By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

“A War America Can’t Win” is the title of an article I wrote a few days after having gazed, horror struck, at the rubble of the World Trade Center. In that article I said you can’t defeat an enemy unless you first identify him. Although Professor Newt Gingrich echoed this remark the other day in Iowa, more than fifteen years have elapsed since 9/11 and America has yet to define its enemy – and the enemy, unsurprisingly, was not defined by Gingrich.

The reason is pathetically obvious, for the name of the enemy is nothing other than ISLAM – Islam without descriptive adjectives, be it “radical,” “militant,” “extremist,” “political,” “fundamentalist,” etc.

America is so far from identifying its enemy that the benighted American people, with no small help from their academic mentors, have twice made the most powerful apologist of this enemy, Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States!

Before explaining this inanity or insanity, I must explain that no government official in America dares say that Islam is the enemy if only because that would define the enemy as a world RELIGION – a no-no in the lexicon of liberal America.

If this was not enough to veil the truth about this intolerant and venomous religion, Islam not only has 1.6 billion votaries, but this enormous number of worshipers of the toxic Qur’an rules than 50 nations. These Muslim nations, moreover, are represented in the world’s capital of hatred and hypocrisy the United Nations General Assembly. In that mélange, America, a colossus, has a single vote vis-à-vis diminutive Djibouti, a nation whose population is less than that of Brooklyn, New York!

Towering in the UN with more than fifty members, totalitarian Islam is appeased by an ensemble of democracies.  These democracies ignore the demonstrable fact that Islam is not only the greatest enemy of democracy, but also of Western Civilization. That Western civilization represents the primacy of reason versus primacy force in human affairs, and that this civilization embraces – of once embraced – the moral values of the Greco-Christian and Judaic heritage, no longer hold sway in the “community” of nations.

Although imperialism is a basic tenet of Islam, whose reach is everywhere, no civilized nation so much as thinks of organizing an alliance against this non-localized scourge of mankind, whose fabricated monotheistic veneer overawes post-Christian Europe and the evangelical atheism of the United States.

America and Europe, emasculated by secularism, exist in a state of denial. They willfully ignore blatant reality, that the American-led West is involved a civilizational conflict with the Islamic-led East. This is a RELIGIOUS WAR more total than the religious wars of the sixteenth century. The present East-West conflict began with the Khomeini Revolution of 1979, arguably the most significant revolution in the last 2,000 years.

But let us not overlook the civilizational and therefore quasi-religious conflict known as the Second World War, in which 16 million Americans were conscripted to fight atheistic Nazi Germany in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Notice, however, that that war differs in a most crucial respect from today’s conflagration.

In the Second World War, the United States and its ally Great Britain harbored no doubt about the evil nature of their enemy, Nazi Germany. Today, however, the university-bred doctrine of moral and cultural relativism has obscured the old distinction between good and evil. Generation after generation of college students have been corrupted by relativism. They graduate college and become the leading opinion makers and policy makers of the West. Emasculated by relativism, they lack the moral confidence and stamina of the older, more American generation. Relativism has sapped their will, their readiness to designate Islam as EVIL despite Islam’s use of children as human bombs, a depravity beyond that of the Nazis!

The key problem is this. No American official would dare suggest that that moral depravity is intellectually ignored or obscured by the academic doctrine of multicultural moral relativism. This doctrine, which has been permeated by higher education in the democratic world, has emasculated the West vis-à-vis Islam. Just ponder a few quotes from the mentors of students who will eventually become the opinion makers and policy maker of the West, indeed, who will be ensconced in the foreign office in Washington and London, there to espouse the doctrine of moral equivalence – say between Israel and the Palestinian – and thus make a mockery of “Western Civilization.”

• “Whatever is the object of any man’s appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good; and the object of his hate or aversion, evil … For these words of good[and] evil … are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so …”[1]

• “If I say to someone, ‘You acted wrongly in stealing that money,’ I am not stating anything more than if I had simply said, ‘You stole that money.’ In adding that this action is wrong, I am not making any further statement about it. I am simply evincing my moral disapproval of it…. If I now generalize my previous statement and say, ‘Stealing money is wrong,’ I produce a sentence which has no factual meaning, that is, expresses no proposition which can be either true or false.”[2]– Alfred Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic(1936, 1946) England’s leading exponent of logical positivism knighted by the Queen!

• “Ethical axioms are not necessary truths because they are not truths of any kind.”[3]– Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy(1951) Founder of the Berlin Circle of logical positivism in the United States

• “The phantoms[ideas] formed in the brain are … sublimates of their material [economic] life-process … Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of Consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence.”[4]– Karl Marx & Frederick Engels, The German Ideology.
  

These nihilistic doctrines, which have corrupted the minds of Americans and Europeans, have actually modulated the mentality of Barak Obama. The mind of this first “post-American” has been so corrupted that he can’t utter the words “Islamic terrorism”! Indeed, he can’t associate Islam with Islam’s most notorious moral imperative, ofJihad!

This incredible state of affairs, the consequence of a long-ongoing erosion Judeo-Christian morality, hence, of an inability to distinguish good from evil, was foreshadowed the day after 9/11 when President George W. Bush uttered the statement that Islam is a “religion of Peace”! This mindless remark, repeated countless times by other American politicians, and never publicly and effectively revealed as a mockery of 1,400 years of Islamic history, leads to the conclusion that, given the pernicious influence of moral relativism, America cannot win the war against its declared enemy. Therefore, since moral relativism permeates the mentality now manifested by the occupant of the White House, it follows that America cannot survive Islamic Imperialism as long as the Congress of the United States or the American people do nothing to relegate Barack Obama to the political culvert from which he arose.

[1] Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1955), 32 (emphasis added).

[2] A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (New York: Penguin, 1936), 110-111. Ayer (1910–1989) was a major purveyor of the emotive theory of ethics.

[3] Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy (Oakland: University of California Press, 1951), 280.

[4] Karl Marx & Frederick Engels, The German Ideology (New York: International Publishers, 1947), 14 (emphasis added).