Polemos

An open letter to modernity

YOU would contend that the root cause for modern violence is to be found only in the others atrocities then? We terrorised are just and the terrorists are unjust? I can understand that perspective, and would it be correct to say from this perspective that we fight today because we are free men who don’t sleep under the oppression of Islamic terror? We want to restore freedom from terror to our nations through a just war on terror, and as the terrorists lay waste to our nations so shall we lay waste to theirs.

I would say though that no one except a dumb thief plays with the security of others and then makes himself believe he will be secure, whereas thinking people like us moderns, when disaster strikes, should make it our priority to look for its root causes in order to prevent it happening again. Yet I ask you is defending oneself from terror and punishing the terrorist aggressor in kind through the violent imposition of democratic freedom on their people, is this itself objectionable state terrorism? If it is such, then more Iraqs are unavoidable for us and the war on Islamic terror will likely not end in our lifetimes. Such is the price of living in democratic freedom from terror.

Would you also agree that our security is in our own hands and the whole world knows that every rogue nation that doesn’t play with our security will automatically guarantee its own security, but only so long as their leaders join with us in the war on terror while promoting the democratic freedom of all people to live under our Pax Americana? Our resolute belief in freedom for all humanity is our guardian and helper, while the terrorists lost in their reactionary nihilism have no guardian or helper, their god a lost cause.