It takes a mighty big person to repent these days...

It's not about looks, bodily stature and strength, celebrity, power, or wealth.

It's all about emotional and spiritual fortitude.

With all of the public-apology-fests we hear about these days, from the unspeakably hypocritical Don Imus brouhaha to the flying TB patient, it's getting harder and harder to find folks who can repent of their own wrongdoing before they have been put under pressure by civil authorities, media hounding, public disgrace, or all of the above. Were this merely a personal spiritual issue for those who cannot turn aside from the wrong path they have chosen, it would be bad enough.

But when those who cannot repent are public figures, the slippery slope to destruction grows broad enough to encompass us all.

This is why the defamation of the Serbs never seems to end. I am talking about the US/NATO/EU government officials and bureaucrats, the NGO/"think tank"/academia frauds, the mainstream media people, and everybody else who has played a part in this over the last decade and a half (and more). The New York Times is one recent example; see Still Slandering Serbia.

The accusers keep sticking to their wrongheaded story--no matter how obvious it becomes that the U.S. has been fighting on the wrong side, on behalf of the Muslim jihadists in the Balkans.

It's true that too many of them have built their career on Serb-bashing. But there's another reason why these high-placed Serb-bashers dare not recant. It's because they have caught themselves in their own trap.

Lying is the lubricant that keeps the machinery of evil in motion. But now, the perpetrators can't get off their own runaway train. Nor can they let the rest of us off.

In the name of "justice," they relentlessly demanded draconian punishments for any Serbs accused of real or fictitious war crimes. Now the tragic irony is that these accusers cannot recant their own false allegations without inviting the same harsh fate for themselves that they have been demanding for the Serbs.

Lies have consequences. Their own false allegations against the Serbs resulted in a very real genocide against the Serbs. If these Serb-bashers were ever to admit they had been wrong, they would have reason to fear that, at some point--maybe years from now, maybe sooner--they would be called to account, and would find no more mercy than what they themselves had dealt out to the Serbs. And that is what they are truly most afraid of.

Stein hoists to these valiant bloggers:

• Jihad Watch
  • Balkan Muslim Gratitude
• Our Children are the Guarantors
  • What Our PR Problem Really Is
  • Our Children are the Guarantors: My Own So Sorry
• Witch-King of Angmar
  • See this comment!
  • View from Minas Morgul

Thanks to all of you for having the courage to discuss this issue. Sadly, I too must admit that it took me way too long to understand what was going on.

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Capt. Lance Peter Sijan, USAF

Here is the story of the heroic service of Capt. Lance Peter Sijan, as recounted by the United States Air Force. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism during the Vietnam War, where he died as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. He displayed this strength of character not just at one particular time of great danger, but consistently throughout a long ordeal.

The USAF website noted the Irish heritage of Capt. Sijan's mother, but not the Serbian heritage of his father. Capt. Sijan's Wikipedia biography does mention this.

Capt. Sijan was not the only Serbian-American awarded the Medal of Honor. Reportedly, a greater proportion of Serbian-Americans per capita have been awarded the Medal of Honor than any other ethnic group serving in the U.S. military.

Sadly, credit is not being given where credit is due. Not long ago, the U.S. was at war with Serbia, for reasons that did not prove justifiable in retrospect - which is why the mainstream media has so little to say about the Balkans at present. Even now, the U.S. State Department is still trying to detach Kosovo from Serbia to turn it over to jihadist rule, and to sell out the Bosnian Serbs as well, in defiance of all common sense. Encouraging the public to admire a Serbian-American hero would no doubt raise too many embarrassing questions about past and present foreign policy mistakes, and about those bureaucrats, journalists, and elected officials who are clearly to blame.

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It's new, it's by William A. Whittle, and it's worth reading now

If you aren't familiar with William A. Whittle and the Eject!Eject!Eject! website, you're missing one of the best writers on current trends from an historical perspective. His understanding of the issues of war and defense is spot on.

You Are Not Alone, Part 1 and Part 2 is a long article, but so thought-provoking, and, dare I say, inspiring, that it is worth dropping whatever else you are doing to take the time to read it now.

Read it, think about it for awhile, and read some of the other articles on Whittle's site. He has an intriguing, and I believe correct, comprehension of the real purpose behind, and need for, those efforts and struggles that so often seem lonely and futile.

Comments are open, both here and on Whittle's site.

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