MILNET Opinon: Pursuing the Red Herring

MILNET Opinion
Pursuing the Red Herring While the Shark Eats Your Ass

The Palestinian problem is the biggest red-herring in human history. This fish won' bite and it only exists as a symptom of the much larger problems in the Middle East.

These are Jihadism, the product of the ugly, warped and insane minds of Muslim radicals and Arab tribalism that goes back to biblical times.

Let's be clear, let's not be touchy...as Brigitte Gabriel says, political correctness is killing us. The problem is Muslims...granted a minority in action, but a vast majority in the teachings of the Muslim religion.

Again, let's not mince words. There are plenty of "good Muslims". But unfortunately, the number "bad Muslims" is growing exponentially and they are being supported by their brethren. Be clear on this. Few Christian Churches or Jewish Synagogues are funding Hezbollah or providing shelter for Islamic terrorists. To fix this problem we have to recognize it for what it is. Good Muslims cannot solve this problem, they are failing worse then we are.

And just how strident do we have to be in order to deliver this message. The Islamic extremists, label them however you like, are in not too long a timeframe, coming for us. Right here. Everywhere. Us. We are Christians, Jews, or any other religion that does not subscribe first of all to Islam, and right after that the radical over-zealous fringe that preaches Jihadism. These aren't just pious religious fanatics, they are evil, monstrous manipulators.

Glenn Beck, a remarkable talent on CNN, pulled together some incredible video of children being taught at elementary school level and sooner, the language and ideals of radical Islamic hatred of all Westerners, especially (of course) the Jew. Again, as Ms. Gabriel said in her interview segment on Beck's program, " How do we expect to teach a child [who has learned] such hatred against such people as us you and me and expect him to grow up to be as an eighteen year old and love us and respect us?"

More frightening are several facts: 1) The radical teaching continues throughout the world and continues to be exported, funded and supported by the Saudis, including their printing of textbooks; and 2) our "civilized" westernized governments cannot find a way to stop it due to our over-sensitive to religious rights.

The dichotomy that protects such preaching is aimed at assuring religious rights for all. Yet is this Muslim? Was Jim Jones' followers a religious sect? Should we allow religion to preach self mutilation, suicide or dealing death to others? Where does the liberalism stop and the reality check begin? To some this can never be resolved. We have a different opinion.

As we and so many others continue to cry, it is time to wake up. The war began well before 9/11, didn't you read the memo? For all our sakes it is time to realize we are losing this war. Our leaders are afraid to tell you the root causes because the fly in the face of the very freedoms we treasure. We have an answer however. Carefully parse the language all you like, but hear this. It IS about religion, an evil, destructive, "We are coming for you" religious belief. Yes it is not the main thrust of their base religion Islam, however, it is tied so closely that we find it too difficult to separate the two.

Enough. Time has run out. The Iraq situation is not a result of ineptitude, cowardice or avarice. It is not a failure due to bad policy or errors in judgment. It is a failure due to outside influences, namely the evil we have been talking about all along. The terrorists are winning there, and will continue to eat up the Middle East before they turn their full attention our way. These terrorist are spurred on by the chief of Islamic extremism exportation, the President of Iran.

As Benjamin Netanyahu said on the Glenn Beck program, " I believe that the President of Iran intends to exterminate Israel...The main thing is prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons". Here is a man who does not usually operate from fear. His bravery is beyond refutation. His knowledge is unique and he has a clear vision of a horrible future. Why haven't we listened to him before...why not now? He correctly states we are living the 1930s over again...Ahmadinejad is the hitler of our time, and he is openly saying he will destroy first Israel and then their western friends. That's the U.S. and U.K. next folks, and that is us.

Yet our Congress...bless them for their arguments, it is what is supposed to make our system strong. However, they don't seem to get it...ever...in the case of terrorism. They act like we are living in a cooly civilized world where proper respect for our enemies is called for, kid gloves are to be used with these animals and by all means lets show them how to be truly civilized. All this why they are just waiting for the opportunity to slit our throats.

It is time to realize we are in a war we cannot win by being civilized. Save that for later, after we clean up the mess that only became visible to all but Israel when the Ayatollah Khomeni took over Iran. For Israel it started at midnight that nation came into existence, for us it should have become real when Iran became a radical Islamic state. Even now, only four and a half years after 9/11 we seem to have forgotten how deadly our enemy is. After years of proclaiming the danger, it is like a sort of mass hallucination has befallen us. We are back to political B.S. when that not only serves to embolden our enemies, it ties up our ability to act decisively and yes keeps us from being just a little more uncivilized.

What we need to realize is the terrorist is inside our house, and is about to move to our wifes and children knife in hand. Do we calmly try to talk him out of it? Do we in preparation make sure no home has a gun to defend it? Do we handcuff our intelligence agencies and law enforcers so they can't help us? Do we stand there blabbering while the terrorist slits the throats of our family?

Hell no! We should become animals ourselves for a few moments. That is what the instinct is for. If not then, why ever. The effects of decades of anti-war, pacifist influence have turned us into incapable baboons. Who is going to defend our homes if we don't.   This is what our Congress has been doing and now will do even more of. Chattering around the great halls espousing their great patriotism without a clue as to the real danger.

Ask yourself. If Iran ceased to exist tomorrow, where would Al Qaeda be? In Iraq of course. In any force? Not really. But there they'd be. What would still be the biggest danger for Iraq and the world. Sectarian violence. Between Christian sects? Nope. Between Jewish sects? No, folks, not at all possible in our world. However, in the former cradle of civilization, they have returned to the fourth century. Who is killing Iraqis? Iraqis, Iranians, Jordanians, Syrians and perhaps Lebanese too. Why? Because while the Islamic extremists hate us, they also hate their opposite tribe members. Sunni vs. Shiite, as Richard Bennett predicted a year before 9/11 has become the biggest danger to us all. Al Qaeda is part of that too, the organization founded because of their hatred of the wrong tribe's stranglehold on Saudi Arabia.

And speaking of the Saudis...or great friends in the East...they...remarkably and with some sort of impossible immunity, continue to export the mad craziness that is the radical Islamic teachings to the whole world. Why has that not stopped? Who profits from that insanity? Why can't our government simply make it clear.   Stop it or get your asses blown to hell and gone. Let's quit dancing around it.

If we start killing Arabs in larger numbers than they are killing us, doesn't the calculus work out in our favor? If we stop the training, than soon a generation will mature who have not been taught from childhood that we are satan? Somewhere in the middle of all that is a solution. I don't like killing Arabs or anyone else for that matter. But if we start with that premise in mind, and then soften that stance bit by bit, we are surely better than they are (they have no compunction at killing us by the droves). At some point don't we reach a "good enough" position that satisfies our need to be good and still eradicate their evil?

Trying to negotiate with Iran, for example is the stupidest idea in the history of human endeavor. To negotiate requires either a stranglehold on your opponent, or mutual respect and a desire to come to an agreement.   Iran has told the world, and especially the Arab World, we are like apes and pigs, and deserving on nothing less than death. We are not human and our deaths are meaningless. That their religious goals can never be achieved unless we...us...are killed. Then their judgment day will come. But note, not until we are all gone.

Get that clear and fix it in your mind. They must kill us for their religious exultation to occur. These zealots want nothing more than to kill us so their savior can come once again to our world. That is religious fervor and its aim is our destruction. If you let them hide behind religious rights and over sensitivity to that freedom beyond all reason, you will have killed us all by your stupidity.

If Israel wants to elminate this very personal threat to them, then hell, let's help them big time. Our Air Force isn't all that busy at the moment. Let's really piss of the anti-war pacifists and actually start doing something. Let's tell Iran we are watching the borders with our satellites and if we see one more person or vehicle cross the border between Iran and Iraq, if our watches on the financial world show one more dollar moving to aid the Shi'a in Iraq, we'll start bombing from the Southern border of Iran until it stops. If we get to Tehran, we'll use bigger and nastier bombs just to make sure they understand. That's uncivilized? Yes, absolutely. At least we have giving warning. Moreover, we offer choices. That is the only ...I repeat... the only kind of negotiation that Iran will understand.

If you proceed down the other path, the Iranians will smile and assure you they are going along with you in the western press, and tell ther own people how stupid you are to believe their lies. Then calmly, while you are thinking you are making progress, instruct their wet works folks to kill you -- perhaps with their brand spanking new Nuclear Weapons. Down to that last Jewish and Christian child, whether they live in Europe, Canada, the U.S., or even Mexico. Few in Africa will survive, as is the case for Asia. And India? Forget it!

Time isn't running out. It has come and gone.   They are coming now, not tomorrow. Tommorow never comes...it is here now. As we keep saying, please listen. WAKE UP! For once, at least look at all the facts, at ;east listen to the voices screaming out in warning.