But we can't do that.  Instead, we will take Elmer's Glue-All away from 2nd graders and hope that will somehow make us safer. It is political correctness run amuck. We can't bear that any one should suffer unjustly alone so instead we all must suffer unjustly equally.

It is the failure of history to teach the necessity of her less savory moments. Instead, we look at those times as moral failures and we fear nothing more than repeating them. We would sooner be blown to bits than repeat the injustice of racial profiling as seen in the Japanese internment camps. We prefer to give 1000s of our own sons to die on the field of battle to spare innocents who would suffer if we let the heavy artillery do the job.

Americans can't stomach war. In truth, it is possible we never could. How would we know? Never before have we brought the horrors of the battlefield into our living rooms night after night. More likely, however, our great-grandparents valued freedom more than fairness. They valued preserving the American way more than preserving the infrastructure of their enemies. They new that sometimes it was necessary to sacrifice innocent life in order to end wars and thereby save countless thousands.  We have learned all the wrong lessons from our history. Instead of repeating our victories, we choose to repeat our defeats.

We are wimps. Our enemies are not. In the battle of good against evil, it definitely helps if the good guys aren't wimps. I'm not speaking of the soldiers, of course. But of the will of the American people which dictates the actions of politicians who run the show.

My own grandmother was a wonderful woman and a great liberal. She had friends who were sent to the internment camps during WWII. She loathed the injustice of that with every fiber of her being. Like her modern day counterparts, she didn't accept that sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. I don't fault her for hating what happened - we all hate injustice - but sometimes it is a necessary evil.

Liberals tend to see the way to peace as the avoidance of war. They are right, naturally, avoiding war will lead to peace but the cost is freedom. My grandmother's generation of liberals loathed injustice but they still valued freedom enough to endure it. I don't think the liberals of this generation necessarily do.