The response to the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah and his confederates tells a great deal about a person’s moral position.
At Harvard, I had many opportunities to pass by the MIT campus. On one such occasion, someone asked if I saw the massive flagpole in front of the school. Unless you had your eyes closed, you could not miss it. “That flagpole is the zero point for all American nuclear missile mapping systems.” While there were several MIT people involved in the Manhattan Project, I have no idea if the venerable flagpole actually served as the coordination point for what were then thousands of nuclear warheads and delivery systems.
As people, we need our own moral coordinate systems. In the past, when there was greater religiosity, people tended by default to have similar views of good and bad, evil and holy, right and wrong, and the like. The many problems in Europe today come from the internal and external destruction of what were once relatively homogeneous societies. It did not take any convincing from the American people to know that the Japanese and Germans were evil. Their actions in China and Europe were enough to convince people who had working moral systems that these two people were evil incarnate. When the US finally entered the war, it sent millions to fight and lost over half a million soldiers. All knew that the Axis had to be destroyed, and while the price paid was steep, the alternative of Hitler and Tojo winning would have been far worse.
When people and societies jettison their moral systems, whether religiously based or philosophically defined, then they no longer have that flagpole orientation position. Their views change with the tide or the latest news reports. For nearly a year, deranged students and adults have been singing the praises of a terror group that performed mass rape on Israeli women and burned families alive. Their visceral hatred of Israel and often more generally Jews means that there is no evil that Hamas can do—like murdering six emaciated hostages rather than let them live to rejoin their families—that can cause these morons to say, “Enough!” and drop their placards calling for the genocide of Israelis and the destruction of their country. Intifada Revolution? The injuries we suffered during the second intifada are with us every single day of our lives.
And thus it was telling that as Israel began to turn its attention to Hezbollah, suddenly the same crew now came out with Hezbollah flags as well! The fact that Hezbollah has killed many Americans over the decades not only means nothing to these brainwashed lefties; in fact, it might actually be one more positive feature of the group. People who cannot definitively define evil also cannot know what true good is. So, the same people who support terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians in their homes are the ones who think that cutting off perfectly good body parts of children and thus sterilizing them is a wonderful thing. When one has no moral coordinate system and no moral compass to get you pointed in the right direction, good and bad are defined by your feelings or prevailing attitudes.
In the US, one sees the moral fogginess in allowing millions of illegal aliens to enter with serious repercussions in crime, economic damage, and loss of social cohesion. A people with no moral compass can depose a nominee for president and replace him with a cackling clown who did not have a single primary vote, as opposed to the 14 million Joe Biden had banked. The US demands Israel ceasefires against a group that murdered not only in Israel but also in South America and Europe. Israel is decimating a truly evil terror group, and the West can only scream that Israel should stop. A moral people like the one who fought the hard slog that was World War 2 would encourage Israel to extinguish the true evil at its borders. The moral midgets of Biden and Blinken only want quiet, like octogenarians who cannot stand the noise that those whippersnappers are making downstairs. Just make a ceasefire! That such arrangements will blow up in five years or a decade is of no concern: they will no longer be in office.
The downward religious and associated birthrate spirals in Europe opened the door to bringing in millions of people who often hate their host countries and have openly expressed their contempt against the locals. A strong moral people—may be still alive in Poland and Hungary—would oppose bringing in millions of people whose presence and views would disrupt and potentially destroy all that defines their home countries. Like the women who proudly burned their bras in the 1960s and thus declared their freedom, Western society thinks that it has removed itself from the shackles of religion and all of its backwardness, fairy tales, and arbitrariness. The problem is that without the moral system that Christianity provided Europe, one cannot define neither good nor evil. So, one can let in people who promise to replace you and your laws with their brethren and Sharia. And in parallel, one can march vociferously in protests against the people who did a ruthless terror group murder mass.
The destruction of the arch-terrorist Nasrallah offers moral clarity between those who know that people like him are unique and need to be destroyed and those who bleat about kumbaya and just stop killing. Israel’s incredible intelligence coups with the pagers and walkie-talkies and the on-the-dime destruction of Nasrallah and many other senior Hezbollah commanders stand in stark contrast to Israel getting jumped by Hamas. It turns out that after the 2006 war in Lebanon, Israel invested huge amounts of money and resources to penetrate Hezbollah and know everything about the terror group and its actions for the day when it could act. On the other hand, Hamas was considered a much smaller threat and did not receive the same level of attention. The surprise pogrom by Hamas and the surgical discombobulation of Hezbollah are two sides of the same Israeli intelligence coin. Israel actually practiced deep enemy penetration exercises—in the north, expecting Hezbollah and not Hamas in the south.
If you cannot support the violent death of terrorists and their leaders, then don’t be surprised if people only laugh at you when those same terrorists kill somebody who meant a lot to you.