did you lock your door? Islam is coming...

            This essay strikes me as being almost the polar opposite of Trumbo. While Trumbo argues for the needlessness of death and fighting when the individuals don’t even really get a choice in the matter, D’Souza says that they don’t need a choice. There actions in the military alone serve as the sign that our army and nation is unified. However, she used very odd examples in making her statement that single handedly caused me to pause and think. The first big glare was separation of church and state in the US. We are NOT the best example in the Western world of this, as you can see with individuals basing their votes off of religious doctrine or beliefs derived from it (abortion, gay marriage, etc…) We have the largest church going population out of these Western nations and it’s not plausible to say that this doesn’t have repercussions. Secondly, it’s a large jump to make both the comparisons of the Spanish Inquisition and that of Sparta. The Inquisition was severely limited in its spread and couldn’t reach world wide; it was what happens when a few looney religious kooks get in charge. Terrorism is not embraced and supported by a majority, in fact, by nature it must be minority. This example suggests that all of the people in the Middle East support or endorse terrorism and that those who didn’t would have already been silenced or killed by it. The Sparta point is unique in the sense that it relates terrorism to a militarily powerful and cunning Greek city-state. While it does fit in her vein of terrorism, or the “Islamic threat to the West,” Sparta also suggests that a larger more organized political entity or people is attempting to formally subjugate the West. Her essay is modeled to create a doctrine of war. It is in the hopes of unifying a nation or people, as it almost blames citizens for losing Vietnam since we failed to understand its gravity. Trumbo and D’Souza are polarizing ideologies that would publically condemn each other as the hoora for war/simon says and the cowardly force that’s making our nation vulnerable/ causing us to lose.