This issue today with them as well as then will not be solved by "politics". The radical elements of Muslim do not care about our "politics" beyond that point at which it can be exploited to their benefit. The only act they recognize or respect is battle and the subsequent outcome of victory or defeat.
The American Democrat's inclination towards peace, albeit noble will do no benefit when exerted towards an enemy that does not want nor wish for peace.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson, a founder of our nation, by means of military might we must deal with this problem. That is a fact, and while our peace loving citizenry do not understand this as they are blinded by the effervescent glow of what peace is, we are dealing with an enemy to our very way of life -including that peace- and does not want what you are pedaling. He wants you to keep pedaling it only long enough for him to make use of it once more in order to deal another knee-dropping blow to our beloved nation. He uses you and your dissent in order to further his ambitions. He is a wise and cunning enemy. He knows you, has lived among you now, as did Jefferson live among them in the 1770's.
Please, see the error of your inclinations and get behind our president and those of us who can see that the only way to give right thinking people of the Middle east an opportunity to produce a voice that benefits the world is if we give it to them. They cannot stand alone against the beheading monsters that their society has lost its abiltity to police from their culture. The fundamentalist radical Muslim will not succumb to any influence beyond the utter and complete destruction of him by means of war. They know no other path and may take generations for them to learn. Rest assured, we are in this battle either for as long as it takes us to defeat them or how long it takes them to defeat us. That is a commitment they have made. They thrive in it to a death that they wish for.
The well-meaning but mis-aligned anti-war moonbats of the USA are costing Troops their lives all while they at the same time provide aid, comfort and moral support to the very enemy that our Troops are working to extract from influence in the world.
Wise up, we are not in utopia here, and do have to live life in full accord with reality in order to effectively execute the interest to the greater good.
Troops are in harms way and that taken from it's theatrical context means that they are being harmed, maimed and killed! We are responsible-culpable, as some may claim-for their state of mind and well being under that duress. They need us to be aligned behind them desperately and you can bet that the Muslim fanatic takes writhing pleasure in your dissentious actions, Dear Liberal and Democrat and other moonbats! At this point in time we have no function that is viable or worthy but the function to stand behind and support our Troops as they do their work. That may be hard to digest, let me put it a different way...if your child was in school taking the final exams...would you be at home plotting your child's demise by calling the school and having threatening non-supporting letters delivered to him/her at their desk? Hell no, you would not do that! This is the same thing. Our children are in a battle that our leaders have not had the culpability to execute which has been waged against us for ALL of my adult life. (and that is long now)
I am made mindful in this dispute here in our country of the US Civil War in which millions of people were dis-affected, harmed, maimed and killed. I think of just one battlefield in which 57,000 men were killed by fellow countrymen in the name of freedom. I wish just one person would point out to me the one American of African ancestry who was not worth that sacrifice in those three days. History bears out that while our nation was responsible for horrendous portions of grief, agony and pain upon our own countrymen the greater good was still done, albeit at magnificent cost.
The numbers there represent 17.3 times more loss of life in only three of days in battle than what has been lost in Iraq in over four of years! We have by these presents become far more efficient and more precise in our fight for freedom, but far less prepared to endure it's price. There were crying out and gnashing of teeth then too, I am sure, but the price was paid, the pain, loss and grief were endured and the fruit was reaped. Men, women and children were freed. If we turn our backs on that principal today it is us who pulls the veil of honor back from those Soldiera then as well as all of them in all our wars!
If we have freedom here, but do not give of ourselves so that others may have it too, what good is it? What have we done with it that is to the benefit of mankind if we keep it all for ourselves? A thing has value only to the beholder until it is given and then it becomes a thing of value. Our freedom can mean nothing to an Arab thousands of miles away if he too is not free to understand what freedom is. Anyone who develops in freedom knows nothing of how sweet it is. When the shackles and chains are removed from those in bondage freedom will become worth dying for in that no other form of life is worthy of our energy. We accomplish nothing in bondage but that which pleases our captors, and that does us nothing and we stay as we are. In freedom we grow and flourish even if only to become worthy to ourselves.
Be a leader, all you who think freedom does not have to be earned and defended and be what George W. Bush is. Teach the truth to the well-meaning who cannot see past the end of the nose on their face and cease the compliance with the errant, myopic ignorance that there is some acceptable alternative to total victory in Iraq. Iraq is only the first veil of this conflict to be lifted. There are many more and the fanatical Muslim knows what I mean by that. You American moonbats must also learn what that means. He is hunkered in for the entire show. He knows you will not do that and is banking on your comfort driven complacency.
The new course that we need is for our politicians to begin leading instead of dancing to the fiddles being played by the uninformed and partially read. We have been in this conflict for an arguable 200 years. Our mind set must evolve to one of observation out over and beyond that which is easy to see and become one of grit, determination and conviction that our way of life will be preserved for future generations. Our enemy is there, the question is, will America align hers and be in synchronization with the reality that has been established by mandate by our enemy.
Published by Daniel Doyle
I'm 50 years old, and a ten year US Army Veteran. I have lived a life of love as well as tragedy and pain as well as joy. I am a self-employed electrician when I'm not playing. I play as much as possible. View profile
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43 Comments
Post a CommentThis article has many flaws in logic.
Radical fundamentalist are interspersed in every religion and in every country. We have radical fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. who bomb abortion clinics and shoot innocent church-goers at Unitarian-Universalist services, but I don't see any sane American advocating that evangelical churches be bombed in retaliation for spreading misguided information to their constituents. Your suggestion that invading and attacking Muslims in general will somehow wipe out fundamentalist elements is way off base. The majority of Muslims, just like the majority of Christians, are moderates. I feel entitled to say this having lived much of my adult life in Muslim countries.
Secondly, two wrongs don't make a right. Attacking those who attacked us (if that were even the case, which it is NOT in the Iraq war) only fuels the fire and encourages more fundamentalist backlash. While your suggestion that that Civil War was for a great cause - the emancipation o
It is a great article! I agree with you 100%!
I love your style, Daniel - even if I disagree with you sometimes, which is actually a rarity anyhow :) Well done - I'm linking it to http://h2oforthegaslit.pnn.com/2344-the-front-page (hee hee) I have a semi-anti-everything section there (grin).
Where are you, lately? I've missed the reads and debate :)
in summation, this is not all out war anymore, Paul. This is a "very" limited action at this point. It is very conventional although quite unconventional and is definately not "all out war". It is exceptional and extractive. By no means all out.
Mr Clayton, you will hear my fiddle playing the "evil" tune if you listen. No questioon by watching it's works that it is evil we are seeing raging across the earth right now. And, it is you and me and Mr Angelo who cries out for the injustice wrought upon the Arabs by their own brothers hands. No doubt the murdering suicidal maniacs who need to frighten people into submission hurt our hearts more by their actions than their own hearts are hurt by their actions. That is why our war on terror is just. We struggle at price of loss of our own Troops lives when we could simply exterminate the host that germinates the cancer that courses thru it's very essence with just some terrible death deliveries. If we do not do as we do now, eventually our descendants may have to in order to insure their own survival against an enemy we refused to look at from a perspective of the future.
will work as long as we don't get cold feet and run. If we run we will have hurt the entire world more than we have done good. We cannot run. No Way. The hole is dug, the foundation is planted. We must build the structure. They will catch on. Those people are good people, and brave. They can do it if we help them.
Paul, with your last you have isolated some reality from what is your side of this issue. That is exactly what our Troops are now doing all they can to learn of and deal with in the reality of the sand pit. Your very points there are exactly what our Army and Marines are implementing. They are working to get to know the actual people who they are there to bestow a voice upon. It is outrageous for people here to dream up thinking that allows them to loudly voice that because it is Troops on the ground there they cannot do the "each one of us is an ambassador" routine. Fact is, our Troops ARE US. We must support them as they do this tremendous precarious work. They need us in unity behind them. Paul...in full discourse we are not as far from each other as you seem to think we are. This is not about the likes and dislikes of us unto the personality of one or two players. This is about what we can do to support our Troops as they do what they can near to a man know will work as long as we
Daniel--again in your longwindedness, you have sort of missed my point. I agree that we need to "extract the cancer" as you say. But, your treatment for the cancer--all out war--is making it worse because it will naturally create more terrorism. BTW, this is even what the establishment (CIA) has determined. A "war on terror", with an aim of destroying terrorism, doesn't work because there is no finite number of terrorists, nor de we know who they all are. Then, when you kill peoples families and friends during such a war--on purpose or by "collateral damage"--people are much, much, much more likely to turn to terrorism. Lastly, as long as American policies exist that can be used by Osama-types for recruitment, then exists another source of terror. How you cannot realize these things is mindboggling. We must remove the conditions that create terrorism, and that is not being done--period.
Yea Bro. Some folks just don't do well when faced with no chance to "negotiate." Sometimes ya gotta call evil by its name. If people had listen to Churchill in the 30's who knows how different our world might be. Ah, but the luxury of hindsight. Me, I'm just a waitin' for the naysayers to come screamin' "Help! Help! They ACTUALLY wanna kill us!" to which we may reply, "See, I told ya!" hehe
Am I sorry? Do I grieve? Do I believe war is horrendous? Like you, Yes, Sir, I do. The alternative to the actions we are in now is to wait for a time when the enemy is even more difficult to distinguish, yet, still, like now will mandate from us thaty he so be. He will later be stronger, he will later be more threatening... it is foolish to me to believe any other things about him, even perhaps "ridiculous". I can understand not liking this...what I cannot understand is how any thinking person can possibly believe that when dealing with an enemy that "wants" to die we have any other more viable options available in some imaginary version of future that the last 200 years of actual history has shown us will be more of what we have been seeing...and much worse. Ever wonder what would have happened if someone would have seen Adolf Hitler through eyes like I am using...? I cannot help but wonder...maybe I would not see this existing threat so clearly if we had no Adolf to provide us with t