There’s a saying that the greatest peacemakers are the American Soldiers (an all-inclusive term). This is true. Look throughout history and you’ll see that it’s been the American military that has stopped indiscriminate killing and despotism. It is the American military that has defeated those bent on deadly, imperialist ambitions. You can’t defeat violence with kind words and soft gestures. Sometimes, the answer IS war.

I love when people leave comments on my YouTube videos (which ironically have NOTHING to do with war) like this:

you can’t shoot and bomb an ideology away. instead you must make it irrelevant

The next logical question is, “Really? What do you do? Coddle them and send them candy? Do you just them they’re good enough and smart enough and maybe then they’ll change their minds? Do we let them kill our children and tell them, ‘Don’t worry, I can just make more?’ Exactly what do you do with such a violent ideology, genius? How do you make it ‘irrelevant?’”

Okay, maybe you don’t say “genius” because some would be offended at giving them so much credit. The question alone is hilarious enough, but when when these seemingly rhetorical questions are answered is when things get even more absurd.

by helping them find a way to make a life in which dying for Allah isn’t the best option available. it happens by helping them build roads, schools, plant viable crops that they can actually sell for a profit and other such things, not by dropping bombs on their villages. that is, unless you want to make a wasteland of their country and declare that victory

Are the hippies in this country (and around the world) really that clueless about operations in Iraq and Afghanistan? Granted the news does a terrible job at informing the public about what’s really going on in those countries (unless if involves “dropping bombs on villages” – someone’s been listening to the moron John Kerry), but there are plenty of stories out there about building schools, handing out toys and school supplies, building hospitals, helping plant crops, building roads, and on and on and on.

The problem with peaceniks (ie: hippies) is that they wear horseblinders and think that everything can be solved by singing kumbaya and saving water by passing up the shower for days on end. And they do a grave disservice to the men and women in this country who are doing great things to true peace extremists overseas.