More than just another war
We need to stop kidding ourselves.
We need to wake up and pull together. We need to stop screwing around and pretending this thing is something it isn’t.
Stop the petty, partisan debating of the pros and cons of what we’re euphemistically calling the "War on Terror", and face one basic fact, a fact that is standing there in the corner, like the proverbial elephant in the room.
We need to stop pretending that this war in which are now engaged, be it in Afghanistan or Iraq, is just another American war, a simple matter of us against them, to be fought or abandoned, won or lost. It isn’t.
Some see the Afghan and Iraq operations as separate and unrelated, but they’re not, really.
The military forces, US and otherwise, now engaged in combat operations in both of those nations, aren’t merely defending or assisting the US and its interests; there’s so much more to it. So much more is at stake.
I think it's time; we all finally need to come to the realization that those troops, in reality, are out there on the frontlines, fighting in the opening battles of a war in defense of Western Civilization itself.
9/11; we all saw it coming (or perhaps something like it; who could have expected that?) for what, 30 years?
Islamic Extremism started upping its ante in the early 1970s and continued through the 80s and 90s. Just a few examples:
Munich Olympics, in 1972; the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-80; the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 1983, the Achille Lauro incident (remember Leon Klinghoffer? Age 69, wheelchair-bound American Jew, shot dead and tossed overboard, chair and all, simply to make a point. President Reagan put a price on the head of the attack’s leader, Abu Abbas, and we finally found him where? Iraq). 1985; Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; WTC attack in 1993; US embassies in Africa; the USS Cole…..how many lesser incidents didn’t come right to mind? How many suicide bombings, car bombs, attacks, hijackings, assassinations, myriad violent demonstrations, murders. How many?
We just happened to have a president in office in 2001 who understood and acknowledged the greater implications of those particular attacks---though it wasn’t, and isn’t, politically expedient (or correct) to call a spade a spade---and he chose to move pro- actively.
We’ve all heard Radical Islam, and especially the Fundamentalist zealots, time and again, warn the West that it should convert to Islam or die. Do we really think they’re kidding us, or that they’re simply threatening? Those people don’t make idle threats; they make promises. Promises they intend to keep, one way or another.
We’ve spent decades watching the angry demonstrations on the news; an unruly mob…."Death to America" is chanted….a US flag is torched.
Some say that if we would only stop supporting Israel, this would all just go away. They’re fooling themselves.
Islamic extremism hates Western culture as a whole, which it sees as hedonistic, decadent, sinful and perverted (though I have to giggle a little at the hypocrisy of the 9/11 hijackers. They spent the last days leading up to their noble deaths in the holy name of Allah by maxing out their credit cards, living the high life in strip clubs, bars, casinos, fancy restaurants and upscale stores. Not only does this make them hedonistic, decadent and perverted just like us, it also makes them thieves as well, since none of it was ever really paid for).
We’ve allowed ourselves, at least since the glory days of the "Greatest Generation", to become fat and lazy.
Like a championship boxer who has successfully defended his title against several challengers, we’ve become complacent and taken our status for granted. This opens us up to leaner, hungrier challengers.
If we continue to pussyfoot around, allowing the appeasers and dupes to undermine our efforts and sublimate our resolve, Islamic barbarism will rule the day.
It is coming to that, if nothing serious is done to prevent it; deny it and explain it away and apologize for them all you want. They want to dance on the grave of Western Civilization. It’s coming. It may take some time, but it will happen.
They don’t mind waiting; they’re lots more patient than us spoiled, decadent Westerners who expect results NOW, and will not wait.
We’re idiots; believing ourselves to be generous and beneficent to a fault, we freely allow mushy-headed traitors and anti-American ideologues within and without to spit their poison and venom into our ears and minds, causing us to be uncertain of our senses, reason and ideals. To waver.
We allow them to question our morals and values, and to manipulate our views. To use slanted logic to accuse us of being the aggressors, rightly struck down and injured. Soft-headed, fuzzy logic and thinking twist our perspective.
When our civilization was threatened before, by the cruel, dehumanizing brutality of Fascist aggression and tyranny, we united, putting aside political and social differences, and followed our moral compass to ultimate victory. We did what needed done to assure the survival of our ways and ideals.
In recent decades that "compass" has become so skewed as to be virtually unusable. Moral relativity is the order of the day. There is no good or evil, anymore; it’s all in the perception.
Even if we abandoned Iraq today, right now, and left Israel to whatever the four winds blew its way, the war would still continue to escalate, just as it has for decades.
The world over, from Europe to Indonesia, Islam is causing problems, unrest and violence.
The Arabs once ruled an empire that eventually stretched from Persia, westward across the Middle East and North Africa, northward across the Mediterranean, to Spain and parts of Southern France.
Imagine that empire encompassing all of Europe and crossing the Atlantic to the Americas, perhaps even extending into Asia and the Pacific.
That’s the idea. That’s the agenda. A worldwide Caliphate. The planet subjugated and serving under Islamic tradition and law. Imposed and enforced worship of the Islamic deity.
Is it possible? For a single people to rule the whole world? It’s been tried before, to no real avail. Portions of the world, yes, whole swaths, even, but never the whole of the planet.
But then, we’re not talking a single nation of a few million or more people. We’re talking about a religion. An imperial religion of what, a billion or more, perhaps, with more born into the faith every day. Isn’t that the plan in Europe, after all? To remake Europe into "Eurabia" by overwhelming the native populations with children of Arab ancestry? Even now, Spain is on the verge of becoming the largest Muslim nation in the world.
I think it could happen; it seems entirely possible. There sure seems to be no shortage of hired help in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As an American, I wonder what will become of the apologists, the appeasers and traitors, the Peace at any Pricers, when the US Constitution is negated by the collapse of the nation, taking with it their right to free speech? Their perceived right to oppose and undermine the very system that willingly permits their treason?
How would Rosie O’Donnell, for example, that champion of liberal and feminist causes, who before millions equates Christian fundamentalism with its Islamic counterpart, feel then, I wonder? How would she feel?
To be treated as cattle….her gender considered nothing so much as property, under Islamic law? Forced by that law to wed and to surrender her entire being and will to a man? And to wear a burkha? Would she finally see the light? The error of her sadly misguided ways?
That is what awaits us if we fail to properly resist now. Our entire way of life is at stake, from our religious and individual rights and freedoms, and even on down to the foods we consume. Say goodbye to ham, pork chops and ribs. Hello goat’s milk.
We really have to stop kidding ourselves and wake up.
To take real action, before it’s too late. And hope that it’s not already.
"If you want peace, prepare for war."----Roman proverb