January 04, 2004

FALLING DOMINOES

The Horsefeathers doctrine requires that when the dominoes begin to fall, (see here, and here) the pressure should be stepped up, not relaxed. Now is the time to lean harder on Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, North Korea and all Western hating tyrants. And when the utopian UN fantasists again seek to enmesh the US in bonds spun by Kofi Annan, his organization of totalitarian thugs, and Democratic foes of the President, recall the words of Karl Von Clausewitz:

"If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve."

And:

"There is only one decisive victory: the last."

Our foes are now reduced to reviving the Vietnam strategy: attempting to weaken domestic resolve and so elect a cut-and-run President in November. One of President Bush’s favorite words, used repeatedly to describe his efforts in the war on Islamo-Fascism is “relentless.” Horsefeathers hopes the rest of the country shares his determination, once and for all, to free our adversaries from their post-Vietnam perception of the United States as a weak and pusillanimous nation of metrosexual narcissists.