If I recall correctly, only about 10% of the USSR population were card carrying communist party members and of those the majority were members just for the few privileges party membership offered such as job security, better housing and access to consumer goods not available to the masses. Therefore, the threat to our existence was perpetrated by a comparative handful yet we didn't hesitate targeting not only military complexes but industrial and population centers.
We were in a war against Communism and no one invoked PC to say we were in a war against a few radical Communists.
Today we are in a war against Islam, no two ways about it. The ones that are carrying out their mission are for PC sakes called radicals to as not to affront the sensitivities of the other Muslims that are passive participants. How do they rate this consideration when all citizens under the Soviet rule were painted with the same brush and threatened with annihilation?
Why are we afraid to define the enemy? Did we differentiate between the rabid Nazis and the rest of the German population or did we fight against the whole German nation?
Did we just fight against the whole Japanese nation or just the Emperor and his minions?
Just what has earned the Muslims this special privilege in history where they can send in shock troops in sneak attacks and be held blameless?
Have we been brainwashed by the anti-American element (liberal) in our politics and society to accept death and destruction as a price for having achieved the highest standard of living in history and provided our citizens access to knowledge and riches beyond belief under a government of the people, by the people and for the people?
IMHO we have two distinct enemies, Islam and their fifth-column collaborators (liberals/socialists/communists/Democrats) and if we are to pass on to our children and grand children even an iota of the bounty we enjoy today, we better be prepared to engage our enemy and engage them with sense of purpose and finality, preferably with a preemptive first strike.
We were in a war against Communism and no one invoked PC to say we were in a war against a few radical Communists.
Today we are in a war against Islam, no two ways about it. The ones that are carrying out their mission are for PC sakes called radicals to as not to affront the sensitivities of the other Muslims that are passive participants. ---
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Just what has earned the Muslims this special privilege in history where they can send in shock troops in sneak attacks and be held blameless?
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Again, a very well stated position, analogy and question.
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