[Netz]

Here Here! A person who speaks truth! Wow, that's telling it like it is! Sure we had no worries regarding post-WWII Japan and Germany because we defeated them and then occupied them. There was a national consensus for doing so. Today? National consensus? Regarding what? The world has changed. What you're saying is true but not all of the options are as easy as you put it. I am all for giving ultimatums and then following through on them but we haven't issued a single one since the Bush years. Now we're with...Barry...sigh*

[Former Proud Canadian]

What part of “The West is at War with Islam” don't people understand? Islam has been at war with the west since at least 1979 and there are sovereign governments behind the war, and running it. In our arrogance, we just don't respond.

Was the downing of the Pam Am plane over Lockerbie an act of war by Libya?

Was the storming of the US embassy in 1979 and act of war by Iran?

Did proxies of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Syria, perpetrate an act of war on 9/11? Was it not carried out by Saudi nationals?

Were the myriad terrorist attacks in the UK, Spain and elsewhere, carried out by proxies, an act of war?

All of these countries must be dealt with sooner or later. Picking them off one by one is easy for a power like the US. Bush had the right idea, he just could not marshal public support for his war.

Iran is going to have to be dealt with now. The civilized world will have to rely on one of its smallest members to do this job.

Eventually the west is going to have to realize what is going on. We are being attacked and colonized on a daily basis. Unfortunately, we are destined to suffer more attacks by terrorists before public opinion shifts enough to elect some leaders who will speak the truth and act accordingly. The US is the leader of the western world and must lead the civilized world in this fight.