Enough with the pseudonyms. Western civilization isn't at war with
terrorism any more than it is at war with grenades. Western
civilization is at war with militant Islam, which dominates Muslim
communities all over the world. Militant Islam isn't a tiny minority of
otherwise goodhearted Muslims. Its a dominant strain of evil that runs
rampant in a population of well over 1 billion.
Enough with the psychoanalysis. They dont hate us because of Israel.
They dont hate us because of Kashmir. They dont hate us because we have
troops in Saudi Arabia or because we deposed Saddam Hussein. They dont
hate us because of Britney Spears. They hate us because we are
infidels, and because we dont plan on surrendering or providing them
material aid in their war of aggressive expansion.
Enough with the niceties. We dont lose our souls when we treat our
enemies as enemies. We dont undermine our principles when we post more
police officers in vulnerable areas, or when we send Marines to kill
bad guys, or when we torture terrorists for information. And we dont
redeem ourselves when we close Guantanamo Bay or try terrorists in
civilian courts or censor anti-Islam comics. When it comes to war,
extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the
pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Enough with the words. Talking with Iran without wielding the threat of
force, either economic or military, wont help. Appealing to the United
Nations, run by thugs and dictators ranging from Putin to Chavez to
Ahmadinejad, is an exercise in pathetic futility. Evil countries dont
suddenly decide to abandon their evil goals -- they are forced to do so
by pressure and circumstance.
Enough with the faux allies. We dont gain anything by pretending that
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are true allies. They arent. At best, they
are playing both sides of the table. We ought to be drilling now in
order to break OPEC. Building windmills isn't going to cut it. We
should also be backing India to the hilt in its current conflict with
Pakistan -- unless Pakistan can destroy its terrorist element, India
should be given full leeway to do what it needs to do. Russia and
China, meanwhile, are facilitating anti-Western terrorism. Treating
them as friends in this global war is simply begging for a backstabbing.
Enough with the myths. Not everyone on earth is crying out for freedom.
There are plenty of people who are happy in their misery, believing
that their suffering is part and parcel of a correct religious system.
Those people direct their anger outward, targeting unbelievers. We
cannot simply knock off dictators and expect indoctrinated populations
to rise to the liberal democratic challenge. The election of Hamas in
the Gaza Strip is more a rule than an exception in the Islamic world.
Enough with the lies. Stop telling us that Islam is a religion of
peace. If it is, prove it through action. Stop telling us that
President-elect Barack Obama will fix our broken relationship with the
Muslim world. They hate Obama just as much as they hated President
George W. Bush, although they think Obama is more of a patsy than Bush
was. Stop telling us that we shouldn't worry about the Islamic
infiltration of our economy. If the Saudis own a large chunk of our
banking institutions and control the oil market, they can certainly
leverage their influence in dangerous ways.
Enough. After the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the plane downed in
Pennsylvania, the endless suicide bombings, shootings and rocket
attacks in Israel, the Bali bombings, the synagogue bombing in Tunisia,
the LAX shootings, the Kenyan hotel bombing, the Casablanca attacks,
the Turkey synagogue attacks, the Madrid bombings, the London bombings,
and the repeated attacks in India culminating in the Mumbai massacres
-- among literally thousands of others -- its about time that the West
got the point: were in a war. Our enemies are determined. They will not
quit just because we offer them Big Macs, Christina Aguilera CDs, or
even the freedom to vote. They will not quit just because we ensure
that they have Korans in their Guantanamo cells, or because we offer to
ban The Satanic Verses (as India did). They will only quit when they
are dead. It is our job to make them so, and to eliminate every
obstacle to their destruction.
So enough. No more empty talk. No more idle promises. No more happy
ignorance, half measures, or appeasement-minded platitudes. The time
for hard-nosed, uncompromising action hasn't merely come -- its been
overdue by seven years. The voice of our brothers blood cries out from
the ground.
