I am talking to you from experience. I was born and raised in Lebanon during the civil war. As a Lebanese Christian I know who the Muslim terrorists are and what do they want to do for non-Muslim, even to Muslims who do not want to go to live in their seventh century society. They hate us regardless we are in Iraq and the Middle East or we are not. Please remember that we were not in Iraq or in Afghanistan when they attacked us on September 11 2001. They want to destroy us and kill all of us, period. We must be in the Middle East with a heavy military presence and we must destroy them. There is no other way to do it.
This is the most important election of our life time because it is a choice between destroying those who want to annihilate us and everything we stand for, or we can just sit here and wait for them to abolish our civilization. I know for a fact that President Bush wants to destroy the Islamic terrorist and fundamentalist movement, John Kerry will not do it because he is not willing to take the hard way.
Please my friend go and vote for President Bush and ask you friends and family to do so.
God bless you, and God bless America.
Jveritas,
I don't disagree with your strategic view of the situation and I have no illusions about who they are, what they want, and what it will take to stop them.
I don't believe, however, that GW Bush shares your view. What I think he and the neocons have decided - and what I suspect is the keystone to their entire middle east strategy - is to terraform Iraq into a little America. "If" they say to themselves "we simply make Iraq into a prosperous democracy, these people will turn their backs on Islam and embrace our way of life when they see how good it is."
I don't believe that they have a plan B because (naively) they haven't even considered that such a strategy COULD fail.
I suspect it will. Tell me - if someone told you that you could be more prosperous, would you turn your back on your religion just to make it happen (yes, I know many Americans would. I suspect you - and many non-American Christians would not.)?