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WSJ Opinion Journal

AT WAR

White Guilt and the Western Past
Why is America so delicate with the enemy?

BY SHELBY STEELE
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II.

For one thing, it is now unimaginable that we would use anything approaching the full measure of our military power (the nuclear option aside) in the wars we fight. And this seems only reasonable given the relative weakness of our Third World enemies in Vietnam and in the Middle East. But the fact is that we lost in Vietnam, and today, despite our vast power, we are only slogging along--if admirably--in Iraq against a hit-and-run insurgency that cannot stop us even as we seem unable to stop it. Yet no one--including, very likely, the insurgents themselves--believes that America lacks the raw power to defeat this insurgency if it wants to. So clearly it is America that determines the scale of this war. It is America, in fact, that fights so as to make a little room for an insurgency.

Certainly since Vietnam, America has increasingly practiced a policy of minimalism and restraint in war. And now this unacknowledged policy, which always makes a space for the enemy, has us in another long and rather passionless war against a weak enemy.

This article is a MUST READ! The description here is the single most acurate representation of the American and European socialist left that I've ever read or heard. These people are guilt ridden over the fact that this country has been as successful as it has. They don't think that it's fair for one to be more successful than another. As a result they do everything possible to try to tear down this nation so as to be more "equitable." They also don't believe in the inhertant goodness of this nation or that we should do everything possible to spread FREEDOM to those not blessed to have it.

Quite frankly, I have no guilt about how this country has acted, what it has done, how it's acting, what it is or will continue to do! No one or nothing is perfect in this world, but this country is the beacon of freedom to the rest of the world and remains that "SHINING CITY ON A HILL!" Take your guilt trip and sell it to to some other spineless wonder who cares about your pile of horse manure!