One may be forgiven if, after reviewing today’s headlines, he believes he has awoke in some sort of alternate reality in which history is discarded, logic and reason have no application, and a large section of the population confuses wishful thinking for fact.       What else can explain the spectacle of the United States Senate seriously debating, for days, the idea that murderers captured while engaged in or planning hostile acts against the people and military forces of the United States, should enjoy a court system with trials, appeals and even the right to habeus corpus to challenge their detention.   That this absurd situation came about because of an abominable decision of the liberal majority U.S. Supreme Court, in defiance of precedent and common sense, and the wrongheaded concerns of some Republican senators, makes it no less surreal.

That we are having a debate about the rights of terrorists in our custody is reflection of the moral confusion running rampant throughout our society.   The fault for this can be spread around but ultimately the responsible party is We, the people.    We have stood by while our public school system and institutions of higher learning have been hijacked by the unreconstructed relics of the 1960's, who have turned them into propaganda mills.    We have accepted judicial rulings from robed tyrants banishing from the public square references to our religious heritage and beliefs, effectively imposing the malcontent’s veto over the heartfelt sentiments of the vast majority of the people, in complete perversion of the First Amendment.    We have stood still for lectures from effete hacks without right or qualification who tell us no one has the right to judge what is right or wrong; that no culture is inferior to another; that the United States and the jihadists are morally equivalent.   The slow motion eviction of religion and moral precepts from the public square has created a vacuum,  and this being America, liberals, aided by ACLU lawyers (full disclosure - the writer is an attorney), have rushed to fill the vacuum with one tenet of their secular religion, an obsession with rights and legalisms.   Hence, the ridiculous debate about the rights of terrorists.    Primarily from our own indifference,  we have permitted the systematic hallowing out of our moral center, with predictable consequences.

A nation deprived of its moral center lacks the spiritual committment vital to successfully fight and win a war.    It will splinter and be divided against itself, with many of its people considering their fellow citizens greater threats than external enemies. Witness the fact that most of society’s elites, primarily but not exclusively on the left, profoundly distrust and disdain the instincts, beliefs and traditions of the American citizenry.   These elites believe our people to be as threatening to life and liberty as the jihadists.    What else can explain the hysterical equation by many liberals of Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, to radical Islamic fascists? (Quick, name the last Christian beheading of a nonbeliever.)    Such a comparison seems insane on its face yet it has been made far too many times by too many liberals to deny that it reflects their true feelings.

Lincoln famously remarked that " a house divided against itself can not stand."  He spoke when the nation was split over the moral issue of slavery.   At that time, fortunately, the nation did not face a serious external threat.   Today the United States is threatened as never before.   A foreign enemy considers the murder of our citizens and destruction of our nation a religious duty.   At home, a significant minority of the our population, educated into idiocy by the public school system, deeply mistrustful and contemptuous of the majority’s traditions and religious faith, and sustained by a 5^th column masquerading as the mainstream media, is blind to the grave external threat and focused intently on defeating its perceived true opponent, a group of fellow Americans called conservatives.    Liberals cannot acknowledge the jihaists as more threatening than domestic conservatives or Christians without violating one of the sacred tenets of liberalism, i.e., that all cultures are created equal and that all religions are equally threatening.

In sports there is a saying that "it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog."   The metaphor holds true in the contest with the Islamic fascists.   They have calculated that we will engage them half-heartedly, without the determination to force the issue through to a victorious decision.   Everything the jihadists see and hear coming from the United States supports this belief.    They believe Allah is on their side and invoke his name repeatedly.   Meanwhile Liberals work feverishly to banish God’s name from the public square and attack those who invoke His name in support of our cause.   They doubt the essential goodness of the American people and the superiority of our free society.

It cannot be said to often, too loudly or from too many venues, that the United States is the greatest force for good in the world today.    Our enemies are evil fanatics who use young children and women as human bombs to murder the children of those of other faiths.   They yearn for the opportunity to commit mass murder.    Any expression, implication or hint, from any person or group,  that there is a moral equivalence between our goals or means and that of the jihadists is not reflective of sophistication but of a moral confusion bordering on madness.  

Liberals believe that the conservatives and evangelical Christians represent as great a threat to the United States as Islamic fascists who have already murdered 3000 of our citizens on September 11, 2001.   People so profoundly wrong about the identity and nature of our enemy cannot be trusted by the American people with affairs of state.     Should they ever secure the reigns of power,  the collapse of our national will can only accelerate and we may succumb to the jihadlists with the same suddeness that the Soviet Union disintergrated.   It was another nation which assiduously denied God and rotted its moral core.