To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII! ).
The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.
First, let's examine a few basics:
1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September 11th, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us: Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979; Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983; Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983; Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996; Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 19 98; Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998; Pentagon 2001.
(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).
2. Why were we attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocation's by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.
3. Who were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.
4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%
5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who claimed to be a Christian), that made no difference. You either went along with the administration or you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests).
(see http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm).
Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the 6 million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world - German, Christian or any others.
Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by their own pronouncements -- killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the choice was shut up or die?
6. So who are we at war with?
There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.
So with that background, now to the two major questions:
1. Can we lose this war?
2. What does losing really mean?
If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions.
We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean?
It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get. What losing really means is:
We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past 18 years. The plan was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until we were neutered and submissive to them.
We would of course have no future support from other nations, for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see, we are impotent and cannot help them.
They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a! time. It will be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished.
The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast!
If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us, if they were threatened by the Muslims.
If we can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else?
The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.
Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to win.
So, how can we lose the war?
Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win!
Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death seriousness of this situation.
President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between
17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently
And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then.
Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?
No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them out of your head.
Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause.
Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying.
We have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our military police.
These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.
And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same type enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq.
And still more recently, the same type enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held.
Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several days have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them.
Can this be for real?
The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense.
If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can.
To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world.
Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife.
Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.
Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels! That translates into all non-Muslims -- not just in the United States, but throughout the world.
We are the last bastion of defense.
We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world!
We can't!
If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the World will survive if we are defeated.
And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the world.
This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read.
If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little, on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?
Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece.
And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power.
They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?
I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it.
After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world.
Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians and media of our country and the free world!
I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it.
that second cartoon is the best and most pertinent to the thread.
1. When did the threat to us start?
There are other causes in addition to religious fanaticism and power-hungry despots.
Our addiction to cheap oil and our inability/unwillingness to do much about it.
Using the Middle East as pawns in the Cold War.
Our lack of respect for human rights for non-Americans.
Human Rights? What Gitmo again? that spin.. you don't know about what troops have been thru with Japan do you?
Our lack of respect for human rights.. .WHAT KIND OF ING brainwash BS is that?
USA is the worlds defender and protector of human rights.
Just keep telling yourself that. And keep sticking your head in the sand.
...and wasn't it wrong for Japan to do it? Using a WWII Axis country to justify what we are doing is ing stupid. They were wrong. We are wrong.Human Rights? What Gitmo again? that spin.. you don't know about what troops have been thru with Japan do you?
I support our troops 100% and we must finish what we started.
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge—and more." JFK
Thanks Joe......at least you get it!
I'm not going to speak for Spurster, but I don't think he was refering to Gitmo.
I think he was refering to our support for people like the Shah in Iran, the royal families in Saudia Arabia and Kuwait, and Israeli violations of human rights.
The rights that we take advantage of in the US do not exist in parts of the world, yet we still have to deal with the rest of the world. Sticking our head in the sand is not really an option anymore based on how much smaller the world has become.
Not taking down Saddam after the Gulf War could be construed by some as a tacit approval of his regime, and a confirmation to terrorists believing that the west could be exploited further by terror because they were unwilling to pay the ultimate price. Granted, there were a lot of other factors involved, but there are also a lot of other factors in dealing with the Saud family & other Middle East nations.
Al-Qaeda laid out exactly why they are at war with us back in 1997. Believe it or not, left-wing criticisms of the United States did not figure prominently.
Their major beefs:
1. We are not Muslim, and yet we are powerful.
2. We prevent them from annihilating Israel and exterminating the Jews.
3. We keep troops on Muslim soil to prevent them from overthrowing regimes like Saudi Arabia, and now, Iraq.
4. They want control of the oil wealth for themselves.
5. Our popular culture is infiltrating their countries and corrupting their young people.
6. We prevent them from annihilating India and subjugating the Hindus.
7. We manipulate their countries with our foreign policy.
8. We are hypocrites.
The last two are legitimate beefs. If you read Hitler's speeches, he too had a couple of legitimate beefs, for example, the needlessly punitive conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. That doesn't change the fact that he and his ideology were evil.
Moderate Muslims have legitimate greivances against us. We've been screwing them over for a long time. But they're among the ones we're trying to protect here, though some might argue our strategy in doing so is misguided.
But the terrorists don't hate us because of our past wrongs. They hate us because we are not Muslims, and we're in their way. If lefties wish to continue to find common cause with them, then the best thing they can do to follow the terrorists' wishes is either to commit suicide or to convert to Islam.
Insurgencies don't last long without popular support. It's not so much the radicals wacked-out justification for hating the West that we need to worry about as much as the opinions of average moderates who financially and strategically supporting these wackos. Is it too much to expect average people in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Lebanon to want to be free from their own form of oppression?But the terrorists don't hate us because of our past wrongs. They hate us because we are not Muslims, and we're in their way. If lefties wish to continue to find common cause with them, then the best thing they can do to follow the terrorists' wishes is either to commit suicide or to convert to Islam.
... nobody asked the US to "liberate" Iraq! nobody asked the US to act as the "protector and defender"! You should consider adding "self-proclaimed" and "not welcomed". I seriously don't get the US NECESITY to meddle in everyone's business, other than maybe its all for self-benefit, which I don't blame by the way, every country does what is best for itself. Just don't try and disguise it as a "righteous crusade to save the world of tyranny and opression", 'cause that's just plain BULL !! Bush Jr. is not Roosebelt! and Hussein is not Hitler.
jesus! so invasion is the only solution left in your mind?? The US has the right to protect itself, that much I can understand, but to invade a country that didn't pose a direct threat to the national security of the US with the pretext that they ONCE were building chemical weapons, so we must stop them from trying again? LOL that's just laughable! I know I really oversimplified the matter, but lets face it, Bush found no evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq that would justify an invasion. I mean where does it stop? Will you invade every nation that could perhaps in some small chance harbor a terrorist cell? That's not an option people!
the u.s. has been the world's policemen forever... you should be ing used to it by now... when we don't act, we are chastised, when we do act, we are on too... so, we really don't give too much of a .. the u.s. picks and chooses their intervention according to what is best for the u.s. and no one else... imagine that... a country doing what is best for it's people!
and yes, any country that harbors terrorists will be invaded... ask the taliban, they didn't think the u.s. would invade...
I don't know if that is entirely true... generally it is not an issue, since a majority of the western world generally agrees somewhat with what is done, if not the way it was done. American foriegn policy definately takes into account the effects that it will have to friendly nations in the world, but at the end of the day we have to look out for #1.the u.s. picks and chooses their intervention according to what is best for the u.s. and no one else... imagine that... a country doing what is best for it's people!
About WW2, USA didnt intervene early. They wanted the URSS to fight alone in the east (so both side weakened... who cares about lives) and in the meantime allowed the west invasion and the attacks on London.
US intervened out of self-interest, and because there wasn't much left to do. Read history books.
Better yet... read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ww2
The United States get blasted because of the bull it's leader spew. It takes action when it has something at stake and always wants to paint itself and the white knight riding in on a noble ing steed.
The problem is that many times it has done what is best for it and used people and then thrown them aside regardless of the consequences.
The label world's policeman doesn't fit. You said it yourself, we do what is right for us without regard to other countries. So, how many policemen do you know that do that?
Let me know when we're invading Suadi Arabia so that I can set my VCR.and yes, any country that harbors terrorists will be invaded... ask the taliban, they didn't think the u.s. would invade...
Just come in and mop up the Nazis and the empire of Japan - "Just get them on our way out".
What did Argentina do in WWII? Were they involved in the fighting in Spain preceding WWII? (Those are sincere questions, don't get pissed off.)
I've got almost nothing against how the US handled World War II. Americans didn't have a legitimate reason to get involved before Pearl Harbor (but chances are it would have entered the war regardless). But World War II has nothing to do with this war. You can't compare the cir stances, the players, the battles, or anything for that matter.
Just come in and mop up the Nazis and the empire of Japan - "Just get them on our way out".
What did Argentina do in WWII? Were they involved in the fighting in Spain preceding WWII? (Those are sincere questions, don't get pissed off.)
I'm guessing you have no idea what a totalitarian Western Europe, under Hitler or Stalin -- Probably Hitler, would have meant for the United States.
Similarly, you have no idea what a Islamo-fascist Europe will mean.
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