ACT for America

[Excerpt: "Ahmadinejad’s mass slaughter of children is a manifestation of the neo-paganism underlying the religion that induces Muslims to scream “Allahu Akbar.”  Syrian-born Wafa Sultan calls the deity of this religion a “god of death,” but this Jihadic religion has yet to be called by its right name by the effete and overly civilized leaders of the democratic world."] 

If you call a rat-infested slum as evil, you have a moral obligation to eliminate that evil—if not now, then when you are capable of doing so.  Thus, when President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” he was obliged to take steps designed to eliminate that evil, and so he did. 

First of all, calling the USSR an evil empire, Reagan punctured the bubble of conceit of Communism.  By so doing he magnified the influence of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. He boldly jettisoned the relativism in the West that obscured the “evil empire.” He debunked the pretentions of Soviet Communism and put Kremlin leaders on the ideological defensive.

Reagan must also be credited for the Strategic Defense Initiative inaugurated in 1983—a multi-billion dollar project designed to protect the USA from a full nuclear missile attack by the Soviet Union. SDI (or the “star wars” program) was designed to end reliance on the offense-dominated deterrence strategy called “Mutually Assured Destruction,” the policy of détente and its balance of terror.  Given SDI, enemy missiles would be attacked at several different stages of their trajectory, using advanced laser and particle-beam technology, thus increasing the chances of disabling them.  Reagan despised détente and deemed it appeasement.

With America geared to SDI, the Soviet Union lacked the wherewithal to compete with the USA in this highly expensive project.  Without ignoring the Soviet debacle in Afghanistan, it’s hardly an exaggeration to say that SDI pretty much signaled the beginning of the end of the “cold war” and the subsequent disintegration of the Soviet Union, which had wasted more than $100 billion in the previous decade in the so-called arms race.

Now the United States is faced by another “evil empire,” the Islamic empire, whose epicenter is Iran, with proxies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, real or potential allies in Syria, Turkey, and South America as well as sleeper cells in the United States.  Nevertheless, the US, under Barack Obama, has reduced its military expenditures, has reneged on providing a “defensive shield” for Poland and the Czech Republic, and, most egregious, has betrayed the democracy movement in Iran by appeasing its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had sent tens of thousands of Iranian children to their death by having them walk across minefields in the Iranian-Iraqi war.