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When terrorism is triumphant the normal reaction is that we have been defeated. And, possibly, in some way we, good, have been defeated.

If but for a moment.

 

This creates a feeling of a need to react.

 

This creates a feeling of a need to do something … or a strong feeling that something has to be done.

 

Nobody likes to feel defeated … especially if you believe, and know, you are in the right.

 

Look.

 

Terrorism challenges us at our core … at a core way beyond simple fear – whether it is triumphant or defeated in their attempts for triumph.

 

It is right to remain vigilant.

 

It is right to attempt to have a 100% success rate against potential terrorism.

 

 

But this is not as simple as a war … or even war as we faced it in the past.

 

There are no real ground forces outside of a small area the size of Indiana in the Middle East <which kind of sounds relatively easy to defeat when put that way> and instead what we seem to face is an intermittent stream of spot terror.

 

Terrorism has always existed.

 

But this version seems to be triumphant more often. This version seems a little more complex than that of the past.

 

When evil is being conducted by those who believe they represent good and are so committed to their cause it seems difficult to effectively defend ourselves from spot terror <unless we sacrifice the liberties & freedoms we fought so hard to build>.

 

Terrorism tries us.

 

Tries our resolve and our liberties and our character.

 

And, ultimately, it tries our faith in what is good & right as we face a defeat and evil is triumphant.terror right evil triumph

 

Terrorism inevitably reminds me of a Martin Luther King quote:

 

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“It is the faith that evil triumphant is somehow weaker than right defeated.”

 

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Martin Luther King

 

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When evil triumphs … in the moment … it looks stronger than it is and is winning more than it is. And, yet, it remains weaker than right standing in a moment of defeat.

 

We should remain stoic in the face of the momentary triumph of the atrocious behavior because it does not translate into that the world, or some city, is “literally disintegrating.” It simply means that in that moment evil was triumphant. But evil still remains weaker than those, in the right, defeated.

 

Terrorism is unique from war in that the enemy is a threat that can never be eliminated … only diminished … make it ‘spottier’ <with the ultimate long term goal to eventually suffocate the idea behind it>.

 

Terrorism is unique from war in that a few acts and a few people can define a ‘many’.

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I have said this before and will continue to say … extremists should not define the Islamic religion.

And extremists should definitely not define the behavior, and attitudes, of those of us who have freedoms and liberties.

 

Obama said this awhile back in a speech …

“As we focus on destroying ISIL, over-the-top claims that this is World War III just play into their hands. Masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks and twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages pose an enormous danger to civilians and must be stopped. But they do not threaten our national existence. That’s the story ISIL wants to tell; that’s the kind of propaganda they use to recruit. … We just need to call them what they are — killers and fanatics who have to be rooted out, hunted down, and destroyed.”

 

Evil’s triumph demands an exacting price from us … in lives as well as in mental fortitude.

 

We who have freedom know it demands a price. Frankly, part of the price is some degree of risk.

 

We assume that risk so that we do not lower ourselves to the depths that evil dwells.

 

We know for the most part we dwell in a safer place & world.

 

But, more importantly, we know for the most part that the ‘right defeated’ remains stronger than ‘evil triumphant.’

 

In the face of terror we remain calm, focused and stalwart <and not bombastic & reactive> because we have faith that despite the fact evil may be triumphant as it slithers its way through the cracks of society that ‘good defeated’ remains stronger … and will triumph in the end.

 

I believe this in my heart of hearts even as I watch images of the aftermath of a terrorist atrocity.

 

I believe this even more so as I listed to a doctor who was at the Brussels airport talk about helping the victims in the aftermath.

 

She refused to be called a hero.

She refused to accept that she “walked back toward the event” <simply stating she ran to a police station and offered to help triage>.

 

She refused to say she wasn’t scared.who dares strong possible

 

And, interestingly, she refused to have it affect her Life … two days after she is being interviewed saying she was in the middle of a move and as she put it “was surrounded by boxes and the confusion of moving and had not had a lot of time to reflect on the event yet.”

 

Ultimately, she refused terrorism their moment of triumph and refused to accept defeat. And that is the ultimate example of how evil triumphant remains weaker than right defeated.

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