-- yet another totalitarian ideology, this time masquerading as a religion. Most Muslims around the world do not subscribe to the Islamist agenda. They are increasingly being forced to embrace it, or at least go along with it, however, under threat of violence or other coercive techniques. By demonstrating our resolve to resist the Islamofascists and to help non-Islamist Muslims to do so as well, we can enlarge the Free World and secure the allies we will need to prevail. • It makes clear that the war is about much more than Iraq and Afghanistan. Seductive as the idea sounds, withdrawing from such far-flung battlefields is no solution. Since the fight is about nothing less than whether there will continue to be a Free World -- one in which we are able to speak, publish, assemble, vote and practice our religions as we wish -- ceding ground to our enemies will only bring closer the day when we cannot do any of those things. • It restores the moral clarity that Americans -- and other democracies -- typically need to sustain war's expensive costs (in both human and financial terms). There can be no moral equivalence between our Islamofascist enemies on the one hand and, on the other, those who are fighting and dying to protect freedom here at home and, as a bulwark for our own security, to promote it elsewhere. Shortly after September 11, President Bush rightly said to the nations of the world "You are either with us or against us." That is true. You are either part of, and willing to help defend, the Free World or you are with the unfree. The latter are at best, playing a double-game. Among them are nations like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China and Russia -- all of whom profess friendship, but are simultaneously working to support our enemies and undermine the interests of the Free World. In theory, it is possible carefully to make tactical arrangements with such states. As a practical matter, however, doing so usually results in a loss of moral clarity and an overlooking of the unfriendly, if not overtly hostile, things they do. Examples include successive U.S. administrations; giving the Saudis a pass as they continue to underwrite Islamofascist proselytizing and terror; tolerating the training of terrorists in and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction from Pakistan; ignoring China's arms and oil deals with our Islamist enemies; and overlooking wholesale Russian transfers to China of weapons designed to kill Americans. • It harkens back to a time when the American people understood that they had a critical role to play in the war effort, just as they do at the moment. Today, as in the past, we need to fight as though our lives, fortunes and freedom depend on it, for indeed they do. We need to put the country on a true war footing in which every American can and must be asked to play a part in order to preserve the Free World. Now is, in short, the time for a return to first principles. Properly labeling the present conflict is not a panacea. But making it clear that we are engaged in nothing less than a War for the Free World will make it easier to take the steps necessary, both at home and abroad, to secure the victory we literally cannot live without.
Ping!
The media is doing its best to make sure that Vietnam repeats itself. Their lies and deliberate disinformation campaigns led to the turning of public opinion here at home away from the war.
It was clearly obvious to anyone who lived through the Vietnam War period that the media tricks employed then were being re-loaded for the Iraq War and the WOT when they media shutdown reruns of the 9/11 attack. The last thing that leftists and the MSM wanted was anyone remembering why we went to war in the first place.
As this article points out, we're falling for it.
More's the shame on us for letting the MSM and the leftists get away with this tactic and not demanding our free speech rights to be informed by seeing 9/11 video footage on a regular basis. Despite our good intentions to "Never Forget", we have allowed the media to manipulate the news so that we are forgetting.
"yet another totalitarian ideology, this time masquerading as a religion. Most Muslims around the world do not subscribe to the Islamist agenda. They are increasingly being forced to embrace it, or at least go along with it, however, under threat of violence or other coercive techniques. By demonstrating our resolve to resist the Islamofascists and to help non-Islamist Muslims to do so as well, we can enlarge the Free World and secure the allies we will need to prevail."
- In other words...we need to destroy the ideology of Islam. Islam was founded in evil and is at the root of the global conflict. It's time for muslims to stop venerating a murderous, pedophile, rapist, torturous, thieving, thug and psychopath as a prophet.
This is a war for the message at home, while our troops are fighting away. We have to fight the message of the left with our own message. Letters to editors, calls to talk shows, actually carrying a sign at a demonstration.
See my new tagline, as I retire my old one: Do not believe the garbage the media is feeding you back home. ---Allegra (in Iraq)
-- yet another totalitarian ideology, this time masquerading as a religion.
Not true. It may be a bogus religion, but our enemy actually believes it is doing its god's bidding. That creates a very different mandate than if the ultimate leader is a human being.
Islam is a kind of religion that is offended by all other faiths and ideas. So if you are a serious, believing muslim you know that the best way to prevent insult to Islam and Allah is for the whole world to serve Allah, or to at least live under Sharia. Good muslims believe that is required of them by their god.
How much more powerful is that than an ideology?
The enemy is incorrectly defined by our leadership (as well as by commentators, like this one). I know, I know...everyone says "well, you can't define the enemy as devout Islam, can you?" I agree, that is an awfully tall order. But what if it is the truth!
Additionally, if we are at war with a religion, can we defend ourselves against it with military might ONLY. I think that after we honestly define the enemy, we need to honestly define the frontlines of this war. Some are military fronts, some are political and social, and others are...what? But whatever they are, they aren't just military. IMO opinion our leadership is greatly underestimating the danger and the nature of this enemy. This is not a conventional war...and it cannot be won with conventional thinking and conventional weapons and strategies only.
It's truly ironic that at a time we're winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, we've apparently lost the hearts and minds of many Americans.
--Boris
Thanks C from E, for the ping.