Bill Whittle, you keep saying what you're saying over and over and over again. And those of us who understand the deep truth in what you are saying, we will repeat it too. As you conclude your post on Tribes Bill, "courage isn't free". Freedom isn't either, and we need to help make sure there will always be enough Sheepdogs for America's sheep, or we'll have forfeited the price to retain it.

You make a point I haven't heard expressed since 9/11, the idea that, sicne Bin Laden's goal was to prompt us to start a holy war against Islam (i.e., attack him), if we had not acted so decisively, it would be highly likely he would have continued implementing ever more spectacular attacks to provoke us to war. How many more than the more than 3,000 might have died if a member of the Pink Tribe had been in the White House?

You made a decision on Setpember 11, 2001, Bill. Many of us made the same the decision on the same day. We understood then, and we understand now, the threat was very real, and it still is:

But I do know, that there, in his own words, the wolf said why he did what he did: he wanted to provoke War with the US, and would do whatever was necessary to accomplish it. And if we had not given him this war, he would have kept striking until he got what he was looking for. Nothing about US foreign policy, no word about injustice for the Palestinians or Evil Corporations or any of that. No, he said he wanted to start a war with the US. And so he has it. And he would have done whatever he had to do to get it.

And they will strike again, and those silent, dogged sheepdogs who have succeeded so many times in the dark silent hours will miss a scent somewhere, and more people will die and that's what we can expect. Not dying of Influenza or Black Death, not being steamrollered under Nazi jackboots or watching Mongol hordes swarming towards us over the horizon as we run for the city walls. None of that. Only this.

And when they come, storms man-made and natural, what will the sheepdog/sheep ratio be? Enough?

Now, when Pink Tribesmen say that these people can be reasoned with, they are doing what sheep do: living in denial.

Because to say we are responsible for the terrorists in the world is a way to say we can control this wolf. If we believe we made him, then that means we control him. We can unmake him. Such a worldview appeals to the left, because it gives them Godlike Mental Powers. All we have to do is act differently and he will go away. It’s complete moral cowardice, of course – but it’s understandable cowardice. It’s denial, because if all the sins are ours then all we must do is repent and the wolf will go away.

But that’s not what the wolf says. The wolf is not interested in what we do. He does not spare little lambs because they rub up against his leg and make cooing sounds. The wolf wants to swallow us whole. He wants the fight. He wants the war and the conflict. And he will keep on huffing and puffing until one of three things happen: We show him our throat, for him to rip out; or we convert to Islam and become part of his Caliphate; or we head out into the forest with a shotgun and blow his fucking head off.

I made my decision by about 9:30 eastern on September 11th, 2001. I have never regretted it.

Thanks, Bill, for a terrific piece of motivation.