Posted on 09/06/2006 3:11:08 PM PDT by ParsifalCA
More and more people are asking if the Israeli-Hezbollah war was really a proxy war between the U.S., representing the West, and an Iran-Syria axis representing a devil’s handshake between two factions of Islamofascism. The short answer is yes, but there is much more involved in the fight than that toxic bilateral alliance, though it is key. In a London Times piece Amir Taheri declares that “this is a war between the West and what one might describe as ‘The Rest’, this time represented by radical Islamism.” But the umbrella shading our enemies extends wider than even this definition. Given that the primary enemy can be defined as Islamofascist terror groups and their sponsoring states, who exactly are The Rest?
Among other scholars Newt Gingrich has properly called this fight World War III. One can nitpick the numbers. If you consider the Cold War number three, then this is number four. No sweat. The issue is not the suffix but the context: we are in a global conflict, one that without exaggeration exceeds its predecessors in vitriol, intensity, and potential for destruction. While we waited for the Soviets to attack with devastating nuclear weapons, political leaders on both sides accepted the doomsday strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction as a reasonable deterrent. For the years of the Cold War it was fought primarily with surrogates in backwater places like Laos, Vietnam, Congo, Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. An occasional flare-up like Korea brought the superpowers perilously close to direct conflict, a situation that both sides pretended was not happening rather than admit and be forced to confront.
But in the war against Islamofascists and their allies and supporters the equation has changed drastically, and not in our favor... [more]
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Where is this "more"..?
This is a religious war but not of our choosing.
Islam may be dysfunctional in the modern and post-modern world...but, like a shark or a crocodile, it is alive and threatening.
Real islam must be dispatched...if anything remains, let it stand the test of the white-hot of examination.
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