The Will to Fight Islamic Terrorism

In my "The New York Times" blog I said that the press always report the deaths of American solders. This is okay, but I wish the press would report the terrorists the good guys kill. It seems they only do this when they feel they have to do it. Again, it is all about balanced reporting. The family of the solders needs to know if their loved one has died in the war. Even the local press can report local solders who died. That is fine. Bring honor to the solders. I worry though if this is over done without reporting the good guys successes the American people might lose the will to fight. This is a war after all. I am not just talking just about Iraq and Afghanistan. I am talking about the global war to fight terrorism--ie the war to fight the Islamic terrorists. If we lose the will to fight then the terrorists win. And the world cannot allow that to happen. After all evil exists when good men do nothing as the saying goes.

Yes, fighting a war is hard and bloody. Good men die in a war. And it does not help if the enemy fights in a cowardly way. It also does not help that people are saying that the Islamic terrorists should be given Geneva Convention rights when the terrorists do not follow or care about the Geneva convention. It does not help that some people think President Bush and Wal-mart are the enemy, and not the Islamic terrorists. That's really sad--and potentially scary.

During the FDR's administration most people in the US were against joining the war against Hitler. I even saw footage on the History Channel of a woman during that time period holding a sign that read "Make Peace with Hitler." I could not believe what I saw. Then again back then people were tired of fighting (WW I had ended not long ago) and most people did not comprehend the whole situation. FDR had a political opponent when he was running for a third term who was an isolationist. Even Andy Rooney said at that time he was against the war until he started reporting the war. FDR understood what was going on and what had to be done. Churchill understood too. Hitler had to be stopped. He was trying to conquer the world just like the Islamic terrorists. He could not be negotiated with (he broke a non-aggression treaty with Russia and then attacked them). You can try to negotiate with the terrorists, I guess, but what are you going to do when that fails?

The past is repeating itself again. You have terrorists who wants to conquer the world. Countries are not taking the threat serious until probably it is almost too late. I wish the U.N. (Useless Nuisance--Zell Miller's term for the organization) would get involved in the war on terror but they are too busy blaming and hating America and Israel for everything. Their sanctions they create are worthless. One of the reasons the US and it's allies started the Iraq War was because the UN did not enforce its sanctions against Iraq when Hussein was in power. That and 911 happened. Is the Iraq War being thought effectively? That can be debated. To say we are losing the war maybe premature and saying that does help the enemy. That increases their confidence. At the very least it we are at a stalemate. This is probably why Americans might be losing the will to fight. They perceive the US is not winning. Maybe the UN building should be moved to Bagdad. Then the UN bureaucrats might think twice about getting the Iraqi infighting under control if they want to hold meetings there. Just a thought.

For those of you who are worried about President Bush taking your freedoms away, under Sharia law you basically have no freedom. Well, you do have some if the leaders say you do. If you are a married woman do not talk back to your husband--he is allowed to hit you. Keep all criticisms about the Muslim religion to yourself. Just ask Vincent van Goghs' great-grandson about what happens if you don't--well you could if he was not murdered by an Islamic fanatic. He was not even a Muslim! Want to switch from being a Muslim to a different religion? Just ask the ex-Muslim Abdul Rahman what happens. He converted from Islam to Christianity. The Afghanistan clerics were going to kill him as an apostate but declared him insane and let him immigrate to Italy. Thank God he's safe now. Any non-Muslim is given a chance to convert. If they refuse to convert they must pay a tax (called a jizyah). If a non-Muslim refuses the tax then Muslims must fight them. If the non-Muslim is not a Christian or a Jew and don't want to convert they are to be killed according to the Quran.

Before I end this blog I want to share a quote from Cal Thomas:

During World War II, U.S. and German forces fought the battle of Hurtgen Forest. It began Sept. 19, 1944 and ended Feb. 10, 1945. That was one battle in a strategically insignificant corridor of barely 50 square miles east of the Belgium-Germany border. The Germans inflicted more than 24,000 casualties on American forces, while another 9,000 Americans were sidelined due to illness, fatigue and friendly fire. Had live TV beamed this battle to America, there might have been an outcry that the policy was failing and somehow a cease-fire and an accommodation with Hitler should be achieved.

America won that war because the objective wasn't to understand the Nazis, or to reach an accommodation with them; the objective was to win the war. Anything less in this war - against an equally evil and unrelenting enemy - will mean defeat for the United States and for freedom everywhere. That's what Rumsfeld was getting at when he said, "We can persevere in Iraq or we can withdraw prematurely, until they force us to make a stand nearer home. But make no mistake: They are not going to give up, whether we acquiesce in their immediate demands or not."

Rumsfeld is right.