Appropriate conduct in civil war.

I really cannot picture a Confederate private or his Union counterpart, facing each other at First Manassas and saying " why, fie on this unseemly behavior, let us sit, break bread and reason together". Things had plainly gone beyond that stage.  The same is true in the existential struggle today in America between the militant radical left, which yet senses imminent triumph requiring now an all out, amoral and unrelenting push  to victory and the common sense majority which may still not sense in what mortal danger it stands.

I like Charles Krauthammer very much but his recent lamentations of what he regards as philistine behavior on the part of our President and of many of those who resolutely oppose the  relentless leftist assault on our nation's fundamentals, are ill considered. We face a war of conquest, of extermination, with a transcendently vicious and murderous opponent, against the life of our national essence of free enterprise, personal responsibility, individual freedom, religious faith, free expression and the conviction that our painfully evolved American journey has been, on balance (the only sane measure), an uplifting experience for humanity. Upon the resolution of this conflict the survival of the very real American dream depends.  Triumph for the left guarantees totalitarianism and the death of all that rational Americans hold dear.

The depraved onslaught waged by the American left on the very person of our duly elected President gives fair warning of what they consider justifiable in advancing their tragically wrong headed crusade.  And of course, the history of Marxism triumphant in the 20th century assures us that the draconian outrages they could ride to power would continue apace into their reigns.

How can it be wrong to recognize this onerous reality, resolve to preserve our creditable civilization and do whatever is as necessary as  all out political civil war makes it? To be blunt in our language toward the barbarians we face is a virtue; to excoriate them is wisdom.  John/Jack