Posted on 06/29/2007 3:23:32 AM PDT by lancer256
Almost as upsetting as the fact that the United States is engaged in a long-term global war against radical Islamists is that a shocking percentage of people seem predisposed against grasping it.
To the perennially oblivious, we are in a war of choice in Iraq, which, among other "elective" actions, is stoking extremism and provoking retaliatory action against us. If we will just cease and desist these actions and otherwise alter those policies giving rise to grievances among radical Muslims, their rage will subside and they'll quit targeting us for extinction.
Those afflicted with this line of thinking not only believe it is our actions and policies that cause terrorists to hate us, but that many of those actions and policies are indeed objectionable.
That is, many of those who think global jihadists can be pacified uncoincidentally also believe they have legitimate complaints against the United States.
To these critics, America is not a shining city on a hill, not a beacon of freedom, not an exemplar of civil liberties, but, under the evil Bush administration at least, a nation that intermeddles in other nations' civil wars and ethnic disputes, systematically abuses and tortures enemy prisoners, spies on its own innocent citizens, runs roughshod over other nations in dictating its will on the international stage and is inhospitable to illegal immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at davidlimbaugh.com ...
This morning, in the aftermath of London’s latest bomb scare, they’re afraid to say it was Jihadists. They can’t even say, ‘allegedly’. It ‘might be connected to those who perpetrated 7/7’ is as close as British reporters get. PC correctness gone mad. They’re nuts. They’re at war and won’t even name the enemy.
Thanks for the post. Bookmarked.
Britain is frightened of the Jidadists living amongst them.
We dont sem to be frightened about those living among us,but we should be,and we should be arranging for their departure.
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