An Hamas-style attack on America
Yesterday, this site featured a new film that everyone should see. Today, we bring you a new book that everyone should read.
 | The Attack, by Kurt Schlichter Kurt Schlichter (Self published) 7 January 2024 336 pages Fiction $ 24.24 (Hardcover) $ 16.27 (Paperback) $ 6.99 (Kindle) * Prices accurate on date of this post. |
Schlichter sets the book in late August 2024. But the truth is, this could happen any day now. And while this book is fiction, the events it describes will absolutely happen unless the United States returns to a secure border policy, and a common sense immigration policy. And what are the chances of that?
It's a great book and certainly worth reading. But I disagree with one of the central themes of the book. Schlichter believes that if the US is attacked in such a manner, the average citizen will fight back. Or at least, enough of them will fight back. But after the incredibly meek response by these same citizens during the Covid lockdowns and mandates, I just cannot agree with him. Sadly, as we have seen, Americans have become sheep. And they will be led to the slaughter.
Even more recently, look how people, especially younger left-of-center types (and even the police), have reacted to the Hamas supporters across the West. Again, meekly. In the US, they have a First Amendment right to say what they want. But student visas and such could be revoked. The FBI could monitor Dearborn radicals like it monitors conservative Catholics. But in fact, the current administration panders to Muslims.
And as I have written before, if the federal government initiates gun registrations or confiscation, how will most people react? Let's say for example, in a Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama administration. My guess: Compliantly. In any case, this is one reason I think Schlichter set the book so soon in the future – to ensure that a lot of citizens still had firearms. And his theory that people would be willing to use them makes for a great story. I enjoyed it anyway. But it is fiction.
I think Schlichter would argue the point with me. And I hope I am wrong. Though I will add this, if we altered his story just a bit, and the terrorists only attacked blue states (rather than all states as set out in the book), would the outcome not be vastly different? The terrorists could still do tremendous damage and without being immediately gunned down.
I would like to share two passages from the book. The first describes woke progressive students and academics, and their attitude towards the Palestinian/Hamas attack on Israel:
It meant that rape and torture and murder were allowed if the right oppressed people did it to the right oppressors.
Schlichter adds: And they made it clear that this moral construct applied to America as well. I had not thought about it in such stark and extreme terms, but clearly this is correct. Remember, the progressives revere Marx and Che Guevara, not Gandhi or even Martin Luther King, Jr.
Second, describing Islamist terrorists:
Some people try to call it madness. It is not. Do not think of them as insane. That gives them a moral pass for choosing a barbaric moral framework. They are not mad. They are evil. And they are usually fully prepared to die in perpetuating their evil, either from pride or what we see as ridiculous promises of paradise with their virgins and so forth.
The only thing I could possibly add is that a good number of ordinary Muslims share that barbaric moral framework even if they do not act on it. Their religion is not like other religions, and until we accept this reality, we will not be able to counter it. They do not have a Live and let live mentality. They certainly do not have a Golden Rule mentality. Rather their's is the mentality of ancient Arabian raiders: Convert, submit, or die. And this novel is a manifestation of that injunction.
Finally, let me say this about Schlichter's ending where the United States bombs Iran, expels all illegal immigrants, kills the Mexican cartels, and builds a serious border wall with a serious border protection force. What would it take for that to happen? Under any administration? In his novel, the terrorists kill 162,172 Americans. I think that number is correct. It would take near-about that many dead Americans for our government to do its job, and take proper and responsible actions to protect the country.
How sad is that?