Tonight, Doug Giles is carrying an amazing article, "time for an 'American jihad'" by Dr. Keith Ablow. Ablow and I think much alike. I would add Mavellonialist values as a natural extension of and expansion of all taught under the American Way of Living. Ablow may be a NeoCon like Dick Cheney and me.
To quote Ablow: "An American jihad would reawaken in American citizens the certain knowledge that our Constitution is a sacred document that better defines and preserves the liberty and autonomy of human beings than the charter of any other nation on earth."
Amen, to this brilliant, articulate, clear-thinking neoconservative and his interventionist foreign policy.
Let me quote Ablow further:
"The Constitution, along with the miracle of our nation's founding and the providential history of America fighting and winning war after war against oppressive regimes, proves our manifest destiny not only to preserve our borders and safety and national character at home, but to spread around the world our love of individual freedom and insist on its reflection in every government.
An American jihad would embrace the correct belief that if every nation on earth were governed by freely elected leaders and by our Constitution, the world would be a far better place. And an American jihad would not only hope for this outcome, but work toward it."Rereading Ablow's article makes it clear to me that when he refers to waging jihad or holy war, he means soft war (the nonviolent clashing of opposing value systems) as preferred and more commonly resorted to than waging violent holy war, the last and rarer option to resort to.
The American Way is our manifest destiny to preserve all at home while spreading that culture and political system to the rest of the world. We would urge all minorities here to speak English and assimilate, having no need or time for competing cultures and languages here at work, dividing and balkanizing our country as is the wont and dream of Obama and the Left."
We conservatives must never want to not be arrogant, mouthy, contemptuous of the rights, values, cultures and religions of other people. We do not want to be jingoistic. We do not want to be fanatical in asserting our manifest destiny, or we will arouse violent opposition and fierce resistance where none existed. We do not want to push moderate but proud Muslims, the Brazilians, the Russians and the Chinese into world war with us where none was necessary by issuing pointless ultimatums and brainless sword-rattling.
We do not want to be such mouthy, rigid, bossy conservatives that our worthy cause is degraded into fascism at home and abroad. We do not want to turn off, frighten and anger liberals and independents that we could win over with kind words and soft logic.
We want to let every group domestically active, and every sovereign nation abroad know and believe that they can keep their culture, their level of socialism preferred, their language, their faith and their degree of group living that is popular among them. We just suggest that they add wonderful elements available from the American way of life and from Mavellonialist values that would enhance and improve, but not refute and discard what they traditionally rally around.
As long as they are not out to take over the world, commit genocide against an ethnic group domestically or internationally, and are moving from totalitarianism towards authoritarianism and then towards democracy, we should not violently resist them.
Let me quote Ablow further:
"We would begin at home, as every great world movement does. We would not only allow, but teach, Americans — including American children — to internalize and project their justifiable feelings of pride in our democracy as superior to all other forms of government. In grade schools we would teach the truth that the founding of our nation and its survival in the face of communism and fascism weren’t just good luck or good planning, but preordained by our commitment to the truth about the essential nature of man. And we would embrace the certain knowledge that history will eventually spread our values all over the globe.
We would tie American aid to incremental changes not just in the attitudes, but in the fundamental structures, of countries. These changes would move those countries, slowly but inexorably, toward reflecting our Constitution in their own charters. We would unabashedly fund pro-democracy movements around the world, partly with government funding and partly with donations from American citizens. Through these donations we would seek to double the budgets of the CIA and our Special Forces, seek to fund an international mercenary force for good and provide our veterans unparalleled health care.
We would urge our leaders, after their service in the U.S. Senate and Congress, to seek dual citizenship in other nations, like France and Italy and Sweden and Argentina and Brazil and Germany, and work to influence those nations to adopt laws very much like our own. We might even fund our leaders' campaigns for office in these other nations.
We would accept the fact that an American jihad could mean boots on the ground in many places in the world where human rights are being denigrated and horrors are unfolding. Because wherever leaders and movements appear that seek to trample upon the human spirit, we have a God-given right to intervene — because we have been to the mountaintop of freedom, and we have seen the Promised Land spanning the globe.
An American jihad would never condone terrorist acts of violence against our adversaries or the targeting of people simply because their beliefs are different from ours. But for those who malignantly demonstrate their intentions to subjugate others, there would be no quarter.
An American jihad would turn back and topple the terrible self-loathing in our citizens set in motion by President Obama, beginning with his "apology tour” — a psychological plague. It would make American pride not only acceptable, but celebrated, again. And, remember, American pride is nothing more than being proud to support truths that are self-evident, irreducible, elemental and inevitable.
An American jihad would make every tax dollar a tithing and the squandering of those dollars a sin. An American jihad would make every hour spent working in an American company — or founding one — an offering. An American jihad would make every teacher of American history not only a public servant, but a servant of the Truth.
We the People of the United States are good and we are right. And we need the spirit of an American jihad to properly invite, intensify and focus our intentions to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution here at home, and to seek to spread its principles abroad."
Dr. Ablow is a Fox News consultant.
We would export our better and superior cultural and political system. Ablow about captures how it should unfold. Keith Ablow has stated our case rather eloquently. I would like to dialogue with Levin and him to add a bit of Mavellonialist ideology to the mix, and then we would have a serious, coming conservative movement. It is starting to take shape.
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