Fighting the Good Fight

In an excellent article about the West’s response to the Islamic threat, Robert Tracinski writes about our strengths and weaknesses. We have to military ability and intellectual skills …

But we lack the moral confidence to use both our power and our knowledge. But in the life-and-death struggle with totalitarian Islam, there is no room for Western self-abnegation. On the contrary, what we need is a proud, righteous self-assertion, the unapologetic pursuit of America's and Israel's vital interests, unbowed by appeals to pity or to "world opinion."

Read the whole article. It is an excellent analysis of the Iranian war against Israel, the limitations of our leaders, the betrayal of our allies, and the crude manipulations of our enemy.