Foehammer’s Anvil

From paragraph one of Thomas Paine’s introduction to his masterwork, Common Sense, emphasis added:

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.“

So, I have re-typed that quotation to make a point this morning, though you probably have already surmised that. You see, this was one of those mornings when I woke up, made my coffee and sat down at my desk to find hate and guile in my mailbox and the comments bin of the Anvil. But I use such attacks to empower myself, something that my detractors are not typically aware of. Funny how having truth and reason on my side makes me particularly bulletproof. I highly recommend it to all political writers.

Liberal-minded citizens of just about any nation on the planet today are hardly different from ones past; they are filled to the eyeballs with their own self-righteous platitudes. It’s tiresome, sad and laughable. I enjoy people that have beliefs and strong ones, but when they are so absolutely convinced of their own superiority by way of taking the path of least resistance, I simply shrug. Nothing gained in life that is meaningful comes easy, and this is very true of the spiritual and psychological and the moral. Do people honestly believe that I work on the Anvil to “spread hate”? Is it so hard to believe that I am fighting to free minds from the shackles of so many Pollyannas that would drive us over cliffs in order to preserve even the illusion of Peace?

Ghandi was assassinated. He was a great and gentle man. But he was wrong. He wanted to make concessions to an enemy; concessions that his fellow Hindu were not willing to accept. Ghandi wanted to make peace with Pakistani Muslims and would have gone to extreme lengths to gain it — suicidal lengths that his assassin and those supporting him rightly perceived as a terrifically dangerous and unacceptable path for all of India.

Gopal Godse was one of the conspirators in the assassination of Mahatma Ghandi. He served 18 years in prison as a result. He had this to say in an interview at the age of 76:

“You see, right from Pakistan and Bangladesh every Muslim is a converted Hindu. Gandhi’s appeasement attitude (towards the Muslims) went far too much. That was why we killed him. Two hundred and fifty thousand Hindus were killed in Noakhali in October 1946. Hindu women were forced to remove their sindhoor and do Muslim rituals. And Gandhi said, ‘Hindus must bow their heads if Muslims want to kill them. We should follow the principle of ahimsa (non-violence).’ How can any sensible person tolerate this? Our action was not for a handful of people — it was for all the refugees who came from Pakistan.”

Today in the United States we have Congressman Ron Paul.

Ron Paul is very good at telling people what they want to hear, not what they need to know. Ron Paul is very good at objecting in order to establish the “chance for peace”, but he has no plans for war.

Was the United States of America founded on plans for peace? No. It was forged in war. We may hate that fact, but it is one that has to be understood. Freedom is the reward for blood, sweat and tears. It is a costly goal. This is why it has been so rarely had in the history of the world, and why the U.S.A. is a shining example of what is possible if only people have the courage to act in their own defense and retain the wise leadership to take them towards a higher standard. The existence and determination of the United States is the only reason that Freedom exists on the Earth today.

So, someone like Ron Paul irritates me especially, because he proposes himself to be a conservative, but in reality he is a political spinmeister with some very liberal slants. Having a liberal agenda is not all bad — I myself have what many would describe as liberal views — but a liberal agenda when it comes to war, I can not abide.

Let’s examine Ron Paul in his own words; I’ve kept an eye on him since long before he gained his recent “15 minutes” in the Republican Presidential Nomination Debates.

From Ron Paul’s ‘More of the Same In 2007′:

In Washington, the answer to every problem is always more of the same. If a war is not successful, escalate it– or even start another one. This is our only policy in Iraq, where we don’t even know whom the enemy really is. Can one in ten Americans even distinguish between Sunni, Shia, and Kurds? Unless we rethink our senseless policy of endless occupation, regime change, and nation building in the Middle East, we must expect more of the same: More troops injured or killed, more spending, more debt, more taxes, more militarism, and especially more government.

Notice that Ron Paul doesn’t tell us who the enemy is. I’ll tell you: Islam.

Lead by example, Ron.

From Ron Paul’s ‘Escalation in the Middle East’, emphasis added:

As I said last week on the House floor, speculation in Washington focuses on when, not if, either Israel or the U.S. will bomb Iran– possibly with nuclear weapons. The accusation sounds very familiar: namely, that Iran possesses weapons of mass destruction. Iran has never been found in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and our own Central Intelligence Agency says Iran is more than ten years away from producing any kind of nuclear weapon. Yet we are told we must act immediately while we still can!

This all sounds very familiar, but many of my colleagues don’t seem to have learned much from the invasion of Iraq. House Democrats strongly criticized the Iraq troop surge after the president’s announcement, but then praised the president’s confrontational words condemning Iran. Many of those opposing a troop surge are not calling for a withdrawal of our troops from the Middle East, but rather for “redeployment.” Redeployment to where? Iran?

We need to return to reality when it comes to our Middle East policy. We need to reject the increasingly shrill rhetoric coming from the same voices who urged the president to invade Iraq.

The truth is that Iran, like Iraq, is a third-world nation without a significant military. Nothing in history hints that she is likely to invade a neighboring country, let alone America or Israel. I am concerned, however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin- type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran.

The best approach to Iran, and Syria for that matter, is to heed the advice of the Iraq Study Group Report, which states:

“… the United States should engage directly with Iran and Syria in order to try to obtain their commitment to constructive policies toward Iraq and other regional issues. In engaging with Syria and Iran, the United States should consider incentives, as well as disincentives, in seeking constructive results.”

We all know how well talk and negotiations work in the Middle East. Ron Paul offers a false hope wrapped in a delusion, all in order to avoid doing what is necessary — flattening the nuclear centrifuges in Iran and negating that Islamic madness now before it ends up here in our backyards, or those of our European cousins. And Ron Paul does it with cavalier ease, because the American people have a distaste for the events in Iraq and I completely sympathize with those feelings. But Iraq must be seen for what it has to be, just like Afghanistan — stepping stones.

Our military is in the right place to project American power where it is needed most. The Islamic theocracy of Iran must be humbled. If we were not in Iraq and Afghanistan right now, we would not be in a position to destroy the nuclear ambitions of Iran. And Iran’s nuclear machinations were known to American intelligence prior to our invasion of Afghanistan, and long before our liberation of Iraq.

Again I say to Ron, lead by example, Congressman.

But, as I’ve already warned you, Ron Paul (and he’s hardly alone in Washington) is going to tell you what you want to hear, not what you need to know. That is not leadership; that is political expediency.

The world is a dangerous and cruel place, especially for young democratic republics. And yes, on the stage of world history, the U.S.A. is merely an infant still. So, we can not ever lower our guard and perceive that our enemies may all be reasoned with. The Ayatollah in Iran certainly can not be reasoned with — he believes in Islam far more than Ron Paul believes in the integrity of the U.S. government and military. Someone like Ron Paul negates your Common Sense and sucks away your spine. But our enemies are bolstered by zealots and madmen and clergy that would open the path for the Mahdi to come to Earth and turn us all into good little Muslims.

And then there is me; little old Foehammer.

I type and type, merely hoping beyond hope to open a few minds, pull awake a handful of slumbering Westerners each day. I’m here to engage your Common Sense, to light it on fire and to make you see the coming war for what it is, not for what someone like Ron Paul would have you believe it is. Wars are not all wrong. Wars are too often necessary. And today, as I look around again this morning, I have no doubt that we are engaged in the greatest of wars in human history, because the enemy approaches in ways that our ancestors never had to contend with.

We live in the Age of Information. With the click of my mouse, I can alter history. With the press of a button, I can send my thoughts to millions. And the Islamists are very, very aware of this capacity for change and manipulate it at astonishing rates. Combined with the might of Saudi oil revenues and the alliance of Muslim clergy all over the globe, the conversion rate to Islam is increasing because the cowardly and the weak-minded scare easily into the corner of the stronger, as they perceive it. This is why the French had so many traitors during World War II, because they being on the very tip of the Nazi spear, saw what at that time did look like the unstoppable juggernaut, the Blitzkrieg.

But the Nazis failed, and the collaborators in France were punished by their own people.

I view any American that converts to Islam since September 11, 2001 as no less of a traitor, because despite the best efforts of talking-heads and President George W. Bush to sway our Common Sense, a little reading and study has left me with absolutely no doubt as to the cause of that attack, and that was Islam.

It was not America’s lack of understanding of other people, yada yada yada. Doesn’t that baloney ever get old?

The facts swirl all around me here at the Anvil each and every day. It is a burden, a wearisome task to continue to bring them to you, gentle readers, but I feel a sense of responsibility to continue. I only wish that more of our leaders in Congress felt the same responsibility. I only wish that the legions of the Left felt even a twinge of it, that the doves in our nests would actually be able to see the reason for justified conflict instead of lumping all war together into the same cesspool.

In 1988, Ron Paul, the then Libertarian and not today’s Republican candidate, made an unsuccessful and, I’d venture to say, little-remembered run for the Presidency. If Ron Paul still has any true Libertarian ideals, I’m not really seeing them projected in his longterm vision for the defense of the United States. I myself often describe myself as a Libertarian, despite the fact that I am a registered Independent with no official ties to any party. I therefore would think the Congressman would have a much sharper vision for the future defense of the United States, based on his past party affiliations. It’s very telling that he apparently does not.

Don’t let Ron Paul negate your Common Sense. Instead create your own. It’s all right in front of you and world war, like it or not, is coming. You have a responsibility to perceive that, and prepare for it, or our free nations will indeed fail and one day we will be witness to honor killings in the United States, killings that will not be something illegal, but a new part of our newly formed Sharia Constitution.

That is not a future I’m willing to allow. I want you to join me in that determination.

Foehammer, out.

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