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Freedom Is Not a Sacrificial Altar President Bush has committed more than 20,000 new troops to the failed Iraq war, urging them and all Americans to sacrifice for the "noble" Iraqi cause. He declared that we must go forward with trust in the "Author of Liberty" and resist the temptation to put aside the "burdens of freedom." What he is not calling for is military action to defend the freedom of Americans. Instead, he is proclaiming a God-given duty to sacrifice American lives to the 'calling of our time': bringing elections to the meek and the hostile. It is a moral obscenity that an American president should declare freedom to be a 'burden.' Freedom is not a cross for America to bear nor an altar upon which to sacrifice our soldiers. It is a profound value to be defended by destroying those who threaten it. Bush declared that victory in the war on terror "will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved." That is because, on Bush's plan, there will be no victory. Our goal in WWII was not to bring elections to Imperial Japan, it was to secure our own freedom by annihilating Japanese imperialism with overwhelming military force. The enemy we face today is another militant, state-sponsored ideology, Islamic totalitarianism. But if we reject the goal of crushing this enemy in favor of Bush's call to shoulder the 'burden of freedom' and sacrifice for Iraqis, there will be no end to Islamist attacks against America.
Dr. Yaron Brook Executive Director Ayn Rand Institute
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