Had Enough?

They’re rough. They’re tough. They’re strong. They’re resolute. They’re empowered to fight the good fight against… climate change. It’s the modern version of tilting at windmills.

And they are angry. They are intolerant. They are resisting. They refuse to yield a centimeter of territory in their war against… Donald Trump. Or would that be Donald “Travel-Ban"Trump.

Open borders. Open arms. Welcome all refugees. Turn our nations into a glorious cosmopolitan metropolis. Avoid speaking ill of Islam. Avoid direct confrontation… in Iraq, in Syria… with Islamist terrorists. It was the Obama way. Europe embraced it. Bien-pensant Europeans bowed o the great Obama. Obama bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. Now the human cost of such pusillanimous insouciance litters their streets.

The New York Times intoned yesterday morning that America is no longer the “proud and valiant leader” that it was during the Obama years but has been reduced to being “a whiny bully.” It’s like a feminist who imagines that the more often she says she’s strong the stronger she becomes. Barack Obama, a man who was barely proud to be an America, whose valor showed itself in his cowardly refusal to name our adversary… becomes, in the New York Times… a superhuman hero. You know, the one who was, in his own words, too courageous to fight.

Two days ago Bernie Sanders, paragon of leftist virtue, went to London to tell the assembled Brits that Donald Trump was an embarrassment ... because he was not leading the fight against climate change. Sanders barely accepted that Trump was a legitimate president. But he was horrified that Trump had not bought the accepted scientific dogma. Because, we all know, the biggest problem in the world today is: climate change. 

Where is Winston Churchill when we need him:

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender....

Sounds like the proud and valiant Obama, don't you think?

And Reza Aslan, a host on CNN, tweeted out last night... during the terrorist attack… his rage against… you guessed it… Donald Trump: This piece of shit is not just an embarrassment to America and a stain on the presidency. He's an embarrassment to humankind. 

Reza Aslan is down with terrorism. He’s down with his fellow Muslim terrorists. But, he is absolutely outraged, to the point of obscenity, that Donald “Travel Ban” Trump is not leading the fight against climate change. Now, tell me why Reza Aslan still has a job?

The Muslim mayor of London, one Sadiq Khan has said that we have to live with terrorism. Unfortunately, in his city, a city that has enough Muslims and leftists to elect a highly tolerant mayor, the issue is not living with terrorism, but dying by terrorism.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has declared that “enough is enough,” but allow us to suggest that Britain has been infested with enough political correctness that it might not be enough. After all, Britain has tolerated the human sacrifice of over a thousand teenage girls in Rotherham. Why was that not enough? Well, because in the Age of Obama what mattered was not being called a racist. The rest is silence.

A few days before last night’s terrorist attack, Roger Kimball asked: “Have We Had Enough?” He, as many others, have bemoaned the soft reaction of the populace, and especially the social justice warriors, who preach hatred for Trump and tolerance for Muslim terrorists. As I and many others have said, if you react to terrorism with calls for tolerance within the family of humanity, you are telling the terrorists that you submit to them, because you have nothing that is worth defending:

Is the online journalist Brendan O’Neill put it, “It is becoming clear that the top-down promotion of a hollow ‘togetherness’ in response to terrorism is about cultivating passivity. . . . Where’s the rage? If the massacre of children and their parents on a fun night out doesn’t make you feel rage, nothing will. The terrorist has defeated you. You are dead already.”

Kimball reminds us that while Donald Trump went to Riyadh to denounce Islamist terrorism and to help organize a coalition of Sunni Arab nations to fight it, the “proud and valiant” Barack Obama had declared ISIS to be the JV team:

As it happened, it was only a few hours before the slaughter in Manchester that President Trump, speaking in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, outlined his policy with respect to the “evil” part of his formulation: annihilation. What Barack Obama dismissed as a “J.V.” threat just a couple of years ago has grown and metastasized greatly in the intervening months. That is about to change.

Since the Times and other outlets of liberal opinion have been carping about the way a certain president uses language—not without reason, incidentally—let’s point out that if Barack Obama was proud and valiant, these words do not mean anything anymore. The man who scrupulously followed the blasphemy laws that prevented him from speaking ill of Islam was just an ordinary garden-variety coward. One who oversaw the rise and the proliferation of ISIS... which he insisted on calling ISIL.