LOVING THE ENEMY:
"Our country has air dropped food, medicine, and supplies to the citizens of countries who have declared themselves our enemies. We make every effort to spare civilians and limit our warfare to military targets. Our doctors treat the parents and children who are the unintentional casualties of our engaged troops, and we rebuild the cities we bomb. Even though we may see war as a dreaded necessity, we do not hate our enemies. As a Christian nation, we have been taught to 'love our enemies' and, as impossible as that may sound, we have succeeded.
There seems to be a misconception, in present day America, that we are supposed to love our enemies to death, even if it means our own death. But Jesus never instructed us to commit suicide en masse. Loving our enemies at the expense of our families and friends is not love; it is betrayal. Each day's unwillingness to act against our enemies, who are killing our allies, displays our treachery. Nowhere is this unwillingness to act more true than in the liberal camps.
In recent interviews, Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to explain Israel's position through an appeal to empathy. He implied that if rockets were landing in American cities, America would defend itself just as aggressively as Israel. I would like to think that would be true, but several rockets have already landed in America, killing 3,000 of us, and our response to fighting back has been anything but united, or impassioned. Some believe that it will take suicide bombings in our schools to provoke the complacent, but as long as those suicide bombings take place across town, in someone else's neighborhood, they will only be newspaper headlines to be read at the breakfast table. 9/11 has taught us a lesson. It has taught us that even though 3,000 fellow Americans can be slaughtered in a few minutes, our comfortable lives go on, uninterrupted and unchanged. It has taught us that our love for one another is a matter of superficial convenience. How easy it is to pretend that 9/11 didn't even happen.
Our tolerance has turned into apathy. Laziness and cowardice are masquerading as compassion for the enemy. It isn't that we have become enlightened and gained the ability to unconditionally love even those who cause murder and genocide; it's that we truly have lost the ability to love our friends, families and neighbors. We only love ourselves. We don't want war! We don't even want to think about it. A really big war might immediately, and directly affect us. We may have to make sacrifices! We may have to eat rice! We may have to budget! It's time for America to wake up and smell the beheaded corpses. Instead of focusing on loving the enemy, it's time to realize that you reap what you sow. America had better sow some nads, or it will be reaping Shariah law. Unfortunately, when faced with the prospect of Islamic victory, the only questions some will ask are, "Will there still be lattes? Will there still be Prada?"
Moral equivalency teaches us that our enemies are the same as us, but they are not. We will always show mercy to our enemies, even when we are strong enough to destroy them. Militant Islam will not be so kind."
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John 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
