LIBERTY'S WAR
A.M. Siriano on dying for the cause of liberty:The truth is this, and we should be shouting it loudly, especially now: Every victim of 9-11, on an eternal scale, was a freedom fighter, and died for the good of mankind. Every man and woman who faced death on the plains of Europe or in the jungles of Asia did so for the cause of liberty. It makes no difference at all if France has forgotten its former champion, if South Korea hates its protectors, or even if we must take abuse from the whole world for wanting to deliver Iraq from Saddam’s rotten grip. Their gratitude or ingratitude should mean nothing to us in light of the freedom we have secured for them. Even if we were to lose a war (have we ever, really?), that war is a mere skirmish in the greater war—liberty’s war—which is to secure and advance the cause of freedom. Liberty is the point, the one great concept that rules all other concepts, and America, founded upon this very ideal, is, by necessity, the foremost holder of that light. Those who have died now see the final glory, and regardless of what the errant living have to say, we can have, by way of innumerable examples and a bit of imagination, their same vision.
Regrettably, though never pointlessly, some will have to die trying.
Yes.