David French in the National Review explains why our "moderate allies" seem especially prone to dropping their guns and fleeing. All of this should be elementary, but the increasing lack of combat experience in the highest echelons of our government suggests it’s not. At the most elementary level, a soldier has to find the moral courage to overcome primal fear. And when fighting jihadists, the Iraqi soldier or Syrian moderate faces a sudden, terrifying reality. They are coming, and they will not stop. That is the reality of fighting disciplined armies, but it is also the reality of fighting fanatics — of people who give the impression that they don’t care whether they live or die, that the normal rules of human preservation have been utterly discarded, and they exist only to kill or be killed. In the face of such ferocity, there is but one response: We shall not be moved. This is the response of the American fighting man... This is so fundamental that it explains why storied units like the 3rd Infantry Division go to such trouble to maintain their unit history, and teach it to new members. The sense of belonging to a tradition like this, and having a heritage to uphold or to shame, is one of the things that motivates young men to stand their ground. They know their predecessors went through terrors just as bad, and somehow managed to find the way. They know it can be done. They just have to do it too. When you are fighting an army that literally believes that God is on its side, you are going to need a tremendous amount of moral courage. A force must be found, or made, that has such courage if this enemy is to be defeated. It will not be the forces supporting a corrupt government that has deserved little loyalty.
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