The great anti-war fallacy

Mark Steyn shows how warfare has been reduced to the level of schoolyard games by the anti-war elite in the West, as though Western civilization had some moral obligation to respond to acts of war without "overdoing it." It's as though they think war is supposed to fair, like a pickup game of basketball or Red Rover.

We spend vast sums of money and effort to make it unfair, and doing so in the past has saved us having to fight serious wars. But the concept of limited warfare has become so ingrained in our thinking that we have begun to think that it's not nice to respond with force against poor nations who are making themselves poorer by blowing resources on terrorism against us. Of course, only people who think "violence never solved anything" and are willing to risk our freedom and our future on the good will of people like Stalin, Mao, bin Laden, Saddam and Ahmadinejad.