“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie.”-Inscription on the Monument at Thermopylae

As the armies of Persia swept into Greece in 480 BC, many of the Greek city-states joined together in an alliance to defend their homeland. One of the strongest defensive points on the Greek mainland was Thermopylae, a narrow valley. There the allied armies held off the much larger Persian army for days until, finally, a traitor showed the Persians how to break the Greek defenses. With hours to spare, all of the allied forces beat a hasty retreat. All, that is, except for the Spartan King Leonidas and three hundred of his soldiers.

They fought a delaying action, giving their lives that the other Greek armies might escape and fight again. Finally, with a great effort, the Persians overwhelmed the Spartans, killing each and every one. But, by their valiant stand, they had bought enough time for the population of Athens to be evacuated and the great Athenian Navy to be prepared for battle. When the Persians finally sought to make the final assault on Athens, they were met by the Greek Navies at Salamis, where, led by Thermostoclies, the Athenians destroyed the Persian fleet and, in so doing, saved Western Civilization. It would not have happened, were it not for the sacrifice of the three hundred.

Most people will tell you that the United States lost the Vietnam War. I, personally, am not so sure if that it is the case. Certainly, given that the North Vietnamese communists were the ones left in possession of the field, it must be conceded that (whatever the reasons) they won the battle. However, viewed in context, Vietnam begins to look less and less like a horrible debacle and more like a valiant delaying action whereby America, by its sacrifice, made possible the prosperity of present-day Asia.

Think about it for a moment. If the United States had taken the advice of the Howard Dean’s of that day, and simply allowed Communism to overrun Vietnam in 1964, what would have happened? Does any sane person really believe that they would have simply stopped at their own borders? The horrors of Cambodia would have been repeated in Thailand, Burma, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillipines, and countless other nations of whose existence the average American remains blissfully unaware. Millions, and maybe tens of millions, would have died.

I bring this up because I expect that, if John F. Kerry wins the Democratic nomination, we will get to hear a lot about his service in that war. While I do not deny that Kerry served heroically or that his military service was anything less than laudatory, I do assert that his most important role in that war was off the battlefield. The greatest blow that John Kerry struck in that war was not on behalf of the United States of America, but on behalf of its enemies. No objective person can deny John F. Kerry’s treasonous behavior during the Vietnam War, nor can any moral and decent person excuse, rationalize, or forgive it.

If we accept the notion that Vietnam was ultimately an American Thermopylae, a delaying action which made possible a later and greater victory, then we must understand that John Kerry’s role in this event was not analogous to that of Leonidas and his Spartans who, despite the certainty of death, fought honourably to the end, but to that of Ephialtes, the man who betrayed them.

Little is known about Ephialtes beyond that singular fact. For all I know, he could have been a heroic solider, a wonderful father, and a loving husband. But all of that is stained and, indeed, rendered worthless by his betrayal of the cause of his countrymen. Ephialtes thought he saw the way the wind was blowing, the Persians were going to win, and so he got in line. John F. Kerry, with his finger always in the air, saw his chance: and he took it. He became a national figure by spitting upon the honor of every morally decent man who fought for the American cause in Vietnam. Ephialtes ended his life as a reviled traitor, on the run and with a bounty on his head. If there were real justice in this world the same would hold true for John Kerry and his ilk.

How dare John Kerry now try and run on his experience in Vietnam. How dare John Kerry, who threw away his medals (except, of course, he only pretended to do so), now try and be elected President because of them. How dare John Kerry, who sought (and received) an early discharge in order to run for Congress on an anti-war platform allow his followers to attack George W. Bush over a few missed (and made up for) National Guard training days.

Vietnam, despite its ultimate strategic utility, was and remains a stain upon the honor of the nation. For all those we saved elsewhere in Asia, we still abandoned our South Vietnamese allies to communist tyranny and doomed the millions in Cambodia who were murdered by communist death squads. We must never forget this, and we should never forgive those who are responsible. By this I refer not to the leaders and soldiers of Vietnam who, however, disgusting and immoral their ideology, we worthy opponents in the contest of war. By this I refer to those Americans who, for reasons of belief or ambition, deliberately sought to undermine their nation while at war.

Those very same people, those traitors who stabbed all decent, honest, and honourable Americans and humans in the back by opposing the just war in Vietnam, are still with us today. We do not wish that our present battles in this war should become as Vietnam, bitter defeats redeemed only within the context of history. Rather, we desire victory today.

Our enemies in their war are not just “over there”, they are here as well, at home. The most dangerous enemy America faces today is not the al-Qaeda bomber, ready to defend his right to self-detonation. The most dangerous enemy the United States has today are the soldiers of the party of treason right here at home. There is a simple reason for this: the arms and ability possessed by the Islamic world today are so slight that there is no victory that they can win without the assistance of their allies right here, in America.

Islamists can kill Americans, but not win the war. The enemy can only win victory by working to break our will and thereby allow the fifth column here at home to take control. The heart of the enemy beats not only within the savage barbarians who would murder us by the millions, but also within the chests of those who would, by design or stupidity, implement policies which would give victory to our enemies. The enemy is not just the terrorist, but the friend of the terrorist: and the terrorists have no greater friend than those who care so much for abortion and buggery that they would wilfully turn control of the nation over to those who would allow the victory of the terrorists.

There is a tendency, even amongst my fellow extremists, to distinguish between “loyal” Democrats (like Joe Lieberman) and “disloyal” Democrats (like Dennis Kucinich). But the truth is this: a Democrat is a Democrat, regardless of what adjective is used beside the word. It doesn’t matter whether they elect a peace Democrat on a war platform or a war Democrat on a peace platform, the end effect will be the same: a victory for our enemies. It is the institution, and not the individuals, that matter. The party itself is a disloyal institution which has sought to prostitute itself out to each and every single enemy of America for more than two decades.

Patriots want another Vietnam even less than traitors do. We do not wish to, denigrated and insulted, support a desperate holding action whose effect can be seen only in retrospect. We want to defeat the enemies of America now. We want to kill them now. We want to exterminate them altogether.

We must now march in unison towards a single goal: the complete and utter evisceration of the enemy. Anything else is a distraction and any opposition to this goal is treason.