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One of the bits of the Palin interview which is causing liberals to go bonkers:

GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln’s words, but you went on and said, “There is a plan and it is God’s plan.”

PALIN: I believe that there is a plan for this world and that plan for this world is for good. I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given, Charlie, and I believe that those are the rights to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That, in my world view, is a grand — the grand plan.

GIBSON: But then are you sending your son on a task that is from God?

PALIN: I don’t know if the task is from God, Charlie. What I know is that my son has made a decision. I am so proud of his independent and strong decision he has made, what he decided to do and serving for the right reasons and serving something greater than himself and not choosing a real easy path where he could be more comfortable and certainly safer.

Never willing to sacrifice themselves for others and convinced that death is the worst thing which can happen to them, liberals and MSMers (I know, same/same) simply cannot grasp what Governor Palin is saying here. Anyone non-liberal, and especially anyone closely connected to the Jewish and Christian traditions, easily understands what is being said here – God has a plan and that plan is for the good of the world and each person in the world. We won’t – we cannot – say that God instructed the younger Palin to enlist in the Army; but we can say that if he prayed on the matter and asked God to guide him true, then his enlistment in the military will be in accordance with God’s overall plan now or at some time in the future.

Liberals see terrorists kill; they see American soldiers kill – they then do a bit of liberal thinking and come to the conclusion that there is a great deal of similarity here and as killing is wrong, both the soldier and the terrorist must be in some respects wrong…and each of them, in turn, has a claim upon our compassion. But the truth of the matter is that the most dyed-in-the-wool jihadist doesn’t want someone to set off a bomb in his home neighborhood – and thus the terrorist, as he sets his bomb in the Baghdad marketplace, knows that what he is doing is wrong…meanwhile, the Marine hunting the terrorists knows that if someone were setting a bomb in his neighborhood, he’d love and honor the man who stopped it from happening – and thus the Marine knows what he is doing is right. If the Marine shoots the terrorist at the very moment the terrorist sets off the bomb, killing the Marine, then both of them will die at the same time – but the place they’ll respectively go to will likely be very different, as the one died sacrificing himself for others (no greater love, as it were), while the other was killed in the act of unspeakable evil. On the other hand, if a Marine in battle against a regular soldier enemy kills his enemy and is killed at the same time, both men will probably find their reward, as both sacrificed the self, even though one – or even both – were fighting for a wrong cause.

God does have a plan – I can’t presume to tell you what, exactly, it is, but given that God is good, the plan must be for the good. While we can’t say that God approved of President Bush’s decision to liberate Iraq, we can be certain that liberating Iraq will work perfectly in God’s plan. And if you think about it, you can start to see it – hundreds of thousands of Americans and allies have learned how to sacrifice the self; hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have learned how to govern and defend themselves; people who may have contemplated joining the terrorists have gotten a good, long look at how terrorists operate and are thus far less likely to ever join that side – and the ripples of these good things will go far beyond Iraq and effect positively many lives for many long generations. So, what Governor Palin is on about isn’t what liberals want to believe she’s on about – she’s not talking holy war, but talking about the nobility of self-sacrifice and entrusting one’s self to God.

Alien ideas to liberals, and so Gibson didn’t get it and, indeed, seemed offended by the whole concept. Really, its rather sad – and all the more sad when one thinks about it that Sarah Palin’s son (and so many thousands like him) are what stands between the Gibsons of the world and total destruction…those who believe in God and sacrifice themselves because God telles them to are held in contempt by those who disbelieve in God and who would surrender abjectly if ever placed under the slightest strain.