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Where are our troops fighting the enemy?

Iraq.

Currently? Afghanistan... the Philippines... and it won't end there.
The War on Terror isn't like other wars, it's being fought in many nations at once, including our own, and not always by our troops. We were in Mozambique shortly after 9/11. We've been in places of which you and I are totally unaware. After we're done in Iraq, we'll be taking a detour to North Korea, or heading to Iran, or Syria.
Our enemy is clearly not Arab nationalism.

Our enemy is clearly not Arab nationalism.

That's where we have to disagree. Clearly our enemy is Arab nationalism.

Ever since the Nasserians reared their heads in the Suez in '57 and later in '67 they have formed the core of our problems. If it wasn't for Nasser fomenting Pan-Arabism in the Gulf without any oil we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.

The foundation for the current conflict lays squarely on Qaddafi and Libya and the embargo of '73 when we finally saw the last of a twenty year surplus vanish while the enviros hamstrung the North Slope.

The problem is that Libya sold the idea of an "oil weapon" to OPEC at a time when it could finally be used.

Since then the power vacuum in the region has been waiting for us to arrive. It didn't happen in Lebanon and it didn't stick in the Gulf War in '91.

This time we'll get it right. The old Redline agreement has come home to roost and the Brits backed the best horse.

It's no accident that the EU championed by France is facing a cash crisis while Turkey flails in Cyprus to the chagrin of the Turkish parliment who can't find a good reason to grant us basing and overflights.

It's a complicated world but it's made much simpler when you look at it from the wellhead to the terminal.

This time it's not about access or pricing or even tanker routes, this time it's about stability. And from 1910 until now we're setting things straight. We're assuming Britain's role as the sole source of force and reason in a region that refuses to grow up.

As you know, my friend:

Some defend iSLAM because they are nothing more than quavering cowards.
Some defend iSLAM because they think it makes them sound superior.
Some defend iSLAM because they think their moral relativism will protect them.
Some defend iSLAM because they think appeasement will protect them.
Some defend iSLAM because they are ignorant of iSLAM’s consistent bloody swath through human history.
Some defend iSLAM because they like its fight against Christianity.
Some defend iSLAM because they like its fight against the Jews.
Some defend iSLAM because they like its fight against that other guy’s religion.
Some defend iSLAM because they are sleeper elements of a fifth column in our country.
Some defend iSLAM because it is their faith and they will be murdered by their ‘brothers’ if they leave.
Some defend iSLAM because they are misogynists and the cult gives them what they want.
Some defend iSLAM because they are as primitive as it is.
Some defend iSLAM because they like its fight against America (because their turd-world nations are so far beneath America).
Some defend iSLAM because it’s the popular thing to do.
I swear, some of them would defend the Aztec cannibals or the Thuggee cult if those religions of peace were alive today!

But you just keep on trying to drum the truth into their thick heads because it's the right thing to do. God bless you, Sabertooth.