Firestarter 0 Report post Posted December 6, 2003 All of the deadly terrorism since 9/11 - the synagogue in Tunisia, French naval personnel in Pakistan, Americans in Karachi, Yemeni attacks on a French ship, the Bali bombing, the Kenyan attack on Israelis, the several deadly attacks on Russians in both Moscow and Chechnya, the assault on housing compounds in Saudi Arabia, the suicide car bombings in Morocco, the Marriott bombing in Indonesia, the mass murdering in Bombay, and the Turkish killing - has been perpetrated exclusively by Muslim fascists and directed at Westerners, Christians, Hindus, and Jews... The message, much less getting it out, is not the problem. It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they? ...anytime we have showed restraint - using battleship salvos and cruise missiles when our Marines were killed, our embassies blown up, and our diplomats murdered; allowing the killers on the Highway of Death to reach Basra in 1991; letting Saddam use his helicopters to gun down innocents - we have earned disdain, not admiration... Peace and harmony will come, but only when the Middle East, not us, changes - which, tragically, will be brought along more quickly by deterrence and defiance than appeasement and dialogue. President Bush was terribly criticized for his exasperated "bring them on," but that was one of his most honest, heartfelt - and needed - ex tempore remarks of this entire conflict... We are in a worldwide struggle the likes of which we have not seen since World War II. The quicker we understand that awful truth, and take measures to defeat rather than ignore or appease our enemies, the quicker we will win. In a war such as this, the alternative to victory is not a brokered peace, but abject Western suicide and all that it entails - a revelation of which we saw on September 11. - A Real War by Victor Davis Hanson An excellent (if somewhat optimistic: "the onset of democracy in India, Malaysia, and Indonesia suggested that Islam was not incompatible with consensual government") analysis of the origins of militant Islamic fascism, its goals, its motivations, and how to end it once and for all. The full article is pretty long, but it's a good read and well worth the time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0 Report post Posted December 6, 2003 (I replied in the wrong topic) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Firestarter 0 Report post Posted December 6, 2003 (I replied in the wrong topic) Could be said of pretty much all of your posts. (Don't tell me you didn't see that one coming...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0 Report post Posted December 6, 2003 Oh, I know, haha. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
