Islamophilia: (1) pathological solidarity with Islamism brewed from anti-Semitism, mutual Leftist-Islamist enmity toward U.S. constitutional government, xenophilia, and accord with Islamist goals, (2) absolves Islamists of systematic violations of LOAC by (a) denying violations were committed, (b) declaring, as Muslims adhere to a “religion of peace,” that any violations were committed by non-Muslims, or (c) justifying Islamist methods/means as self-defense against a West that pathologizes Muslims and targets Islam for destruction; (3) denies that Islamists fight outside the strictures of LOAC and that there should be consequences for doing so, (4) questions whether the West is entitled to self-defend, and (5) promotes a legal regime in which methods and means available to the West contract and those available to Islamists expand.
Admit that We are at War
Admit that We are at War
wage total war: counterinsurgency using low-intensity military force augmented by nation-building, rule-of-law development, and armed social work projects in the hope of transitioning the Islamic world to governance regimes less likely to spawn future generations of Islamists has failed. Total war requires far more against an enemy hostile to Western constitutional democracy and bent on conquest. All instruments of national power—including conventional and nuclear force and PSYOPs—must be harnessed to win two decisive battles: (1) an offensive to capture the hearts and minds of Islamic peoples, break their will to fight for Islamism, and leave them prepared to coexist with the West or utterly eradicated, and (2) a defensive to prevent Islamists from capturing the hearts and minds of peoples of the West, breaking their will to fight, and submitting the West to Islamism or eradication
Islamists should be anathematized as modern-day outlaws shorn of rights and liable to attack by all means and methods at all places and times and to judicial execution post-interrogation. If law is only legitimate if “predicated upon history, values, and survival imperative[s]” and “[n]o society can afford…inflexible rules concerning those steps on which its ultimate fate…depends[,]” then outlawry of Islamists is an efficient means to hasten their demise and the sole reciprocal arrangement possible with a foe that already applies this regime to Western “infidels.” The West must shatter Islamists’ political will and eradicate those who do not renounce Islamism. Commitment to rule-of-law is not only an end but a means. Every rule, doctrine, and policy must endure a rigorous justification process whereby its retention in the LOAC canon is predicated upon its contribution to victory.
Islamists should be anathematized as modern-day outlaws shorn of rights and liable to attack by all means and methods at all places and times and to judicial execution post-interrogation. If law is only legitimate if “predicated upon history, values, and survival imperative[s]” and “[n]o society can afford…inflexible rules concerning those steps on which its ultimate fate…depends[,]” then outlawry of Islamists is an efficient means to hasten their demise and the sole reciprocal arrangement possible with a foe that already applies this regime to Western “infidels.” The West must shatter Islamists’ political will and eradicate those who do not renounce Islamism. Commitment to rule-of-law is not only an end but a means. Every rule, doctrine, and policy must endure a rigorous justification process whereby its retention in the LOAC canon is predicated upon its contribution to victory.
restraints can be observed with respect to lawful combatants and truly innocent civilians This approach risks conflating jus ad bellum and jus in bello and inviting other parties to engage in unrestricted warfare simply by asserting the justice of their causes. Yet the exception need not establish the rule: no future cause could ever be more just than defense of Western civilization against conquest by Islamists
demands mental reconfiguration away from wishful thinking, half-measures, and handwringing over the fate of mortal enemies and toward reawakening and acculturating the necessary fighting spirit. Spartanization of the West will require the deepening of the concept of citizenship to include duties as well as rights, and in particular the duty to fight in defense of one’s nation that has been all but extinguished over the past two generations, but also the recovery of thumos without which this collective spirit to fight, to prefer one’s own people and civilization over an enemy’s, and to vanquish that enemy cannot be conjured.
Islamists should be anathematized as modern-day outlaws shorn of rights and liable to attack by all means and methods at all places and times and to judicial execution post-interrogation. If law is only legitimate if “predicated upon history, values, and survival imperative[s]” and “[n]o society can afford…inflexible rules concerning those steps on which its ultimate fate…depends[,]” then outlawry of Islamists is an efficient means to hasten their demise and the sole reciprocal arrangement possible with a foe that already applies this regime to Western “infidels.” The West must shatter Islamists’ political will and eradicate those who do not renounce Islamism. Commitment to rule-of-law is not only an end but a means. Every rule, doctrine, and policy must endure a rigorous justification process whereby its retention in the LOAC canon is predicated upon its contribution to victory.
Islamists should be anathematized as modern-day outlaws shorn of rights and liable to attack by all means and methods at all places and times and to judicial execution post-interrogation. If law is only legitimate if “predicated upon history, values, and survival imperative[s]” and “[n]o society can afford…inflexible rules concerning those steps on which its ultimate fate…depends[,]” then outlawry of Islamists is an efficient means to hasten their demise and the sole reciprocal arrangement possible with a foe that already applies this regime to Western “infidels.” The West must shatter Islamists’ political will and eradicate those who do not renounce Islamism. Commitment to rule-of-law is not only an end but a means. Every rule, doctrine, and policy must endure a rigorous justification process whereby its retention in the LOAC canon is predicated upon its contribution to victory.
