Appeasement hurts.

Wolves at My Gate

An allegorical warning from history on appeasement

by Joe B. Hewitt

 

Wolves at my gate, they snarl and stare.

They can’t hate me. I don’t hate them.

They show their teeth. They crouch and lunge.

To make friends, be a friend, and care.

 

Surely they’ll see I’m full of love.

One with teats that sag, a mother,

Will see that I’m a mother too.

My hand is harmless as a dove.

 

She bites me hard. My blood she licks,

I scream; she snarls. Something went wrong.

It has to be my fault somehow,

Or his fault who says, “Kill the bitch.”

 

I’ll feed the wolves. They’ll come around.

They eat. Tails wag in contentment.

Wolves don’t behave well when hungry.

Just keep them fed. Peace will abound.

 

My child! Bitten and bloody died.

Deepest grief, my child, cold and pale.

Could she have provoked the wolves?

She may have hurt their pride.

 

Let’s show them goodness, they’ll be good.

Let’s open the gate. Let them in.

Show them how we try to understand.

Welcome them to the neighborhood.

 

 

(NOTE: People coddled up to the Communists, believing that if we just loved them they would love us. In August, 1950, after the North Korean Army pushed the South Koreans and Americans south into Pusan in southeast Korea, the Communists first order of business was to kill off the intellectuals, many of whom had sympathized with them.

During the war in Viet Nam, many Vietnamese intellectuals cozied up to the Communists, thinking they would reciprocate. In the 1968 Tet Offensive, the Communist troops made killing them their first priority.

Now some are bowing to Islamist extremists with the same mind set. They are wolves at our gate. If we let them in we can shower them with sweet goodness. But then they will do as their nature demands, conquer, subjugate, and humiliate.

In the 21^st Century we have an enemy, unseen and stealthy, a movement to minimize America. As if feeling guilt for our nation’s greatness, these people want to bring the United States down. This movement is establishing a voter constituency of people who look to government to provide. A great portion of the producers’ hard work goes to support those people who can but won’t work and an inflated bureaucracy, all non-producers.

This enemy is hard to identify and confront because it is ever changing and morphing into different shapes, but continues in the same mission.

These too are wolves at our gate.

---Joe B. Hewitt) www.joebhewitt.net