Pray for peace, polish the guns: Bill O'Reilly weighs Muslim threat, military response

What it seems to be coming down to is a war pitting fundamentalist Muslims all over the world against the United States and Britain. If you strip all the side shows away, you are left with the fact that America will sooner or later have to defeat the Muslims who hate us, or be subjected to continuous terror and violence.

If you think I am overstating things, consider this: Our so-called friends the Saudis are paying the families of suicide bombers thousands of dollars for their "sacrifice," according to an April 10 Saudi Press Agency report. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia apparently feels that suicide bombers who target women and children on buses and in restaurants deserve a reward. So the money is mailed out.

The Saudi government, of course, is an accessory to murder and an enabler of terrorism. We expect this kind of thing from Saddam Hussein – but the Saudis? That's what America is up against.

And how is the Bush administration handling the Saudi bounty? By saying nothing, that's how. By keeping silent because we need Saudi oil. Silence is our policy toward Saudi Arabia. We are quietly moving our military out of that country to Qatar because the Saudis won't support our removal of Saddam.

We say nothing while the Saudi government supports schools that teach hatred toward America and Israel. Our government is quiet because it does not want to make a bad decision worse.

But that strategy is doomed to failure, and here's why. There are 200 million Arab-Muslims in the world and not one Arab country that practices democracy. Arabs are oppressed and poor, and their leaders blame that condition on Israel and the United States. That is fallacious, of course, but when you can't read or think outside of the Koran, it is easy to swallow hateful propaganda.

Most Arabs live lives of poverty and hopelessness. Consider these per-capita yearly incomes: the USA, $33,000; Israel, $17,500; Saudi Arabia, $9,600; Iran, $6,000; Egypt, $3,500; Iraq, $2,000; and Pakistan, $1,900. Get the picture? Most Arabs have no money and no freedom. No wonder they are angry. All Americans should realize that these people are dangerous.

The oldest trick in the political book is to distract a miserable population with war. And if it's a holy war, hey, that's even better.

Iran can't employ its citizens, but it can find the money to send ship loads of weapons to the Palestinians. In Iraq malnutrition is through the roof, yet Saddam Hussein sends tens of thousands of dollars to the families of suicide bombers, and pays big money to foreign scientists to develop deadly weapons for him.

I wish there were a solution to this madness but there does not seem to be one. Many Muslim countries are simply out of control with terrorists having more power than the government.

Do you think Yasser Arafat can control Hamas? I mean the guy can't even go to the men's room without a hall pass from an Israeli soldier. And the dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf, can't control his secret police or his borders. Come to think of it, neither can America.

Anyway, while there are a few countries like Morrocco and Jordan that are friendly to the U.S., most of the Arab world wants to hurt us. Americans are going to have to deal with that threat because it is simply irresponsible not to do so.

President Bush must make it clear to the Arab world that we expect it to fight terrorism not send checks to the families of suicide bombers. And the countries who ignore Mr. Bush's warnings should be confronted.

I don't know about you, but I couldn't care less about the Muslim world. I wish it well and admire certain things about the culture. But right now that world is my enemy, by and large. Muslim fanatics are a threat to my family and way of life. Their problems lie right before their eyes in the form of corrupt leadership and hateful clerics. I had nothing to do with that problem.

Yes, America does business with bad governments. But if change doesn't come from within, only outside engagement can lessen the yoke of totalitarianism. We saw that with the Soviet Union. Detente destroyed it.

So pray for peace, but expect more conflict. President Bush is right to go after killers like Saddam and the evil rulers of Iran. These people are just waiting to attack us and there is no reasoning with them.

During Netanyahu's three years as Prime Minister, there were only two suicide bombings. Bibi made clear to Arafat if bombs went off, Arafat's regime would be dismantled. Arafat was able to stop Hamas then, why not now? He's only increased his military power with the creation of the "Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades"

Note to anyone who is anti-gun: What will you do if Osama Bin Boombatz and his fellow rioters come steaming down your street some dark and gloomy nite? ( Don't say it can't happen because we all know better).

You had better have something in your hand besides your "johnson"

Regards,

He's right the Muslims like it or not are pushing for a war, I say bring it on. We need to wipe their @sses off the planet if they push the issue. American gun ownership is the reason we are such a threat to NATO & anybody that want's to mess with us. The U.S. Military is the finest fighting force on the Earth but what makes us great is our armed Civilians who could be activated with a few news broadcasts. I agree with pray for peace but be ready for War, the world is a dangerous place & we need to be ready for anything.

The Palestinian "little people" are too brainwashed to know that the Arab ~dictators~ (funding the ~Egyptian~ "Palestinian" dictator, Arafat) are merely using them for cannon fodder to advance their own personal agenda --- hanging onto money, power and position . They're doing everything in their power to distract us from our goal of democratizing the middle east. Dictators cannot rule when people's God-given freedoms are being ~protected~.

That's WHY Socialist / Totalitarian mentalities in Europe, the middle-east, and elsewhere, hate America. We don't applaud dictatorships.

Despite the fact that they, and their governments have been around for thousands of years, it is America (merely 200 years old) that is the ENVY (and thus "the hated") of the whole world. Dictators play the religion card, the class-envy card, the race card, and any other card they can find, to distract their "subjects" from knowing that it is because of FREEDOM and the rule-of-law that America (Israel, and other democracies) has been successful.

To reiterate a truth: America is hated ~BECAUSE~ she seeks to promote democracy / freedom around the world. A HUGE threat to dictatorships.

It is for that same reason that The Constitution and Republican party (excluding the RINOS), is a huge threat to the Marxist/DemocRAT party and the dependent, useful idiots (cannon fodder) and cynical opportunists that make up their base.

The Constitution (and those who support it) stands in the way of the dictatorial Socialist/Commie/DemocRATS. And they really do hate it and us.

Actually I learned that one from my platoon Sergeant, when I was a little slow in referring to my rifle (properly) as a "weapon" not a "gun".

It's interesting how well you can learn the proper reference when chanting that ditty while running in a large circle with your weapon held over your head for an extended period of time.

Still never call "weapons" "guns", and it's been thirty years.

Regards,

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