A Simple Truth
I cringe every time I hear the phrase "War On Terror". The "terrorists" that are attacking the West are the soldiers of the Islamist movement. We know it. But we don't say it. In World War 2 the Free World faced the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan. We were not bound by Political Correctness to avoid saying the name of our enemy. And somehow, in that reluctance to name our enemy, we find ourselves ignoring the ideology being spread by him through religious teachings and incitement. We insist on platitudes like "Religion of Peace" to avoid examining the threat that our civilization now faces.Our countries fight terrorists as if they were simply criminals. We seem, not yet, to understand that we are in an ideological war. A war based on ideas and beliefs. We won't start winning that war until we are ready to battle against those ideas and beliefs. It's a simple truth. That's what I thinkWhat do you think? Are we ignoring the real war?
Can we win an ideological war without fighting its ideology?
Nu?
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Remember when Jack Straw was British foreign secratary. He took Condoleezza Rice to his constituency of Blackburn. She was polite but noticed all the Muslims on whom he depended for votes. She reported back to her boss and I think Mr. Bush was on the phone to Tony Blair with a "fire him" request. Jack Straw was relieved of his position.
I think the USA is aware of the garbage.
Bones, this may be your most insightful, yet, and that would be saying something.
Consider the lengths people will go to in order to avoid discussing the ideology of the terrorists.
In Britain, it is reported that incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word 'Muslim' in connection with the terrorism crisis in the wake of the failed attacks in London and Glasgow.
Spot on. Not name it = forget about fighting it. And why ARE we afraid to name islamist terrorism what it is? Now that we still can ...
you are absolutly right and there at least 3 including us. His name is Dr. Walid Phares, and his latest book is titled:"THE WAR OF IDEAS" It is exactly as you said and more.
Everyone should read it!
I say call it what it is-radical Islamism trying to make the world Islam. It is as insidious and evil as Naziism in my book. What amazes me is the number of appeasers that we have in our midst !
Here's my theory: They don't want to say that it's a war of ideology, because then they'd have to admit the tight connection to Islam. There are a heck of a lot of Muslims in the world, and there's a fear that we will all just feel despair if we admit that they are the problem. I think people want to feel that we can lick this problem, so they pretend it's just a few people, or just fringy people, or just "criminals." That way they don't have to say to themselves, "What the heck are we going to do about a whole religion that teaches its children to do terrible acts?"
I would think the problem would be more acute in Israel, because you guys have the "Palestinians" right on your borders, an even more united hatred of your whole country and of your people, and even more consistent brainwashing of children than we have among Muslims in, say, the U.S. But if one of your politicians gets up and says, "The so-called Palestinian people are our problem. They are deliberately hateful through and through, they want to destroy us, and they are doing all they can to make sure their whole society, women, children, and all, are working to that end," somebody is going to ask him what he proposes doing! And nobody really knows what to do about a problem like that. What is there that is ethical that you _can_ do? So there's this fear of despair that keeps us from saying the truth about the problem.
Hi Yaakov,
I think that that's the spot-on analysis.
We're, as int he western world, are fighting Islamofascism or Jihadism and not terrorism, and when we finally admit that, we'll be that much closer to defeating that heinous enemy.
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
>>>>>Occupation<<<<<
Be it Hitlerjugend, Young Red Guards or Hamas/Fatah youth recruitment, or the existing US politically correct education/indoctrination system undrescore wisdom of Proverbs, train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Got to defeat the ideology if you're going to win that war against the Philistines. I ssuspect that they learned a lesson trying to use a Gath as a ringer,
I think the plan is to keep fighting individuals who commit attacks until Islam has its own "Reformation" and becomes non-violent (probably 3 centuries or so: have you no patience?)
Grumpy
Islam is not the enemy, a portion of its followers are. The enemies of liberty proclaim various ideological and/or religious reasons for imagining America's destruction. As Americans we hold liberty as our objective and therefore should not declare war on a religion or ideology. Rather, we must act decisively with military force to answer any opposing force without any regard for what motivates our sworn enemies. Instilling fear in Muslim hearts of Amerca's vigorous defense of liberty affects generations. Ideology and religion will never be eradicated, but humans fear and respect force.
Sorry- this isn't relevant, but I have been reading your blog for a while and find you a dependable source. have you ever heard of Federation Day? I'll be in Israel on July 29th and my tour operators have listed this as a holiday.
THANKS!
Your exactly right. Keep the thoughts coming.
Israel we love you.
We're just "obstacles to Peace" (remember those words? and who said them?)
If you are suggesting that there is a single ideology behind the war against Israel, the insurgency in Iraq, what-ever is going on in Afghanistan and whatever else our beloved American president includes in GWOT: I suggest that is a dangerous and ineffectual over-simplification.
OTOH, if you are confining yourself only to the situation vs. Israel, I must pretend no expertise. I do suggest that (apart from the Palestinians) Israel is simply a handy bogeyman for everyone who feels the need for one : secularist as well as religious totalitarians. Saddam, Musharraf, Osama bin Ladin and the Saudi Royal Family don't have much in common besides that, and one suggests that they would find it awkward suddenly to lack so convenient an excuse for their dictatorships.
As a final observation, I suggest it is difficult to defeat an ideology by means that recruit more adherents to that ideology than they destroy.
What really matters is not the garbage which draws them; what threatens us - and them - is the garbage which teaches them hate.
kataphusin
It's true that only a percentage of Muslims are at war with the west. Thing is, only a percentage of Germans were Nazis, too. Yet we had to fight the whole country.
I suspect that Bush and company are trying to keep this war to a managable level, one not involving all of Islam. I would be strongly in favor of that if it looked as if it were working.
The real trouble is that the argument is not between those who believe this fight is between the west and a portion of Islam and those who believe it is between the west and all of Islam. It is between those who think there is no fight and those who believe there is.
I do not know what catastrophe it will take to get us all in the fight.
A Simpler Truth:
Party A attacks party B.
Party B's radical leaders say: "See, they hate us."
Party B then attacks party A.
Party A's radical leaders say: "See, they hate us."
Rinse and repeat.
so true
I have only just tonight discovered your cartoons thanks to one of my loyal readers. This cartoon in particular struck a chord with me -- I've been jumping up and down and waving my arms at the Anvil for over 3 years now on this very topic. To me there's no doubt at all that the enemy is Islam.
I am adding Dry Bones to my links right next to Cox and Forkum. Keep saying it straight; that's the only way to get the message through to the people.
Over and over, on and on, until the masses wake up.
Regards,
Foehammer
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