The following is from an email I was handed today.  While I don't completely agree with it, I do like the way it sounds. 

If someone puts a gun to your head and pulls the trigger, you are going to die.  Laws, public opinion, ethics, ideals, treaties, or personal preferences will not prevent your death. 

As a Buddhist sage observed, “If you understand, the world is the way it is; if you do not understand, the world is the way it is. 

The way of the world is force. You may not like that. You may choose not to believe it.  But it is true.  The world is ruled by force.   

Public opinion is worthless.  It will not stop any weapon.  Law is nothing but rules you apply after you have subdued people by force.  Laws, without being backed up by more force, are not worth the ink they’re written with. 

What keeps you alive and free are weapons and trained warriors ready to use them.  It is not economics, philosophy, ethics, negotiations, treaties or laws.  Power and the will to use it are the only things standing between us and the grave. 

People infected with peaceitis are a threat to the physical safety of themselves and their fellow countrymen.  They trying to prevent the proper arming and upkeep of our military power not only is unnecessary but is evil in itself.   

You cut a throat, the rightness or wrongness of it doesn’t matter to the dead man. He is still dead.  Whether the death is a good death or a bad death depends on whether you like or dislike the dead person.  Whether the man dies or lives depends solely on whether the knife thrust can be deflected and the knife wielder killed or disabled. 

You can’t depend on force, victims of peaceitis proclaim.  Actually, you can’t depend on anything but force.  Diplomacy works only if it’s backed by force.  Diplomacy itself is about force; the threat of force, the use of force, the direction of it.  Peace is nothing but the after math of war or the interlude between wars.  War or the threat of war is what makes a peace; or else there is no peace.  

Whether people like or hate us is irrelevant.  Our choice is to be feared.  There is no other choice.