Connecting the dots

This society doesn't do that as well as it should.  This is how you end up with disasters because there is nobody out there doing that vital function.  Or those who do are being marginalized.

Examples?  There are many.  Consider Pearl Harbor.  Not enough thought was taken into account that the kind of impression that was being left upon the Japanese so that they would not attack.  We left the Japanese with the impression that we wouldn't fight to defend ourselves.  If Pearl Harbor wasn't bad enough, 9-11 happened for primarily the same reason.  A similar disaster will almost certainly strike now given the fact that the current political "leadership" has acted in similar ways that led to those two bad outcomes.  It is almost if these people never learn anything from history.  History shows that Osama bin Laden concluded that America could be beaten after the events in the Black Hawk Down incident in Somalia.  The left tends to play down the significance of these events, but a show of weakness such as that always leaves a wrong impression upon those who must be shown strength and resolution.  When bin Laden provoked a war with the 9-11 event, the appropriate response was not to reward his ilk with a victory in the War on Terror.  Not connecting the dots will all but guarantee another attack in the future.  Our current leadership hasn't connected that dot, nor learned from history.

But it goes beyond how the military is mismanaged.  It goes all the way down to the nuts and bolts of how our society works.  Consider the decisions on the Supreme Court this week on the issue of religious freedom.  The problem with contraception is not only with religious freedom, but goes much deeper about the meaning of life.  You could approach this with a religious point of view, which is deeper than our current pleasure obsessed society can manage anymore.  Now consider the dot that isn't being connected:  there aren't many babies being born---why?  Babies aren't being born because sex is now considered only as a pleasure to be sought, not primarily as a means of procreation.  Hence, a baby becomes a burden, and can be swept away by an abortion.  The rot goes even deeper than this, for if sex is only a pleasure, it encourages thinking that leads to same-sex marriage.  But this will all be denied as religious superstition, as a society cannot handle the religious approach, as it becomes obsessed with the temporal pleasures.  You can deny that the dots as such exist, but there is no denying that babies aren't being born.  The priorities must be wrong.  A society cannot continue without a new generation, and thus procreation must be the primary purpose of sex.

How are babies and wars connected?  The Islamic extremists see us as a society that is dying---and they are right.  This encourages them to try to overthrow us.  They'll do it with wars and/or with their own surplus of babies.  Either way, if we don't begin connecting those dots, we aren't going to last as a society, and they know it.  That question doesn't need answering for them, our enemy, but for us who can't seem to understand that we are destroying ourselves with our misplaced priorities.  We haven't connected those dots.