Who Is The Fifth Column?

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The "Fifth Column" is a term that refers to those individuals and organizations that, though they are nominally American, want the United States to lose the War on Terror - the war that Norman Podhoretz and James Woolsey have called "World War IV." The term "Fifth Column" was coined by a Spanish Civil War General named Emilio Mola. As four columns of his troops advanced on Madrid, he stated confidently that, within the city, he also had a "fifth column"of supporters - those who were aiding, from the inside, his military campaign against the government. Dictionaries generally define a fifth column as "any group of people who give aid and support to the enemy from within their own country."

The stakes in the current War on Terror could be no higher; hanging in the balance is America's very survival. The war is being waged against radical Islam and the socialist Left, a seemingly unlikely alliance of forces brought together by the common bond they share: their hatred for the United States. In word and deed, both of these allies make it plain that they wish to see American society and its way of life crushed by any means necessary, including violent revolution. No less a figure than Osama bin Laden declared in a fatwa which he issued on Al-Jazeera Television just before American and British troops entered Iraq in March 2003: "The interests of Muslims and the interests of the socialists coincide in the war against the crusaders." Just as bin Laden characterizes Americans as "crusaders" seeking to expand their empire into Muslim lands, so does the socialist Left charge that all American foreign policy is predicated on imperialistic ambition and a lust for oil.

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