The goal of "progressia" is to turn all of our brains into relativist mush ... into a goulash of morality so blended together that one can't tell right from wrong, up from down, or bad guy from good. It's in the terminology; like law abiding citizens being called "unconvicted individuals living in the community" to governments shunning terms like "jihad", "terrorist", or "Muslim extremist". It's nauseating really ... and dangerous.
Dangerous? Yes, because humans who don't stand on a strong foundation of timeless standards, who don't cherish independence, who don't understand the value of consequences, might not ... nay, they will find it impossible, to sacrifice for and defend that which they have. They find it beyond their comprehension that there are those who would take it all away ... "those" being the "progressive" elites dreaming up socialist utopias in college lounges or Taliban barbarians. They find it impossible, in fact, to differentiate between men who burn girls with acid just because they are girls ... and the soldiers who would defend those girls. Dangerous, yes indeed, because society loses the ability to call anything evil.
"Progressia" is in fact, the new immorality ... "progressia" turns otherwise rational adults into blathering idiots who cry "fuck the soldiers" and mock their sacrifices while at the same time ignoring or even defending the monstrous deeds of Muslim barbarians ... only "progressia", could accomplish that:
Immoral, they say. I don't get that. I doubt the eight Kandahar schoolgirls who were sprayed with battery acid this week would get it either, if anyone bothered to ask for their opinion.
We are so comfortable, it seems, with relativity. To call the Taliban evil is terribly unfashionable. Better to persuade ourselves that there are no good guys and no bad guys, anywhere.
In 10 days, some 2,000 high school students from across Canada will gather in Ortona, Italy, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Ortona, which took place in December of 1943. This battle has long been eclipsed in Canadian history by the Invasion of Normandy. There is an effort underway now to bring the heroism of Canada's Ortona veterans to light.
Lately I've been reading about this battle, in books such as And No Birds Sang, by Farley Mowat, and Ortona, by Mark Zuehlke. Here's what I take away from my reading: The experience of combat was no different then from now. If anything it was more horrifying then, because human life seems to have been cheaper 65 years ago.
The 1,375 Canadian men who were killed at Ortona, most in brutal close-quarters fighting, were generally in their late teen and early 20s. Even the senior officers tended to be quite young. The strategic objectives sought and achieved at Ortona by Gen. Bernard Montgomery, commander of the British 8th Army, were debatable even at the time.
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A closer look at an "immoral" act.
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