How Can America Win The War Against
Radical Islam?
Has it dawned on you yet that we have enemies out
there—people who do not love us at all?
Quit trying to figure out what we have done to deserve this hatred; you
must accept that it is so. Those who
detest us are an unreasoning group, many of whom have grown up knowing nothing
about America except that she is the Great Satan, its citizens deserving only
of death. Forget about educating these misanthropes
concerning the many altruistic acts Americans have performed. Our President seems unaware of any benevolent
acts this nation has done. How should we
expect foreign radicals to be aware of them?
No, you must not try to convince Muslim extremists that America and
Americans have any right to live; to survive.
Their minds are irretrievably closed on the matter.
While you are digesting that, consider also that these
people who, so far as I can tell, do only two things well—hate and destroy—have
absolutely no regard for human life.
Their object is to drive terror deep within the soul of their enemies,
causing them to eventually capitulate to the establishment of a world-wide Islamic
Caliphate rather than have more of their people killed or maimed by
indiscriminate bombers who draw no distinction between the soldiers who are our
front line of defense against these monsters and the women and children out
shopping or enjoying a game of tag on the playground. One victim is as good as another. In fact, they likely feel that killing our
women and children might convince us to more readily surrender rather than see
more of our precious loved ones sacrificed.
I assure you, this is exactly what our enemies are counting
upon. You see, while these Muslim
terrorists have been teaching their children in Madrasas, in America and all
over the world, that the ultimate service they can perform is to kill Jews and
Americans in particular, all infidels in general, we in America have preached a
very different theme.
American children
have been taught, “It is not polite to hit!
All wars are unjustified, and it is never right to kill another person”. We exercise extreme care—something
euphemistically called ‘political correctness’—lest we hurt someone’s feelings,
let alone maim or kill them. Beginning with George W. Bush, we have been
implored not to consider all Muslims the same. The vast majority of them are “practitioners
of a peaceful religion, posing no threat to America”. It is only a small
minority who would consider harming us, we are told. Our policy seems to be treat them with
respect, don’t retaliate when they demonstrate a hatred for America, and
they’ll leave us alone. Fighting? Many Americans have lost what little taste they
ever had for war. “Nothing is worth fighting for”, we say. If you were to poll a significant number of
Americans regarding whether they would choose to do whatever is necessary to
“secure the blessings of freedom to ourselves and our posterity” or allow the
radical Muslims to go ahead and establish their Caliphate, I would be afraid to
examine the results.
I hesitate to write my next point, knowing it will be
misconstrued to mean something far different than I intend, but let me call to
your remembrance what happened September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya.
Our consular establishment and its employees there were
under a sustained attack that continued for more than 7 hours, from one
location to the other in that city. The
United States had Special Ops teams nearby that could have responded to the
attack within a couple of hours.
Did they have knowledge of what was going on? Of course!
It was being streamed live from the establishment that was initially
attacked. Our Special Forces groups desperately
wanted to respond—that is what they train for!
And for those proud groups, it is a point of vast pride that they will not
abandon their own people in their hour of need.
It must have been a bitter pill for them to swallow when they heard
calls for help and were told they could not respond.
They were not called upon.
They were instructed to ‘stand down’.
Four Americans, including the U S Ambassador to Libya, were murdered—and
we did . . . nothing. While our
President promised afterward we would hunt down and punish the perpetrators,
there have been no arrests to date, and we’ve been given no progress updates
regarding the ‘investigation’ into those murders. What is that old saying—“justice delayed is
justice denied”? That cuts both ways. You
can say, “We’re going to hunt you down and bring you to justice”, but if you
don’t follow through on that threat . . . well, inmates in prisons all over
America would accuse our President of selling “wolf tickets”. If you are not familiar with that term, I
suggest you look it up.
Has the way that the United States conducts war
changed? Dramatically. Much of it for the better. But we have lost sight of what it takes to win
a war. To do that, you must inflict more
punishment upon your enemy than that enemy is capable of enduring. You of course realize that entails making
prosecution of a war against the United States and its people very, very
costly. In money—and particularly in the
number of your people we will kill in order to preserve our liberties and way
of life.
Terrorists, be they foreign or homegrown, must be made to understand
that there is a high price to pay for declaring jihad against America.
The thrust of what I
am saying is nothing new to me. I’ve
been saying it for more than 10 years.
This is a different kind of war from any we have ever fought. Among the fighting men with whom we are
engaging are an extraordinary number of fanatics—men willing to die to
accomplish a goal only partially understood by them, not at all comprehended by
Americans. Perhaps life for them is not
pleasant enough for them to consider it something to be valued. In any event, they recruit young children and
make martyrs of them by persuading them to wear vests loaded with explosives into
a crowd of folks to kill and maim as many as possible; women, children—no
matter.
Americans need to make up their minds whether they want to
win this war with radical Islam—or abdicate.
There is no third option. Do you
remember in games of tag we played as children, when you were about to be
tagged you could shout, “Tick-a-lock all around!” and the “it” couldn’t ‘tag’
you? Maybe that was only a local rule we
played by.
Well, there is no “Tick-a-lock” in war; particularly with
the radical Muslims. They fully intend
to wipe you—us—from the face of the earth.
You fight or you die. Or you lose
all the freedoms our forefathers fought to secure for us, and you agree to
worship Allah as you are told and be ruled by Sharia law as the Prophet
Mohammed instructed his followers. Some
might rather die. Others might soon wish
that they had selected another option.
The only choice that the radical Muslims leave to us if we
are to survive as a Christian nation—and yes, Mr. President, we ARE a Christian
nation—is a very dirty, disgusting, and highly repulsive one, to civilized
people. But it is also absolutely
necessary. That option is to locate
those terrorists who are coming after us—planning attacks on U S targets—and
wipe them out. To the man. Whoever they are, wherever they are. We have the ability to identify these people,
and locate them. The moment it is
determined that jihadists at a given
camp, wherever it is in the world, are conducting training in preparation for
an attack on America, we must obliterate that camp and its inhabitants from the
face of the earth. If that camp is in
Iran or Libya, we can and we should blow it up.
We go after them. We may have to kill thousands, even hundreds of
thousands of these radicals before we persuade them they cannot defeat us. We have more weapons, and should be more
determined because we have a way of life to fight for, AND . . . right is on
our side. We have the right to live in
peace and security, to enjoy the freedoms that our forefathers purchased for us
at great cost. THAT’S the way the
America I know would handle this problem.
Are we up to the task?
Or have we become so ‘civilized’ that we can’t bring ourselves to do
what is necessary for the preservation of our own freedoms? Are we too squeamish to take the lives of
those whose primary aim is to slaughter us, even though our goal would be
simply to do unto others before they have a chance to do unto us? Perhaps there are too many of those “hate
America first’ progressive secularists who feel our nation does not deserve the
freedom and prosperity that has been ours almost from the time of this country’s
inception. By the way, beware of the
liberals who protest so strenuously when their patriotism is challenged. To take journalistic liberties with a line
from a Shakespeare play, “Methinks the progressive doth protest too much!”
Unlike some of our Progressive secularists, I believe that
there are certain things worth fighting for, worth dying for. Only a coward or someone with no purpose in
his life, no reason for living, will just stand meekly and allow his enemy to
kill him, without putting up a vigorous defense. If we are going to win this war that
Progressives don’t even recognize as a war, we are going to have to make the
radical Muslims pay the maximum price for their jihad. (Isn’t that the
penultimate oxymoron—holy war?) Maybe
you believe with the Progressives that the Iranians and most Arab neighbors are
only joking or perhaps bluffing when they rant about wiping Israel off the face
of the earth. Perhaps you have also convinced
yourself that America would not then replace Israel as the primary focus of hatred
and destruction for radical Islam. I
take them at their word.
The creed that folks from the era in which I grew up lived
by was to get along with everyone, avoid arguments and live in peace--insofar
as that was possible. But if someone
would not be placated or appeased, if you could not talk your way out of a
fight, if you were backed into a corner, by all means, win that fight!
If someone struck
you, you did your best to strike him back—only harder and many more times than
he hit you. Your goal is to make your
attacker rue the day he ever allowed himself to even THINK about picking a fight
with you.
That’s the way fights are won, and . . . the best way to discourage
future attacks.
And while it sounds terribly simplistic and naïve, that’s
the way wars are won.
God bless America!
