Did we sympathize with Hitler when we mercilessly bombed the German town of Dresden? There truly is no country for weak men. As long as weak men fill the chairs of power in America we will never win this war.

It is startling to me how much this mirrors the woes of the Carter Administration when dealing with radical Islam. Jimmy Carter was our last president who also felt as though treating terrorists with legitimacy and giving them a voice would work. Instead the Shah was ousted and our embassy overrun by the very people we are now fighting again. This is no coincidence either.

Weakness spreads like a disease and everyone around you knows that you are carrying it. Much like in the wild, wolves and other such predators will pick off the weak prey in the herd, so it is in the world of foreign policy. Folks, there is a reason that Iran released every hostage they were holding the day Reagan came into office. As such, if we don’t decide right now to shed this exterior of weakness, we will eventually be picked off and our way of life will cease to exist.

I have heaviness in my heart for the four Americans who senselessly lost their lives yesterday on a day that is already stained with the blood of so many innocent Americans. However, more disturbing is the trend that I am seeing in the Left. Instead of remembering and being angry, as I still am today eleven years later, they are making excuses and finding reasons why it is our fault.

I want to end the column this week with a rather profound thought that I had this morning while viewing the bodies of our dead being desecrated in the streets of Libya. What is it about our civilized society that allows us to make no room for righteous anger and vengeance? Every civilized society in the world has been based on one simple legal principle: retribution.

But now Barack Obama and the liberal Left feel there is another way, the Jimmy Carter way. They think that if we can just sit down and talk it out with radical Islam we can all live together. Well, the fact is, that is just not true. We cannot negotiate with people who are on a mission from Allah to destroy the infidels. The only thing we are doing by refusing to seek retribution is exposing weakness. So if we wish to have a country for old men, then I suggest we start by running a country of strong men who believe in violence and action against what has become a worldwide scourge of Islamic terrorism.