The War Against Terror (the politically correct name for the "War Against Radical Islam") truly began when America helped Israel recreate it's nation within its ancient borders, lost a thousand-plus years ago. Post-holocaust Israeli's from across the world congregated in the western Middle East and resettled, forcing the Palestinians out.
The Islamic world blames American for Israel's return, calling them Satan and us Satan (didn't know Satan had multiple-personality disorder) and that Allah wished us wiped from this world. Apparently the crusades weren't enough for them to hate us, but restoring Israel certainly stepped on their foot and called their mothers Candian.
The attacks on America (and the rest of the world) were largely sparse, though undeniable, and were hidden cleverly through a host of separate nations and political leans. The disbelievers of Radical Islamic aggression pawned off the true reason for attacks against the US on all reasons other than the America-helped-Satan-park-off-our-Mediterranean-coast reason that the Radical Islamic world has held against us for sometime.
We faced embassy bombings, ship bombings, plane hijackings, lengthy hostage situations and, eventually, successful bombings against nationally iconic and monetary structures within our very borders (9/11, folks). When, at any point, did Bush begin this war?
To assume that Osama Bin Laden was our only enemy after 9/11 is a terrible waste of a mind. To think that eradicating him would have solved our problem is the same reason that every American retaliatory action against terrorist perpetrators never actually solved anything. Sure, US forces hunted down and killed a number of aggressors involved in our bombings and hijackings, but it never solved the actual root of these problems.
Bush, while at times bumbling, took the war home to the root of the aggressors. The statistics that show a climbing number of terrorists is not a simple result of US forces occupying Iraq - it's a display of what had remained quiet for so long. Just because you kill an ant outside of an ant hill doesn't mean you took away the power of your enemy - it's all within the anthill. Kicking it doesn't not make more agressors, it simply shows them.
Bush has failed in killing Osama Bin Laden. He must dedicate our forces to finding him even moreso than in the past - but to leave Iraq thinking that leaving the anthill be is a mistake to be sure. It will just build itself up again.
This is not just Bush's war. It's not the Republican's war.
It's America's war. It's a war too many have denied we've been in since the first attacks against our citizens worldwide. The war didn't being in 2001, it began in the 1940's, when Israel was created.
This war won't end. At this point, there has to be a level of respect afforded by each nation/politick, and that won't happen without a lot of people dying on each side. If not now, it will be later - to be frank, even if now, it will still be later.
This is a war for the ages, since the ages. Until Israel is destroyed or radical Islam is ground to a very small number or completely irradicated, this will not go away.
Those who seek to end the war need to understand that putting off to tomorrow only endangers our children, not protects them.
This is America's War, and we need to treat it as such. Instead, politicans are afraid to support it because those too short-sighted only see the American dead - ignoring the hard, long-term truths that come with fighting this bloody, dirty, and very angry fight.
Lives are not just at stake, our souls are. This is a fight for the soul of peace and the soul of democracy. After thousands of years, a nation of true democracy, free from sovereign domination, arose from the tyranny of British rule. And without a fight, this glorious democracy we know as America will soon again be under the thumb of a power seeking to rule by an iron fist, rather than the purity of thought and communal agreement.
"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton said that. Let radicals have power, and be assured they will not have your welfare in mind. Keep power distributed equally among the populace - checks and balances with systems of self-repudiation and authentication.
Oh, wait. Democracy.
Johnathan Michael
Marietta
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