WarSclerotic

Seventy-five years have passed since the 1938 Munich Agreement, and while we had thought the lesson had been learned, it seems that imbeciles are paving the way toward their own ruination by negotiating with evil.

It is hard to use such primeval — and yes, primitive — terms, as who speaks of evil these days? Well, look at Iran, at the Islamic republic’s death industry (it is the only thing it produces, after all — others are pumping its oil for it). Look what has happened since 1979, when the West looked on indifferently and even helped Islamofascism take over Iran. Look what has happened in the Middle East, and what has happened in the world: “They have eyes but fail to see.”

Alongside the Islamists’ victories, the West has been taken over by a post-war concept that promotes a priori capitulation before any miscreant falsely hoisting the banners of freedom and democracy. Western consciousness has been overrun by the concept of political correctness, which bars one from clearly stating who is responsible for the majority of today’s man-made horrors, and dismisses any talk about defeating evil.

In Israel this frame of mind manifested in the form of the disastrous slogan “Peace at any cost” — which seems also to be the motto of the current American administration.

So are we truly alone against the entire world? Not completely. Standing beside us are those who truly seek freedom in the world, those who know the difference between right and wrong and between the truth and lies. However, in terms of leadership, we are on our own: “Abraham the Hebrew, all the world was on one side, but he was on the other side” (Genesis Rabbah 42:8).

But it is not just us. The entire world is missing a leader, as was clearly evident last week, when those negotiating in Geneva and their leaders said nothing in response to a Nazi statement by the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who said, “These [Israeli leaders] are savage creatures, they cannot be called human.” This statement followed his one confession, made a mere 10 days earlier, saying that Iran’s negotiation tactics were “the use of creative maneuvers and various methods to achieve the goal.”

A healthy West should have walked away from the negotiations the moment those statements were uttered. But the West is sick, and in that respect, the agreement signed in Geneva lends international legitimacy to Khamenei’s Nazi statements.

U.S. President Barack Obama is bolting from the Middle East and leaving ruins in his wake. The problem is that the future Middle East, the one built on the ruins of Obama’s legacy, will be completely different from the one that existed prior to Obama becoming the leader of the free world.

We are doing our best to rely on our allies, and the United States is a worthy ally, but unlike in 1938 we can, now, hold our own and defend ourselves. Let the world know that we will not abide by the defeatist understandings reached in Geneva in 2013. History has proved that capitulation will only result in horrific war. The healthy part of the West warned against it then and it is warning against it now. You cannot win the war between Western rationalism and the religious myths of the East or the pagan myths of Nazism, without the proper and most up-to-date tools.

As Hillel the Elder taught us 2,000 years ago: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And If not now, when?”