I believe that if two individual people are in a room together, you have diversity.

These days we are told over and over very insistently that diversity is the ultimate good and the only way to achieve the utopian plateau of diverseness is through total unquestioning acceptance of multiculturalism and blind tolerance of anyone and any idea. The goal behind this movement towards universal "kumbayaism" is that everyone must relinquish all notion of self awareness outside of the group dynamic. We are all instructed to become part of a greater commonality, a cog in the great machine of humanity's march towards universal brotherhood, in essence, a nobody.

We are told that the color of one's skin and their ethnic origin is of no concern when it comes to determining someone's worth, value or validity. Yet, it is these very attributes which are used to define the nature of diversity and without a sprinkling of people based on race and ethnicity, the politically correct balance of diversity is impossible to obtain. I'll wager that some will see this as a contradiction and therefore illogical. If you do, then you're most likely the enemy of both diversity and multiculturalism and your point of view, origin and culture isn't welcome anyway.

Now, the reason I bring all this up is to make a few points about our present situation. Please be aware that "kumbayaism" is a fairly recent phenomenon. It has its roots in the Vietnam era antiwar movement, but didn't gain momentum until those radicals grew up and got jobs in journalism and education. We are now at war. Unfortunately, our government didn't see fit to officially declare it, but we have people fighting in response to being attacked nonetheless. This is perhaps the most justified war the US has been involved in since World War II. Only the most jaded professor or news anchor could deny that the United States has been attacked and has an obligation to respond with force.

At the onset of hostilities in World War II, our people were attacked and killed. We declared war on both the attacker and the Axis Powers that were warring against the free nations of Western Europe. One of the things we did in that war was to dehumanize the enemy. Our commentators called the Japanese "nips" and the Germans "krauts." Our cartoonists drew unflattering caricatures of the enemies to make it easier for American boys to kill them in combat. We bombed civilian population centers with incendiary devices, and we dropped two atomic bombs on cities in Japans so that America and her allies would not have to lose our boys invading their home islands. We reduced Germany and Japan to ashes and rubble.

We won. We beat the enemy. We dictated the peace. During this entire episode there was no debate about whether we might offend the enemy. We didn't feed the enemy "for the children." We made the lives of the people who lived under the governments of the Axis Powers miserable. We did it because ours was the right cause. We were on the side of light and they were on the side of darkness. And we made the world safe so that the current crop of "appeasers" and "peace at any cost" politically correct whiners could wave their little banners, shout their inane slogans and blame America first. But we are still at war. The survival of the very rights these protestors hold so dear are at risk.