[Luis Gonzalez]

"In the last century, America was threatened by a global communist revolution. Avoiding all-out war, we outlasted it. And we can outlast this Islamist revolution. What we must avoid is a war of faiths, a war of civilizations between Islam and America. And those who propagandize for such a war are the unwitting or willful collaborators of Osama bin Laden."---Pat Buchanan

[Jim Noble]

Unlike the USSR, the Islamists are comin' to get your mama.

Our refuge for mankind is in danger.

[demnomo]

I don't normally agree with most of what Pat Buchanan says, but I agree with this quote. Personally, I do not care for the religion of Islam. It does not care for me either since I am an infidel and thus ripe for looting from, deceiving, extorting, raping, enslaving and killing should my people declare war upon it. Osama knows this and wants the West to publically declare war on Islam. Osama believes that is the only way in which he and his Whabbists can gain control over all Muslims and then eventually the entire world via violent jihad which will lead to Sharia--a series of Islamic laws that are barbaric and subject to the whims and interpretations of intolerant Imams.

Through my studies, I have found Islam to be in serious need of a Reformation. I believe that the majority of Muslims need to reject the violent and dishonest admonitions against the infidels that come from the Koran, Hadith and are encouraged and interpreted by leaders like Osama, the Whabbists and even Saddamn, if it suits Saddamn's purpose. Fanatical Islam must also be stopped from pursuing its end game of desiring the earth's inhabitants subjected to Sharia if it wants to be respected by the civilized world. If the West publically declares war on all of Islam, instead of the terrorist fanatics or Islamofacists like Osama and Saddamn, the West risks getting more of the sitting-on-the-fence Islams (which may or may not be a silent majority) to join forces with their more fanatical brethren.

Where I totally disagree with Buchanan is on his ideas that the West must stop supporting Israel and not directly take on the Islamofacists in a war situation because it might get the entire Muslim world mad and they might do mean things to us. Many Muslims already do mean things to us and are ripe for leaders who are successful against the West to rally them to do more. (Or at least give them another excuse to ghoulisly celebrate or dance in the streets whenever the West is hurt.)

My study of the Islamic cultures has taught me that Muslims admire or respect strength, not weakness and capitulation. What President Bush and PM Blair are trying to accomplish is the only way to combat the current situation. It will be costly in terms of lives and financial/diplomatic resources. But if the West kow tows to Islam in its current trend, Osama and his kind will only grow more powerful and popular because the weakling West got conned and are ripe for jihad. Combating Islamofacisim is the risk that the West must take. Not Islam, which may or may not grow up and join the modern world.