Can Some Politician Give Us Some of This?

Overheard on an airplane:

You can’t talk about axis of evil and fight a politically correct war. You can’t talk about existential threats and fight like a girl. You can’t talk about the ideological struggle of our time and do nothing about ideology — you have to get rid of every Wahhabi mosque and school, stop the recruiting in our prisons, dump Salafist army chaplains, deport the double-talkers in CAIR and their lawyers too…

If something is an existential threat, you stamp it out. Period. You kill as many people as need to be killed, and that means enough so new recruits won’t sign up. If something is an ideological struggle, you expose the ideology, make it illegal, kick the people who espouse it out of the country — and make life very hard on their fellow travelers. We need more Patton, less patent leather. We need more Panzer, less pansy. Bush and Cheney are either lying or incompetent, since ‘existential threat’ and ‘kinder, gentler war’ cannot possibly co-exist…

An American should be free to walk around like a citizen of the old Roman Republic. Or even the citizen of a century ago. ‘Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead.’ Actually, I think that time will come again. But as with Rome, we’ll be more like Empire than Republic at that point. Very sad.”