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To: Condor 63
From the article:
Two recent articles on National Review Online demonstrate what I consider to be the two biggest failures to date in thinking about the War on Terror: a studied refusal by most westerners—including American conservatives who support the war—to admit that we are in a clash of civilizations with militant Islam, and a comcomitant failure to recognize that America and her allies have not fought this war with anywhere near the ferocity required to win.

Here is a posting I made only yesterday, before reading this article:
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Just as in the wake of the World Trade Center attack - when a few persons of influence began to sense that The West was at war with something much more significant and far-reaching than merely "terrorists" - the time will soon come, certainly within the next decade, in which reasonable people, thinking reasonably, will begin to ask thus:

Is The West truly at war with _Islam_ (the cult/religion)?
If so, what are the possible outcomes?
Could Islam actually win?
What are Islam's chances of winning?
Can Islam be defeated?
If so, is merely "defeating" Islam by changing regimes enough?
Or is something more required?

I believe that ultimately, the only resolution to this conflict can be:
1. The conquest of The West and the subjugation of its peoples and culture to Islam -or-
2. The end of Islam as a religous force that infects human hearts.

This DOES NOT mean nuking them all. What it DOES mean is that the religion of Islam must be recognized for the demon that it is, and, so recognized, purged from the Earth, and the multitudes living under its spell must be given something else to believe in.

The West is not yet ready to face this task. It may never be, even after some western cities, perhaps our own, lie in smoking ruins.

For that reason, I'm not optimistic about the long-term future. Islam _can_ win, because The West is unwilling to fight back with the determination and ferocity necessary to secure its own victory and continuity.

Right now, we are in danger of losing because most of us still believe that this conflict can be solved through "regime changes" in places like Iraq and Iran. Chances are, in the wider war, that will make no difference, because the "regime" we are at war with is not one of men. It is Allah's "regime" which must be changed.

- John

10 posted on 08/10/2006 7:26:14 AM PDT by Fishrrman
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To: Fishrrman
When a midwest American farmer discovers that rats have infested his corncrib, he can be counted on to take certain actions, and forswear others.

First of all, he wastes no time trying to understand or sympathize with the rats. He has sufficient common sense and every day experience to realize that rats will be rats ... they are hardwired to do what rats do, among other things, to eat corn. The rats waste no time trying to become cats, nor does the farmer squander any minutes either loving or hating the rats. Rats is rats. Period.

What the farmer does do is anything and everything he can think of to do to eliminate those rats from his corncrib. If poison will work, he puts posion out. If he has a particularly hungry and vicious cat, he pens it up in the crib. If he has a bit of a sporting nature, he sits on a straw bale somewhat removed from the crib, and shoots each and every rat that pokes its head into view. If nothing else works, he'll even move all his corn to some other location, and burn down his corncrib. The one thing he absolutely will not do is stop killing rats until even the very last one is dead. He knows that to leave even one rat means that it will find a mate, and the cycle starts all over again.

Islamist jihadists are rats.

We need more farmers.

11 posted on 08/10/2006 7:57:52 AM PDT by logos (The chickens are coming home to roost; unfortunately, the roost has burned down.)
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