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When the Japanese attacked and sank our battleships at Pearl Harbor we were ill prepared or equipped for war. Had it not been for Hitler's assumption that England was finished and diverted his attention to conquering Russia, we would not have had the two years we needed to gear up our reserves in order to counter attack Germany and Japan. I bring this up to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. Today we are involved in another kind of war.
The terrorist and the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis. They believe that Islam, a radically, conservative (not liberal) form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world, and that all who do not bow to Allah should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to destroy Israel, purge the world of Jews, the same as Hitler wanted also. If the Wahhabis win and get control of the Middle East, OPEC oil, the United States, European and Asian economics, and the Techno Industrial economics, the world will be at the mercy of OPEC, not an OPEC dominated by the well educated and rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the terrorist.
Our objectives are to help the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in peace with the rest of the world. We cannot let them be defeated and the only way we can help them is to fight the terrorist movement,
Al Qaeda, and the Islamic terrorist movements. Where do we fight them? Not in New York, not in London, Paris, or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we did and are doing two very important things.
1. We disposed Saddam Hussein who had been actually supporting the terrorist movement for decades, was responsible for the deaths of one million Iraqis and around two million Iranians.
2. We generated a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We have an opportunity at creating a Democratic, peaceful Iraq, a possible catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East.
It is unfortunate Americans have a short attention span, conditioned by 60 minute TV shows and two hour movies where everything comes our rosy. The real world isn't like that its' messy, uncertain, bloody, and ugly. Always has been, always will be. How many Americans today know or even remember that WWII began in 1928 when Japan invaded China. It lasted 14 years before America became involved and didn't end until 1945, a period of 17 years. We lost 4000 killed in one day, June 6, 1944, when we landed on the beaches of Normandy. We averaged 2000 killed per week for four years. Now the stakes to keep Western culture alive has once again been threatened. Are we to surrender to the terrorist by pulling out now?
Have we forgotten about the decade of U. S. occupation in Japan and Germany to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own again. A period of 27 years.
The Cold War lasted from 1947 until the Berlin wall came down in 1989, a period of 42 years.
Have the Americans already forgotten the Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979; Beirut, Lebanon Embassy, 1983; Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks, 1983; Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York, 1988; First New York World Trade Center, 1993; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military Complex, 1996; Nairobi, Kenya U. S. Embassy, 1998; Tanzania U. S. Embassy, 1998; Aden Yemen, USS Cole, 2000; New York Trade Center, 2001; and the Pentagon, 2001. >From 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks around the world.
Our engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost some 2,800 American lives in the years we have been there. WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing. If we had not stayed the course and pulled out of the war, as some Americans want to do in Iraq, we would now have a world dominated by German and Japanese Nazis.
The bottom line is that we must deal with the Islamic terrorist until we defeat them, no matter low long. We cannot cut and run as we have in the past. It will not go away if we ignore it. Our options are only four: We can defeat the terrorist now, before they develop nuclear weapons. We can fight them later, after the weapons have been developed, possibly in two years. We can surrender to them and accept their total control of the Middle East, Europe next after a few years, and ultimately America. Or we can stand down, pick up the fight later when they are better armed with nuclear weapons.
We can be defeatists peace activists, as anti-war types seem to be, and concede or surrender to them in order to be politically correct, or we can do what is necessary to win the war. In the 20th. Century we won three times due to our desire to be free from tyranny. In the 20th. Century, it was Western Democracy vs. Communism; before that Western Democracy vs. Nazism; before that Western Democracy vs. German Imperialism. Are we to lose Western Democracy in the 21st. Century in this war with terrorists'?
"Peace Activists" demonstrate where it is safe--in America. Do we see them in Iraq, Syria, Sudan, North Korea, where they could really demonstrate? They favor Human Rights, Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Diversity, etc., but if we lose to the terrorist it all ends for them. Why don't the Liberals get it ?
There were peaceful Germans who were of no use to anyone from the Nazis. No matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they offer no protection from the terrorist Muslim leaders, whose objective is to kill all "Infidels." Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing that it is anyone other than the terrorist can be fatal.
If we lose this war by bringing the troops home prematurely the attacks will not subside, but will steadily increase. They want us dead, or neutered and submissive to them by their constant terrorist attacks. The Muslim terrorist understand what is riding on this war while the Americans don't, and therefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. Too many Americans want to cut and run. We better be committed to wining at any cost if Western Culture is to survive. We will defeat ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy, and their purpose. Therefore we must dig in and offer full support for the war effort.
If we lose we can only blame ourselves for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our politically correct notions, and all our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. Americans like reality shows so why can't they recognize a real war. They just don't realize what losing means and being politically correct gives the terrorist the impression that we are divided and weakening. The politically correct uproar by politicians and the media regarding the treatment of a few terrorist prisoners of war, exemplifies what I am saying.
The Muslim terrorists' stated goal is to kill all Infidels. This means all Non-Muslims not just in the United States, but throughout the world. If we do not 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. Name one Muslim country throughout the world that allows freedom of speech, thought, press, equal rights for everyone, equal status or any status for women. Americans won't have their freedom taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they will give their freedom away, politically correct piece, by politically correct piece.
(Mr. Breslin, of Haverford Township, a World War II Navy veteran, was the Delaware County Democratic Party's nominee for the 7th Congressional District seat in 1970. He has announced that he will be challenging Congressman-elect Joe Sestak in two years.)
