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About Patriots for the Defense of America
The mission of Patriots for the Defense of America is to promote a strong, uncompromising foreign policy and to defend America's right to self-defense against enemy nations. They uphold the ideal of political freedom, and seek to educate the public on the evil and the danger of statism. The Patriots for the Defense of America promote an informed patriotism: a love of America based on an understanding of the ideal of freedom on which it was founded. They believe that above all else, America needs the strength of moral conviction in order to protect its citizens from further destruction. America must be convinced of its own greatness and of the righteousness of its cause.
Patriots for the Defense of America is dedicated to the proposition that the United States must take a strong and uncompromising stand against nations that threaten American lives and freedoms. They hold that America must put its own defense first, and that she must not sacrifice self-defense to win the support of other nations. They fully support the unyielding use of military force to defeat our enemies and defend America.
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Articles by Patriots for the Defense of America
America's Failing War Effort (Part 12 of 12): Conclusion (December 1, 2003)
Recent criticism of the Bush administration has focused on the limitations of American intelligence in failing to predict September 11th, and the shortcomings current plans for homeland defense. In truth, however, these problems are only superficial.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 11 of 12): International Law and Diplomacy (November 30, 2003)
The danger of appeasement and compromise is not simply that enemy nations will end up demanding more foreign aid. The catastrophe of September 11th was itself the result of years of appeasement towards terrorists and terrorist-sponsoring governments.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 10 of 12): Military Deployment and Readiness (November 29, 2003)
To risk American lives to protect foreign civilians is to make the same deadly moral concession made by unnecessary humanitarian missions.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 9 of 12): Israel and the Palestinians (November 28, 2003)
As American policy toward Israel has been so self-defeating, we judge American relations with Israel to have reversed any progress in the current war it may have made. For this reason the Bush administration receives a plain and simple F for its Israel policy.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 8 of 12): Pakistan (November 27, 2003)
The United States cannot continue this policy of bribery for bribery. To demonstrate the seriousness of its demands for Pakistani cooperation, the United States should immediately cease or revoke all economic assistance. To the extent that Pakistan continues to be implicated in assisting foreign governments such as Iran and North Korea in their development of nuclear weapons, the United States' position should become even more punitive.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 7 of 12): Saudi Arabia (November 26, 2003)
The Saudi role in the support of terror is as much a form of paying blackmail to terrorist groups who would topple the Saudi monarchy as it is a consequence of genuine sympathy for terrorist causes. The Saudi royal family is almost irredeemably corrupt, gorging itself on oil revenue it has not earned. If the cessation of aid is not enough to prompt the Saudis to reform, the United States will have to consider more drastic measures, including but not limited to a seizure of the oil fields that so contribute to Saudi corruption.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 6 of 12): The Breeding Grounds (November 24, 2003)
There is another category of nations, whose governments profess to support the American war, but which fail to take the steps needed to eliminate support for terrorism within their own ranks and on their own territory.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 5 of 12): North Korea (November 23, 2003)
Even though the current war has been deemed a "war on terrorism," this is a misnomer. One does not go to war with a method of fighting, one goes to war with an enemy. And for this reason the current war is far wider than even a war against militant Islam. It is against every nation espousing an anti-American ideology and working to devise means of threatening our security, whether through terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 4 of 13) The Cold War Against "The Axis of Evil" (November 22, 2003)
Despite Bush's admirable identification of America's primary enemies, two out of three of the members of the axis of evil have so far escaped American retribution.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 3 of 12): Afghanistan (November 21, 2003)
The only purpose of the American presence in Afghanistan consonant with the moral obligations of the United States government to its citizens is to prevent the repeated use of Afghanistan as a terrorist training grounds. The present course of American policy in Afghanistan is doing little to achieve this purpose. Unless the United States can succeed in refocusing its Afghanistan policy, by taking steps to extend the power of the Afghan central government and eliminate the power of rival warlords, our presence there will become pointless.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 2 of 12): Iraq (November 20, 2003)
The Bush administration still has a chance to salvage its operation in Iraq. It can begin by immediately letting up on the restrictive rules of engagement assigned to its soldiers, and then giving them a more focused mission designed to root out insurgents on the ground. It must then work to expand the authority of a properly functioning central government. But even the most focused campaign in Iraq will be fraught with peril as long as foreign sources funding and inspiring the insurgency go unchecked. There is already strong evidence of militants from Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran infiltrating into Iraq, in the attempt to create a "second Lebanon," driving out American forces.
America's Failing War Effort (Part 1 of 12): A Report Card (November 19, 2003)
Two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there are two leading evaluations of the Bush Administration's "war on terrorism." One side, generally right-wing and supportive of the war, is optimistic about its progress, and regards Bush as heroic. The other side, generally left-wing and anti-war, is pessimistic about the war's prospects, warning of "quagmires" and pending terrorist attacks. Patriots for the Defense of America takes a third view: it supports a principled war against America's enemies, but maintains that the progress of this war has been dangerously slow.
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