President Bush is Empowering the Iraqi People - the Worst Enemy of Arab Muslim Madmen

Arab Muslim Madmen that think to kill and maim and murder are not a force that should be reckoned with by means other than that which they understand. To negotiate, open discourse, engage dialogue with or to lay prostrate at their feet will never be an effective means of dispensing with the threat of people such as that. Peace which is not backed up by a pledge of strength and willingness to defend it is not a "peace" at all. It is a false hope at best and frivolously fragile at worst. A people who will not energetically and enthusiastically engage those who think to do them harm will never survive and thrive. History has no such examples.

All peoples who are willing to lay prostrate rather than support themselves thru strength have been obliterated, bred to mute, or otherwise dispensed and disbursed. No standing group of people has ever stood thru weakness. Further, strength and the wise use of it has never caused a war, on the other hand, the desire to be at peace at any cost has. And it has also bred all tyrrany that mankind has ever known. By default, those who do not stand to the foe will and do fall into it's clutch. If we lose our stomach to believe that we and our fore-bearers and our children and their children and our ideals are not worthy of a mighty and fierce defense then we too will lay prostrate before our conquerors. Our heritage and the efforts of those that earned it for us thus far will all be rendered for naught. I find it difficult at best to believe that there are any responsible people in our nation who believe from a well informed point of view that the invasion and subsequent assistance to Iraq was futile. It was a calculated and precise military operation. It was relatively brief and its perilous moments were just that, moments. The aftermath appears to be a grand opportunity for learning.

The successes have weighed in thus far as valuable. Sustaining the presence of what came of that success will have far and away reaching affects on the region as a whole. The truth is, the region has been long hi-jacked by heavy handed madmen with a devised religious philosophy. That is not news. What seems to be in short supply is the vocalization of the fact that they appear to have envisioned a goal and then adopted a mutation of Islam to embrace that pre-devised deviated goal in which all who are not Muslim are seen as foes of it. The problem in that is that there are good people in the Arab world. I lived and worked in Dearborn, MI. One of my very best friends when I lived there was Waleed Sheeha. He was from Baghdad, Iraq. In knowing him and socializing with him and his friends and family I learned long ago that because there are madmen loose everywhere in the Arab lands does not mean that the general population is of that state of mind. It is those lunatic fringe Muslims that we hear about though. The lands themselves are peopled by very peaceful people and therein lies the facts of this problem. Those peaceful people would rather be prostrate to the terror-minded than to do them harm. Peace and a love for it has become their own enemy.

Someone had to come to the rescue. Given that existing set of conditions and then the clear and present danger to the world made evident on September 11, 2001 (which was very clear to many long before that spectacle) that "someone" became the United States and as such acting on not only interest for her own best interests but also in the best interest of the world and in no subsequent way in the best interests of the Middle East. Freedom as an actual tangible concept is not known in those lands. No example of it in a functional form exists there. The accepted forms of rule there are heavy handed to say the least and to put it in poignant language reflective of truth would be to say that they are tolerant of up to and including barbarism. The United States-yes, by admission from himself, George W. Bush- took a situation that was by its very nature inexorable and turned it in on itself. Fight what the real problem is.

That problem is: The Good People of the Region Have No Voice. George W Bush, the United States, is giving a voice and strength to the worst enemy the Muslim Madmen have-their own countrymen and women. I am just winded here. There is just very little else that can be done to point out this elusive part of the truth that to me is not elusive at all. What makes the US powerful and what makes her a fright to the Muslim madmen is her VOICE! They do NOT want the good people that are prostrate to them to rise and be counted! The US can help that happen! God, please wake up your liberal children. The fear stricken "paranoidic delusionals" that cannot grasp the concept of 'greater good' are such a threat!

They do the wrong things for reasons that have the appearance of right in the short term. Protesting a war in which your countrymen are valiantly engaged in is nothing more than a traitorous act and nothing less than yellow cowardice. When fear is what keeps you from doing a thing that is in itself more valuable than the results of not doing it… then Satan has won another round. Fear is NEVER a reason to do or not do a thing. The reasons that can stand in the light of day and can weather the storms of time are the things that make a person or people great. When the greater good is summed up and compared to the cost of achieving it and that immediate cost is outweighed exponentially by that greater good then those who have achieved that greater good are heroes of history. They are leaders of mankind-and, biblically speaking, they will be admonished in their own land…

A Very Windy American Soldier