THE AGE OF STUPIDITY IS UPON US.

By Victor Sharpe

The age of stupidity is upon us and it is alive and well. No longer do we choose to fight a war with the sole intention of winning at all costs and by whatever means. Now we go to war with an immense self imposed handicap: we fight a politically correct war and in so doing we prepare to lose it.

That is why the present generational war against Islamist terror is characterized by the Left as the Iraq War. But Iraq is just one battlefield among others in the ongoing existential struggle against Islamic terror and jihadism.

The Left has deliberately framed the Iraq battlefield as a separate war and not as part of the global war against the Islamist terror that plagues the world. Indeed, the mandarins upon high have decreed that it is politically incorrect to use the term, global, in the context of the war and the mainstream media is more than happy to go along with the new lexicon.

This is part and parcel of why the West is losing the war against radical Islam, although much of what the Islamists do and say is not radical; it is authentic Islam. Even as America is winning the war on the Iraqi battlefield, the message from America to the terrorists and jihadists is that the next Democrat Administration will withdraw the troops and leave Iraq to civil war and genocide. Political correctness - the handmaiden of the age of stupidity - is upon us and the West is dying.

This idiotic mindset encroached insidiously through the years following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. America changed on that dark date.

Kennedy, the icon for the youth of the United States and the Western world, was now dead and therefore there was no reason for the same youth not to indulge in living life full of rock and roll, drugs and wild sex. After all, one also might die early and at any time. The saying of Willard Motley from the earlier 'beat' generation, 'Live fast; die young,' seemed to have taken on a new appeal.

America lost its youthful president as the Vietnam War grew more and more deadly, sucking in greater numbers of young Americans to the battlefield.

The patriotic call by President John F. Kennedy during his inaugural address www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html that Americans should '' ask not what America will do for you, ask what you can do for your country' became a hollow and bitter joke to many. '

'Why die for the country in some far away place' became the mantra and young American males fled to Canada or wherever to escape the draft. Students on American campuses taunted draftees as suckers and eroded America's will to win. From the moment of Kennedy's death the nation was never the same and it is still trying to recover, perhaps never to do so.

At a time in its history, and facing an even more critical challenge to its existence than from Nazism or Communism, the nation's leaders are confronted by the resurgent and implacable fourteen century old Islamic threat but with its hands and feet tied.

Colossal wealth is flowing from the West to the oil rich Arab Middle East, enriching and fuelling the Islamist threat as never before. But the Democrats so far have ignored this reality. Not one democrat candidate during the electoral debates, for instance, ever mentioned the Islamist threat by name.

Even now most politicians and the media employ a meaningless and vacuous term, 'The War on Terror.' One must ask, what terror and by whom? Is it terror by Zulus or by Laplanders? No, it is terror perpetrated by Islamists and jihadists, but to identify them as such is politically incorrect in this age of stupidity.

There is a hope, however implausible it may seem at this time of writing, that
Senator John McCain, with his undoubted and heroic military background, will shed his own left-wing tendencies and drag America back to the time of patriotism that existed before President Kennedy's assassination.

That was when the United States had emerged from World War II and when its people had been one in the Nation's resolve to defend America and Western civilization at all costs and by whatever means.

But America is a far different place today from those patriotic war years when the enemy was identified as German and Japanese. Nor was a battle at Anzio described as the Italian War or the Normandy landing described as the French war; they were battles in the global and overarching Second World War.

Social mores that would seem unbelievable to those earlier Americans are now upon us. Multiculturalism and political correctness are making America an unrecognizable place.

Even the institution of marriage between a man and a woman, which has existed in practically all cultures from time immemorial, is being overturned and same sex marriages becoming the norm.

In California, for instance, a man and a woman marrying will not receive a marriage certificate listing their names as bride and bridegroom but instead their names will be listed as Partner A and Partner B. That is what it has come to.

The traditional definition of marriage between a man and a woman has been the norm but now pressures have arisen that challenge that very notion. Judeo-Christian values are under attack and there is change in the wind. But it may presage a destructive windstorm unparalleled in American history.

The Democrat nominee for president says he is all about change. But change can equally be for the worse as for the better. Senator Obama's flip flop on public campaign money shows that he is no different, or on a higher moral plain, than any other politician.

The term, 'Age of stupidity' has been used by many others to describe the inability of humanity to learn from its past errors. For instance, in the highly acclaimed book, The Secret War against the Jews, by John Loftus and Mark Aarons, a section is devoted with that very title.

Dennis Prager, the consummate Talk Show host who favors clarity of thought above all else, also uses it to describe the nonsensical attitudes that pervade much of today's Left in America and throughout the Western world.

The Age of Stupidity would be amusing if it wasn't so dreadfully deadly to our survival.

Copyright © Victor Sharpe 2008

Having asked permission to post this article from the Author, Victor Sharpe. I would ask, Where are all of the like minded Americans?