“Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!”
-Lord of the Rings : Return of the King, Aragorn

After seeing In The Face of Evil last night, I spent most of today thinking about the grand battle in which we are now engaged. Now as many of our readers will know, I am in no way a neo-conservative. In fact, I don’t even believe in the term. That being said, the battle between Western society and islamic extremism in which we are now engaged is one that for conservations sake must be fought, and fought hard.
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A great article from the National Post (a canadian paper) on the gay marriage debate that is raging up in Canada , with a new push from polygamists to be able to marry in the People’s Republic of Canada.

Polygamists have not challenged the ban for the same reason people walk by an apparently abandoned car for days on end — until someone breaks one of its windows. The car is then vandalized and stripped within hours. Gay marriage is that broken window. Continuing vandalism will see marriage abolished altogether, exactly what radical gays, feminists and family law theorists wanted in the first place, and the reason why feminists disparage heterosexual, but support gay, marriage.

The entire article is available here and is a must read for people interested in the future of the gay marriage debate.

In the UK, one can have little doubt that the State is God, after a ruling several months ago that a baby born prematurely would be put on DNR (Do Nor Resuscitate) orders against the wish of her parents. The parents wanted to do everything they could to keep the baby alive but the doctors and the state decided it “was not in the baby’s best interest.”

For those people who say the slippery slope argument when it comes to abortion is non-sense, well here’s proof you are wrong. Now the state determines your right to live event after you are born.

More information here.

The reigning graybeard of American foreign policy weighs in on the impending elections in Iraq in the Washington Post (registration required). Along with George P. Schultz he makes some interesting, worthwhile points. A sample of the wisdom:

An exit strategy based on performance, not artificial time limits, will judge progress by the ability to produce positive answers to these questions. In the immediate future, a significant portion of the anti-insurrection effort will have to be carried out by the United States. A premature shift from combat operations to training missions might create a gap that permits the insurrection to rally its potential. But as Iraqi forces increase in number and capability, and as the political construction proceeds after the election, a realistic exit strategy will emerge.

There is no magic formula for a quick, non-catastrophic exit. But there is an obligation to do our utmost to bring about an outcome that will mark a major step forward in the war against terrorism, in the transformation of the Middle East and toward a more peaceful and democratic world order.