Having not read Krauthammer lately, I had to go look. The end of the piece you quote:
We are in a war of self-defense. It is also a war for Western civilization. If the Europeans refuse to see themselves as part of this struggle, fine. If they wish to abdicate, fine. We will let them hold our coats, but not tie our hands.
Getting a little apoplectic there or what? He might as well have thrown in the Ann Coulter line about installing Christian Regimes everywhere. A month ago:
Guantanamo is hopping and the jackals are howling. Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands--stalwart allies who held America's coat during the war in Afghanistan--are complaining that the Guantanamo prisoners are not accorded POW rights under the Geneva Conventions. . . .
The world loves us, bleeding and suffering nobly, at the moral high ground of Ground Zero. To which we say: No thank you. Our paramount national duty today is to prevent another Sept. 11, not to glory in the moral high ground--the moral vanity--of the victimhood we earned last Sept. 11. townhall.com
Looks like a good candidate for the McLaughlin Group bloviating pundit crowd. Funny thing, I actually agree about the moral high ground business, I think it's somewhat overrated. Though my personal perspective has to do more with awareness of random body counts from various operations, plus memories of the moral equivalent of the founding fathers. I don't think Krauthammer is likely to be enlisted in the hearts and minds operation, international division, anytime soon, though. |
