The Science of Bombs

In Iraq Americans are making all kinds of sacrifices—our lives and our money—in an effort to free a couple dozen million people who know nothing about freedom, people who are so beaten down by despots and doctrine they don’t want to be free. They hate us for the effort, and we apologize for freeing them.

America demonstrates daily that limited government, capitalism, and individual rights, is the only path to 21st Century civilization. We have been demonstrating the success of these ideas for two centuries. In America individuals have rights and dignity. In America people from all over the world, of every culture and race, live to achieve their own material and intellectual success, their own Happiness. America has demonstrated that man must be free.

Does the Arab world think American achievements are the result of our geography? Has our success been handed to us? Do our leaders or some rigid, religious doctrines rule us? Is the inventiveness and productivity, wealth and longevity of Americans an accident or a gift from heaven? No. America is what she is because her people are more free to pursue their own happiness.

Why do so many of the people on this globe look upon America with contempt? What they are expressing is contempt for themselves and their own hopeless predicament. How do they not see our vivid demonstration of what works? They don’t want to see. The great ideas—limited government, capitalism, individual rights—have no meaning in the Arab world. And that is why they fail.

So, how can we explain the meaning of these ideas?

1. Never apologize for our unwavering endorsement of these ideas. For example: Insist the Iraqi constitution establish a firm separation of church and state. Freedom is not possible as long as the government and the church are holding hands.

2. Never apologize for policing their country while they are unable to provide security for themselves. In fact, make them pay for the service we are providing—at least keep a tab. After all, they must know, we have no duty to sacrifice our blood and wealth for their security.

3. Never apologize for the criminal acts of individuals [like the soldiers who abused Iraqi inmates at Abu Grabe Prison]; rather, punish the individuals who performed and authorized the criminal behavior. If I were president I would have told the world straight out: "I’m not responsible for the criminal behavior of American citizens. I offer you no personal apology. But, I am the chief law-enforcement officer. I will punish this criminal behavior. There is no such thing as collective responsibility: Individual Americans will be made to answer for their crimes."

4. Apologize for our ridiculous leaders who insist on characterizing this war as a crusade. That is, any politician who wears their Christianity on their sleeve, who says America is a “Christian Nation.” Clearly, the fact that 75% of Americans are Christian is not the reason we succeed. We succeed because we have separation of church and state. We have taken religion out of government and out of the economy. Read the First Amendment. It’s the best things the Framers did. It made America. It is why we are the world’s only super power.

5. Explain with certainty the reasons for our success: "Our best minds, dedicating their lives to the pursuit of their own happiness, land in universities and labs across the country where they discover tomorrow’s science. Your brain matter is wasted memorizing ancient dogma, crippling all creativity in the name of Allah and his anti-human, authoritarian social order."

6. Accept credit for all that our way of life has done to improve man’s life, from life-saving medicine to the cell phone you’re using to plan your terror attack...it's all possible only because the free people of this world invented it. Free people don’t have some ancient faith telling them that they can’t experiment, that they can’t do science, that man can’t know, that God only knows…. Free people defy gravity, building jet engines and planes. The minds of free people made your oil valuable. You have used our genius to destroy us. Never again.

7. Don’t apologize for explaining the science of bombs to any irrational, religionist of any stripe who would keep the world in the Dark Ages.