People of the Middle East, whether they be Arab or Kurd, have a long history of being cutthroats of one kind or another.... murderers, thieves and liars. Its been a way of life for several thousand years. Mohammad came along and created Islam. Islam unified the people of the Middle East behind a religion that promotes jihad, violence and death to all non-believers. Death to all infidels.
In the 20th century, the discovery of great oil reserves in the ME gave these followers of Islam, these religious fanatics and jihadist killers, huge monetary gains and a pathway to the best education money could buy. Many of them took advantage of every opportunity that came along. Osama Bin Laden is the perfect example. These Islamofascists don't just want the west out of their homelands. They want to take control of the entire world, spreading their religious fanaticism to ever corner of the globe.
Its true, right now western civilization led by the USA is unprepared for prosecuting a long term war against these warriors of Mohammad. The people of the free world have grown complacent, lazy and are far too easily intimidated. Instead of wasting time attempting to understand every detail about these terrorist barbarians, we need to realize, its kill or be killed. You can't negotiate with people who dwell in a religious and spiritual world of the 8th century, and who have no respect for human life, whatsoever.
Muslim radicals want the west to fight a long protracted war against the forces of Islam, in the hope that this will wear down the worlds democracies and make it easier to conquer the infidels. They've made a good start over the last 25 years. I doubt they'll be ending their hostilities and aggressions anytime soon. If the democracies of western civilzation don't face this enemy head on, in the end, the Islamofascists will be the victors and we will be under their jackboot of totalitarianism.
We can't afford to play this war by their rules, we need to start fighting this war using OUR rules. Some of the same rules we employed against the nazi's, imperialists and communists from wars past. We can't wait until the Islamofascists nuke a European or US city to understand that either we kill them, or they'll surely kill us. Maybe that's what it will take for America's anti-war left and the anti-war Eurosocialists to finally get off their butts and join in the fight. Freedom is under attack from the forces of evil.
As President Ronald Reagan once said:
""Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
When someone asked Ronald Reagan, what his strategy was for fighting the Cold War, he gave a simple answer: We win; they lose. I like that strategy.
I could not agree more in my lament is that so long as we are bamboozled by the Doctrines of the Frankfurt School we cannot wage a successful war.
We can't wait until the Islamofascists nuke a European or US city to understand that either we kill them, or they'll surely kill us.
But that, of course, is just exactly what we were doing. The Bush doctrine of proactive response died with the absence of WMD's in Iraq. We are now powerless to deal with Iran. When Iran gets the bomb, America will face a mortal peril. If the nuke goes off in an American city, placed there by some shadowy sleeper cell, whom do we bomb? The answer is not easy. It will be much easier to listen to the sirens of the left and give in to appeasement and submit to the caliphate. That is far more likely to happen than most people who post here realize.
The Frankfurt School will have had its victory.