The war on terror is global. But when I think world war, I thinking WWI and WWII. Countries fighting other countries. Millions killed with the possiblility that America or UK could have lost and been invaded by a military force of the NAZIs or Japanese empire. I dont see the war on terror that way.
Our military will prevail, an all volunteer force, we are not mobilizing the average citizen like in WWII. An average non-military family does not sacrifice anything at all like one did in WWII.
We are winning this war. The odds that the islamo facists will achieve what they want (islamic rule of earth)are zero. Yes it is very serious why we fight, and I do not attempt to diminish at all what is at stake. I know very well in this nuclear age, but we have engaged the enemy, that was half the battle in my opinion. Its a war of will and resolve I think too. Will and resolve here at home to fight this war. And we are winning that as well, the re-election of major coalition war leaders is the proof.
I just cant compare these islamo facists zealots on teh same level as NAZI Germany or the Japanese empire. Yeah the effed up zealots are just as bad as they were. But they are not countries with fleets of ships, armys with tanks. I wont give these jokers that much power by viewing them that way. They are brainwashed cowards.
And that is a serious mistake. War is war, whether it is fought by massed armies fielded by nations, or by guerrillas hiding in the shadows.
The Cold War was a world war. It lasted for decades and millions were killed (when communists stifled dissidents, alone).
Phsyical battles were fought (in Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere) and near nuclear exchanges occurred several times (NOT because of Reagan, and some that we are only now learning about, the Cuban Missile Crisis was not the only near flashpoint).
There were those on the left who said that we needed to learn to co-exist with the Soviet Union, and there were some (like Jane Fonda) who preached to us that we should all learn to enjoy communism. The multiculturalists are dead set against the Western World as it stood. The left embraces horrible ideas at their own peril.
I would not look to Europe for the answer. Only a few nations got it right in WWII and the whole world almost suffered then too.
This is another Crusades. Does not meant that it needs to be fought as long but Islamofascism has no part in the modern world anymore than the political/genetic philosophy of Nazism.
Islam itself can only be permitted to exist in this world if its followers can be made to accept the FACT that all people are permitted to live in this world, that we are ALL equal (not 3 classes of people under LAW, muslims, Christians/Jew, and "everybody else"). Muslims claim that the Islamofascists are "not real muslims". Fine, then stand resolutely with us in RIDDING THE WORLD of such murderous scum. If muslims are remaining quiet against such outlaw mosques and clerics out of fear, then they have already surrendered to the Islamofascists and in my mind that makes it legitimate to throw out the baby with the bath water. What if the "baby" is a crocodile? You want that chewing your hand off?
"The odds that the islamo facists will achieve what they want (islamic rule of earth)are zero."
Agreed.
"They are brainwashed cowards." *APPLAUSE*
Neutrality would be no guarantee of not being attacked and destroyed.