Adults Sometimes Have To Be Adults
The American Thinker, has written one of the most profound counter arguments against Cindy Sheehan and the “Pacifrauds” we have read thus far.
His article, Cindy and the Pacifrauds makes a compelling parallel between the known pacifists of the past century and the current proponents of “peace” today. He correctly associates Ms. Sheehan and her supporters with the so-called pacifists who are held up as liberal icons for peace. Read the following:
“Honest pacifists are rare. After all, to be an honest pacifist one must be either a saint, or in deep denial of the world as it is. Take the two most celebrated pacifists of the last century, Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi. No doubt Einstein and Gandhi wanted peace. So do we all. But it was Einstein who told FDR about the atom bomb, and thereby set into motion the annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki several years later. And it was Gandhi who mobilized Western opinion to throw the British Raj out of India, at the cost of 4 million lives during the chaotic Partition of 1948. As peace makers, Einstein and Gandhi were stupendous failures. If causing four million deaths is not a failure, what is?
Some years after Hiroshima, Albert Einstein wrote to a Japanese physicist that
“I didn’t write that I was an absolute pacifist but that I have always been a convinced pacifist. That means there are circumstances in which in my opinion it is necessary to use force.”
“Such a case would be when I face an opponent whose unconditional aim is to destroy me and my people.”
The fact is that Einstein was simply confronted with a stark reality. He fled Germany in 1933, after seeing the Nazis come to power. He could not longer deny Hitler’s plain intentions. The real world does present painful choices, as it does today. Honestly facing such choices is called “adulthood.” The Pacifraud Left is therefore in endless denial of adulthood and reality.
In Samuel Johnson’s time political demagogues used the rhetoric of patriotism. Today, pacifism attracts scoundrels because they can use the rhetoric of peace to fool the gullible. But Pacifraud is not just a lesson in the gullibility of human beings. It is much more dangerous. The public pretense that any decent person must be a pacifist makes it impossible for us to tell the truth about the world, and about the real choices we face as a country.
In the last hundred years we have always been faced with deadly enemies to our very existence: Nazism, Marxism, and Islamofascism. We are therefore always confronted with Einstein’s choice. Do we tell FDR about the Bomb, or let Hitler win? Do we fight and lose precious American lives in Iraq, or maybe have to battle a stronger Saddam later on?
On this very day we face the question whether the crazies in Iran will get their own Bomb. It is the most urgent questions of our day, but our brain-washed media keep us from even thinking about it.
Adults have to face those questions.
Contrary to the mythagogues of the Left, our dilemma, like Einstein’s, is never “War versus Peace.” It is always “What kind of war?” “What kind of peace?”
Even if we do our utmost to make perfect decisions, our knowledge is always incomplete. FDR made mistakes, Truman did, Gandhi did, Einstein did. They just realized that doing nothing is also a decision. People can die when we do nothing — as in the Holocaust, the Gulag, World War II.
Welcome to the real world, Cindy. Leave the Pacifrauds behind, and, if you are an adult with a conscience, make a heartfelt apology to President Bush and your fellow citizens.” (Read the whole article, it is worth your time.)
As the title says, adults sometimes have to be adults. It is time for the anti-Bush, anti-war, Pacifrauds to recognize that as a reality and act like adults in todays terrorist world.
August 25th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
[…] The only people in the US who are adamantly pessimistic about this draft Constitution are those who are already predisposed to wanting the democracy in Iraq to fail. Their only reasoning is predominantly because they hate President Bush and our military. According to these pacifrauds, any success in Iraq which might reflect positively for our President or our military should be disseminated by the MSM as an abject failure. […]