President Called It Like It Is (Clear Midwestern Thinking on War)

The Fargo Forum ^ | 08/16/2006 | Unsigned Editorial

[Uncle Miltie]

The time for talking nice is over. The time for making excuses for terrorist behavior is done. The time for avoiding truth in the words and descriptions we use is history.

A few days ago President Bush called terrorists “Islamic fascists.” He was reacting to the news that several British Muslims had been arrested in connection with a plot to blow up passenger airplanes en route from London to the United States. He got it right.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary says this about fascism:

“A system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, belligerent nationalism, racism and militarism…” Lace that definition with the doctrines espoused by radical Islamists, and the world gets a network of terrorist cells bound together by a common purpose: Islamic fascism.

In some circles, speaking the truth with such clarity is upsetting. Too bad. The civilized world, especially the liberal democracies of the west, faces a threat that cannot be blunted by diplomacy, compromise or some fanciful desire to understand the enemy. The enemy is driven by implacable hatred for all things modern, all things Christian, all things Jewish. The enemy is motivated by a perversion of a great religion, Islam. The terrorists view all but themselves (including so-called moderate Muslims) as infidels. In their interpretations of Islam, the infidel must be killed.

That’s what they’ve set out to do. The horror of 9/11 was telegraphed a decade before when terrorists tried and failed to bring down (with a bomb in the parking garage) one of the World Trade Center towers. In 2001 they were successful, using passenger airplanes to murder thousands. Since then, Islamic fascists have demonstrated their ability to strike: London, Madrid, the Philippines. Today India is on alert because of evidence terrorists plan to strike cities in that nation.

The foiling of the plot to blow up airplanes leaving London’s Heathrow Airport is good news, only in that the plot was exposed and stopped. However, the fact there was a plot confirms that the war on terrorism has not abated. If anything, it’s spread to more fronts and to home-grown Islamic fascists. The members of the British cell were British nationals, who apparently felt alienated from British society. Their response was to plan mass murder.

The western response should be proportional. That is, kill them before they kill us. Quit giving credence to the mushy-headed notions that we need to “understand” them; that we need to take actions to address their grievances; that we need to better integrate them into mainstream society.

Their stated purpose is to topple the democratic west and replace it with an Islamic fascist empire. There can be no accommodation with that aim. Attempts at compromise are rightly perceived by terrorists as weakness. The result is more murderous plots, like the one stymied last week in the U.K.

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[xjcsa]

The enemy is motivated by a perversion, Islam. Is that any better?

Before I posted, I was trying to decide between what I ended up posting and your version, verbatim. I think I like your version.

[HawaiianGecko]

they are willing to take the casualties on US soil to accomplish their call for "peace."

Not only that, but their squealing about the $300 billion spent on Iraq, that could have been spent in America stopping terrorism is silly on two fronts.

• We have had zero, 0, nada, none, no attacks in five years but the Democrats believe if we spent $300 billion more we could have had the VERY SAME RESULTS. Talk about a waste of money.
• Democrats wouldn't have spent $300 billion against terror anyway, they would have plowed it into The Big Dig in Boston.

[HawaiianGecko]

Any idea how an editorial this good slipped into the Fargo Foolem, chief enables and flacks for the Dorgan-Conrad-Pomeroy trifeca?
 

By the way, Howard Dean was in ND for a fund raiser this last weekend and none of the National Democrats mentioned above even showed up!!!!  What's that tell you? LOL

[Vigilanteman]

I used to live near Fargo. The saying was that they send Democrats to Washington to be sure they get their share of pork and Republicans at the state level to be sure it is spent properly when it returns home.

The national Republican Party won't take on the trifeca as they get an occassional vote out of the ND trifeca in election years.

[takenoprisoner]

"Attempts at compromise are rightly perceived by terrorists as weakness."

So why did we help construct an UN ceasefire? Why were we not right there aiding and abetting Israel in the war against terrorists?

I know why. The US and our leadership, not so much unlike Israel, lacks the real will that is required to kill islamic fascism.