WarSclerotic

This is an extremely fateful time for the West. So much is hanging in the balance that U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his team cannot afford to supply their opponents with damaging material. The liberal media and the American Left are masters at blowing up inconsequential remarks and putting them front and center, instead of addressing the fundamental problems: the faltering economy, rising unemployment and the deterioration of the U.S.’s status as leader of the free world.

After all, what did Romney actually say? He told the truth. He said there was no possible solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; that the Palestinians “have no interest” in peace with Israel; that they are “committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel.” He said further that “you hope for some degree of stability” (meaning: manage the conflict), but that he “recognizes that this is going to remain an unsolved problem.” Romney also added that the existence of a Palestinian state just a stone’s throw from Tel Aviv would pose a threat to Israel and fuel a process similar to what happened in Lebanon or in Gaza.

Is there anyone who is decent and realistic — and not a member of the peace cult — who doesn’t think the same thing? Ron Pundak, one of the architects of the Oslo disaster, continued to mumble fundamentalist verses about Israel’s duty during an interview on Wednesday, stating that there was “still a chance.” The Book of Proverbs teaches us: “Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him.” It is the same old Soviet method in which the revolutionary geniuses’ theory trumps the contradictory facts.

For the last 20 years we have been repeatedly ground with a pestle for being foolish enough to let gangs of terrorists into western Israel. These gangs never wanted peace; they only ever wanted to improve their firing vantage point. For 20 years we have been gathering evidence proving the Palestinians’ desire to destroy Israel, starting with anti-Semitic incitement in the Palestinian education system and the media, through terror attacks and incessant rocket salvos, to a rejection of any Israeli proposal to end the conflict.

Have we learned anything in these 20 years? Nothing. The same religious chants in the so-called peace camp. But the public has an accurate view of reality and understands that the Oslo accords were just a pipe dream that has come with a heavy price of blood and has undermined our standing in the world.

Everyone was asking this week how the authorities could possibly release a potential murderer — a Herzliya man who was never jailed for the suspected murder of his first wife, instead spending 14 years in a mental facility, and who now has allegedly murdered his second wife. Why is everyone so shocked? Didn’t we let gangs of proven murderers into our home, despite the warnings, and try to convince ourselves that they were peace lovers?

So what did Romney say that we didn’t already know? Were his remarks necessarily a “gaffe”? How about U.S. President Barack Obama’s reckless response to the murder of the American ambassador in Benghazi? Or the feeble response by left-wingers of the world to the bloody Muslim riots now underway? No, Romney told the bitter truth, indirectly suggesting that the current president has led the Americans, and the entire West, down a dangerous path. A path that has disintegrated the precarious world order and has borne political and military chaos, favorable to terror cells within the heart of Western civilization, and surrounding it.

Perhaps that is what the current American presidential election is all about: a battle between those who tell the truth and those who pretend that the Arab world is undergoing an “Arab Spring” rather than an Islamic winter, and that if we only take just one more step (what step, other than political suicide?) there will be peace and other “truths” straight out of the liberal media’s Ministry-of-Truth lexicon. The dangers currently facing the West are so severe that even the liberal mumbo jumbo can’t disguise them. Instead of talking, we have to face the dangers courageously. That starts with telling the truth.