Thank you my friend.
On a different topic, here are some thoughts I penned based on a conversation some of us were having regarding the Islamic Jihadist enemy we are fighting.
I thought I would get your take.
I wanted to say something here about how we treat each other when faced with the fight we are involved in with the Islamic Jihadists and their world-wide ideology (Sharia Law) to enslave the world. I had a discussion with a group of people about the Jihadists themselves. That conversation devolved into two sides who began arguing over the names we call these enemies.
You know, sometimes we fight and bicker amongst ourselves over the most inconsequential issues. And to what end? The enemy wants us DEAD. All of us. We either convert, be a slave, or die.
I do not care what you call these enemies...or don't call them. For now we have to let things like that (on both sides) pass without turning on one another. IMHO, we all have to recognize and realize that their entire Jihadist/Sharia Law culture, like the Imperial Japanese and NAZIs before them is incompatible with liberty, and civilization and must be brought down. We are not going to do that by playing like we can make friends with them, be nice to them, or nation build with them, or any of those (including their civilians) who support them.
If there are those (and there are) amongs the Muslims who reject Jihad and Sharia Law...they can join with us. Otherwise they are part of the problem. We are going to have to treat the enemy and their people just like we did the Imperial Japanese and the NAZIs and bomb and destroy them until they absolutely do not want any more, are humbled to the dirt, and sue for complete uncoditional surrender. Until we realize that, and do it...and steel ourselves for what is necessary to make that happen...we will be fighting them for a hundred years. Heck, we are already into it 12 years. If we turned around and did what I am proposing, this thing would be over in 3-4 years.
So...let's stop the senseless arguing about these trifling things and somehow trying to take either the indignate or moral high ground with each other on such issues, and unite, and win this thing.
Now, let's say on this issue of the names we call the enemey, while I personally agree that the use of what may be considered "bad" language in polite company is not a good thing...it is inconsequential in the fight we have with these enemies. They do not care if we call them nice names or bad. They still want us dead.
If we get wrapped up in trying to police ourselves to the point of stopping people from using specific adjectives...where does it stop? Whose standard is the rule? We should each use the standard we feel applies, but not try to sideline people (either way) because their standard does not agree with ours when we are all fighting for our very life.
My point is that we cannot afford to fracture ourselves along such lines when we are fighting an enemy that simply wants us to forcibly convert, be their slave, or die. We have to be united...even if we do not completely agree...and go forward and allow for these differences.
For example, I would rather have a person next to me in a fox hole who uses the term (and pardon me, this is one of the points of contention in that earlier conversation) "sand nigger" then have no one next to me in that fox hole, or to have someone who is too skemish and unwilling to kill the enemy however they can when they come over the edge of the fox hole. Conversely, if I were someone who uses those types of terms (and I am not) I would rather have someone next to me in that same fox hole who abhores such language and prefers names like radical islamic or Jihadist, then to have no one next to me. Just so long as they are willing to pull the trigger and kill whomever the enemy is that comes over the lip of that fox hole.
I can promise you, in either case, if you survive, when the fighting is done, those issues will mean nothing and you and that other person who fought together will be life-long friends. That is the nature of the fight we are in, and the sooner we realize it and stop such fracturing and arguements, the better.
AMERICA AT THE CROSSRODAS OF HISTORY
ISLAMIC JIHAD & SHARIA LAW MUST BE ERADICATED FROM TEH EARTH