Adherence to beliefs

It is this writer’s opinion that Americans, collectively speaking, are ill-informed about what is going on in this country and are not even dimly aware of what is happening in the rest of the world.

After the latest shooting in San Bernardino, our politicians and law officers are again scratching their heads like flea-bitten monkeys. They ask, how and why did the shooters become radicalized, when did this happen? Well, I think we can be sure of one thing; it did not happen before the unfurling of their Koran.

It seems liberals and conservatives alike have difficulty grasping the notion that there are people who can be so committed to a belief system that they will annihilate themselves and as many infidels as possible in the process. If they would but read the Koran, things would become much clearer. It appears the killing of infidels is just the religious adherence to ancient barbaric superstitions.

I know many Muslims have obviously rejected those barbaric verses, but many have not. America’s ability to defend itself from enemies within and outside our borders is being undermined by relativists and pragmatics who keep trying to square the circle.

As some wise person once said, when we lose the conviction that we can be right about anything, it is a recipe for chaos. As envisioned by Yeats, when “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Semper fi. AL CASE

Enola