The Waiting Game - Do we really need further convincing of the threat we face?

Hezbollah’s black-clad legions goose-step and stiff-arm salute in parade, apparently eager to convey both the zeal and militarism of their religious fascism. Meanwhile, consider Hezbollah’s “spiritual” head, Hassan Nasrallah — the current celebrity of an unhinged Western media that tried to reinvent the man’s own self-confessed defeat as a victory. Long before he hid in the Iranian embassy Nasrallah was on record boasting: “The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win because they love life and we love death.”

Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trumps that Hitlerian nihilism by reassuring the poor, maltreated Germans that there was no real Holocaust. Perhaps he is concerned that greater credit might still go to Hitler for Round One than to the mullahs for their hoped-for Round Two, in which the promise is to “wipe” Israel off the map.

The only surprise about the edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf that has become a best seller in Middle Eastern bookstores is its emboldened title translated as “Jihadi” — as in “My Jihad” — confirming in ironic fashion the “moderate” Islamic claim that Jihad just means “struggle,” as in an “inner struggle” — as in a Kampf perhaps.

Meanwhile, we in the West who worry about all this are told to fret instead about being “Islamophobes.” Indeed, a debate rages over the very use of “Islamic fascism” to describe the creed of terrorist killers — as if those authoritarians who call for a return of the ancient caliphate, who wish to impose 7th-century sharia law, promise death to the Western “crusader” and “Jew,” and long to retreat into a mythical alternate universe of religious purity and harsh discipline, untainted by a “decadent” liberal West, are not fascists.

Every time I hear that 'we will win because you love life and we love death' crap, I recall that it was answered decades ago by George Patton:

No son of a b***h ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other son of a b***h die for his country.

When push comes to shove, we can certainly be obliging and give them what they profess to love.

Please think about this for a moment. If we would use overwhelming force AFTER a jihadi slaughter of perhaps one-hundred thousand Americans, why not use that force BEFORE such an attack occurs? There is only the need to decide if the jihadis are serious in their intentions, then we may as well use overwhelming force before it is a retaliatory event. Why will this not happen? Because the democrat party has so succeeded in dividing the sovereigns that we will not be united in fighting this evil. And what will that means when one-hundred thousand Americans are slaughtered and the mooselimbs world-wide rejoice? It will mean we will not even then use overwhelmng force agaionst these demonic bastards. We live in an America characterized by fantasy not reality, and the people are so ill equiped to understand the realities of this enemy after our demise.

Islamofascism describes this century's threat succinctly. Its both an ideology and a variant of aggressive militarism, both wielded by state power as in Iran and the terrorist groups controlled by it, such as Hezbollah and Hamas. And the words of its leaders, are not just intended as prophecy but as a statement of fact to be realized should they obtain the means to fulfill them. That is why the specter of a nuclear Iran ought to be anathema to all freedom-loving peoples. And time is growing short is to decisively stop this threat.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

Our Iraq presence derives from U.N. and Congressional resolutions mandating removal of Hussein for material breach of international obligations, and from Clinton’s 1998 resolution requiring U.S. promotion of democratic government for Iraq. Colin Powell testified and David Kay confirmed material breaches included ongoing support for international terrorism. Consequently, persevering with the Iraqi people for victory is vital to winning the War on Terror. Only then can we begin rebuilding credibility among societies fighting against, or infected by Islamic Fundamentalism. These now independent African/Oriental/Asian cultures demand allies who consider diplomacy as war without bloodshed, and war as diplomacy with bloodshed. They are disheartened when the U.S considers war the accidental consequence of miscarried diplomacy.

They understand terrorism we how abhor was neglected through 27 years of failed encounters. Under Carter we failed to defend the sovereignty of our Iranian embassy. Under Reagan Marine guards were forbidden to load their weapons to protect their barracks, and Hezbollah killed 260 in Beirut. Under Bush #1 Arabs around Basra revolted with U.S. encouragement, and then were abandoned to Hussein’s retribution. Under Clinton we fled Somalia after 18 Rangers were killed, and allowed Hussein to eject U.N. inspectors. These instances and 12 other significant terrorist attacks produced spiritless, pathetic responses.

Now Mahmoud Ahmadinejad perceives he can defy without consequence the U.N. Security Council and United States. Now potential allies for the War on Terror rightly question whether we possess the requisite vigorous, martial character to succeed in their harsh diplomatic climate.

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