s national unity, the recommendations of Supreme Leader, and the following of his [path], nearly 7,000 centrifuges are spinning today

We are all terrorists now

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

The liberty papers found an interesting Obama document.  It seems that it is not those poor misunderstood adherents of the Religion of Peace that are a problem.  It is any American who disagrees with the Obama agenda.  Michael Malkin confirms the document is real, not a parody.

Veterans are also terrorists, no doubt it comes of persecuting those poor adherents of the Religion of Peace.

Headless body in Gutless press

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Mark Steyn ridicules the mainstream press’s fear of Islam:

the killing of Aasiya Hassan seems to have elicited a very muted response.

When poor Mrs. Hassan’s husband launched his TV network to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims, he had no difficulty generating column inches, as far afield as The Columbus Dispatch, The Detroit Free Press, The San Jose Mercury NewsVariety, NBC News, the Voice of America, and the Canadian Press. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle put the couple on the front page under the headline “Infant TV Network Unveils The Face Of Muslim News”.

But, when Muzzammil Hassan kills his wife and “the face of Muslim news” is unveiled rather more literally, detached from her corpse at his TV studios, it’s all he can do to make the local press — page 26 of Newsday

Israel did not win

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

After the recent war in the Gaza strip, Hamas declared victory, and Israel declared victory.

What do they teach small boys in school today?  When I was in school, the first thing I learned is that the fight  is not over till the winner can make loser cry “uncle”.

Hamas has not been destroyed, nor coerced.  They continue to rocket Israel.  Since they are religious fanatics, nothing short of Roman methods can force them to cry “uncle”.  People who rocket one, have to be killed or driven out of rocket range.

There recent war was not war, but theater.  In war you keep going till one side loses and one side wins.

British police retreat before Muslims

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

British police retreat before a hail of not very dangerous missiles:

This retreat follows a long series of recent similar humiliations – the British submission in Basra, in Helmand province, and in the Persian Gulf. Weakness and fear is provocative. Someone is going to take Britain from the British.