Wider War Rumblings Continue in Mideast

NEWSMAX ^ | 4/8/02 | Dave Eberhart

[Libertina]

The Viet Nam offensive sounds like the explanation, but Stumpy hasn' been back yet to commment. Did you read Arc Light? Any good?

[Robert_Paulson2]

I read summaries.

Right now, things in the real world are pretty engrossing. I understand if you really LIKE Gresham, you will love Arc Light.

[brat]

They'll blow up the Wall.

[Timesink]

The best policy for the US to use to avoid a wider war is to start bombing Iraq.

I think the best policy is to have the wider war. These people want us destroyed, so it's better for us to have the war now, with whatever losses we might sustain, than to "make peace" only to have it blow up 10 or 20 years from now when a lot of these enemies may be far more powerful (and may have made allegiences with North Korea, China, etc.) and could cause a true WIII with an order of magnitude more American casualties, both military and civilian.

Democracy and Islamism are fundamentally incompatible. And while American democracy can live with Islamism, Islamism cannot live with us. One of its central tenets is to destroy all that is not Islamist. Thus, Islamism must be destroyed.

(Note that Islamism != Islam the religion.)

Of course, thanks to X-42 we may not be militarily prepared for a wider war right now; only the Bush Administration and the Pentagon know that for sure.