Confronted with unsavory choices regarding the deteriorating war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama is contemplating offering a cash incentive to Taliban soldiers in order to encourage them to lay down their arms. Boy, how I hope his strategy works! 

Unlike our secular-humanist President, however, I am not disposed to believe, like democrats, that the cure to all policy hiccoughs and inconvenient truths, is to throw money at problems.  This is the naïveté of materialist assumptions about man and what motivates people at the most basic level. 

The underlying assumption of the political Left is money is the source of human salvation and happiness--that beliefs, dreams, identity, and even religion, on the other hand, are all emanation of material things. To them, there is no invisible world; physical stuff gives rise to the illusion of metaphysic things-things like truth, nationalism and God, all of which are just pyschological constructs brought about by physical conditions. This false-credo is the proto-Marxist narrative religiously embraced by the intellectual class in America, which includes Barack Obama.

If you give a student a book and a brand new school, he becomes educated.  If you give free medical care to irresponsible people, they will become healthy. If you underwrite a mortgage, people will embrace that benefit and become responsible homeowners.

Of course, only the effete dogmas and the auto-de-fes of their political correct social religion could support such absurdities. The idea that Taliban gunmen, fanatic nationalists and Islamic fundamentalists will throw down their weapons for a bribe is so euphorically fantastic it makes Joan of Arc and St. Theresa seem like staid homestuns.

What Obama and his nihilist coterie of materialists cannot fathom is this—most men and women in the real world--
that terra-incognita outside the narrow curtelage of octogenarian European or the faux medievalism of American Academia, those people actually believe in things, and what they believe in is not for sale. 

President Obama’s false religion holds that the whole world works like ACORN, on the principle of bribes and filthy lucre.  These offerings of other people's blood to propitiate the irrational appetite of the Taliban, is all part of the counterfeit faith whose false Messiah and Priest King presently occupies the White House.  

If one really wants to be enlightened, sensitive and educated to other cultures in the true tradition of modern multiculturalism, Mr. President, one should begin by assuming that what people say they believe in, is in fact, what they believe in.  For good or no, we discredit ourselves and misunderstand our enemies when we are too arrogant to take others at their own words. Just maybe, everyone in the world doesn't embrace money as a saving faith as you do.

“Allah is God and Mohammed is his prophet.  There is no other God but Allah.” 

I do not for a single moment believe any part of this ancient Islamic incantation.  I am a Christian.  But I am too well grounded in history and the experience of belief, to think they do not believe what they say they believe.  Only a cynical peddler of false religion could fail to understand the foundation that solemnly held beliefs play for ordinary people, even people who are your enemy.  

There is only one thing I share in common with the enemies of my God and my country, Mr. President,—and that is—I don’t believe in the god of Mammon, either.