It must all trace back to a lack of civic understanding, a lack of historical knowledge, a lack of gratitude, a lack of proper parenting, and a broader failure of decency and respect for one another.
There’s really no other tidy explanation for the animosity we’re watching young Americans direct at their own home, the greatest nation on planet Earth.
Oh. Besides the obvious: the mass importation of people raised in cultures that despise Western values, who were subsequently handed a megaphone.
Hasan Piker, the Marxist millionaire, leftist podcaster, and self-appointed Democratic spokesperson, was raised in Turkey and taught to hate these United States from a very young age. He recently said something in an interview that should enrage Americans to their core. Instead, it’s resonating with confused, childish corners of our country.
When asked on an Axios podcast whether America is worse than al-Qaeda, Piker, who represents the beliefs of a growing online electorate, said: “Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths? Yes. We’ve caused tremendous terror all around the world.”
First of all, he needs to stop saying “we.” He is not us. We are not him. He’s done nothing for this country besides complain about it since he arrived in 2009, mooching off our education system and our free markets the entire time. He’s said America “deserved 9/11.” He repeatedly says he hates this country. He’s said he’d “motherf*ck the constitution.” He wants “capitalist blood to spill out in the streets.” He’s a terror sympathizer who ranks Hamas and Al Qaeda higher on his morally inverted hierarchy than his own adopted country.
He’s the most anti-American piece of dog crap since Osama bin Laden himself. And obviously wasn’t held enough as a baby.
We are not the same.
Secondly, he’s unequivocally wrong. America does not go “pound for pound” with al-Qaeda, the terror group responsible for hijacking four airplanes 25 years ago and killing almost 3,000 innocent Americans for no reason other than their religion told them to. The roughly 25,000-man terror group responsible for at least 28,000 deaths. The terror group whose stated fatwa, or mission, is the killing of Americans and their allies, because it is their higher duty. That is terrorism. And Piker is deliberately conflating it with the conduct of war because he wishes to paint America as the bad guy, the aggressor, the irredeemable devil, in order to excuse her attackers.
The United States military has an obvious moral and civil obligation to counter these attackers, who are vast in size and scope, because al-Qaeda isn’t the only terror group dead set on eradicating the West. So are Al-Shabaab, JNIM, AQAP, the Houthis, ISIS, ISIS-K, the Taliban, Hezbollah, the IRGC, Iraqi Shia militias, and Hamas. The list of freaks goes on and on and on. And while we sip lattes at cute coffee shops on a lovely corner street during a breezy summer afternoon, beating dead horses with our girlfriends and obsessing over boys and which bar to try next, our brave men and women are defending these simple freedoms we take for granted in some of the most dangerous places on earth. Many of them, whose names you and I will never know, don’t ever come home, in pursuit of our safety.
And Piker thinks our American military is worse than al-Qaeda for that.
When the United States engages in a military operation, it conducts it under the laws of war. We distinguish between combatants and civilians; we take feasible precautions, and if, God forbid, those rules are broken, the act is a war crime or a targeting failure, not terrorism. Civilian deaths in war are real and unfortunate, but that’s the absolute opposite of parking a truck bomb outside a school because you want the pictures of dead children.
Equating the two is foolish. It’s fiction. And it’s meaningless.
The United States is the global hegemon, a continental power that’s fought crucial conventional and counterinsurgency wars for 80 years. Al-Qaeda is a relatively small network of angry men whose phantom purpose is spectacular violence against innocent civilians. And they are innocent. Just because our military is forced to defend our interests abroad doesn’t make them guilty or worthy of destruction.
Comparing “number of deaths” is frankly retarded, because it’s like saying a hospital causes more deaths than a serial killer because more people die inside hospitals. This moronic half-male, Hasan, ignores scale, purpose, common sense, and the fact that most of the deaths he counts occurred in wars against terrorists.
And no, an accidental, reckless strike that results in civilian deaths, though terrible, does not recuse the argument. It might be a war crime, and those responsible will be held accountable, but it still ain’t al-Qaeda. Outcome is not proof of intent. The United States military and the Israeli Defense Forces do everything they can to avoid civilian casualties, even running strikes through multiple layers of review specifically to prevent it.
And no, the United States didn’t create these terrorists in the first place. They’ve been around, and they’ve been violent, since the seventh century. Forgiving or forbearing them doesn’t help anyone. As I’ve said before, we can’t treat terrorists who abide by a militant, radical, violent ideology like a bad ex we can fix. We can’t. There is no compatibility. We need to break up, file a restraining order, and recognize that the gaslighting cries of “we are the problem” are just that: gaslighting.
Not enough young people understand this. For this new generation of Americans, mostly on the political Left, up is down, right is left, men are women, and terrorists are misunderstood.
It’s backward. It’s ignorant. And it’s insulting to the older Americans who fought so hard to give us this life that we’re just throwing away.
So this is the plea: if you’re a young American, stop treating this country like a defective product you inherited against your will. Stop complaining from your ivory tower that parts of the ivy have stains. You were born on the land that produced the iPhone, the moon landing, the cancer vaccine, the lowest poverty rate on record, and Amazon. It’s amazing.
Where is the gratitude? You can hate whatever you want here. You can use and abuse our free speech laws until the cows come home. You can despise your parents, the president, the pope, a podcaster. But you cannot expect us to look the other way when you look at a death cult that advertises murder as something fun to do on a Friday night and call the nation that investigates it worse because it’s larger.
Hasan Piker, Ilhan Omar, El-Sayed, Mamdani, and company — why don’t you take your anti-American sentiments and pro-terrorism passions, and get out of our country? And those who agree with them — why don’t you join them? And if you won’t, try being more grateful. Be more aware. Read a book about the men who stormed beaches, flew into flak, and came home with less of themselves so you could have more of a future. Read the 1998 fatwa. Read what “kill the Americans and their allies, civilians and military” means.
It’ll warm your heart.
And if that still doesn’t work, my fellow youth, take a trip to Somalia. Just remember to pack long sleeves.
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