comfort and principles

I was thinking after watching this video of Glenn Reynolds talking about the MSM moratorium on the dread cartoons of blasphemy and it struck me that the Left has become the position of comfort. Principles no longer matter. What does matter is comfort and getting along (even with those who have no desire to get along with us) and essentially freedom from responsibility. Those who will do anything for comfort ultimately stand for nothing. Appeasement is a form of comfort because one sacrifices their priniciples to avoid conflict. And as the greatest man of the 20th century, Winston Churchill said "appeasement is feeding the crocidile your friends in the hopes it will eat you last." He also said that "you were given the choice of war or dishonor. You have chosen dishonor and you will have war anyway." We live in a dangerous world and we would be well-heeded to listen to his words. Sometimes I feel we are slipping closer and closer to awful times of war and strife because we refuse to live up to our principles and make comfort a principle instead.