Freedom was won and maintained at the tip of the sword and the flash of a barrel

Appearing with George Stephanopoulos on ABC this week, Arianna Huffington explained that the American people don’t want a military that no one in the world can challenge.

Our thanks to Arianna Huffington for putting an end to thousands of years of incorrect military thought. And here I was thinking that the only reason the entire world isn’t speaking German or Japanese is because our military brought a hammer down upon the forces of evil 70 years ago.

Serious question: does this kind lady even hear herself when she speaks? The point of having a military is for national defense right? Protect the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic and so on and so forth. Yes, I’m quite certain I remember reading that somewhere.

National defense is not supposed to be like the National Football League. We don’t desire parity and a relative balance of talent between small market teams and big market teams. When war comes knocking on our door, we aren’t rooting to “see a close game.”

We desire swiftness and extreme violence of action. Sorry to the legions of political correctness, but violence is what wins wars and protects us from the fascist regimes and jihad.

Investing in the power of the United States is about saving lives. It saves the lives of the boots on the ground and the lives of people going to church, running to Home Depot, and dropping the kids off at soccer practice.

The disconnect between those living in Arianna Huffington’s world and the rest of us living here in reality is remarkable. People like Huffington believe that strength is some kind of sin. They think that the Islamic Fascists hate us because of our military might and we will all drink iced tea and lemonade together if our president would only continue his apology tour and dump all of our ordnance into the sea.

And of course, that could not be further from the truth.

They hate us because of an idealogy of jihad which goes back 1400 years. Someone please wake up Charles Martel and ask him what would have happened if he had decided to scale down his military before the Battle of Tours in 732.

What those on the left will never understand is that having a powerful military is the ultimate deterrent of war. Despite the blunders of politicians and the oh so noble belief in global revenue sharing, the United States Armed Forces exist for a moral purpose. Freedom was won and maintained at the tip of the sword and the flash of a barrel.

On his cannons, Louis XIV inscribed “artillery is the final argument of kings.” The only thing that has changed is that the argument is now between democracy and tyranny.