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Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us.

All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer — not an easy answer — but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.

Proving that truth is eternal, I came across a speech that Ronald Reagan gave in 1964. Though the Cold War is over, the truth about facing an enemy that threatens us rings yet today. The phrase that hit hard for me was “peace without victory”.

How true today. The Libs haven’t changed at all. What do they want to do with North Korea? How about Iran? What of Syria and Saudi Arabia? The answer is the same each time; they want accommodation. They want peace without victory. They want to tuck their coward tails and run.

And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us.

Six-party talks anyone? UN resolutions? Summits? Negotiations? I wish I could make US politicians watch Reagan speeches again and again until they get it. You have to do what is morally right, not what is least confrontational. You have to bring peace through victory over your enemies, not through accommodation.

The sad part is that many will learn this lesson the hard way and what will be the cost?