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February 13, 2006
It's a tough world out there
From The Officers' Club.
Naval-gazing as we are, I remember sitting in the barber shop at VMI with one of my Army buddies, and there was a US Weekly magazine on the floor. I picked it up, flipped through it, and turned to my buddy and said flatly: “this is why the terrorists want to kill us.” Are we so focused on celebrities, fashion, and ourselves that we have ignored the world around us? The world around us, whether our culture likes it or not, is not sensitive, compassionate, or in touch with its feminine side. The real world takes its feminine side into a soccer stadium and executes her for getting raped, in front of a crowd of cheering onlookers glad to have their “culture” cleansed of impurity. The real world executes people on a mass scale, herds them into refugee camps where they can be controlled and starved to death, and then insults us for being “insensitive to their culture.”
The world around us requires toughness to survive in it. We need to stand up, man up, and cowboy up to face the new problems in the world today. We need to be aware of our own cultural biases, of course, but we must let other cultures know that they have biases too, and we will not let that stand in our way of doing business.
All of these acts on the world stage required toughness, and America stood up and delivered. But toughness is mocked, lampooned, and chided by the left in our culture today. It is described as “over-compensating,” cowboy-ish, ignorant, and immature. Toughness, however, founded this country, and got us to where we are today. People can only stand and criticize it now because they are secured by the same toughs they mock.
Something akin to those critics who wail about the brutality of the L.A.P.D., then draw a deep, shuddering breath and wail about how those damn cops don't patrol in their neighborhoods enough.
Posted by Mike Lief at February 13, 2006 07:21 AM
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