What we’re seeing happening in Israel is the manifestation of a deadly weakness infecting modern Western civilization. We have forgotten how to defeat the barbarians. Not make peace with them. Not come to a compromise with them. Not live with them, at least until they build up their strength to go on yet another mass murder and rape spree. To defeat them. To crush them. To break the will of our enemies such that they can no longer be our enemies. This is a huge problem with the modern Western mindset, and it’s mind-boggling that we haven’t learned this lesson yet.
The war in Gaza is still dragging on and, entirely predictably, Israel is losing the support of the West. That’s because the West, as feminized and stupid as it has become, has lost the capacity to actually defeat its enemies. On October 7, 2023, Hamas, with the eager support of the degraded Palestinian people, launched an invasion of Israel that ended up murdering, maiming, and raping well over 1000 people and taking many hostages. It was the result of a delusion, including the delusion that people who tell you nothing but that they want you dead are lying to you. Do not overlook the fact that the victims living next to Gaza were largely leftists who lived the fantasy that the Palestinians were normal people just waiting to be friends, and if Israel would only be nicer, there would be flowers and sunshine. Instead, the monsters the leftists anthropomorphized tortured, abused, and butchered the very people offering them hugs and friendship. Naturally, leftists around the world learned nothing; in the face of such monstrous evil, sometimes you have to desperately hold onto your illusions or you have nothing left.
On October 8th, Israel should have annihilated Hamas. That’s the only proper response to barbarism. Israel should’ve written off the hostages; failing to do so only ensured more hostage-taking in the future. It should have initiated a siege of Gaza, a real siege, not the game of footsie where they left the power and the water on and handed over food for the people of Gaza, food that was, of course, stolen by Hamas and used to fund its operations. If the West was serious, and Israel is part of the West, the siege would have been an actual siege. It should have been followed by a ruthless, relentless campaign to seek and destroy every single member of Hamas.
Winning the war stops the debate. You can’t question total victory. They did that to Hezbollah, and nobody talks about it anymore. It’s done, much like the Hezbollah fighters. But Israel didn’t pursue total victory in Gaza. They employed half-measures to put off making the harsh choice between total victory and defeat, one that would have left most hostages, many IDF soldiers, and a lot of Palestinians dead. In the subsequent year and a half of dithering, the fifth columnists in the West have been able to mobilize in support of their barbarian buddies. The Israelis themselves are exhausted, and their American allies, after over 600 days, would prefer to get the war off the front burner so they can focus on domestic problems.
That didn’t have to happen. Israel could have chosen to win. The West could have chosen victory. But we don’t have the guts for that today in the West. Yes, Israel has some internal political dynamics that create constraints that those of us who aren’t deep in the weeds of Israeli politics can’t fully understand. I’m still baffled by the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu – a decorated special forces officer whose personal and family sacrifices can’t be questioned – is still in office after allowing October 7th to happen, but I’m not an Israeli citizen. I just know that Israel hasn’t won this war, and now it’s in danger of losing this war because it’s losing the support of the dhimmi caucus in the West. These are people who actually feel sorry for the Palestinian people who did this – it was brothers, sons, and fathers who did the murdering and raping, and the civilians cheered them on. For some reason, people in the West feel compelled to care more about the Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves do. This is why we lose.
The West once knew how to win. Our Roman ancestors knew exactly how to deal with barbarians. You do it harshly, you do it relentlessly, and you finish it. If you’re going to go to war, you must fight to win. If you don’t intend to win, you shouldn’t fight. But the West has generally embraced half-measures in order not to appear mean since World War II. Since then, we have decisively won a single war – the Gulf War, which we won by finding the enemy and killing him until he begged to surrender. I know. I was there. And I have to tell you, victory beats a long, dragged-out defeat any day of the week.
We should have won Vietnam, not by getting into gunfights with guerrillas in the jungle but by flattening Hanoi, invading the North, and breaking the communists’ will. I had the opportunity to interview Admiral James Stockdale, perhaps the most impressive human being I’ve ever been in the presence of. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his courage as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He beat his face to a pulp with a wooden stool so they couldn’t use him in a propaganda show. The fighter pilot told me that in 1972 when Richard Nixon got tired of the communist stall tactics, he and his fellow prisoners in the Hanoi Hilton heard the B-52s above them and felt the explosions from the Christmas bombing. After that, the Vietnamese stopped torturing them and started getting ready to send them home. You beat the enemy by beating him, not by letting him live to kill you another day.
The only substitute for victory is defeat.
Israel should have won this war when it could. Ask yourself, “WWJCD?” – What would Julius Caesar do? Gaza should have been Alesia II: This Time It’s Personal. Instead, they’re going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The weak and chestless West will continue to put pressure on it to give up and give in where it should double down and wipe out its enemies. No food. No water. No quarter. They want war? This is war. General William Tecumseh Sherman had the right idea; during the Civil War, he marched through Georgia ripping the guts out of the Confederacy and breaking its will to fight. He hated war and he hated doing what he had to do, but he had the moral strength to do it. He ended the killing.
Stupid people will read this column and think I am a warmonger. They will think that this is a plea for barbarism by our side. It’s the opposite. If you want to stop a war, you have to stop the enemy. The absence of shooting is not peace; when the enemy survives, it’s just a pause between spasms of butchery. We have peace with Japan because we nuked it. We have peace with Germany because we killed Germans until they threw down their guns and fell on their bellies. That’s real peace, not a mere pause.
The kindness and mercy that the West has shown its enemies and that Israel is currently showing the Palestinians will be repaid a thousandfold with the blood of Western citizens. The West is serious only about preserving aesthetic deniability. Our enemies, and we really do have enemies, sincerely believe that their holy duty is to enslave and murder us no matter how many centuries it takes. They are deadly serious about winning. Until we in the West get serious about winning again, we will be in serious danger of losing everything.
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