In a recent post on Mirror of Justice, Professor Thomas Berg pointed out how our recent efforts against terrorism have not resulted in a sense of national purpose that requires sacrifice at home, on the part of Americans.
Our dependenceon Middle Eastern oil, he says, has exposed us to the Islamic terrorism from which we seek to protect ourselves. An additional protection, he points out, would be to encourage sacrifice and moderation of oil consumption, something yet to be done by the administration. Before likening the lack of sacrifice he sees in our war against terrorism to our predictable inability to make sacrifices when it comes to battling the evils of abortion, Berg says: I still don't think that the administration has really given us a solid sense of national purpose:it hasn't expended the political capital to persuade the majority of Americans that the war on terror is a national effort for which they as individuals ought to sacrifice.
I think two more statements Berg makes are worth quoting:
Abortion without government restriction has become pervasive in our society in large part because the alternatives appear to require people to make significant sacrifices.
A real war against abortion (one that didn't just lay all the burden on pregnant women) would require sacrifices from large numbers of Americans, in a way that the war on terror as pursued to date has not.
Read his post in its entirety.
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